...and baby makes 5!

In early March we were very surprised to discover that I was pregnant! We had not expected that we would have anymore babies. Clearly God had a different plan for us and so here we are, now 12 weeks pregnant with baby #3! We were in fact so sure in our own minds that we had sold our crib last November and I recently boxed up the rest of our baby stuff including all of our girl clothes and sent them to my sister! This just makes me laugh. Now normally given my type A personality these factors would be cause for panic. But for some reason I have not a worry. I guess because I didn't expect to have this opportunity again I consider it a real gift to be going through it and am trying to really soak it in this time. For this same reason I want to experience things a little differently so I decided right away that I did not want to find out the sex... and Quyen is reluctantly submitting to my wish :o) I figure why not? We have a girl and a boy, whatever the sex of this baby they will shack up in the "girls" or "boys" room so we don't really have much preparing to do. Plus in our experience the babies have slept in a bassinette in our room for the first 3 months so there's no hurry. I'm sure we'll have plenty of help rearrange when we need it. So come November 11th-ish The Hoang's will be 5!

Olivia's 4th Birthday

Olivia's birthday week was a complete whirlwind! On Sunday we had returned from a long weekend in Seattle with our family and that Friday were expecting our good friends Rob & Robyn Riggins who were driving up from Colorado with their 3 kiddos to visit us for the weekend. It was busy but lots of fun. On Saturday we had a Tinkerbell themed celebration for O and her friends where we made "fairy princess tutus" for each of the girls. The rest of our weekend was spent showing our friends Spokane and enjoying the chaos of 5 kids under 5 in our home!

Tavian's 2nd Birthday!

For some reason Tavian has seemed like a 2 year old to me for some time now. He is so silly these days with lots of new words to share but still a big snuggle bug. He melts my heart daily. We had a party for Tavian at our house. What a great turn out! It made me realize how many great friends we have with young kids as well. We had a blast and Olivia said "this is the best birthday party ever!" Sadly I was too busy socializing that I forgot to take many pictures (bad mama lol). It did prove to be an exhausting day for our boy though as he ended the celebration by nodding off while eating his cupcake :o)

This late morning I had to run some keys to my hubby (don't ask) and heading back to my office found myself down on Indiana and hungry for some lunch. I passed Coffee Social and did a quick u-turn remembering the great lunch I shared with a collegue there a month or so prior. My brie sandwich and tomato basil soup were oh so yummy so I wanted to share this new find of mine with all of you. I believe in & support what these fine people are doing. If you feel so called to support this local organic cafe you will not be sorry... d'lish! Plus how many places can you grab a bite to eat and know the ingredients in what you are eating are organic? I love that!!! They are located just west of Division on Indiana. 113 W Indiana - http://coffeesocial.net