Easter Morning Video

Here's the video of Kate and Daddy going through her Easter basket. I guess we haven't really decided if we want her to believe that a Easter bunny delivers this to her each year or if we'll just give her a basket each year from her mom and dad. I keep going back and forth in the video about the Easter bunny coming and mom and dad bringing something. Either way it was fun to see her get more into it this year then last.

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Our Easter

Easter for us started about 2 weeks ago. We went to our community Easter egg hunt. It was a very windy day with lots of other 2 year olds. We were lucky to have our good friend Cole with us, but I didn't get any pictures with him. We quickly got separated from him since everyone was scrambling to get eggs. It was a fun day, after the hunt Kate got to jump in a moon bounce, the first time through she didn't really get it but the second time through you could hardly get her to leave.

Kate and Daddy after the egg hunt

Going through their loot! She got a bracelet!

This is a picture of my very pregnant sister and my very pregnant self with my very cute new niece Violet (12 weeks) peeking through our belly's. There will be 3 new cousins all within 5 months of each other and born in 2009. If we all end up with girls I think that will be a lot of fun for these cousins. You want to know why I don't post picts of myself and this is why!


Saturday before Easter we had a family reunion at my Uncle Van's house. We got to see cousins and 2nd cousins, I think he said there were over 60 people there and over 20 kids. Uncle Van took kids on a hayride, you can barely make out Kate and Brock in this picture.

We also had an Easter Egg Hunt and Van's house, sadly this is one of the best pictures I took of Kate hunting for eggs.

Our Easter Sunday, we sorta just chilled all day which has been different from past years where we usually are traveling to visit with family. It was a nice change of pace for us. I hid Kate's basket that morning and figured after lunch I would help her find it, well right before lunch out of the corner of her eye she spotted it tucked away in the dining room, it was so funny to see her take a mad dash for her basket it was like she knew it was for her even though I never mentioned it that morning to her. Here are some of her Easter Goodies.

Finding bracelets in the eggs

Going through her eggs; that really was her favorite part of her basket, she loved opening the eggs and finding treats, she was even sharing with her daddy. I have a video of all this I'll put up in a different post. I love that Kate calls Easter eggs...sister eggs, then I've heard mister eggs and sometimes I hear Easter eggs.

Suuuuper Baby Shower!

My WONDERFUL co-worker aka Auntie Helen threw the best baby shower for me at work. Seriously she did such a fabulous job, I told her to keep it simple but in true Helen form (which is somewhat like Martha Stewart) she went all out. She arranged for another co-worker to bake the cake...yum homemade cake. She had such cute decorations up, tastie party favors, some munchies and punch.

I love this cake! It's so festive with the peeps, and the super mom-to-be cake topper is perfect for how I look and feel!


There were a couple little games: guess the gender and guess how many candies in the bottle. The wipees box is the holder for the guesses! The bouquet of flowers is from Helen's garden, the statue of the silhouette family of four holding hands is a gift from Helen, as well as the balloon weight (an insulated bottle holder). I just think it's so cute how this table is decorated.

Here I am showing off a gift I just opened, I won't post all the pictures of me opening gifts.... I promise I really am pregnant in case you didn't notice...please don't click on this picture and make it bigger.

If you click on this picture it should get bigger so you can see all the wonderful cute baby stuff I received from everyone. Many of my friends at work pitched in for a very generous gift card to Target, which always comes in handy for last minute baby needs, such as diapers, food, feeding supplies etc. The two baby outfits are from Helen, she insists that even if it's a boy he has to wear them.

You all have to see this, it's a baby rattle from the 60's maybe even earlier. Helen had collected it (it was new in the box), she opened it to use it as a gift-top decoration. I just think it's so cool and I think that it's even more special that it's been sitting around for decades waiting for the perfect baby to come along and shake it! The little lamb next to it is a pacifier holder (also from Helen). Do you all get the theme....Helen loves babies and like any good Auntie, spoils them!

I felt so showered at my baby shower, each week we get more and more excited to meet our new baby. Well I speak for Brock and I, I think Kate would tell you otherwise. She loves being an only child!

Update with Baby

I had another ultrasound today to check the size of the baby. It's measuring a week ahead and over 4lbs. I'm exactly 32 weeks which mean less then 8 weeks left if I go before my due date, fingers crossed. When the technician first showed me the profile (the pict below) I didn't even hesitate to say this baby looks like 'it's' big sister. I just remember having an u/s with Kate right before she was born and this is what 'it' looked like. Unfortunately I'm not very organized and I can't find that picture on my computer to show you, even though I'm sure I scanned it. But I'll put up a newborn pic of Kate for comparison and maybe you can see some resemblance.
I tried peeking at the gender even though I want a surprise baby, I couldn't see a thing the baby was all squished I guess I am on the countdown now to find what it is! (Sorry I keep referring to this baby as it, guess that's what you do when you don't know the sex.)


Ultrasound picts are sometimes hard to look at, this is the profile, follow the forehead over to the nose then the lips that look like a little beak, Kate has this same beak then you can see just a smidgen of the the chin and 'it's' hand is up by the chin at this point it into a big blur.



What do you think? Can you see the resemblance or is it just a mom thing, I realize comparing an u/s picture to a real picture is kinda difficult.

Snow Day

I have to blog about this because this will probably be our only snow day this season. The east, or at least where we are out east, just didn't get that much snow this winter, it was still plenty cold just no white stuff. So you can imagine my surprise when I woke up to a white blanket of snow covering our yard. I decided to call it a snow day. The first rule I have with a snow day is you MUST remain in PJ's all day long. The second rule is you must go out and play in the snow no matter how cold it is. Well this rule came back to bite me since it was really cold to me, but didn't seem to phase Kate, we were outside 20 minutes and I was done. So I grabbed Kate and made her come inside where she bawled hysterically and threw a big temper tantrum, she kept saying "no don't take my hate off, no don't take my snow soup off, no mommy no" at one point she even said, "I want daycare" because she knew her sitters would give in to her pleas...so any mom of a 2 year old will tell you that pleading that cute will let you get your way. So back out we went for about 40 more minutes. It was cute to see her have so much fun in the snow, she loved making "pah-pents" aka hand and foot prints and she loved making "giant snowballs" and loved saying to me "follow me mommy" to force me to stay close to her. We couldn't build a snow man since the snow wasn't sticky enough.
I did finally get her back in the house it wasn't easy but the hot chocolate made it better. Which is the 3rd rule of a snow day and leads to the 4th rule you MUST take a nap. We had a great snow day.
Here are a few pictures of our day.





A little video, sorry for the windy background noise...

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A Brother or Sister?

So everyday I ask Kate if she wants a brother or a sister? Awhile ago the answer was "No" then it turned into "A brother or a seester" and then it was "brother" and sometimes "seester" but recently for the last couple of weeks it's always "seester". I really don't know what I'm having and I don't really have any impressions. I want a boy to experience all the boy stuff like sports and sending him off to father son campouts, and I would love to pass on the family name(s) (Brock's name is a family name not to mention our last name has yet to be passed on to a male, Brock has 2 brothers which both have 2 girls, geez). But it would be nice to have another girl since I love having a girl; I'm set for girl stuff and Kate seems to want a seester. I'm grateful that the baby seems to be healthy and I really don't care what I'm having and already feel this little one is a perfect fit in our family. I've recently started asking what we should name her seester, to which her very first answer was "chocolate" ok I could handle that except I would end up eating my baby! I asked her again and this time it was "pumpkin" I wonder where she got that from. Tonight I asked her and she said "Marta" her babysitter, I'm sure Marta would be honored, Brock then suggested "Selda" her other babysitter, Kate didn't like that as much!



So here is a little video to show off how cute Kate is, or at least I think she's cute. I was trying to get her to sing a couple of tunes but she saw the camera and thought I was taking pictures of her, so started saying cheeeezzzzeee. She still seems to show off so if you make it through the video I hope you will be entertained.


Oh earlier tonight I overheard Brock and Kate talking about keeping a secret from mommy. Apparently Brock was smuggling chocolate to Kate and telling her "it's our secret" to which she would go "shssssh, it's our secret, don't tell mommy". What a little stinker, she loves chocolate.

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Poor Husband

I just asked Brock what I should title this entry and he said "poor husband" what a drama queen! So the story behind the 'poor husband' is a week ago on February 8th Brock went outside to shovel the last bits of ice on our sidewalk, never mind that it got up to almost 70degrees that day and would've jsut melted away! At any rate he slipped on the little bit of ice left and banged up his arm pretty good. It warranted a trip to the ER for xrays since we both thought it was broken, the way it swelled up almost looked like it could've been a bone sticking out, fortunately it was just sprain. Between me being almost 6 months pregnant and his sprain we don't get a lot done around here. Of course this occurred right when we are trying to put together the baby room and need to move furniture around. We are having to bug neighbors and church friends constantly to arrange help for moving stuff. Ugh! What a pain.

These pictures were taken today, (7 days after the accident) so as you could imagine 7days ago it actually looked worse then this. It's still pretty swollen and he has to wear a soft cast on it just to keep from banging it into stuff.

This isn't the first "poor husband" battle wound. When Kate was maybe a little over a year old he was walking the down the steps at the daycare and slipped... a combination of new carpet mixed with socks, all the while holding Kate. It was a scary thing and I'm so thankful nobody was hurt. He said the whole time he was falling all he could think about was protecting Kate, what a sweet daddy. But Brock's rear-end took a beating as he bounced down almost a flight of stairs. I took a picture...(don't worry we covered the essentials). I'm trying to dig up the picture now but can't find it, keep checking back.