IRIS & FAMILY

With recently added Marcus we are now a happy family of five! Damian and Amaye are very good siblings with their own very unique personalities. Damian is very imaginative and he expresses it through his stories, both written and verbal. Amaye is an actress in the works. She quite often becomes the center of attention with her antics.

Monday, December 15, 2008

I have hit my 6th month of pregnancy for our fourth child. Our due date is March 8, 2009. Our ultrasound showed we are having another girl! That makes it even two boys and two girls. We have narrowed it down to a couple of names, but we probably wont decide until next month after the holidays. Damian and Amaye are extremely excited and both wanted a girl. Damian wanted to even it out and Amaye just wanted a sister. Both love to talk and sing to her. Marcus was very fussy and clingy during the first few months, but has since calmed down. He will point at my belly. I guess he has noticed it is different from before. He will almost be two when the baby is born. I'm a little nervous about the age difference but he seems to be maturing so much this last month, which makes me feel better.

We put up our Christmas tree yesterday. I’m trying to figure out how to decorate it so Marcus wont destroy the decorations. He already managed to topple it over yesterday! It is artificial so it is very light. My father-in-law, Porfi, calls him Dennis, since he is always so curious and getting into everything. I have to say Marcus is going to keep me fit. Ever since he started walking 6 months ago I have lost a lot of weight in spite of the pregnancy.

Saturday I had mentioned to Amaye that I wanted to get my hair done. Well, she said she wanted to go too and get a “style”. I told her if we had time I would take her, but after Damian's party I was exhausted and had to clean up, so we didn't go. She was upset. So I said Sunday, well the family that couldn’t make it on Saturday showed up after we had gotten the tree up so we couldn’t go. She was upset. If at 4 she is wanting to go get “styles” what am I going to do when she is a teen!