Happy In-Between Day

today's weather was beautiful!!! a great in between day. that's what I'm naming this day.....In-Between Day. and every year from now on I'm going to have the best In-Between Day ever. March 20th is the day after my dads passing anniversary and the day before his birthday....right in between. march 19th i can be ridiculously sad and march 21st even sadder but march 20th will be great. this week really did have an awesome beginning. march 14th my 5th niece was born!!! Karma Marie weighed 7lbs and was 21inches long. a perfect little angel!!! chelsea and baby are both doing great. owen is also doing great. we are only getting labs once a week in the kidney center. and today i actually told nick that soon we need to go out and buy this kid some new clothes. not because he's worn them for two years and i'm tired of looking at them but because he is growing out of them. that is a first with him!!! since the swap he has gained about 6 lbs and grown about 2 inches!!! he finally looks like noahs older brother and not his twin :-) I've been asked a lot lately what is the biggest change in owen since the swap. there has been so many small changes it has been hard to say. i think that him not wanting to drink water was the most extreme change. he now has an extremely large appetite. and his taste buds have completely changed. he used to coat everything in ketchup and now hardly uses it. he has a little bit more energy when playing. he sleep much better at night. right now we are trying to break him from watching the tv at night...:-/ not going so well but its only been about 5 nights so i know it will get easier for him. we have also been working on potty training with both boys. also not going so well but I've got a goal of having them both trained by the end of summer. wish me luck. a few weeks ago we learned from "make a wish" that owens trip to Disneyland in California will be May 22nd-28th. we are so excited. owens aunt nat nat, uncle dom, nannie julie and his cousin megan are all making the trip. plus my best friend from arizona megan, her husband jaafe and their daughter jaaten are meeting us there. it is going to be an unbelievable trip for owen. we are so grateful to be given this amazing wish.

i've been pretty busy with scentsy lately. noah thought it was pretty fun to sit on the boxes
Adaira, Owen and Noah waiting on Karma's arrival. notice the height owen has on noah. :-) plus he weighs 3lbs more than him too

proud big sister adaira with my new little niecey-pooh karma

all the kids love there aunt nat nat and it starts as soon as they start talking. i was on my way to the hospital with the boys and all morning we'd been saying who we were going to see that day....c-ya(chelsea), nat nat, ya ya(my mom) and the new baby. so we are leaving our last stop before the hospital and owen says "now lets go to the hospital to see c-ya, ya ya, and nat nat" and noah points his little finger at owen and says "no...nat nat and baby" very matter a fact-ly...so cute. sorry chels and mom....natalie is the best spoiler :-)