Wiegand Writes

I love snow!! I love it even more now that I don't have to worry about a commute or snow day.  The girls worked ahead so they didn't have any school work today. Megan and I still had to work so they had to wait patiently until 4 o'clock before we could go outside. We decided to drive down to the "big hill" for some sledding. I called my mom to see if my dad wanted to join us. I was shocked when she said he would meet us there. Avery screamed, "this is the best day ever!" I don't know who had the most fun!!! You can decide... Dad got some air on the last ride...he probably won't be so eager to join us next time. Sledding hurts. HAHA!!! Pictures are great but videos are even better: Other Mommy and Harper Avery and Mack miss the ramp Avery, Mack, and I Mack Attack! Granpapa and Harper Granpapa and Mack

I recently deactivated my Facebook. I need to find another outlet (I need a place to share all of my pictures) so I figured I might as well try blogging again.  A LOT has changed since the last post... Mackenzie turns 3 in less than a month. She is the perfect blend of Avery and Harper. She is small but she is fierce. She wants to do everything her big sisters do. She is obsessed with Paw Patrol and knows exactly how to get anything that she wants! Harper will be 7 in April. She is in 1st grade at a cyber school. She is doing really well academically. Harper is a challenge behaviorally. She knows how to push our buttons and no matter how many times we tell her to sit right she still manages to fall out of her chair at least once a day. Harper is an amazing dancer but is too shy to show the world. She has a lot of anxiety as a result of medical trauma (she has had way too many broken bones). We recently found out that she has a milk allergy in addition to her peanut and egg allergie...

It’s a...GIRL!!! Mackenzie Ryan is expected 3/19/18!

Baby’s head bump shrunk! It’s now less than 1 cm. The technician at the perinatal specialist said if today were the anatomy scan she wouldn’t even have said anything. She had to look really hard to find it. We go back in four weeks to watch it “shrivel up and go away” She also checked the heart, brain, stomach, etc while we were there. Everything looks good!  Baby was dramatic and had two hands in front of his/her face. The one picture looks like a three toed sloth! It’s awesome!!! (The baby has five fingers on each hand)  Oh!! I almost forgot. We had the technician confirm the sex just to be sure (Meg didn’t believe me)  I’m working on convincing Meg to let me reveal the news early but she’s not feeling well and consequently won’t even entertain the idea. I’ll work on a picture of Meg’s belly this weekend. For now, here are pictures of baby M!

We had our 20 week anatomy scan on Tuesday. Meg was actually 21 weeks. We told the ultrasound technician that we didn’t want to know the sex. The baby wasn’t cooperating, but we watched as she took pictures of the brain, spine, heart, etc. Everything looked good...or so we thought. After the ultrasound we went into a different room for our appointment. The nurse practitioner checked the baby’s heartbeat (165) and asked Meg how she was feeling.  Megan told her that she’s still feeling nauseous and is still taking diclegis at night. All of the sudden the nurse practitioner nonchalantly handed me a paper and said “the ultrasound technician found a nodule on the baby’s neck. The doctor wants you to call this number and schedule an appointment with a perinatal specialist.” On the back of the paper it had information about maternal screening and Down syndrome. I asked the nurse practitioner if they thought the baby had Down syndrome and she said it was just a sheet of paper with hospital...

We took the girls to Disney in October to celebrate our 10 year anniversary and baby #3! We did so many amazing things!! One of my favorite parts was breakfast at O’hana on the morning of our anniversary! We had an amazing view of Cinderella’s castle,  ate delicious food, checked out the Polynesian resort and, best of all, hung out with some of our favorite characters!  We relaxed after breakfast in preparation for our late night at Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party! The girls LOVED it! They went trick or treating (Disney had allergy friendly treats for Harper!), danced with characters from Monsters Inc, went on rides(Avery went on SPACE MOUNTAIN!!!!), watched the special villain show (the Sanderson sisters-from Hocus Pocus- were awesome!!!), ate popcorn and cotton candy that looked like candy corn while watching the Halloween parade. Lastly, they finally stayed up late enough to see Disney fireworks!!!  We had several other amazing character dining experiences: Bon V...