24 weeks

Preschool Graduation

Today was a big day for Miss Amelia....it was preschool graduation! Of course we both made sure we could attend. They sang a bunch of songs and then their teacher presented them with certificates.

Amelia's Little Lambs class

Very proud of her certificate!

We have a walker...

Over the weekend Addie started full out walking. I crack up every time I see her walking because of how she holds her arms. She's very proud of herself and I love hearing the pitter patter of her feet around the house!

Amelia visits the ER...

Amelia made her first visit to the emergency room tonight. Her and Paul were playing in the backyard (like always)and I was doing a few things in the house. I had just changed Adeline's diaper and checked on them through our bedroom window since it faces the back yard, no more than walked out to the kitchen and two minutes later Amelia came flying into the house crying that Paul hurt her, she does this often, so I didn't think much of it, but asked her where it hurt, she was holding her head but pointed at her foot, I look down at the floor and there are drops of blood everywhere she had just walked. I started investigating and noticed it was coming form her head, but couldn't find it right away, finally had to take her pony tail out and move her hair a bit and I revealed a gash in her head that was about 1-1/2 inches long. I asked her what happened and she kept telling me that Paul pushed her, Paul came in, questioned him on it, but couldn't get a straight answer from him. Put pressure on Amelia's head and called Kevin (he was in the cities) and then I called Gene (he had just went to church at 6:30), he left church and came home and drove us up to the ER so I could sit in the backseat and keep the towel on Amelia's head. Kevin met us at the hospital. Amelia was a real trooper there. Warning the below pictures are a bit graphic!

The gash.

Patiently waiting for the doctor to come in.

All sealed up, we didn't have to do stitches thankfully, he was able to glue it back together.

Dr Becker gave her a stuffed cat while we were in the ER, he told her it needed a good home and she named it Adeline and then changed it to Fluffy on our car ride home, she's not sleeping peacefully with Fluffy in her bed.

22 weeks

We had a follow-up ultrasound this morning to recheck a few measurements, according to the ultrasound tech, everything looks good, but we'll wait for the official results from our doctor next week once he gets the radiologist report. We got a few more pics of our little one, He or she is very cute if I do say so myself! Baby's heart rate was 134 beats per minute, same as it was last week at my regular doctor appointment. We can't wait to meet our little one. Baby was curled up into a ball today, must have been sleeping!

All snuggled up!

Knees up the the chest.

22 weeks.

Nap time?

I thought I'd lay Adeline down for her nap upstairs in the crib that is in Amelia's room in attempt to start getting her use to napping up there. She was up there for about 20 minutes and I thought she was sleeping because I didn't hear her making a peep, then Paul went up to play in his room, I told him he had to shut his door and play quietly, a few minutes later I heard some banging around and decided to run up and see what was going on, he was sneaking out of the girls' room and I heard Adeline laughing, I went in and this is what I found....


How am I going to get her to actually sleep there when she thinks it's play time?

Wonderful weekend...

What a wonderful weekend we had! We started out on Friday night by having some friends over for dinner, it had been over 2 months since we all got together, so six adults (seven with Gene)and six kids. It was a fabulous evening even though the weather wasn't nice enough to have a fire or be outside, but we were still able to have our beer can chicken, great conversation and play some wii. Adeline, Kaelyn and Rylee had a great time running about, it's fun to see how much they all have changed in the last year!

Saturday morning Mary and Ron came down for a visit and to drop a few things off. Mary is having knee-replacement surgery on Tuesday morning, so please keep her in your prayers. My grandpa has been working on an island for our kitchen and had it completed, so him and my dad also came Saturday morning to install the island. I just love it, it turned out beautiful and I can't wait to organize it. I really can't wait until the day we can afford to refinish the other cabinets, get new counter tops on those, new flooring, and get rid of the awful green color that is my kitchen. Hopefully this will happen sooner rather than later! The island is just the start of the transformation. Below are some pictures of the new island.

We need to find some bar stools for by the island. Notice the 60's cabinets. Someday it'll all match and ignore my mess on the counters...I was prepping for dinner.

Lots of storage....note awful green color in background!

Beautiful.

Saturday evening we went to my Dad and Mary Jo's for dinner. We hadn't seen them since the girls' birthday party in March, so it was really nice to get together with my dad and it was the first time we've had dinner at his new house and he's lived there for a year! My grandparents were down for the weekend and my cousin Jakob came over for dinner as well. The kids got to go for a "swim" in his "pool". Which was pretty exciting for him. His "pool" is a jacuzzi tub that is sunk into the floor of his bathroom and the water comes out of the ceiling to fill it....the perks of being a contractor! haha. The kids always have to check it out whenever we go for a visit, and Papa has been promising them they could go for a swim in it sometime when they came over, they didn't let him forget!