July 4th....and boy or girl???????

The baseball team had a tournament in Park City again this year, so along with baseball....we also got to shop! The weather couldn't have been better, the hotel was great, and the food was even better! The Bees won 3 of 4 games but gave up too many runs to advance, so we had all of Saturday to hang! We took the girls to the park, played beach volleyball (yes my chubby self can move a little still) and watched a fabulous firework show. All the baseball families stayed so it was way fun! I am finally feeling "human" again now that most of the nausea has FINALLY gone away and food even tastes good again!

So the verdict is in.......we cheated and found out at 15 weeks what we are having. I always go to the fetal studio at the Southtowne Mall in Sandy. First I must say that after 2 heartbreaking miscarriages, I just wanted to hear a heartbeat and see a moving fetus. Wasn't as concerned with boy or girl...........................................but I must say one thing

I

HAVE

BECOME

MY

MOTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Yep, cheerleader #4 on the way and that will complete our cheer squad! Having 5 sisters....it's all I know.....girls, drama, attitude, fighting, stealing eachothers clothes, pulling hair, but most of all bonding. I feel the most for my husband not getting at least one son in the mix. We were actually done except when he started coaching I saw how good he was with the boys and decided I would suffer through one more pregnancy just to see if maybe one more time would get Joldy a son. (When I say suffer, it's the truth. As much as I love new borns and creating a family, I am the first to admit that there is nothing I enjoy about pregnancy. I HATE IT!!!!!!)

The funny thing is, Joldy is a great father of daughters!!! More patient then most men are with all the drama, hair, jewelry, and PINK!

When I told my dad the news he said "only real men create little girls" coming from a father of 6 girls!! Funny old Poppy. The upside is......I don't have to buy a darn thing, except chubby clothes for me cuz I did get rid of those!!!!

INTRODUCING

MISS LAINEE ROSE WATTS................DUE ON CHRISTMAS DAY(this is the second child I have managed to have that same due date.....who does that?)


Here she is healthy, moving, stretching, and sucking her thumb!!

Some parenting milestones:

1. When another is on the way, it jumpstarts EVERYTHING a lot FASTER

2. Aynslee potty trained.....check

3. Aynslee moved from crib to big girl bed.....check

4. Breaking Aynslee from the binkie.....yah right! The more you have the worse this one gets, for my own selfish sleeping reasons....this one can wait!! Whew!

Boise Tourney....Joldy is 28!

So I am now about a month behind bloggin....but it's okay to be a slacker right? We were in Boise for Joldy's birthday so we had a b-day bash at my sister's house since all 12 boys stayed in her livingroom!!! That's right Katie was the host house for a weekend and I CANNOT believe how much boys can eat!!!! We were the head chefs for breakfast each morning and then Kaleb (Katie's husband) pulled off a BBQ dinner, which was fabulous, to celebrate Joldy's birthday. I was still feeling pretty pregnant icky so it was so nice to have my sister help me out with the kids for the weekend. (Like I might have randomly fell asleep a few times and she watched my kids :)

Anyway, it was a good birthday which ended with the boys winning the whole tournament!

Kiddo Stats

At the beginning and end of the school year I like to see how much my kids have grown......so here are the end of the school year measurements:

Jaycee
Height: 44 inches (+1inch) Weight: 43.2 (+5 lbs)

Sissy
Height: 43 inches (+.5 inch) Weight 43.2 (+5 lbs)

JoJo
Height 32.5 inches (+2.5 inch) Weight 31 (+4.2 lbs)

Baby Watts
Arrival date December!!!!!

Hooray! The baby and I managed to survive a first trimester. It wasn't easy........I have been the sickest I have ever felt in my life and struggled every day. It also gave me mental comfort that things were going okay with this one, so it was a bitter-sweet super sickness. I have once again managed to put on the 1st tri-10 lbs and I am no longer able to hide my bump. I do have to give a shout out to my mom and especially my sister Stephanie for letting me take many naps and taking care of my kids while I died on the couch......DAILY.

You know it is funny, with all my sisters having babies, I seem to always be in the running with one of them. So my sister Nickole and I are only two short weeks apart and plan on being very chubby over the holidays and taking a very sleepless maternity leave together! Cheers to chubbiness (oh, yes for the last time :) Our little family will be complete and will most likely have a whole cheer squad when all said and done. Statistic wise, after having 3 kids the same sex.......we'll have less than 3% chance of a boy.....but we knew that going into this and will be super happy with our girlies!

Boise State Trip

As usual I am a couple weeks late posting! Boise was super fun and the boys ended up finishing 2nd place. It was a good year and they did well. It was also exciting to be able to spend time with my sister Katie and her family. There were 4 cute baby kittens running around her house and my children carried them in blankets like little babies most of the time we were at her house. Honestly, I don't know how the kittens survived our stay!

Any chance the girls were able to ride the bus with dad, they did! I also was able to use it against them if they were being naughty! The weather was TERRIBLE. I think that snow plows out in May in Boise has to set some kind of record :)

So as much as this little one loves her mama.........she is a daddy's girl through and through. SHE is HIS biggest fan! A wart on his bum at ALL times. I must say that her daddy doesn't mind a bit and is actually pretty proud of his little fan.

I have the girls' end of the year stats. I will post that in the next couple of weeks. I must say this first though, it is apparent that all my children are predicted to be at least 5 inches taller than me. WEIRD RIGHT?

Happy Mommy Day

Hooray my favorite day! This is the day my husband spoils me rotten all day long and I get the most I love you's from my babies. It starts out with sleeping in, breakfast in bed, showered with gifts, not cleaning my house, going to the movie with my sisters and momma, and last some family platters from Carino's. And to top it off my poor husband, Aynslee, and Sicilee have this aweful cough and super snotty noses. So for him to still spoil me makes me smile even bigger:)



Jaycee had her end of the year program and then they handed us mother's day gifts with a hand made card. Never laughed so hard in my life. I think I am going to frame it. It went a little something like this:



My mother is 27 years old (yeah right) and weighs 78 pounds(like in the 5th grade). Her favorite thing to do is "hang out with me" (meaning Jayc herself) and her favorite food is chicken wings (I think she thought this cuz I work at Wingers). Laughed for a good 20 minutes and it is posted on the fridge.



And on a super good note my sister Nickole who has battled cervical cancer after having Roman has been desperately trying to have another baby for at least a year and a half has just announced that she is expecting in January!!!!! What a fabulous day!

On the baseball side we have been pretty busy! Bees are 20:5 with districts starting tomorrow and sitting the #1 seed. Pretty awesome year. The girls love every minute of it. We just had the annual fund raiser spaghetti dinner........with my mom and I as the head chefs..........for 750 people!!! We pulled it off and had fun. Then we hosted an end of the season party for the boys and their dates...chicken alfredo, games, and a lot of fun. It is a really good group of boys and they have done so well this year!

Double Trouble!

The older girls got home from church and had strawberry shortcake for a snack and the little babies decided to eat the leftovers! B-A-B-Y S-T-Y-L-E!!! Ryelee has from the minute she started talking has called me Aunt Pinkie.......have no idea why?? She also blames everything on JoJo. All day long....JoJo mean, JoJo hit me, JoJo bite, JoJo no no! She is so her sensitive mother. The other day she fell asleep in my car so I let her take her nap in there and just kept checking on her and when my mom got here she did the same. When she finally woke up my mom went to get her and she said "Pinkie gone" through huge tears.....like I left her there to die or something! She is the cutest litte fart. It is almost like having twins and it is actually easier to have 2 rather than 1, but at the end of the day I am grateful that Ryelee goes with her momma and I have my JoJo at night cuz that would be that hard part of twins......twice the lack of sleep:)

Here are my 2 divas in their cute Easter dresses I got them. I really do get Aynslee the same dresses but she is always napping when I take pics!

Jaycee is hating the terrible weather we are having and complains everyday as she is looking out the window.

Sicilee is loving life and wants to play with the neighborhood friends hourly. She is turning into my social bug. On Sundays I line out the girls' clothes for the week and she ALWAYS has to check to make sure they are cute enough!

Aynslee's new word of the day that she says all day long is oooookkkkkaaayyy. It is the cutest thing ever. Instead of "no" she shrugs her shoulders and says okay. Still a biter (aka sharp tooth) and is very mean. She definately holds her own to standing up to her sisters. I put her in a toddler bed and that lasted about a week then back to the crib she went cuz she wouldn't stay in it. It would be like midnight and she still would be poking her head around my bedroom corner with a huge grin on her chubby little face. I love the stage she is in with her growing vocabulary and some serious independence. At the baseball game the other day her shoe fell off and I went to put it back on and she threw the BIGGEST temper tantrum because she wanted to put it on herself!!! Parents were laughing cuz the tantrum was so bad. Sure do love this lil' stink bug:)

I have stopped calling myself the widowed wife and now have named myself the single mom. I think that sacrifice of time spent between couples is usually first so I have gotten use to scheduling date nights to see my husband.......it is taking care of the kids by myself 24/7 that is the hard part. I am use to so much help from him and so that is the stress I carry. They love to go to the ball park to support dad and his boys and they are being so well behaved lately:)

The Bees are off to a great start...... 10:3 is their record. Joldy is such a good coach and I like to see the boys look up to him in so many ways. He is so knowledgable about the game, I am proud of his dedication to the team.

Cheer Nationals + Disney on Ice!

Jaycee's team TOOK National Champions!!!! YAY, they did so good. Jayc had a blast and we had such a fun-filled weekend. Swimming, shopping, and Disney on Ice. All of my sisters and their fams went shopping in Park City and then met us for the Disney show. We took up one whole row!

(Picture overload)

They had a pre-show of the princess dresses and lots of expensice toys and snocones to buy!

Tinker Bell was the girls' fav show.

Of course all the boys thought the CARS was the coolest

Then there was Little Mermaid

The Lion King

2 Steps forward...1 Step back

Parenting breakthrough:

I have discovered this new way to have the girls help around the house, to not fight as much, and only getting toys when they EARN it.......basically we are still conquering discipline. This technique seems to be slam dunk so far!?! My idea was very basic. First I got 2 medium sized candle holders and put each of the girls name on them. Got a basket and filled it full of gum balls, then put it between them. Every time they are good, polite, snuggly, or help around the house they earn a gumball. Every time they are naughty, fight, bite, pinch, throw tantrums, whine when they don't get their way, or talk back......I take one out. At one point Jaycee shoved Sissy and I dumped ALL of her gumballs into Sicilee's. Needless to say, she hasn't done it since. If at the end of every month they have at least 30, then we go shopping for a toy or treat.

I have seen the most improvement in my Jaycers. When she gets bored she just says "okay mom, what can I do to earn a gumball?" I get super good helpers with EVERYTHING around the house now....dishes, laundary, cleaning rooms, washing mirrors, toy room organized, and a lot less snapping back at mom with sassy ATTITUDE. Whew, life just got a little easier at the Watts home(just in time to be a widowed baseball wife).

Sissy gets bored with it every once in a while and will say "Naah, I don't want a gumball today Jayc will you do the dishes?" Mostly she doesn't want to break a nail (seriously) doing anything too hard.


1 STEP BACK:

We actually brought a little souvenier back from Hawaii......and lost it at 6 weeks recently and I was able to pass it on my own. After the first miscarriage I never could understand why women kept this such a secret, this is typically one of the hardest times for a woman and for some reason it is not shared. After the latest second one I figured out that for me it makes me feel like a failure as a "woman". With that said..let me explain. First of all it wasn't near as traumatizing as the first mostly because I wasn't so far along, but my first question for the doc was "WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME" she said "absolutely nothing" I didn't think that after 3 kids that my uterus could just ly down and quit! Statistic wise....1 in 5 pregnancies fail. Sometimes women don't even know because it seems like a bad monthly cycle. She clearly explained that I am just on a streak of bad luck to have it happen 2x in a row......knowinig that I had 3 healthy and normal pregnancies. STREAK OF BAD LUCK....wait haven't I blogged many times and warned my husband when we got married that I am bad luck?? So I have accepted the bad luck thing and moving on. It is a bump in the road and I have 3 beautiful babies to tend to so I have chosen to not be so down about it.

I do feel there is one more to complete our family......I guess it is just going to be a trial for us and I will learn patience on getting one more here. I told my husband that they were both probably boys and my body doesn't know how to carry them:) ...........................(a little inside humor!)