Introducing....

Baby Johnson! This is our little baby at my ultra sound yesterday! We found out my real weekage and due date. I am officially 12 weeks and 2 days along. I am officially due August 27, 2009. I was glad that I only had to go backwards two or three days rather than my nightmare of weeks!! The baby looked healthy and was VERY active!! My dr had to measure 3 different times to get the right date, everytime he would start to measure, Baby J would do a little jiggy for us. I can't believe how much bigger Baby J is in just four weeks. On the tv screen it looked even bigger than it looks here on this printout! CRAZY!!

I am starting to feel all the moving around. I can't wait until you can feel it on the outside so the girls can feel it!! Everytime I tell them that it moved, they immediatly lift up my shirt to see if they can see it. I tell them that they can't see it, or feel it yet, but that mommy can! It is starting to sink in a bit, they don't flash my belly as much as they used to.

I am very large, and sticking out a lot... I guess that is what happens on your third baby! I have also had the dr check twice now to make sure I don't have another baby hiding inside there!! I am starting to not fit into my "big" clothes anymore. If any of you out there have any maternity clothes, that would be willing to part with them for a short while... I would gladly take them! (and of course, get them back to you!) Finding preggo clothes is hard to come by here in the Cache Valley!!

I am excited to find out what Baby J is, whether we should be getting prepared for a little boy (which everyone says I am going to have), or to get out all of the cute girl clothes and things that I have luckily not sold yet! I don't get to find out until the end of March, or the beginning of April! I hate that I have to wait that long, but the time so far has been going by very quickly! It seems like just yesterday I found out this big surprise!

Just a little note on my due date... i HAVE to have this baby either before my due date or RIGHT on, because on the 28th, we celebrate Joseph, Jason and Jonathan's dad's bday! I don't think I could handle four birthday's in one day!!! So, with my record of early deliveries, Beene 10 days early and Julles a whole month early... I think I am safe to say that I won't be going OVER my due date!!!

Beene's latest craving...

A few weeks back, we read a story called "D.W the Picky Eater". In this story, D.W talks about all these different foods that she doesn't like (most of them, she hasn't ever tried), and says that she definatly doesn't like SPINACH!!! Through this story, you see how picky she really is. She ends up eating SPINACH not knowing it until they tell her she did, then she decides that she LOVES it!

After reading that story, Beene asked me if I thought that she would like spinach. I told her that she would because I like spinach! And she likes the things that I like! I wasn't about to tell her that she wouldn't, like most kids! So, every day for the last few weeks, she has been asking... no... more like begging me to try spinach. So, yesterday I went to the store to get stuff for my menu's for the next two weeks, and I got her some spinach. For dinner last night, we had baked chicken, wild rice (the stuff with the brown crunchies, is what Beene calls it) and spinach that had been sauteed in butter and garlic. For me... it was YUMM-O!!! I was a little worried that she had built it up so much in her head, and that she wasn't going to like it. I gave her just a little bit to try, and she ate it all... and LOVED it!! She had two helpings, and talked to me the whole meal. This is what she kept saying: "Mommy, I can't believe that I LOVE this spinach sooo much!", "Mommy, I am not a picky eater, huh?" and so on. It took her forever to eat her food because she was making these comments the whole time! This morning she asked me if we had some left over, I told her yes, and she growled "Mmmm... I want some"

Now, this is how my conversation with Julles went last night at dinner....

M: Here Jubie, can you try just a little bit? See if you like it?

J: No, I don't yike it!!!

M: You don't know if you like it, you've never tried it...

J: I only like WHITE spinach!

M: Oh, ok!!!

Did you all know that there is WHITE SPINACH??? Apparently I have made it and not known it!!! What a funny kid!! She really wouldn't try it... I guess I'll try again another time!