Thursday, September 10, 2009

The results are in!

I'm sure most of you know by know what the gender of Leah's sibling is . . . a boy! So looks like most of you who polled were correct! Give yourself a pat on the back. I've never seen Jarrod so excited before. I guess that makes a guy feel pretty manly to carry on the name, male bonding, etc. So there should be a nice balance in our family. Leah is still convinced it's a girl but we're working on that. She's excited no matter what that there is going to be a baby in the house. Here's a picture of our little guy!


Here's his little feet!

Sucking his thumb!

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Leah's Preparing for Baby

Leah has been very excited to talk about what she's all going to do with her baby sister or brother. She talks about changing the diaper, singing to him/her, cuddling, feeding, and playing. Sometimes to get Leah to eat food she doesn't really want, I will say "Mommy eats this because it's good for the baby." Then Leah will eat it and say "I have to eat this for the baby." So cute! One day, I was going through some of her baby stuff and I found her in the living room- reminiscing!


Leah's Summer

Leah has had a funfilled summer so far. As you've read from the previous blogs, she's been to Wisconsin Dells in June. July was filled with playdates, zoo trips, 4th of July festivities, and a wedding.


Leah and Ellie at the pool

In August, she went to the Le Sueur Giant Days parade, helped with a rummage sale, went to the Freeborn County Fair, and then to grandpa and grandma's house. While she was away, mom and dad had some good quality time together. Remembering times before children but still missed our little girl. It's funny how we had this time together without a child for the weekend but still thought of her a lot, even went shopping for her! Thanks grandpa and grandma for giving us a little break. Probably not too many of those when baby 2 comes!


Leah driving her jeep


Attempting to ride the pony at the fair








Friday, July 17, 2009

Many 1st's!

Leah has seemed to experience many "firsts" this summer so far. The past post mentioned her 1st movie but she was also at her 1st wedding last weekend. She was so excited to go to a wedding and have been preparing her for weeks. She was excited to see the bride and groom, the dance, the food, etc. She sat pretty nice for the ceremony- got a little antsy but what do you expect, she's 2! When we got to the reception, she was very wild and wanted to run around everywhere which was okay, it was social hour and wasn't too formal yet. But once supper started, she didn't want to sit. So daddy took her to the golf course outside to cool off so mommy could cool off. What a good daddy! Anywho, once Leah was cooled off the dance began and so did the fun! She loved watching all the people and the "princess". She even got out there by herself and danced. Lots of people loved watching her "moves"- not really moving her feet, just swinging her arms with a twirl every once in awhile. She even got to dance with the "princess" meaning the bride and that really made her day! It was great fun just watching her have a blast.



Another 1st she experienced at the end of June was camping. We stayed in Jarrod's mom's camper for 3 nights at the Yogi Bear Campground in Wisconsin Dells. Leah absolutely loved it. It was like her little house. She'd open and shut the door, play around in the kitchen, put her babies to bed. We even set up a little tent outside to play in and she kept her toys out there. That was kind of her reading area. She'd take her book and blanket to go read in there. Leah loved having the campfire every night with s'mores. Things got a little messy but that's the fun of it, right? Besides the camping fun, we did many activities outside the campground since the weather was on the chilly side. We rode the Ducks, went to the Deer Park, got our gangster portrait taken, and went to the Circus Museum. Leah seemed to enjoy all of those things except for the Deer Park. It may have been a little too much having those deer walk around people freely, begging for food. I think she especially enjoyed the Circus Museum in Baraboo, WI. They had a kids show in which kids would participate in the show and also had a real live show with acrobats, clowns, and animals. She didn't not take her eyes off that. She just held her popcorn with her eyes glued. Since we've been promising her a waterpark all week long but never had the opportunity to go to an outdoor one in the Dells, we decided to go to the Waterpark of America when we got back! The vacation couldn't end yet. So that was another 1st was going on the family raft ride which was supposed to be kid friendly but wasn't even parent friendly. What a ride! Poor Leah had to listen to her parents scream the whole way down. What good examples!

It's fun experiencing all of those 1st's with Leah and can't wait to do more. Speaking of 1st's, Leah's 1st sibling is well on its way. We had another Dr. appointment today and everything is looking well. Leah and Jarrod went to this appointment with me to hear the heartbeat and all thought that was really neat. Our next appointment is Sept 4th in which we find out the gender so of course, we will do a poll to see what everyone thinks!

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer!

Sunday, July 12, 2009

First Movie

Today Leah went to her very first movie in the theater today, "Ice Age". We were pretty excited, hoping to turn over a new leaf but Leah didn't seem "that" into it. She went in there just fine and seemed excited to experience everything- the big screen, popcorn, and all of the people. But as the movie went on she became antsy in her seat- was on mom's lap then dad's then back in her chair. When mom said "it's almost done", she kept repeating it really loudly! I guess all in all she did pretty well for her first movie being only 2 1/2 years old!