It's a Baby!

On Mother's Day mom and dad found out that our family is expecting a new addition. I had informed them the night before, "There's a baby in your tummy." Not really thinking I knew what I was talking about, mom thought she would take a test and just see what was up. To everyone's surprise, it came back positive. Cautious as mom and dad were at first, they decided to take me to the hospital with them for the first ultrasound. On the way there, they said "We are going to see what is in mommy's tummy." I responded with, "Is there a dead bug in your tummy mommy?"

You can only imagine my surprise when I saw not a dead bug but a real live baby! Here's a picture of our first look at what will, on my 3rd birthday, be my baby brother or sister. Yes, mom is due on January 19th, 2009. A day that is filled with so much significance and so many blessings for our family. Not only is it the day that I was born in 2006, but my sister Talitha Grace was taken to see Jesus that day in 2007, and now it's the possible day that our family will be given another wonderful blessing with the birth of another child.



This is a long awaited and greatly prayed for moment for all of us. We have been very excited and God has shown us so much mercy as the pregnancy has progressed. We saw the heartbeat at that first ultrasound which gave us confidence in the blessing the Lord has bestowed upon us. At our first Dr.'s appointment, 8 weeks, this baby had the earliest heartbeat our Dr. has ever heard externally with a doppler, another glorious mercy given to us. And then yet again at the 11 week mark the ultrasound revealed that we have been blessed with a healthy baby.





It was such a relief to see the miracle of life, perfectly created by God inside mommy. Though we know that every child is perfectly designed by God, we were very thankful to hear that he had blessed us with a healthy baby. Mom is doing great and the Dr. has said this is a textbook, perfect pregnancy! Praise be to God.

Summertime Fun

This summer has been a blast so far and mom has taken me all sports of places. This is great for me, bad for her, my expectations each morning have grown for the amount of excitement I'm in for. We start off the day with, "We go bye, bye now mama?" But, we're managing. Water parks, play groups, berry picking, and then one of my favorites...Loralei!

This summer mom took on an extra child, Loralei. She's 4 years old and she stays with us every Thursday. I love playing with her and frequently will ask, "Where is my friend Loralei, mama?" We go to a nature story time together in the morning and do a craft. Then, it's usually off to the park and then home for lunch and naps. But the best part of the day is the sprinkler and pool in the afternoon. We both look forward to it and have a blast together!







This works out for mom to. She usually gets a break and gets to relax in a chair :) She has to watch out though, sometimes we get more then her feet wet trying to cool her off!

Adventure Oasis

The water park is open, and I've been going. Mom found out through some friends that Monday through Thursday they're open to 5 year olds and under for 2 hours! This really cuts down on the crowd and makes mom feel much more comfortable about going. We met my friends Kennedi, Blake, and their cousin Torey there this past week and I had so much fun! I was timid at first, but once I found the water sprinkles that I can walk under, I was going crazy. I would run through them, around them, under them and I was laughing all the way.



I even started sticking my head right in it!



It was a really fun morning but it sure was tiring.





I am so blessed that mom and I have found such great friends to play with!
(Torey, Kennedi, Ainsley, and Blake)

Blueberry Picking

This summer has been all about favorite past time activities for mom. This week we went to The Berry Patch. It was a drive, and we tried for two weeks to go, each time they were picked out. But, this week we made it. Off to blueberry picking for the two of us, bushes full of sweet blueberries that are free of thorns. It was the perfect recipe for a lot of fun for us both.

Here we are at the beginning. I carried my bucket all the way out to the patch. I had to bring my cool Go, Diego Go gardening gloves with us and got started right away. I lost the gloves after a few minutes.





Mom must have told me a thousand times, "only pick the blue ones." I figured this one out for myself after I ate an unripe, green blueberry. It was quite sour. I had picked about two pints of blueberries and then mom let me eat one right off of the bush. After that, the hunt was no longer for blueberries for my bucket but ones for my mouth. I probably ate as many as I picked!





It was hot out there, good thing mom brought along some refreshments. The apple juice wasn't cutting though after Ainsley got a taste of fresh, homemade blueberry lemonade.



Here we are with the 2.69 lbs. of blueberries we both picked. It was really rewarding for Ainsley to see them weighed. She showed off the bag to everyone.





At lunchtime, I ate a little and then said, "I'm done. My tummy is full of blueberries." I showed mom how big my tummy was and she just laughed. We both agreed that we should do this each year.