Sonogram Pictures

Sonogram pictures the kids got to take with them!

I am currently 14 weeks and 5 days. I will be due October 6th but most likely going early. Joseph was a week early and Katelynn was two weeks early.
The heartbeat at my check ups has been:
6weeks 4 days~122 bpm
10 weeks 3 days~167 bpm
13 weeks 7 days~166 bpm

New Dockery addition!

Telling the kids about the new baby brother or sister arriving October 2009

Opened shirts saying: Joseph Big Brother-to-bee again
Katelynn Big Sister-to-bee

Katelyn is excited to be a big sister!

The kids each got 2 sonogram pictures to show their teacher and friends while they wore their shirts to school on Friday

Katelynn singing a song for the baby, Jesus loves me! It was precious.

Family update

I haven't blogged in a while so I thought I would update what is new with our family.

My little sister is getting married in July 2009 to a wonderful man named Daniel.  Joseph and Katelynn will be the ring bearer/flower girl.  Katelynn is very excited about wearing a princess dress.

Joseph is now wearing glasses!  They totally change his look, they make my little boy look all grown up.  We went to Dr. Jason before Christmas and it was decided that Joseph would wear glasses when he could touch what he was doing, in other words he is far sighted.  He tried on 5-6 pairs and narrowed it down to two.  He tried the two on again and ended up with the ones he has now.  We all agreed these were the ones that looked the best!  

It's amazing what glasses have done for him.  He likes wearing them and his focus during school has dramatically changed.  He has advanced 3 books in reading since having them.  He was on I learn to read book D for more than 2-3 months and now has gone through a book a week and is on I can read book 3.  I'm just in awe of his reading.  

His teacher told me a funny story today about Joseph.  Joseph was taking his glasses off and his teacher told he looked handsome in them.  He immediately put them back on and gave a beaming smile.

   

I thought I would share a picture of Joseph's morning routine.  He surrounds himself with pillows over the heater vent.  He loves to do this to warm up before he can start his day.

Katelynn is now 4 and loves to cook.  She got an Easy Bake oven for Christmas and it was only fitting that she got an apron for when she cooks.  Everyday she wears it while we cook supper!  I would say her other favorite birthday gift was her Belle princess dress that Joseph got her.

     

Katelynn's morning struggle

I have this love hate relationship with getting Katelynn dressed in the morning. She is going through this faze where she only wants to wear dresses to school. I suppose this all started when it was too cold to wear shorts so she moved on to dresses. Which is fine that she wants to wear a dress, it makes her feel like a pretty princess and as she says "it's perfect". At first she didn't care what dress it was as long as it was a dress. Now she is even picky about what dress she wears. It has come to a point when she comes into school wearing pants and a longsleeve shirt Joseph's teacher knows it's been a bad morning. When I make her wear pants it's a struggle to get her out the door to school. I suppose it's because Katelynn says her outfit "isn't perfect for me" she must not be ready to make her appearance until her outfit is perfect. I should have known she was going to be picky when at the age of 2 she would stand in her closet contemplating what to wear. I kid you not, if I don't give her a choice of 2 outfits she will stand in her closet thinking about what she wants to wear.

So I'll leave you with a few pictures of what Katelynn would wear if she dressed herself.

Joseph get's his teeth pulled

On Monday Joseph had his teeth pulled by the dentist. This all happend because on Aug 5th Joseph was chasing Katelynn and knocked his teeth. Of course Jason was gone on a business trip (accidents like this always happen when he is gone) and I'm in panic mode. I'm able to reach Jason and he tells me to put ice on it. Thankfully we were going to the regular Dr on Wednesday for Joseph's 5 year check up. I had Dr. Harmon look at them for an abses and he didn't see one. His gums were swollen for several days but they were looking better.
A week later Joseph was complaining that they hurt so I took him into the dentist and she said they needed to be pulled but wanted to do it by a pediatric dentist so Joseph would be more comfortable. When I called to make the appt. they said we could do it that day ( I was shocked) but I said no I don't think he was prepared for it, actually I wasn't. So five days later we went to Dr. Windingham and he pulled Joseph's teeth. From the x-ray they thought his teeth had actually been damaged twice but from my knowledge Joseph had only bled once so who knows. Nevermind, Jason just reminded me that Joseph fell in a furniture store when I was pregnant with Katelynn and hit his front two teeth. That mystery is solved!
The overall experience was a little traumatic for Joseph but when it was all over he said he liked the Dr. I was able to stay with him during the evaluation and the laughing gas but had to leave during the extraction. By the time I left it took about 15 minutes to pull the teeth. The next day Joseph proudly showed anyone who would look including his teacher and the librarian.

Joseph on the car ride home

Dr. W pulled his teeth like this

Joseph's tooth box

One of the teeth pulled

Breakfast in bed

Yesterday, Joseph was the first to wake up just before 8am and he asked me what I was going to have for breakfast. I told him cereal, the next thing I knew he brought me breakfast in bed! He has such a serving and kind heart. He got himself breakfast and we ate it together in bed, it's times like this that you treasure. Katelynn woke up around 8:30am and he got her breakfast as well.
The kids don't normally sleep in this long, they are early risers usually by 7am if not earlier. With Jason out of town this week I still wanted to continue are routine of going to the walking track and park. I was impressed with Katelynn she walked 3/4 a mile and then hopped in the stroller, Joseph rode his bike the whole way around. After we were done walking/riding bikes we headed over to the park and the kids played until just before dark. Katelynn and a boy her age were chasing eachother and Joseph found some big kids to play with, they had alot of fun. Needless to say they were exhausted.

Katelynn

Well, our week has started out with a bang. Joseph was closing the door to the car this morning and Katelynn's fingers were shut in the door. She was screaming and Jason started saying oh oh oh pretty loud (thank goodness nobody was nearby, I still am laughing about his reaction as I type). Luckily the door wasn't locked yet so Jason was able to open it right away. Joseph felt horrible but I let him know it was an accident and that sister would be ok. We went and got her some ice and asked a nurse at church what she thought. She didn't think it looked broken and that the best thing we could do is put ice on it. Jason took Katelynn home to give her a pain reliever and keep ice on it until after church when they came back to pick us up. Katelynn was in a much better mood by now but she was still favoring her hurt hand. We kept asking her if she could bend it or straighten her finger but she never wanted to. Jason finally bribed her with animal crackers if she would make a fist with both hands, she did immediately. Jason was happy that her finger didn't look broken. It is still pretty swollen compared to her other fingers but it should go down soon and there is only a small area of black and blue at her first joint. She is using her hand more as time passes and with no time she will be back to normal.