Blog Babies

This is Whitney posting.

The other day I woke up and I was feeling really dizzy.  I haven’t been feeling quite myself since then, so I decided to go to the doctor today.  And, well, I’m pregnant again.

So, the new baby is due December 10th, Alice will be 4 1/2, Liam will be 2 1/2, Amelia will be 11 months and then there is baby #4.

Wow… Drew and I are in for some fun years ahead.

All I can say is happy April fools day!

(A note from Mommy: OK I feel like I’ve been such a slacker since there were no posts between April and when Amelia was born! I hope to keep things a little more updated now.)

Post by Liam:

1. Alice spent the night at Gram and Poppy’s and wore chopsticks in her hair.

2. Gram, Stacey, Grandma Sue and Mommy taught knitting at MOPS.

3. I took a bath and was so cute.

4. Nanny and Grandpa Tom sent a gift basket and Alice helped open it.

5. I fell asleep in the car and we went to “sweet matoes.”

6. Alice got a towel on her head like Mommy.

7. We went to the zoo with friends.

8. I like playing with toys in the bucket.

9. I can also scoot really fast with Alice!

10. Gram showed Alice a bracelet with animals on it.

11. I learned how to crawl up the stairs.

12. We fed some ducks on a walk with Mommy and Gram.

13. Alice was really diggin’ the end of a jar of Nutella.

14. We planted new flowers outside our house. Alice wanted to plant a peanut butter and jelly tree.

15. Mommy and Daddy went to Alice’s school for parent’s day.

15 1/2. Alice and Daddy danced with the stars!

16. We celebrated Mother’s day in the park.

17. Alice had field day at school

18. Alice played outside in the sand and found some candy in the pantry at Gram’s house.

19. We drove a long, long way in the car and got to eat junk food. Mommy said she never would have let Alice do that when she wasn’t even 1 yet.

20. We got to see Alyssa and Alex in Kansas City and had fun playing with them.

21. Aunt Stacey came with us too and we got to hang out with her and play.

22. We went to MO and got to see Nanny and Grandpa Tom.

23. We went back to Kansas City and played some more with Alyssa and Alex.

24. We went to the children’s museum.

25. We went to the homestead farm.

26. Alice and Alyssa went swimming in a freezing cold little pool.

27. I joined in the fun.

Then we went home in the car a long, long way again. We had fun and that brings us to the end of May.

Today was the first big snow of my life. Alice was at Gram’s house and stayed there since the weather was snowy. Mommy had to run to the store so she loaded me up in the car in my little bear snow suit. It was an adventure.

Mommy sure knows how to bring out my cuteness! I crack myself up I’m so cute.

Today Mommy got home from a trip to Kansas City with Liam and it is her birthday.  We stopped by a grocery store and got Mommy a birthday cake.  She shared it with me at lunch!

Needless to say, I had a lot of fun with the chocolate icing.  I got so messy that I had to clean off in the sink.

That was fun too though!

Liam celebrated Mommy’s birthday too, but he was a little less messy.  He made a happy birthday face!

Today I went to the office with Mommy. I got tired at one point and took a nap in my vibrating bouncy chair.

Mommy put me under her desk to keep me in a quiet place. I think it’s funny because it looks like she stashed me under there.

At school today, Alice celebrated her birthday with the kids in her class. She got to wear a crown and Mommy brought cheese and frosted animal crackers for snack.

Alice had fun and wore the crown around the house the rest of the week!

When Mommy was a little girl she had a blankie. It was kind of like mine because it had silky stuff on one side. She called it “Lobie” (pronounced low-bee). It used to be bigger, but when she was little, part of it got burned in the fireplace. Gram found it in her basement and brought it over to our house. Mommy wore it like a cape, just like she did when she was little.

I also got to eat some yummy banana bread that Mommy made. It is the same recipe that Gram made for Mommy when she was little. It was yummy.

I love helping Mommy in the kitchen. She lets me wash the veggies when she is cooking. Today, we were making pot roast and I washed the carrots and potatoes. Then, I got the sponge and was squeezing the water out of it, which was really fun. After Mommy peeled the carrots and potatoes, I thought they needed to be washed again, so I took care of that.

I was so busy; I thought I deserved a little treat, so I had a yummy sugar cookie with frosting on it. Man, cooking really wears a girl out!

On Saturday Mommy, Daddy, Aunt Stacey, Aunt Jackee, Gram and PaPa went to a wedding for one of Mommy’s friends, Elena. Mommy knows Elena from The Sky’s The Limit, from a long time ago. Papa and Elena’s daddy started camp in 1986 together with some other pastors in Denver and the Anschutz Foundation.

Over the years Mommy’s family and Elena’s family have stayed close friends, so it was exciting when they got invited to the wedding. Mommy said that it was one of the most fun and beautiful weddings she had ever been too. There was a full mariachi band and the bridal party looked beautiful. One of the coolest things were the lights hanging on the ceiling.

I wish I could have been there, but I’m glad that Mommy and Daddy got to go share the day with Mommy’s friend.

Today, Mommy and I made a peach-berry cobbler for a BBQ at her friend Emilie’s house. The picture above is a demonstration of the important work I was doing with Mommy to help. My main job was taking care of the peach pits. Mommy would cut the peaches and peel them and then I’d wash the pits really well for her. I also tried the pits to see what they were like. I thought they were good enough to share, so I gave some to Mommy.

When Daddy and Aunt Stacey came home from lunch, we all ate and then I thought it would be a good idea for everyone to take their shoes off, so I could try them on. First I wore Mommy’s flip-flops.

Here I am with Daddy’s socks on (Mommy wasn’t fast enough with the camera to get the shoes picture).

Finally, I wanted to wear Stacey’s flip-flops. It was fun to try on everyone’s shoes.

By the way, the cobbler turned out really good!