HAWAII

Ha Ha I bet you thought I was going to say that we were going to Hawaii. I wish - not anytime soon though. These are pictures of our parents so you can "meet" them too.

First are Kim's parents Steve and Annette Leonard at the Polynesian Cultural Center on Maui

Second are Mike's parents Ken and Marybeth Wynder at Turtle Bay.

Max and Michaella both LOVE their Nana's and Papi's.

We are so grateful for all our parents do for us and are very thankful to both of them for teaching us and helping as much as they do.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY !!!

Happy Father Day! I knows it's late, but better than never. Doesn't Mike look so cute in his new Father's Day shirt the kids and I made him? I think he's awefully Sessy in that shirt - but then again I am partial.

Yesterday was a big day. We had another ultrasound... Babies are healthy and growing.

Abbey is 2 lbs. 6 oz. Her head in on my right side just above my hip. She is transverse ( side ways) with her feet in Rusty's face.


Rusty is 1 lb. 13 oz. His head is on my left side just below my rib cage with his feet on Abbey's head. Sounds comfortable huh!So most likelyI will be having a C-section and they aren't going to make it until 36 weeks ( Aug. 25) Which makes me a bit more nervous.





The ultrasonographer said if they weigh more than 3 pounds each that is AWESOME, if they made it to 36 weeks it will be more than a miracle and not to count on it. So now we have to try and plan for the future of me being in the hospital for 5 days and continue praying that the babies will be able to come home with us, and not have a long stay in the hospital and hopefully stay out of the NICU. I'll try to up load some ultrasound pics. It's really hard to see the ones we took yesterday, there is so much in there it's REALLY confusing and squished!!!





So all thanks to my facebook account I've gotten in touch with SO many friends from Highschool and College. Most of all I found my Pars. One of my bestfriends in the whole world, she saved my life so many times. I haven't heard from her in years and now we found each other again.




There is so much prep for the babies, we now have to move Max and Michaella into seperate rooms because the don't sleep they play. Michaella will share with the babies because she sleeps like a rock - nothing wakes her up... except Max jumping on her to play. And Max will go to the smaller room and when the Twins get big enough that they can't share a crib anymore, Rusty will go in Max's room and Abbey will stay with Michaella. WOW that's a lot of work, and we have to get the clothes washed and put in the dressers before July (that's when I go on bed rest). We are really excited though. Just more to do before bed rest, that's the hardest part that I can't do anything after July 1st. Mike has to do it all, I feel so bad about that. Full time job, school and ALL the house work. Man he deserves something special HUH! I just don't know what.





I'll try to get some new pictures of the kids and the family up, hopefully it will work. If not I'll try it again later. I'm still not used to the whole works of blogging yet.


This picture of Michaella is her first birthday - destroying her cake! How cute! It took three time of bathing her to get all the pink food coloring out.

For TONS more pics please go to my facebook account: Kim Leonard Wynder to see, they are at the far left at the bottom. Just click on the album and click the first picture and they will appear bigger. It will still be a bit longer until I get music and a slide show on our blog.

Yet again many thanks to Marianne for helping me figure out the whole blogging world - she's the reason why I've got pictures on this blog.

I'm such a dork!!!! Thanks Marianne

Moms Rock !!

Don't you just love moms. I'm having a bit of a tuff day today and the kids of course are going CRAZY - I was just about to cry when my lifesaver mom came and saved the day. She got the kids dressed, and took them on a walk. AHH what a relief.
Mike and I are doing better at trying to keep in touch and find long lost friends. Our facebook and our blog's are doing better. I'm excited I've reconnected with 45 friends and still counting. It's nice to catch up.

Have I mentioned that I HATE POTTY TRAINING!!! Max is doing really really well it's just kind of frusturating, but I'd never trade it for a second- even though it's a pain.

ORTHOPEDIC MATERNITY BELLY BOOSTER
HA! HA! HA!
So for those of you who don't know much about being pregnant - in your second and third trimesters your belly measures 1 centimeter to every week of gestation you are, and for twins you are suppose to measure 5-8 centimeters/ weeks bigger than you are.
I am 25 weeks gestation which is 6 months and 1 week, I am measuring 32 weeks/centimeters which is almost the end.
Enough of the explaining
So needless to say I am much bigger and still have a long way to the end, my Doctor prescribed a Belly Belt/ Booster so help support and dispurse the weight.
It's kind of funny calling places and asking how I go about getting fit for an orthopedic belly booster. Luckly almost everybody knows what i am talking about. I just feel really funny asking


OK so it may sound like I am complaining a lot and I am VERY sorry. I really do love being pregnant this is just a whole new experiance for me. And for those of you that maybe wondering YES we do want more kids - 2 more to be exact. We'd love one more girl and another boy.
6 kids total 3 boys, 3 girls and twins in the middle.

AWWWW still quite I think it's time for mommy (me) to take a nap.

P.S. Lots of cute pictures to come later

YEAH MAX !!!

So, I am totally excited to tell the WHOLE world Max has decided to be a big boy. He is potty training - What a relief I couldn't handle 4 in diapers. He gets rewarded by getting "monies" he gets one penny for Pee's and two for Poops. He does such a great job, he decided that he wanted to do it and has had only 1 accident in a week. WOW how awesome for him.


BEST ADVICE EVER!!!!

Buy a potty to go in the car, when he says he needs to go potty just pull over and you are on your way. It's saved us a TON of accidents

Well in trying to catch up...
Mike works at the Church Office Building in the Church History Department devoloping Microfilm and going to school part-time finishing his BS in Health Promotion and Education - Pre- Med. He is the BEST daddy in the world. I know everybody says/ thinks that their husband is the best husband,but mike comes home after a full day of work, doesn;t even change his clothes and starts to do work at home since I am laid up. He does ALL dishes, laundry, bathing the kids, and house cleaning while I "lounge" around on the couch or in bed growing babies. I know that's a big job in it's self, but man I just feel guilty and totally ridicilious. I thought pre-bed rest would be a welcome change, but this really makes me feel stupid sometimes. Full bed rest is gonna suck!

Anywho
Kim is growing twins ( 25 weeks and counting ) I stay at home with Max and Michaella.
Max is potty training, he is 2 1/2, loves to climb, pretending he is an animal and pestering his sister.
Michaella is 15 months. She is walking, loves to read books and likes to play with her favorite stuffed pig.

Abbey and Rusty ( the twins) are getting bigger and getting a lot stronger. I think that they are playing soccer 75% of the time including when mommy is trying to sleep.

So there is a little bit of an update of us. I am trying to get some pictures together, hopefully it won't take to long.

Our New Project

So this is our first blog, we have a TON of catching up to do. But this is a great start. Thanks to our great friend Marianne Duke we now have a fully working blog. We need to add our pics. of course but we are really excited to let everybody know what's going on and keep in touch.