Everyone Needs a Cousin

Need I say more?

Cat in the Hat

Elaina does this every time Cat in the Hat comes on. Soooo funny. Keira usually does it a little too but she figured out I was taking a video.

Baby Bump

Here it is at 22 1/2 weeks. My first picture of the baby bump. I have been slacking. Hopefully she will forgive me someday for being so forgetful.

Cousins!

As everyone hopefully knows by now, my sister Kendra had her baby on Saturday. I finally got a chance to bring the girls over to meet their very first cousin and they were so excited! They both ran up to her as soon as they walked in and wanted to hug and kiss her and hold her. Keira held her all by herself and did really well. Elaina loved giving the baby "hugs" which means she wanted to hold her. Elaina couldn't get enough of the baby. We just had to remind her to be soft because she was trying to treat her like one of her dolls. I hope they are as enthusiastic of their new sister as they are of Analei because they did so good!! We love finally having a cousin of our very own. :)

Drumroll Please....

It's a GIRL!! Rick is outnumbered by leaps and bounds now. I can't believe it is a girl. I am actually a little shocked. Rick and I have already begun the name argument (oh, I mean discussion). This should be interesting. Good thing I don't have to buy a whole new wardrobe because I have to replace the crib and a couple other things. Of course new clothes aren't completely out of the question. Some have been well loved by two kids (or more) already. I got to take my first glucose test today. So now I need to cross my fingers on that. Oh the joys of pregnancy.

Roommates

Keira and Elaina have been sharing a room for a couple of weeks now and it is starting to be the normal thing. They are doing much better getting to bed and not keeping each other up and Keira is better about sneaking out of the bedroom in the morning without waking up her sister (she is an early riser, Elaina likes to sleep in). Elaina loves to sleep in her big girl bed or as she calls it her "bunka bed." She also loves the pillow we gave her with a butterfly on it. She does NOT like to sleep with any other blankets other than her special blanket that she slept with in her crib. If you try to put another blanket on her she screams "No, no blanket!" Maybe when it gets colder at night she might change her mind.

Preschool in Action

While I was teaching on Thursday my friend Dorothy (who has two kids in the preschool also) decided to stay behind and take pictures so that we could have them. Usually she would be babysitting my little kids while I am teaching but Rick was home so she got the day off. She got lots of cute pictures of all of the kids but I am just posting ones with Keira kind of front and center. This is their class picture. So cute (but those boys are a handful to say the least!).




We have taken over one of the nursery rooms at church for preschool so we don't have to invade each others houses, so there are already toys there for free play. I think this is easily the kids favorite part of preschool!


Art projects probably come in a strong second. We let them use the markers yesterday and they did well. I am glad that I have three weeks off now. It will be nice to just drop Keira off for a while although I should start planning my next two lessons now. No more procrastinating!!