Introducing.......Jake Allen

Jake Allen Musselman arrived Thursday May 6th at 1:20pm weighing in at 7 lbs 4 oz and 20 in long!

God has blessed our family with a precious little boy and we couldn't be more thankful for our healthy bundle!!!

The Musselman family of 5!

T Minus a Couple Days!

The Musselman family of four is quickly coming to an end..........and soon there will be five!!! It's so miraculous how quickly that changes, and how life as you know it is then changed forever! I haven't posted a whole lot on my pregnancy or taken many progressive pictures of the ever growing belly. As my days or closing in and I have so many thoughts going through my head I just need to get them out!

Warning......pregnant women rambling ahead!!!

Last week when I had my 38 wk apt. my midwife told me that she has jury duty for the next 2 months and didn't know what to expect schedule-wise. This is the first time I've had a midwife and I sort of went this route for the delivery process. Now with that said I would not be devastated if I went on my own and had to have one of the other doctors if she wasn't available. So last week she scheduled me to go in tomorrow(Tues) and see where I'm at and if I'm ready she might induce me based on the fact that she would know her schedule for that day and really that day only (jury duty). Well if it were a different situation I would like to go on my own, but there is a battle going on inside of my head. What ifs......it would just be easier if I could plan it.....I would make sure the girls got to my parents, wouldn't go in the middle of the night, wouldn't have to wait for Aaron to get all the way home from work if I went during the day, have enough time to get to the hospital, have enough time to get an epidural and things could be squared away at home and ready!!! I told you crazy prego rambler!
On to today....I called the office to see if she was in and if she happened to know what her week looked like because I had heard that you call in for the week, not every day like she thought. For a couple reasons, Aaron wouldn't have to take off work and go in with me tomorrow if it is only a check and she could induce me later on in the week. Well, she is in the office all week.....yay! Soooo, I'm supposed to go in tomorrow for my apt and see where I'm at and then she will induce me Wednesday or Thursday! I would prefer Thursday for scheduling purposes for the girls and Aaron's work, but I'll take whichever.
I feel as ready as I think I can be. I still remember the feeling before I had Kate and wondering how you could love another child as much as you love the ones you have. That feeling is coming back, but I know better this time around. I'm just anticipating how the girls are going to handle the transition.....especially Kate who has no clue as to what is coming her way! We don't have our names picked out for sure...well we have our top 2 or 3 names, but I like to go in with the one for a boy and one for a girl. I feel with your third you should be a little more relaxed, but it's always the unknown and also being at a different hospital changes things a little for me.
Now I said I was ready, that meaning physically and mentally but not quite on the home front yet. I did get a lot done with getting the baby stuff ready , but I just need a day to clean the house up!
I'll post an update tomorrow after the appointment......check back if you want to hear more rambling!!!

April Accounts

My pattern continues.....lumping a whole months worth of activities and pictures into one post! It might just stay that way for a while!!! Here are some randoms of what we've been up to this month.

Aaron has been slowing cutting down a tree in our backyard and to use up some of the twigs we broke out our fire pit that we got at the end of last fall that we never got to use. The girls and friends, have had a few too many s'mores!


Since the baby is coming we needed to start transitioning Kate from her crib to a "big girl" bed. I didn't want to do it too close to when the baby arrives for "too much change" sake, so we took the rails off her crib which converts to a day bed. She did amazing with the change and has only fallen out once in the night. Once the baby goes into the nursery Kate will share a room with Mackenzie and we plan on getting bunk beds!!!

My baby girl.....ooops I mean "big" girl had Kindergarten round up a week ago! I can't believe that she is that old! She was very excited and did great. It helped to have one of her best friends going to the same school. I am excited for her to go, but sad about how quickly time goes!

With the due date quickly approaching I wanted to make a point to spend some extra quality time with the girls....especially Mackenzie as she will be more aware of the change. So one of my good friends had been asking me to get a pedicure with her and we took Mackenzie along. This was her first pedicure ever and she was so cute. She looked so little in the big chair and ended up getting a special treat from the lady by getting flowers on her toes!



Kate is still really into singing and I just have to keep up with her as her songs get bigger and bigger! Sorry for the quality.....my camera mixed with her raspy voice..... if you can't understand she's singing "Brother John!"

A growing family means......

......change! A lot of change comes with adding another little one to the mix and most of those changes are much anticipated, but there is one that wasn't as welcome! We realized that having 3 kids meant that we were going to need to go shopping for a different vehicle. 3 cars seats across the same bench seat and getting them buckled wasn't going to be very easy. I have experienced it this year a couple days a week when I pick up another little boy and take him to preschool. Aaron and I have always said we didn't want a mini van, so we were trying to look at all of our options. I'm not really sure what the real reason is for being opposed to them.....I guess I have to honestly say it is just the idea of it, and everyone has one! We soon found out in our research that we needed several things for our next vehicle.......something with captain chairs, not a bench for a second row...... storage space for traveling behind the third row.......and something within our budget! These qualifications left us with few options, so we narrowed it down to the mini van!!! After shopping for several months and the weeks closing in on us, we finally found one we liked.

We sadly had to say good bye to the Jeep that we really loved! Mackenzie was very involved in the process....many trips with us to the dealership, opinions about which ones she liked and many questions! She is very into vehicles and to this day we are not sure how she became so interested in them.

We are excited about it and have to admit it is very convenient in many ways.....it just took us a while to come to our senses!

Easter '10

Yes, I know Easter was several weeks ago.....a little behind. The truth is....well besides being a little lazy, is I was waiting to get some pictures from my photographer (aka...my mom) to complete this post!
We had a great Easter holiday, very relaxing with a lot of family!

The week before Easter Mackenzie and I got the privilege of having a day to ourselves....my mom took Kate for the day, so we colored eggs tie dye style! She had been looking forward to coloring eggs since last Easter!!!

We had a great time together and got some good lookin eggs too! Of course we had to use some right away for Egg Salad!

Then the girls got to color eggs again at Grandma's....I think this was Kate's first experience at it and from the stories she didn't quite get it. She kept telling me that she took them out.....meaning she would place the egg in the dye and then promptly take it right out!

On Saturday we went to my Uncle Ken and Aunt Lori's for my dad's side of the family get together! It is always so much fun to see everyone again....it's sad we always have to wait for a holiday to come around!

The cousins have so much fun.....actually second cousins, but all the same! We hear they look a lot alike.

Some of the girls hunting for their eggs....a tradition we always enjoyed as little kids and now get to watch our children enjoy!


Kate was napping during the big hunt, so we hid some eggs for her after she woke up.....now that's the way to do it, right Kate....no one running you over to get to the eggs!!!

On Easter we spent the day at my parents.

The traditional Easter pictures! I love it when I can still get them matching outfits....which will soon come to an end with Mackenzie growing into the " girls" clothing!

They had fun finding their baskets and it didn't take them very long! Mackenzie said she wanted her's hidden hard!

Kate's 1st Hair Cut

At just over 2 years old Kate got her first hair cut! I have never even trimmed a hair on her, I guess it's the cosmetologist in me! haha I did the same thing with Mackenzie.....I wanted their first clippings of hair....you know the ones that go in their baby books that say "first hair cut" to really be there first hair cut!
She did so good and just sat there with the cape on in my "salon"...aka basement!

Both of the girls had such cute curls and I was always scared that I was cutting them off.

The finished product right after a bath!!! I should have learned....it only makes the curls pop up even more!!! I hope they stick with her!