In November we celebrated Thanksgiving with Ell's family at Becky and Jason's house. The kids had a blast. They always love to see their cousins. A few days later we got a new cousin. Camren Rolle was born!
December was a month filled with both joy and sadness. My cousin Meaghan and her husband Sam both welcomed and said goodbye to their sweet baby girl Charlotte.
My heart was so broken for them. The weekend before Christmas we celebrated with our Rodriguez family in Palmdale.
We announced that we were expecting and surprised everyone. The kids got new bikes and Uncle Abraham made them the coolest Mario Castle.
On December 23rd. My best friend Rachel had her sweet baby Charlotte!
We had a nice relaxing Christmas at home. We went to Christmas Eve service and the kids were so awful. on stage. they were pushing each other and laughing. I was furious and so embarrassed. Ell and I bought all the kids' gifts second hand to save money and it worked out perfectly. The kids didn't care one bit and we had hardly any cardboard packaging to throw out. We'll definitely do it again next year.
We spent New Years at home. We let the kids stay up until 9 and see the ball drop. We has snacks and sparkling cider and went to bed. On January 5th I went to Oregon for Charlotte's memorial. It was beautiful and so sad. I feel very blessed to have been a part of celebrating her life. Collin got to meet some of my Fischer family since he came with me.
Logan had been having a tough time at school. He was being rude to adults, refusing to do his work and not following directions. On January 11th we had a meeting with the director of curriculum (principal) and his teacher to figure out a plan of action for him. We decided to do a daily sticker chart, time away for him to calm down, increased communication between school & home and to let parent volunteers know what Logan needs were. I left the meeting feeling more hopeful than I had in a very long time. We took the kids to the snow for the first time. logan played in the snow once when he was 18 months old but never since then. We managed to buy or borrow snow gear for all 6 of us. We met Faraway Grandma and Grandpa there and Phee Phee came too. We had the best time. I definitely want to make it a tradition!
At the end of January, all 4 kids got sick with high fevers. Logan and Colly were the sickest and Logan ended up in the ER because we couldn't stop his vomiting. Poor guy.
I completely missed the twins' parent teacher conferences because of all my sick kids but I'm happy to report that they're both right on track. I knew that!
In February we celebrated uncle Paul's birthday with tacos and chocolate bundt cake. The kids made him a sign. On February 11th we went in for our anatomy scan. Ell met me at Dr. Soffici's office. I was so nervous and just wanted to hear that our baby was healthy. Towards the end of the appointment he said "3 lines, it's a little girl!" We could not believe it! We've never had just a girl before! I had made arrangement with a local baker to do reveal cupcakes.
I picked them up after my appointment and we had the fam over for dinner. After taco salad we all bit into our cupcakes to see PINK filling! It's was a very special way to tell our family that a sweet baby girl was joining our family. We had amazing weather in Feb and so we planned a beach day with the Powell's on the 16th. It had been forever since we'd seen them. we hadn't even told them we were pregnant yet! We spent the whole day playing in the sad and ocean. we had dinner together at Freebirds. Amy and I are only 4-5 weeks apart in our pregnancies. On February 22 we met Ell's family at Disneyland. We took a picture holding an "it's a girl" sign to announce to Ell's family and then on FB that were having a girl!!
Everyone was so so excited! Disneyland was so much fun Phee Phee came too. We stayed really really late, like 11:30. We were so exhausted but had the best time.
To be continued...
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