In Case You Haven't Heard....

We Are Expecting!

I thought my due date was going to be October 15.  But the ultrasound showed later:(  So we're going with October 23 now.  Not as far as I thought but oh well I guess!

I haven't been feeling too bad.  Not great, but it could be a lot worse.  I was definitely more sick with Summer.  Maybe it's a boy?  Or maybe I'm just not as sick this time.

Danny's sister is due about two months before me and my brother's wife is due about two weeks before me!  That part is super fun because for so long it seemed like there wouldn't be any cousins on my side of the family that would be the same age.  So we're pretty excited about that:)

Summer and the new baby will be 17 months apart.  Doable but busy!  Actually I probably have NO IDEA how busy it will be.  But we will survive!

A Journey To My Homeland

Every so often I start getting that antsy feeling where I know that it's TIME for me to go home for awhile.  The time had come.  It started off with a "let's meet halfway" lunch with some of my nearest and dearest friends.  I rode back to IL with them and had a few extra days to be there than I had originally planned which was great!  Danny came out after work on Friday to join the fun:)

We met at The Homestead and just had the best time talking and laughing and catching up.  It's possible we were the loudest ones in the restaurant.

The next few days were spent having some quality time with my family and helping my brother and his family move into their new house!  My nephew took his job of digging in the dirt very very seriously.  It's important work, you know!!

This girl.  Squeezed into the van filled with things to move.  She looks so grown up!  Oh wait- she is grown up.

I loved every minute of my time out there.  It was just what I needed.  I do love my family!

Happy Anny To Us!!

March 2 marked a whopping two years for us!  It was a Wednesday night though, so we celebrated by having a tasty supper at home and going to church:)  But Friday we went out on the town!  Kind of.  I mean, we were almost at the restaurant early enough to get the early bird menu and when we got home is when people who truly "go out on the town" were most likely just leaving.  But it worked for us!

We ate at Black Canyon for supper which might just be my new favorite!  We both really liked it.

Then it was off to the ice rink!  We've been talking about going ice skating since we got engaged and it finally happened.  Danny grew up skating on the family pond and he's pretty good.  Me?  Well, we'll just say I'm not the worst one on the rink and leave it at that.

I love you, honey and I love the two years we've had together.  Can't wait to see what year number three brings!

Aaaaaannnnd...... We're Back. 9 Months!!!

Well after a three month hiatus, I decided to jump back in to posting.  And by jump back in, I mean we'll see if it actually lasts:)  But I've posted about Summer at three months and six months so I figured nine months was a good time to start up again.  Plus we have some fun things coming up in March so it's a good motivator for me to just do it!  So without further ado...

Hi.  It's me.  I'm 9 months old today!

Woo Hoo!  Pretty exciting stuff!!

I am scooting everywhere, but not officially crawling, and I can go from laying down to sitting up now.  I'm not a huge fan of big people food.  I'd much prefer to just stick with a liquid diet.  But I do eat a few bites of food here and there just to make my parents happy.  And speaking of my liquid diet, I'm on formula now.  The doctor told my mommy I was losing weight and needed more nutrition.  I'm just a little pipsqueak to start with (somewhere in the 3-5% range) so I didn't have much to lose.  It took me a little while to get used to it, but now I gobble it down because I am a hungry girl!  Hungry enough that I started waking up again at night demanding food.  The doctor also told mommy that since I'm trying to catch up on my weight gain, she should get up and feed me.  I love it!  Mommy doesn't love it, but she does say that it's easier than just letting me cry it out!

A lot of times I'm a pretty happy go lucky baby.  But I definitely still have my fussy side where I like to whine just for the sake of whining.  I'm starting to learn the word "no".  Cause mommy always tells me that when I get into her computer cord.  But I usually just smile at her and get it anyway.  She'll move me away from it but I usually head back again in just a few minutes.  I wave, clap my hands, and sometimes give high fives.  But only when I'm in the mood of course.

Oh, and my mommy bought me this hat that's much too big.  It will fit a lot better next winter but I wear it sometimes just to humor her.  She thinks it's cute.

Well, that's all for now.  I'll report back again sometime- probably in a few months when I turn ONE!!

P.S.  I didn't have mommy proofread this, so there might be a few typos.  Don't blame her!!

My Favorite 6 Month Old

The babe is six months old.  A half a year already!  She's pretty fun:)  Usually.

She just started cereal about a week ago.  We give it to her right before bed in hopes of her sleeping all night.  And I'd say it definitely helps, but so far she just can't quite make it to what we think is an acceptable hour of waking up!  If she goes all night with no feeding, then she'll probably start making her presence known around 6:30-7:00.  It's just not quite enough sleep for her (who am I kidding- it's not quite enough for ME!) and when she wakes up that early it kind of throws her off and she tends to be a little extra tired and/or cranky for the day.  Whereas if she has a little middle of the night snack she'll sleep until 8:00 or so.  We'll just keep working on it I guess!

She's also officially sitting up!  She can do it unassisted but is pretty unstable still and doesn't last a real long time.  But if she's sitting at her little piano she can sit for a long time playing the piano and just looking at the great big world around her.  She thinks she's pretty hot stuff too:)

Aaaaand it might not be too much longer before she's crawling.  Ho hum.  I hope she holds off on that for a while longer!  At least until after Christmas so I can have one nice peaceful year of Christmas decorations.  I would much rather her just sit and look at all the pretty shiny things than try to tear them down and eat them.  But this girl does planks quite regularly.  Sometimes getting up on her hands and knees and sometimes her hands and toes.  So it's just a matter of time before she figures it out and takes off.  Aye yi yi...  Bring on the baby gates and plastic outlet covers!

What a goofy girl!

And Now For The Rest Of October

I have to say, this October was way better than last October.  Last year I was on the couch all month trying to get through all the nausea that came with being pregnant.  This year we had a beautiful fall (my favorite season) that I could enjoy with my baby.

One of my favorite things about fall, and really one of my favorite things in general, is harvest.  I had been back to visit Illinois a lot so I didn't feel like I could really justify another road trip just to ride in the combine.  So I decided that if my cousin who was expecting a baby had said baby before harvest was over, I would go.  And she came through for me!  Off we went- just me and Summer.  I was pretty excited to take her on her first combine ride.  I'm pretty sure she was just as excited:)

She did like it... that corn is pretty mesmerizing to watch!  She watched for quite a while and then took a nap while I continued watching.  And talking to my brother.  Way back in the day when we were both single, we would talk for hours.  Even after I moved out of my parents house, we had about the same hours at our jobs and it was common for us to call each other on our morning commute.  Then he got married, I moved away, life changed and so on and so forth.  So to have the chance to just sit and talk again was pretty special to me.

And of course we had to meet little baby Archer!

One weekend we took a little date to a corn maze.  It wasn't the most challenging maze since the corn really didn't grow this year...

Then we came home and carved pumpkins!

And while I sure don't like all the gory stuff of Halloween, I have to say it was really fun to dress up the babe!  (She was a gumball machine, not a clown.)  Oh- and to have trick or treaters!  I've never had them in my life and I was really excited!  But our candy ran out about halfway through:(  So then we shut all our lights off and creepily sat in our bedroom while we watched everyone walk by in their costumes!

Happy October, everyone!

Mmmmm...... Fingers!!

Hi.  This is Summer.  I just want to tell you all about one of my favorite things.  Cause when you got something good, you just gotta share it, ya know??  I.  LOVE.  FINGERS.  They're just so good!!

Sometimes just my thumb is all I need.

But sometimes I'd rather have 3...

or 4.  (Scuze the hair by the way... my daddy had some fun before he put me to be the night before when mommy wasn't home and I woke up like this!)

Sometimes I just can't get enough and I stuff both my hands in my mouth!  8 fingers all at once!  Nom nom nom.

And SOMEtimes when I've had enough of my own, I start in on other people's!

 I JUST LOVE FINGERS!!!!  Have a nice day:)