Baby News

Makenna Grace arrived 8/18/2010 at 10:40 pm. She weighed 7 lbs. 10 oz. and was 19.5 inches long.

Working Out

Yes, I am doing my walking videos in a lame attempt to get this little child to come into the real world!! Cadence wants to walk with me - she lasts about 10 minutes of the videos and follows the steps pretty well. It is adorable. I should have taken a video of it. Also she usually grabs her blanket/paci at about 10 minutes in and then precedes to lay on the floor with them the rest of the video like she is exhausted. The top picture must have been her trying to multi-task during her workout. The pink gloves are weighted gloves that the lady in the video wears, so Cadence wanted them on herself.

Yes, we are waiting for baby sister

I think Cadence will be glad when she has better acess to me :). I will be too - but then she will have a little sister to contend with. I hope we can be good at balancing giving attention to two children.

Front Door

Our door - man, it has taken a long time to get this part of the house right. It still needs a few coats of Spar Urethane (or something that sounds like that), which will make it shine like the morning sun :). The green around the stained glass is tape - so that is not going to be there forever. The trim around it will be painted Winchester Maple (like our other trim). It is nice to have a solidly locked door at night. Even after all the trouble to get it ordered, put in and get hardware that will fit it -- it is a beautiful door and it adds a lot to our living room. I added Cadence to the picture so you can see just how massive this door is. So now when you come to my house you can walk up our sidewalk and right up to a proper front door :).

No, I have not given birth yet

Just a little FYI or maybe it is a rant either way you can read it or not. Here are the facts:

Yes, it is my ESTIMATED due date today.

No, I have not delivered yet.

Yes, I know I look HUGE, thanks for the reminder.

No, staring at me will not put me in labor so please STOP.

If you know me well enough to have my personal cell phone number - I will call or text when we have the baby - you will not be out of the loop, I promise we are not that mean.

Yes, I am a little cranky at times and I am not cooking anymore or cleaning too well so don't expect too much if you stop by my house.

Enough said - maybe I should go watch a movie or something. I finished all my good books - disappointed about that.

Lack of Sleep

Don't let the cuteness confuse you - she is not really adjusting to the toddler bed that well. I am sure she is doing what is normal for most kids. Well, I am not sure of that - every mom I talk to has a different story :). I am sure we will get there soon enough. Probably just in time for the new baby to come and everything to get crazy! She just gets too excited to stay in the actual bed. She is, as I type, playing in her kitchen in the complete dark. It is quite an adventure to have a toddler.

I'M BACK!

Welcome back!!! I mean to me of course. It has been a long time since I had Internet here at the house! Speaking of house, I will upload some pictures of the house soon. Right now I am a little behind on housework. Hopefully, I will get caught up tomorrow and then I will share some pictures. For now I will leave you with some pictures of Cadence and her cast. It seemed like a long 4 weeks that she had it on. It never really bothered her, just an inconvenience for me mostly. Things are good around here. We are 8 days from the due date. We have all but settled on a name (no I will not tell you so don't ask). Ryan is still doing finish work and getting in more relax time. He has also started to help his parents with their house. They hope to be done sometime in August. I hope for their sake they are! It is so nice to be done with the major construction and to live here. Sometimes it seems like we have always lived here...hahahaha. Oh, now that the pictures are loaded I realized that I yet again loaded them backwards. So look from the bottom up to watch her get the cast off :). Well, we are transitioning to a toddler bed...so I must go discipline my 2 year old for getting out of bed ... again.