May 23, 2009

Its A...

GIRL!!!!!  

Todd and I were expecting to have a boy again, probably because Todd comes from a family of all boys, 5 to be exact!  Now we will have a boy and a girl!  We are excited, but feel like we don't know what to do with a girl, not that we knew what to do with a boy when we had Joel!  It will be fun seeing her grow up and use her charm on her Daddy!  

A name for this pretty little girl is going to be a hard and long decision for us.  I find that boy names are easier to come up with, maybe because we had a boy first who knows.  Girl names are just so hard, so hard in fact that Todd and I have only been thinking of boy names up until yesterday!  We were throwing around a few girl names last night and it is going to be hard coming up with a name that we both will agree on, but we have tons of time to throw names around and think them through.

This summer we will be moving Joel into a new "BIG BOY" room and getting him ready for his baby sister!  Maybe he will be able to say baby sister by the time she is born!  :-)  

When we were having our anatomy scan sonogram, they switched to the 4-D view and it was amazing!  The tec was taking a few pictures to get some good ones and was even patient enough to wait for the baby to move a little so she was in a better position.  Here are some of the pictures they gave us!

Profile, with hand on head and a cute little nose!

Another profile

Two feet!


An amazing picture, two hands!

So cute already!

A beautiful hand and long fingers!



May 15, 2009

This is what happens....

when you decide to turn your back, for just a second, on a curious 14 month old and his always hungry doggie, so you can put the dishes in the dishwasher.... 





At least the box was not a FULL box of cereal!  I am sure we will have even more of these adventures in the years to come!


Fun Times at the Cabin!

We went to the cabin in April with our friends Katie, Pj, Julie and Matt.  It was 90 degrees or hotter that weekend.  It was great!!  It reminded me of summer and so it was even more relaxing than just a regular weekend in the spring!  :-)  We brought up a baby pool for Joel so that he could cool off, he loved it.  Katie gave him a mohawk!  Here are some pictures of him in his pool.







Katie and I are both pregnant and she is just two weeks behind me!!  So exciting.  Here we are being serious and showing off our babies/bellies!


It takes three men to blow up a baby pool.


On our hike to the power lines.  Joel loved being in the carrier on his first hike at the cabin!


Joel with his pal Bella






Spring Time!

Our Cherry trees were in bloom before we had all the rain which made the blossoms too heavy to hold on to the branches.  Joel just loved the flowers on the trees especially when I would shake the trees to make the petals fall.  Here he is in his excitement!






Joel's hair looks really red when he is in the sun.  I was just amazed at how red his hair looked in these two pictures.