Soon!

Hi All! We will know by about 8:30am tomorrow who the newest member of the Hackelton clan is. I will try to post info and pictures as soon as I am up to it. Can't wait to meet this precious little baby! Big-brother-to-be Chase is getting to spend two days with his Nee Nee and Me-Mom so he'll be having fun! Please keep us in your prayers.

Aleigh

Chase has a new bedtime buddy named Aleigh. We've had it for a while but I just pulled it out of a box because we have let him start sleeping with blankets and loveys. Aleigh is his favorite and he can say the name. They are very happy together.

The final growth scan of the baby was today and the baby is 6.5lbs! That means this little one shouldn't exceed 7.5lbs by delivery day which is awesome! No 9.6lb baby this time. All is going well and we are just playing the waiting game until Dec. 2. Soon we will know if Chase is getting a brother or a sister. I am so excited!

Blocks

This is Chase's new obsession. We spend hours building towers and knocking them down. He's very creative with how he places them and tells Howard and me if it is okay for us to put our blocks on "his" tower or not. If he doesn't like where we put them he says "no" or grabs the block and gives it back or repositions it to his liking. It's been a week of constant block parties. :-)

The Winner Is...

Both of us! Howard and I tied in the first ever (and possibly last ever!) NASCAR fantasy picks our family ran for 36 straight weeks! Yours truly was the score keeper, and no, I did not cheat. I kept a running tally each week that was reported to all participants.

Peter, who got us all hooked on NASCAR in the first place, was the loser, or to be politically correct, took 5th place. All very funny since he had the most NASCAR knowledge to start the season. Now, we are all burned out from making our top 5, dark horse & last place picks and may never do this again. :-) The razzing and stuff was fun but picking all that stuff for 36 weeks in a row got really old.

For the moment, Howard and I will bask in our 2 seconds of family fame and enjoy getting to tease everyone else about the fact that we won. You all have been great sports!

On a side note, you can't see mom's score but she got 226 for 3rd place.

We're closing in...

We are officially scheduled for a c-section on Dec. 2 at 8:30am. I have been having lots of Braxton-Hicks contractions lately, some that are quite intense, so the date only holds if the baby doesn't decide to come early! At the last growth scan the baby was in the 50th percentile, meaning it is completely average size at this time. Thank you Lord!

In the meantime I am sharing some photos of my only surviving mum from last year. My parents gave me 5 plants last year and only one came back. It is huge and beautiful and full of "fall". Hope you all are enjoying this last gasp of fall weather. I can't get enough of the beauty outside right now...

The Face of a Charmer

I know I am a biased mom but how can you look into these beautiful brown eyes and not fall in love? :-) Chase loves wearing my visor that I use for tennis so I had to snap a few pictures of my little cutie!

A Leaf Hunt, a Snowsuit & Being Silly...

I took Chase on a leaf hunt around our development the other day and he had a blast! We probably got five feet in fifteen minutes because he wanted to pick up every leaf in sight and put it in his bucket. We brought them home to show daddy and he dumped the all over our living room floor for more fun. :-)

This picture is Chase checking himself out in the mirror after we got his first snowsuit. It's a little big on him yet but he loves it and had so much fun waddling around the house in it. I love the look on his face. This was the first time he saw it on himself. Too cute!

And this is our family having fun with the camera one night. We were trying to get Chase to stick his tongue out but everytime the flash went off he'd close his mouth. This was the best we could do. We finished off with a nice picture for good measure. Can't believe we're closing in on the last few weeks of it just being the three of us!