Frightening Festivities

Phew, we made it through the first of the holidays....now we just have thanksgiving and Christmas and then we will be able to see this sweet baby who keeps kicking me in the ribs. Trey finally decided that he wanted to be wolverine for halloween (he has no idea who he is, he just liked the look of his fangs) and Grace was content being a princess. Her dress was really raggedy and I really wanted to buy her a different one for trick or treating but Kenny said it would be fine....always the voice of reason (good thing he wasn't with me when I went shopping the other day). Kenny and I also dressed up. I wore a t-shirt with a bun on it and Kenny dressed as a baker....get it. He requested that instead of just writing "the baker" on his name tag, he had me put "big daddy baker".

We had so much fun this past week being with friends and enjoying all sorts of family activities. On Wednesday I took the kids to the Pumpkin Park, I actually meant to go to the pumpkin patch but I got confused and ended up parking at the pumpkin park. There were only a few people at the pumpkin park so it ended up being fun because they let us do everything for free and the kids never had to wait in line. It was really cold and muddy, but Trey and Grace are still talking about how much fun the slides, bounce houses, pumpkins, and rides were.

On Thursday the preschool had a Harvest Party and they brought home more pumpkins and kept talking about how they got to eat frosty's and cookies. They love the sugar aspect of halloween. That night Kenny took them to trunk or treat at the Y.

On Friday we went to the Lake Highlands football game with Swede. I actually got cold for the first time in 7 months, so I am guessing everyone else was freezing. Trey and Grace love to watch the half time show and pretend to conduct the band, which always impresses Kenny.

On Saturday we went to our neighborhood party and then to a party hosted by our small group. Once it was dark we took the kids trick or treating in big groups. Trey and Kenny went with a couple older kids and Grace and I went with the younger kids. Kenny told me that Trey and his friends would not say trick or treat at first, but eventually they caught on. Grace knew exactly what to do, it was like she had been practicing all year. She would wait until all the kids had gone, march up to the door, hold out her bag, say trick or treat and then wait for them to give her multiple pieces of candy. If they tried to give her just one she would stand there holding her bag open and smiling until they dropped something else in. I am thinking she will be a great sales women, she is so persistent.

What a week, October went by so fast. I am torn because I want to enjoy the next couple months as a family of 4, but I am also getting excited to meet this baby that we have known about for so long! From the minute we found out we were pregnant I have been feeling him or her, whether it was morning sickness, rapid weight gain, or the powerful kicks (never a flutter) we have know that you are with us. Yesterday Grace asked to see the baby, so I showed her my stomach and she whispered to it for awhile. When she saw it kick she told me to shut the door (put down my shirt), she gets really creeped out when she sees my belly move. Trey keeps telling me that he thinks it is time for the baby to come out and see us. Hopefully they will be just as interested when he or she is here. I am interested to see what type of baby this will be, with so much "womb action" I can only imagine what he or she will be like when they make it out of the confines of my belly. Well, I'm off to eat some more of the kid's candy. For some reason they completely forgot about their candy stash, I had planned on giving it to Kenny to take to work, but I might hold on to it for a little bit longer....I think the baby likes twix the most.

finally...a prize

I was changing Gracie's diaper today and when I opened it a bunch of change fell out. It's about time that something good came out of a diaper change....of course the diaper was dirty so I'm not sure about keeping the prize money.

Happy 33rd Birthday Kenny

Happy birthday to you! Kenny is celebrating his 33rd year by not being with us....I totally understand. He asked if he could go to the Cowboys game for his birthday gift. Of course he didn't want to spring for a seat, I am very lucky to be married to a VERY frugal man. He decided he would get a party pass and go on his own. Well, the game starts at 3:15, guess what time he left to get a spot...11:00. Apparently you have to get there about 3 hours early to find a spot and then never leave to use the bathroom or get food/drink for the entire duration of the game, and you get to stand, but he says it is worth it. He really is a true fan, I told him he should paint his face, but he said his jersey would be enough. We "celebrated" yesterday by making birthday brownies and then Kenny's parents watched the kids all evening so we could go out. Since I'm about to turn into a giant pumpkin we only made it to dinner, but it was fun to be by ourselves. We then rented an uplifting movie, Sunshine Cleaning (it's about some women who clean up after crime scenes), and enjoyed a night where the only person that could wake us up during the night would be the baby inside me...which meant Kenny slept really well and I just don't really sleep anymore.

Kenny you are so special to us, we love you!

The pictures...the kids had just taken a bath and someone forgot to brush their hair and Kenny and I were still walking around in pj's at that point so lucky for everyone I'm not in the pictures.

Princess Grace

Anyone who knows Grace knows that she is the girliest girl around. She has loved dressing up in her princess costume this year, so much that I had to hide the costume for awhile to preserve it for all of her upcoming costume party events. I impressed myself by repairing the hole ripped on the seam of the waistline. I had to glue and sew it shut....they just don't make princess dresses like they used to.

The picture of Grace and Kenny was taken right before Anna Kate's princess party. Kenny took her as his date, he was the only dad dressed in a tuxedo. Trey and I took a picture in our normal clothes as well...I looked and looked but I couldn't find a pregnant princess dress.

A Fair to Remember

It's that time again.....the State Fair of Texas. Aside from Trey's birthday it was one of the number one topics of conversation around the Henry House this year. We put a great deal of importance on events that glorify fried foods. This years attraction was the fried butter. Kenny couldn't do it, but Swede and his beautiful girlfriend gave it a try and said it tasted like a fried biscuit (I think that's right). Oprah also joined us last Sunday and she too loved the fried butter. A funny story, Swede and Brooke were waiting in line to purchase the butter (they had been patiently waiting their turn for about 15 minutes) and they got up to the front and the guy said that they would be needing to shut the stand down since Oprah was about to come over. Swede wouldn't take no for an answer and finally got his fried butter. I'm sure if Oprah had known people were being denied fried butter she would have waited her turn, yeah right.

A few other things we tried this year: corny dogs (of course), fried oreos, fried snickers, a fried caramel apple, and Trey's one request, cotton candy. Grace really liked the oreos and Trey liked the caramel apple, he actually took all of the breading off and just ate the apple....which was kind of healthy. They both really liked the cotton candy. They also rode rides together this year and LOVED them. We also went to the dog show, petting zoo, car show, and bird show. A full day that left us all wiped out. We can't wait to go again next year, oh wait Kenny is taking them again tomorrow beccause he didn't get enough.....I plan on putting my feet up and enjoying the silence for a change.

I love you

I was telling Trey this morning how much I loved him. He looked at me and smiled and then said "more than Gracie?". This is not the first time he has asked that. I told him that I loved both of them so much and that I loved them the same (that's the right thing to say...right?).
Then he said "do you love me more than air?".
I said, "Sure Trey, I love you more than air".
Trey replied, "Why do you love me more than air?".
my perfect response to that was "ummm, you are just that special to me".
Trey's final comment "Don't you need air to breathe?"
He doesn't miss a beat.

Accident Prone Pregnancy

I am pretty clumsy even when I'm not pregnant, but throughout this pregnancy I have found myself bumping, falling, and colliding into more and more objects. Last Sunday I just fell over in the parking lot while carrying Grace, luckily she broke my fall (just kidding), but really I didn't even trip...I just fell over. Yesterday I managed to slam the microwave door into the side of my eye. For a moment I saw stars and would have started crying but Grace was standing right beside me. However, that didn't stop me from laying on the floor in the fetal position for awhile. Today, in an attempt to make Trey's take-home preschool project a little more colorful, I burned my fingers with a hot glue gun. I learned that it is really painful to peel off hot glue from burned skin. Kenny has instructed me to not fry any meats while pregnant....not that I had any intentions of frying meat for him. I will also, most likely, be allowing him to do most of the decorating for Christmas, since me climbing a ladder these days would be a recipe for disaster.

Poor Baby number 3, you still don't have a boy or girl name. I told Kenny that we might as well just wait until you are born to name you, but he didn't like that idea because he knows that if we wait until after the birth I will get to choose on account of the fact that I just gave birth. How did he see through my plan? It must be because he is such a great business man. So....I think we have about 10 more weeks, give or take, to come up with a boy and girl name. I really feel like I have been much more committed to coming up with a name this time around, not to say that we didn't put a lot of thought into the other names, but I have spent a lot more time thinking about it. That could have something to do with the fact that I spend a lot of time not sleeping at night, so I spend a lot of time looking at baby name websites in an attempt to make myself so sleepy I forget all of the aches and pains of carrying a child.

Oh, I am so excited to meet you baby, and I will do my best to avoid injury over the next couple of months.