Nico's Room

Here's a little preview of Nico's room. It's almost done, just a few finishing touches left!

I found these pictures and it turned into our inspiration for the room. (click to enlarge)

I love shoes! My new fav's...Black Juicy Couture Sneakers (Thanks Melissa!)

I still have to hang his name.

Christmas Tree Hunting

This year will be our first Christmas in our new home. Last year we were so close to moving in, but didn't quite make it. We started our own family tradition this year. Kyle, Elio and I went out to the Raisanen's Tree Farm, we searched for the perfect tree and Kyle sawed it down for us. We came home and decorated it, the tree looks wonderful, however Elio is enjoying taking the ornaments off the tree instead of putting them on. Our Christmas shopping is pretty much done and Kyle put lights up outside our house, so I think we officially ready for Christmas!

A Great Thanksgiving

The Nelepovitz Family

All the kids

Elio's first quad

Kyle, Grant, ELio and Daniel

Twins

So cute!

Our little family

Most of the kids and babies

Elio LOVED the quad rides

Lots of fun in the sandbox

A Day of Appointments

Elio and I both had checkups today. Elio's check up went great. Dr. Mahon said he is 25 1/2 pounds, and 33 1/4 inches tall. For his height he is in the 75th percentile and for his weight he is in the 50th. So that means he is above average in height and right down the middle for his weight. The doctor was very pleased.

I had my appointment with the midwifes today. I'm 31 weeks, so almost 8 months along, I can't believe it. Less than 2 months to go! We are all so excited for the baby to be here. My belly measured 32cm, and they said everything looked great and I was doing really well.

Kyle and I finally decided on a name for the baby...Nico. However we haven't decided on a middle name yet, this time it has been much harder for us to pick a name. Nico's room is almost done, Kyle is putting up the shelves in the closet this weekend. Then all we have is a few finishing touches left. I'll try to put up pictures soon.

Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!

Happy Halloween

Elio went pee in his potty!

We just got the potty for Elio a couple of weeks ago. We know that it's a bit early to be potty training, but we thought we would put it in the bathroom anyway so he would get used to it. He likes to sit on it when we are in the bathroom, with his clothes on of course.
Kyle thought it would be a good idea to start taking him in there to try to go potty before we get him ready for bed. The first night he went standing up, but it ended up on the floor. Last night we sat him down and he went! We don't want to push him if he isn't ready, but it sure would be nice to have him out of diapers when the new baby comes.

Pumpkin Patch

Kyle and I took Elio to Redding for the weekend. We stayed at his cousin Lori's house, which is right on the Sacramento River. It's such a beautiful view. On Saturday we met up with my family and went to the pumpkin patch in Anderson. We all had such a great time. There was a ton of different things to do. Elio had his first pony ride, he loved it and when his turn was over he didn't really want to get off. We also went on the train around the pumpkin patch and watched baby pig races. The pigs names were Ham-A-Montana and Britney-Spare-Ribs. It was really cute. Since Jack and Kyle are a bit older, they were able to shoot pumpkins out of cannons, walk through the corn maze and ride the zip-line.

The pumpkin Patch is something that we have done since we lived in Chico, and we hope to go every year with the kids. It's become quite the tradition.

As you can see from the picture, my belly is growing! I went to the midwifes this last week for my check-up and they said everything is looking great. I'm over 6 months along, and the baby will be here before we know it. I've been working on the room and it's getting closer to being done. We still have yet to make a decision on a name for the little guy. If anyone has any cool names let us know.