I love days like today. We started our day out at 9 am at the annex building getting our carseats inspected. We bought Takara a carseat not too long ago and it just didn't fit right. The buckle that is supposed to sit at the chest was up by her throat so a good portion of the time we didn't even buckle it...definately not safe. Luckily the inspector was able to figure it out and we got the girls anchored in and properly adjusted, phew! While we were in the room getting the girls weighed and measured to make sure they were in the proper size carseat they must have found a button and pushed it. I had no idea and while we were waiting the Powell Law Inforcement flooded in one by one. Hmmm I thought, what is going on? They were informed that it was a false alarm and that my kids must have pushed the button. I looked around and said, my kids? Well since we were the only people in the building besides the workers at their stations it was pretty easy to figure out who the "little" fingers belonged to :)

Next we went to gymnastics. I love and dread gymnastics. I love to get my girls out and involved in different activities. Normally Takara will not cooperate at all except when it comes to the balance beam. The instructors have tried and tried to get her to do the stretches and floorwork and she would refuse and they would push her from one side of the mat to the other. This was the case through the entire winter session of gymnastics and all last week of the summer session. Today I don't know what clicked but she did EVERYTHING. Even somersaults! She has never attempted one by herself and any time I tried to help her at home she would get embarrassed and be done. I was so proud and everyone kept looking at me like what the heck just happened? Now the dread part. Kimi wants to get in the middle of everything. While all the other parents get to sit in the chairs and watch their kids and hold their little ones on their laps, I'm constantly chasing Kimi around trying to keep her off the equiptment and out of the way of the other kids. If I pick her up or try to hold her she throws a screaming fit and it gets really hard to wrestle her the bigger that I get.

After gymnastics we went to McDonalds to do visiting teaching and that went great! The girls actually ate their food and I had a good visit with Lisa and Vanessa! I love having tons to do during the day. It makes everything so much fun and thats why I love summer!

Its a....SURPRISE!

Well we had our 20 week ultrasound today and yup...there is definately a baby in there! For the sake of this post since we don't know if the baby is a he or she we will just call them K instead of "it". K squirmed and wiggled so much the tech had a hard time getting pictures. She was so surprised at how much movement there was and that no matter what she did to get the little bugger to slow down, K just wouldn't. Its just so amazing to me to see on a screen what is going on inside at that very same moment. Every time the baby would kick I could see the movement on the screen at the exact same time. I've already had two babies and have seen this all before but it never gets old or seems any less amazing.

For some reason the ultrasound seemed really blurry this time around. With Kimi and Takara you could see a hard line at the profile but Evan pointed out that K was moving...ALOT so it was pretty hard to get a still shot. The tech worked for a good hour trying to get all the measurements needed but every time she got K in the right position K would move right as she was snapping the shot.

I am really feeling big this pregnancy. With Takara I remember pushing out my stomach, wanting sooo bad to see the baby bump, and seemed like forever before it appeared. With Kimi I started out a little heavier and decided that I needed to get my butt walking to keep my weight gain under control. Since I had my miscarriage right before this pregnancy I had already gained 10 pounds that never came off + the 10 pounds with this one at the start (you know what I'm talking about if you read one of my previous posts). Well its not like I gain 10 pounds and just "stay" there. With the weather being so up and down and that long spell of cold, then rain, I just have not gotten myself out walking...or doing much of anything. So I'm at the biggest I've ever been and really not comfortable with it, but theres not much I can do about it at this point. So heres my update at 20 weeks minus a picture of me..which may never show up :)