Pictures of pictures of the baby!

So I just took a few pictures OF the pictures because im all amped up and am dying to post these for all to see! (Meaning Powers and I will stalk our blog and dig into every detail of these pictures!)

Here's one of the alien shots.... Look at those cute little fists and knees though!Here's baby with it's hands above it's head!! It's so excited! This one is my favorite!

Sorry this one's blurry, but you can see a little foot and tootsies!

Rushing up the Baby Bump and Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

All kinds of updates....
Surprise! We're more pregnant than we thought!! Whoot! We are 4 months preggs! We had our second sonogram today and it was even MORE exciting than the first!! They did move our due date up a few weeks... Feb 18th is our new d-day!

Our first go round held true right on into round 2... Momma BALL cried the whole way through the sonogram! I don't know what my deal is! I CAN NOT keep it together! It was THE MOST amazing experience though! God is so good, and kind, and giving, and loving, and is knitting this amazing being together in front of our eyes! I am delighted by my Creator!

Baby was beautiful today!!! It was squirming and rolling around like crazy! There were more than a few times when it would look RIGHT in the camera like it was just saying hello! Then it would squirm and flop around! We did see it slow down and rub its little eyes for a minute!The funniest thing was that it kept throwing its little hands straight up over its head then it would throw them down... then up again!! It was SO AMAZING! I can't believe you can just WATCH the baby move and play! The sonogram lady was laughing at how active baby was! No surprise to dad and I!
We could see its little toes (!!!) and knees and fingers and brain and spinal cord and rib cage. Unreal. Totally unreal.

I have our pictures, but I need to scan them, so Ill follow up with a pics post!

In other news.... I JUST WON MY VERY FIRST EVER GIVEAWAY!!!! YAAAAAAYYYYYY!

I am so excited!

The grand prize winner won the following. Behold....

~A Fiber One yogurt VIP coupon good for a free 4-pack of Fiber One yogurt.
~A cooler pack
~Storage items shown below for you to carry your snacks and yogurt!Please don't be jealous. I promise to share my lunch pale and sandwich container anytime you are in the need of a good to-go lunch!

My confidence in signing up for every single free thing I can find on the internet has been restored! Bring on the freebie's!

Love you all!

Lemon Head Lane!

I am so excited about this week of preggernancy! Listen how exciting:
'This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another.'
Ahhh! Who else is totally pumped up about this! I wrote the parents that I can just imagine baby in there with all its many expressions... opening it's eyes really, really wide like mom when it's listening to stories, talking with it's hands like daddy when its on an interesting topic... I have a sneaking suspicion we are going to have a very animated, colorful child! (Meaning Im sure it will be a total handful, but I'm up for it! Thank the Lord for grandparents, right?!)

It also says that it's likely baby will be sucking it's thumb in our next ultrasound picture, which is tomorrow am! I'll keep you updated on thumb status!

We're lemon sized this week! Lemon Head Lane... another fitting nickname!

Books Galore and Thrilled about Baby!

My sister-in-law is the world's best. Really. That's her official title!
We found a package on our doorstep this morning... included were 5 brand new of the best baby books to start Baby Lane's collection! She sent her families favorites... which make them all the more special! This was our first baby gift, so of course, I've just been elated all day!

Added bonus: she has 3 super genius little girls, so I'm going to overload Baby Lane with these classics in hopes that Mel's act of reading to her children will have the same effect on ours!

Read this one during lunch. Wonderful!

You are the best, Aunt Melanie! We love you so much and thank you for this thoughtful gift! I'm having a good, quiet night and am going to start reading to Baby Shim before bed! Never too early to start, right?!

Love you so, so much!

SKRIMP Lane

I love this weeks update!
As a preface to the update- Skrimp is the ebonics word for Shrimp! My awesome grandmother reads this blog and hopefully she doesn't know about skrimp! However, I wouldn't be surprised if she did... she's on facebook and I'm not, so she's totally with it! (Side bar to the topic at hand, I wish everyone knew my grandmother! She is hilarious and you would love her! She keeps us in stitches... as my dear ole mom would say!)

Our little baby boy/girl (shim) has FINGERTIPS this week! Isn't that cool! I wonder what shim's little prints would look like if it got finger printed! I promise I'm not imagining a juvenile delinquent baby, just thinking about how tiny those little things must be! We already have it's mugshot on our fridge, so it only seems fitting.... Shim's body is growing to catch up with it's giant head too! I love this baby! How fun are all these updates?!

Anywho, we are all are well and still relatively bump free. We're just getting THICK. Awesome. This is so weird (yet exciting at the same time!!)

Here's what our baby boo looks like this week:Beautimus!

The whole family, allie at lead mic, just sang "let's get it on". Marvin gaye classic best sung by howling! I love our dog!

Peeuew Caden!

The family came over last night for dinner. We pretty much stuffed ourselves full, then sat back and let the twins entertain us! It was awesome having Charley with us! She looked beautiful and is always such a huge help! I love that little nugget!

Caden in his sunglasses!

Caden being tough in his sunglasses!

I just thought this was funny... we were trying to get a pic of the kids together but they both kept holding their glasses and we couldn't see their faces. We were all saying "Put your hands down, put your hands down" so this is Caden 'putting his hands down'... He laid them both flat on the floor! I love kids!

She looks like a swimmer, huh?
He looks like an alien!!

The sweet, precious Rhea offspring!

Caden had a peeuew (dirty diaper) and Tootie wanted us all to know! Listen closely right at the first... she says 'Peeuew, Caden, peeuew, Charleyrhea.' I love that that's what she calls Charley! Then check out the shaken sister! This is right after she and caden were checking out their hiney's in the mirror! They are something else!

Peeuew! from Taylor Lane on Vimeo.

Caden also has learned how to fake sleep and he thinks its hilarious! We were saying our goodbyes last night and Caden was 'asleep' in his car seat! No one could wake him to say goodbye but every once in a while he would come apart and laugh and laugh and laugh! He is so funny! We are so lucky to have 4 adorable kids in our family!

(Note: I don't know how to spell peeuew or hiney, so im spelling them the way they sound!)

Limeade Lane

We're Lime Sized this week! Whoo Hoo! My little week by week email says .... The most dramatic development this week: reflexes. Awesome! It also says that if you prod your belly, that the baby will squirm in response... umm, hello?! Does anyone do that? This baby ain't movin' unless it's good and ready! Momma's not running into any chair backs to get reflex reactions! Crazies!
It also says that baby's eyes have moved from the sides of its head to its correct location, front and center (praise the Lord... otherwise it would have looked like Dad!! Ha ha! ONLY KIDDING, HONEY!!)
Anyway, were getting bigger! I totally cried wolf on the baby bump. I had a little something for a few days, then it went away for 3 or 4 days. Today it's back, so Im not saying anything else until we have a solid week of bumpage!

Melt Me.

Lauren and the babies just stopped by the office to drop something by for me. I went out to the car for a quick 'drive by lovin' and listened to this conversation:

(scene: I have on a big necklace that Caden had his eye on, so I let him play with it/wear it. I asked him if he could let his sister play with it for a second and he passed it over...)

Tay Tay: Aww Caden, tell sissy she looks pretty in her necklace.
Caden: Sissy, purdy necklace (head nods)
Lizzy: Tank oou, Caden

Melt me. They are so sweet!

Water Octopus

I went to Barry's to work the other afternoon.... which quickly turned into play with the kids.... Caden's new most adorable thing is to come to you and say 'South Side' to which you reply 'Outside?' and he replies 'Okay' and runs for the door!

No way to NOT go outside after him being so cute about it! So, we went outside and played in their new cars for a while. Tootie just likes to sit in her's and talk on the phone and stuff. Caden likes to drive around.

Here they are being the cutest things ever:

See ya later alligator from Taylor Lane on Vimeo.

Then Barry came out and turned on the water octopus, which could totally be a weapon if the water pressure is turned up too high! We got it to a safe, non eye gouging level, striped the kids, and let them go for it! Barry joined in and as usual, it just ended up being Barry and Caden. Caden LOVED it!

Here's cutie saying cheese for the camera

Caden having a blasty!

This is what Tootie's like with water games. 1. Dad gets her out there 2. She starts screaming 'WET' 3.Heading on back to dry land! No go for Liz and the water octopus!
Great picture!
This is one of my other favorite things on the planet. Watch Caden's arms as he runs! They are like anti-gravity, wet noodles! He runs like this all the time and its hilarious!

Flapper from Taylor Lane on Vimeo.

Also, if you are having trouble watching the videos, try playing them, then immediately hit pause until you see the gray 'loading' bar get all the way to the end. (i think its gray) The videos should play fine once they are fully loaded! Mom, if its still not working, call me! I love you!