The Phillips Family

Yes, I am pregnant and today is my 12 week-iversary!  So I figured it was safe to share the news with everyone... officially. Everything has been going well.  I never throw up with my pregnancies (thank goodness) and only get a little queesy every once in a while. Other than that and the constant exhaustion, it's been a smooth sailing pregnancy so far! So background story: A couple days before I tested positive, I was in the kitchen working on something when Aiden walked up to me, stared for a minute, and then said, "You have baby in your tummy."  I was completely floored because I hadn't been talking to him about it and I didn't even know that HE knew that babies grew in tummies yet.  So when we found out, I had to tell Aiden that he was right.  (After Rex, of course.)  He got so excited and wanted to see for himself the baby in mommy's tummy.  It was pretty cute watching him stare intently at my bare belly before he said, "I see it! Oh, it...

I love going home to Oklahoma for Spring Break.  For starters, it was actually GREEN and felt and smelled and looked like Spring.  Ahhhh, my favorite.  Aiden and Sam loved it, too, since they had free reign of Grandma's house and all her toys.  Aiden spent every waking moment he could manage in the freezing cold pool.  I said he was my little fish, but he corrected me and said he was a dolphin .  Silly Momma.  Can't you tell the difference??  I'm going to put him and Sam in swimming lessons this summer.  Sam didn't swim much, but I think that was due more towards the fact that he has no body fat on him and knew the water would be a sure way to die of hypothermia.  We gave him a Popsicle outside one nice sunny day, and he instantly turned blue and started shaking.  Poor skinny child.  But Aiden swam for the both of them.  And probably ate enough popsicles for the both of them as well.  We also went to the zoo where w...