Injury

We had our first "big" injury on K and I's actual birthday. The kids were playing baseball in the front yard while all of us, including 2 sets of grandparents and my sister watched/played. K ran across the driveway to the "girls' field", slipped, fell and scraped up her knees and elbow pretty badly. She is a tough girl but for the next 3 days, she would whimper whenever her arm was touched and would not straight her elbow, even a little. She kept it firmly by her side. We thought she was being dramatic with all of our company catering to her but after 3 days we had it checked out. After an X-ray, CT scan, 2 different slings/braces and a few follow up appointments, as well as physical therapy with her daddy, it was determined that she was ok. No breaks...just a sore arm, possibly from the big scab and she just needed A LOT of coaxing to move it. After 2 weeks, she was back to her normal self. Gave us all quite a scary though!

Mother's Day 2013

For Mother's Day this year, the whole Steed family met at my brother-in-law and sister-in-law's for brunch after church services. The boys cooked a delicious pancake brunch while the women relaxed and enjoyed the time off:) I am very blessed to be a mother of two wonderful, healthy children and part of such a loving family!

Crazy Kids

Here is a small collection of pictures of these crazy, fun kids:)

 Randomly decided to wear Christmas PJs to bed

 New bug-catching net was quickly turned into a "catcher's helmet"

 We caught them moving their pillows to the center of the room and holding hands during bedtime one night. So sweet!

Playing with leftover balloons from their birthday party

Fun Spring Weekend

One weekend in April, we did a babysitting swap with my brother-in-law and sister-in-law. We got to go on a date Friday night, while they put our kids to bed and their kids spent the night. We had Saturday morning duty with the 4 kids and played til around lunchtime. K and I LOVE spending time with their cousins and I think it works out pretty well for all of us.

Weeks 11-14

I have not documented much about this pregnancy yet. I have a journal that I keep weekly updates in and I "try" to take pictures each week of my progress, as I did with the twins. But to be honest, I was very nervous about this pregnancy for a myriad of reasons and couldn't bring myself to take these pictures until our 11 week appointment. So far at this point, I have been feeling ok. I have had a lot of nausea and headaches and am very tired, but I think that is to be expected chasing after 2 2 year-olds:) Also, I had a 9-13 cm cyst that was a little worrisome to my doctors, which was also cause for a lot of pain, swelling, lifting-restrictions, etc. All in all though, not much to complain about and am super super thankful for the little bean growing inside of me.

Week 11:

Week 12:

Week 14:

Atlanta Weekend

Mid-March we visited my college roommate and her family. Her son is 3 days younger than K and I and they all have so much fun playing together. I didn't get many pictures from the weekend (or I can't seem to find them) but here are some from a toy park that we went to on Saturday morning. Sure wish we lived closer so that we could do this more often!!

 Snack break

 Beautiful friend, beautiful daughter

 Working together to get this car running

 Hard workers!

Baby #3

On February 15th, we found out that we were going to be a family of 5, come October 2013. We kept it fairly quiet (which was difficult because I started to show VERY early) until 11 weeks. K and I seem pretty excited about the  news and actually seem to kind of "get it."  Here are a few of the Facebook pictures we used to share our news......after telling all of our family in person or via phone first, of course:)