Grandma’s Visit

Alexander

Going back in time….Meet Alexander. He was born seven pounds, seven ounces at 10:18 am on September 2.

Gulliver's Bed

This morning Joe went into Sophie's room to get her up, instead of me. She's been sleeping in a big girl bed (ever since the day Mom woke up to THUD - WHAAAAAA), but she waits until we come in (for now). I was working from home, but was confused when neither Sophie nor Joe came downstairs. I go up to see what's going on, and I see Sophie trying to put Joe to bed, on her old crib mattress (being used as padding in case she rolls off the bed). It was too funny. They played upstairs for two hours, Joe laying around letting Sophie put him to "night" over and over as well as making him pretend lunches of icees and chicken.

A Day At The Beach - In Your Backyard

It's been a steamy summer so one day, instead of piling into the hot car we set up a day at the beach at home. It worked very nicely, except when Odin decided to use the pool as a great big water dish. :)

Getting Ready For Baby Brother

Some of you have been asking me whether we've gotten things ready for the new arrival and slowly and surely we have. We've decided that for awhile, he'll sleep in the pack and play in our room, next to the bed, then in Sophia's room until we decide if we're having a third one (in which case, odd gender out gets their own room), or that having two in one room really does produce the horror stories some parents relay to us.

For now, we've carved out a corner of the girl's room for a little boy with green (to match) and some monkey's to make it his own. My parents bought the new crib (THANKS, Grandma and Grandpa) and it looks great with the green. There are some frog's hanging around the room and we bought a glider this time for rocking the little tyke to sleep. He's sort of got a lot of animals going on, more like a jungle theme - something special just for him. He's due around the very end of August, and we'll do our best to bring our family out to the various family reunions, football games and birthday's this fall. So see you soon!

Visit With Lilianna

Well, the Cramers came for a BBQ on Saturday and it was great. We got to talk, coo over Lilianna (which was a dream baby - so good) and watch Sophia be a little mom. She even gave Miss Lily a hug goodbye.

They're still up in Hartford/Slinger and say they are doing great. They've adjusted to life with a little one easily - Lilianna's 7 months now. She smiled A LOT, especially at the dog. No fear when her father was playing tug of war with the big, black hairy mongrel which most people say looks like a bear.

She got to try out Sophia's tree swing, and Sophia was a good little sharer (for a two year old anyway). Sophia especially liked when she got to bounce Lilianna in the bouncy seat - it's a good thing she's a tough little baby. She laughed as the seat went up and down rather faster than was necessary. It was pretty amusing. Sophia seemed taken with Lilianna, so we have hopes she will enjoy being a big sister more than she'll be jealous of having to share her parents.

Little Human Jumping

At some point, every kid discovers the joys of jumping on the bed. Especially, when their father fake wrestles with them while they're doing it. So besides the obvious hilarity, there's the fact that Sophie also says her name, which is a fairly new development. It sounds more like SHOW-FEE, but it is the cutest thing I've ever heard.