Baby Woltie #3's first partay!!

Jude painted a onesie that says everyone's name...and it took almost an entire bottle of T-shirt paint ;)

Don't tell me you've never been to a baby shower before and then paint a onesie with that amount of skill and artistic ability...pretty sure this is not his first rodeo

Everyone showing off their masterpieces...Baby Woltie is going to be the best dressed kiddo ever!!

Look at this awesome group of people..."Don't act like you're not impressed", right Peter?!

My two little helpers...man, Jude must have asked me 500 times if he could open presents..."it's so hard to wait to open presents"-Jude

All of us eating some delicious Coca Cola cake made by Kelli

Christina trying to add to my borderline obesity

And, I am about to dunk my face into the Coca Cola cake...yeap, I have reached a new low

Ashlee and Peter trying to guess how big around my belly is...I am pretty sure Peter is thinking, "Man, is this all the ribbon I have to work with?"

Our beautiful onesies...thanks Grey's Anatomy!! See, it pays to watch complete and total garbage every once in awhile ;)

My girls!! I love each and every one of these lovely ladies

My little Li Li bug


Yesterday was Baby Woltie #3's baby shower and it was so fun (thanks Aunt Kelli)!! I feel so honored to have such great friends here. I really missed all of my wonderful friends scattered across the globe as well, though. I hope you enjoy perusing a few pics from this joyous event. ;)

30 weeks...holy moly!!

Sorry for the hiatus but the Wolter family has been busy!! So, I am now 30 weeks into the pregnancy. I cannot believe how fast time has flown by. I finally downloaded some of my belly pics so I am just going to post all of them at once since I didn't exactly keep up with the blog as I was going. I am finally on the homeward stretch of intern year and I am on some easy rotations for the last 2 months. We have decided to transfer to Orlando for the next two years of my residency. I will miss my fellow interns so much...they have been such an awesome group of people. I pray that I do a good job of keeping in touch with everyone. As much as I will miss everyone and Gainesville, I am looking forward to being close to family. The boys love their grandparents so much so it will be great for them to be closer. Also, with a third little Woltie in the mix, Lord knows we are going to need some help!! I am really excited about having another little one though, I love having 2 siblings so I am sure it will work out well.

Well, we are praying for a longer pregnancy this time but make sure you are on stand by just in case because we are quickly entering upon baby delivering territory. ;)

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Wow, it's almost been a year...

I can't believe it's been so long since I have updated this! This year has been the busiest, craziest, most challenging, most intense year of my life and I pray that it remains the hardest year of my life. I khow that if that is true, that I am blessed because I know things could be a lot worse. But, for me, this has been an INTENSE year, to say the least. No matter what people told me, I really didn't expect this for an intern year...maybe that is a good thing, though. Would I have done it had I known what to expect...I'm really not sure. But, here I am, 7 months into it and I'm surviving! Jeremy and the boys have experienced a good amount of stress as well secondary to my schedule but hopefully no unrepairable damage has occurred. It's funny how a field that supposedly puts so much emphasis on being compassionate and empathetic can treat it's tranees so horribly. I would love to be part of a radical change to hopefully do away with this unecessary hardship one day. But anywho....in the midst of all this chaos, somehow we have managed to create another life to bring to this world!! I am now 16 weeks pregnant with our third baby. We are really, really excited about it. We have always wanted a big family...this may be a little sooner than we had originally planned for our third baby but we are excited nonetheless. We have decided to wait until the birth (like we did with Jude) to find out what the sex of the baby is. I have the nicest and smartest OB ever and he is a big time expert in maternal fetal medicine so I am looking forward to the birth and I trust that things will be managed well during the birth. I am due July 20th and I am praying that I carry to term this time. It's funny because I want this intern year to fly by but I don't want the pregnancy to fly by...but I think intern year ending fast wins out. ;) I will post some pics of the baby at 7 weeks gestational age soon...and on 3/1 I will have my long US so I will post those too. Keep the prayers coming....I am taking it day by day and by the grace of God, I am making it through.

Some more Easter pictures

Easter pictures

Easter!!

So, I am actually posting a day after the event I am writing about...can you believe it?! I had the day off so that might have something to do with it...;)

The boys started the day off with opening their Easter baskets. They loved all of the fun toys in there but I think the harmonicas and the book that you can paint with water and colors magically appear were the big hits. They weren't too big on the candy but that's probably a good thing. Liam had fun playing with the grass in the baskets too. Then, we went outside and had an Easter egg hunt. At first Jude was not into it because all he wanted to do was going inside and color his new book but eventually he got into it. He kept saying he found them all after each egg and by the end we were having to lead him to the general vicinity so that he could find "just one more". Liam immediately found two eggs that he held in each of his hands the whole time. He liked the noise they made when he shook them since mommy and daddy put jelly beans in them. He is really into crawling up and down steps now so he just kept crawling up and down the steps to our deck.

I was a lazy Momma and I didn't cook anything traditional or over the top for Easter. I wish I would have looking back but I guess there is always next year.

Some updates on Liam and Jude's progress unrelated to Easter are as follows:
1. Liam is quite vocal now and he can say out, momma, dada, no, mine, more, woo hoo, boom boom boom (noise that a drum makes), yummm, Jaden, Donna, and he can put his little finger on his lips and say Shhh.
2. Liam is cruising now and keeps trying to stand up without holding onto anything. He is definitely making progress!
3. Liam must be getting his molars in because his gums are SO swollen and he is not my little LiLi...he is just not his usual self. Thank God for Motrin!!
4. Liam is getting so good at giving hugs, he wraps his little arms around your neck and squeezes his little cheek against yours. He also gives great open mouth kisses and he will grab you and pull your face toward his...it is hilarious!!
5. Jude is talking SO much. Some of his favorite phrases are, "What ya doin' Momma?", "Whatcha lookin for?", Where we goin'?", "Who's that?", "Liam, you stop it", "I said No", "That's so fun", "Like a big boy", and many, many more. Some of those have definitely caused me to speak a little nicer and use the words please and thank you more often. ;)
6. Jude is a pro at stairs now and he insists on walking and basically doing everything "Like a big boy", which means he wants to do it without any help.
7. We changed Jude's crib into a big boy bed on March 31st. He has done so well with it and he has only climbed out of his bed before we came in there once.
8. Jude is going through this phase where we have to really stay on top of him to eat anything. He still likes everything for the most part, he just has to be told again and again to eat.

Well, I think that about sums up our two sweet boys. What a joy they are! I am not looking forward to being gone so much next year but I have to press on so that one day I can have a normal schedule and be able to spend more time with them. That will be a beautiful day...