Baby Girl Birthday Predictions 2017

Steph - Aug 25, 8-6. 20.5 inches brown hair blue eyes! 😍💗

Kristin - 8/26, 8lbs 2oz, 21 inches, a lot of brown hair, brown eyes. Adorable!😘👶🎀

Katie - 8/23, 7lbs 11oz. 21 inches. Brown hair and green eyes 👀

Megan - 8/26 brown eyes, "blonde-ish" hair, I want a mini-Siobhan! 8 lbs 11 oz and... 21 inches!

Heidi- August 22, 8 lbs 7 oz.  20 inches! I think blue eyes and and light hair!

Mom - Aug 23. 7lb11 oz

Dad - August 27th 8lb 2oz

Meg - My guess is August 24 (less than a week!! 😳) 8lbs 3oz

Grandpa Russ - Russ says Monday the 21st during the total eclipse. It will be a spectacular entrance & you can name her Moonbeam!  

Grandma Ruth - I think two days early on the 26 & 8lbs

Lauren M - 8/24 8lbs 5oz

Liz - 8/26 8lbs 7oz

Lauren E - August 28, 8lbs 5 oz

Jennifer - August 21st at 10:32 am. 7 pounds, 11 ounces

Marissa - Baby M will be born the 24th at 5:15 in the morning, weighing 8 pounds 9 oz! 

Marci - 8/24

Jenny - August 24 at 1:10pm. 8lbs, 15oz. 🎀🎀🎀 lots of brown hair 👶🏻👧🏻

John- September 3, 9lb 5oz

Riley- 8 lb, 14 oz and bday of 8/29.

Nathan - 8/28 8lb 5 oz. brown hair and blue eyes!

Brice - 8/25 7lbs blue eyes, blonde hair

Jessica - 8/26 8lb 1oz

Ava - 8/27 8lb 2oz

Amy - 8/30 7lb 14oz

Funny things the boys say

Brice and Nathan are very much alike and very much different. They are very close brothers which I am so happy about.

Brice
Brice is my very serious child he takes things very literally. He cracks jokes every once in a while trying them out and they're getting better with age. He can also be very sincerely sweet and has a sensitive side.

Brice and Riley in the car
Riley " zombies will be so scary people will be screaming their heads off!"
Brice "well their heads won't actually come off."
Riley "I know Brice it is an expression."
Brice " oh right I know."

Me "what do you do an art today for kindness week."
Brice " I drew a picture of me holding a rattle for baby girl well you went and made her some milk. She threw the milk you handed her and just looked at me and wanted me to play with her and the rattle.  I stayed with her the whole time you made her milk."

Me "papa is watching you guys this morning while he works please do not bother him until Grandma gets home, unless there is an emergency."
Brice "yeah we can go get papa if Nathan fell off the couch and breaks his arm. Or if someone comes inside the house that we don't know. Or if the TV falls or, or , or....."

Nathan
Nathan is my goofball. He cracks jokes all the time trying to get everyone and anyone to laugh. He's always singing and dancing and making up songs.  He is still nonstop touching baby girl in my stomach.  She is the first one he talks to you in the morning. He is a very loving and sweet boy (sometimes sincere and other times to get what he wants.) He is also a child that is never wrong and will not admit to being wrong. He picked up that McCollem gene somewhere along the line.

School questions of  the day are posted daily and three children get to answer a teacher's question.
Week 1 "Nathan M. wants to be everything he can be.!" ( he later told me it was supposed to say I can be everything I want to be except a spaceman.)

Week 2 " Nathan M went for a jog. He saw five poisonous frogs and two regular frogs."

Week 3 " Nathan M got to eat a Nutri-Grain bar at night. "

Baby showers

Baby girl is officially spoiled! She got not one, not two but three baby showers. Women love to celebrate cute little babies. We are officially overflowing with clothing!

Baby shower #1
The nurses that work with Darren through a potluck and baby shower for us. There was a lot good food,  a lot of diapers and a lot of girly girl clothes. Nurses are always super generous.

Baby shower #2
My mom and sisters put on a very nice baby shower at my moms house. What of my friends came to celebrate baby girl and spoiled us with lots of books, clothes, diapers, wipes and love.  They put together a nice spread of sandwiches and sides and an adorable cake and goodies and my mom decorate her house in pink for baby girl!

Baby shower #3
The Directors at Darren's work held a "surprise" baby shower for Darren. I knew about it and met them for happy hour at the Keg. They pitched in and got some more girl clothes and diapers.

Auntie Liz and Uncle Scott sent us a car seat and her mattress will be here in a few days.  I am currently rocking in baby girls room procrastinating putting things away and decided to catch up on my blog instead! I think we can say we are officially ready for whenever baby girl arrives!

Baby Girl Update

 This week I'm 37 weeks pregnant!  Baby girl has finally flipped and his head down. Hooray! I was starting to worry that we may have to do another version like we did with Brice but thankfully there is no need.  At my last appointment she was measuring normal and we had an ultrasound to prove she was head down. After all that excitement that she was they then told me I had low fluid. The Doctor  explained what that could mean and wanted to get me down for a nonstress test immediately. I went down to Banner Gateway and had the baby monitored.  It was pretty cute because she had hiccups on the monitor. Everything sounded and looked great.  I was then sent to a more thorough ultrasound where they check the umbilical cord, the placenta and the fluid. In the end my fluid was just fine. I was at 12.9 fluid and when I went in they thought I might have 3. There are pockets of fluid all around the baby that the first ultrasound couldn't pick up.  I had to get my blood redrawn to check my platelets and should find out at my appointment tomorrow what they are. I'm hoping they are at normal level and I can just have smooth sailing the next couple weeks until baby girl arrives!

Darren  thanks baby girl will have…
Brown eyes and brown hair.

Brice thinks baby girl will have...
Blue eyes and blonde hair and will look like him.

Nathan thinks baby girl will have...
Blue eyes and brown hair.

I know baby girl...
Is going to be absolutely adorable!'

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School Days 2017

School officially started on July 24. We had a meet the teacher the week before and both boys are gonna have a great school year. Brice got the second grade teacher he wanted Miss Fisher he said she's beautiful. Nathan has Miss Burnette and she is going to be great for him in pre-K.  We have started week three of school and so far so good. I've had a little sadness from Nate saying he wants to go home with me but is fine once we get there and he gets in with his friends. Brice has already been on green which is for good behavior and if you get anything above green you get to put your name in a raffle for the end of the week for a prize.  This is so up brices alley, he is motivated by winning and things!

Here is to a great school year!!!