Mommy to Tyler, Maddy, and Mason: Goodbye 2010!

So it's 11:50 and I am sitting at home on the computer deciding to update my blog. It's been a while and we have been super busy but tonight I want to take a few minutes to write about how things are going around here!

We have been sick the past week with all of us having the flu! Ick!!!! Thank goodness for Tamiflu! Maddy has also been sick on and off with ear infections for the last few months. If she contacts another one we are going to have to take her to the ENT to see what is going on. : (

We already have an appointment scheduled for mid-January with the pulmonologist to check on her breathing/asthma/upper respiratory issues to see what types of preventative things we can do since each Winter she seems to catch lots of colds and things!

We just celebrated Christmas and it was so much fun seeing things through Maddy's eyes this year! This is the first year that she really began to understand about "Santa" All month she was so excited about Santa and had alot of questions! She called Santa, "Ho-ho!" When we would go to the mall she was so excited to see and wave to ho-ho! We went to see him and Maddy sat on his lap, she was a little hesitant/cautious with him and didn't want to look at him it was so cute! Whenever anyone asked her what she wanted from Santa for Christmas she said, "Aunted House (haunted house)" and "Aaaaaaa (The Little Mermaid, Ariel)"

This was the first year that she understood about leaving cookies and milk for Santa and a carrot for Rudolph. A few days before Christmas I told her that we were going to have to get cookies and milk to leave for Santa and she said, "Why?" I told her because Santa loves cookies and milk! The next day we were in the car and Maddy said, "Why does Ho-ho want baba?" She thinks that milk and ba-ba are essentially the same thing. I told her well because he likes to drink milk with his cookies but he likes his milk in a cup! Then she would say, "But why?" We has this conversation about 5 more times before Christmas Eve! I also want to mention that I have never seem Maddy SO excited to go to bed as on Christmas Eve, as soon as we walked in the bed that evening she told me, "I go night-night, ho-ho come!" Lol!!!!

Maddy has also been very excited about the Nativity and baby Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. She calls baby Jesus, "Baby Jeez" I think it's so adorable, whenever we would be at the store or anywhere she would get so excited if she saw a natvity she would say, "Mommy!!! It's Baby Jeez!!! It's Baby Jeez!!!!" I hope she will always share this excitement about the Baby Jesus!

Things are also going good on the baby Mason front! We only have about 4 and a half weeks left until our scheduled c-section at 39 weeks and we're getting so excited! He is growing and moving around like crazy!

I am also very nervous though! I am most worried I think about how Maddy will handle the adjustment. It has always been just the 3 of us for so long and I dont want her to ever feel left out! : ( I worry about how she will feel about Mason and about the 3 nights that I will have to be away from her while I'm in the hospital. She will or course be able to come up the the hospital but is planning to sleep 1 night at my mom's, 1 night at Matt's mom's, and the last night at our house and Matt's Mom will sleep here. I have never even spent one night away from her so it's going to be hard!!!! We have been working on Mason's nursery and have most of it done we just have a couple more things to do! It's a nautical theme, here are some pics of Maddy and Matt painting the boat bookcase for the nursery!