The Thirteenth: The Thirty, The Third, and The Three Thousand

Yesterday was a big day for us! First of all, we celebrated T's 30th birthday! The girls enjoyed giving him some gifts and we all had birthday dinner and cake after spending a nice afternoon together...all of which came after another momentous occasion: our 20 week doctor visit and sonogram...which let us know we are expecting a third daughter! Thankfully, everything looked great and it was neat to get a good look at her. AG and LL were with us, and AG suggested that we name her Laura (that is what you name little sisters, right?) but we may think of another name just to step out a little bit. We are thankful to be at this point and look forward to meeting a new little sweetie in a few months. The other "event" of our day was an all-out war on the "thousands" of little invaders in our yard...black prickly caterpillars that we've heard can sting! We spent a good while yesterday afternoon both watching them from inside... Here AG and LL are watching one crawl on the outside of our window screen...
and waging war on them outside. Trey "moved" at least a dozen away from the doors and windows while the girls and I served as scouts. AG said to her Nana on the phone, "Capapillars are everywhere!" and LL kept an eye on an unusually inactive one on the patio about which, even though I know it had met its demise days ago, she continued to announce, "Pillar...sleep." So from the big events to the small, it was a fun day for all. Here are a few more pictures.
AG has big shoes to fill!
One of LL's new favorite activities is climbing onto the couch, over and over again.
And to end the day, a fun bathtime. Think we have room for one more??