Happy month Day, Maia!

Little Miss is 1 month old today. Here she is with a silly look on her face playing in her baby gym. Here is big brother playing on the turtle at turtle park.

Gene says she looks like me.

Gene thinks Miss Maia looks like me, so here we are together at about the same age.

Catching up on sleep

Joshua loves baby sister. Here he is kissing her. Mommy and Daddy are still pretty sleep deprived so here we are catching up on a little sleep with our baby girl.

Bath, sleeping and sweet dreams

Here is our little Miss after her first bath. She loved the bath! Here you can see how curly she gets after her hair gets wet. The next two are Maia sleeping and apparently dreaming about something nice.

snoozing again

Here is little Miss Maia snoozing the afternoon away.

All dressed up

Here is Maia, all dressed up to see her family.

Maia Elise

Announcing Maia Elise - Born May 4, 2009 at 5:08AM
10lbs, 4oz, 21" Long.
Maia was born 9 minutes after Misty was checked into the hospital. Drive, Gene, Drive!!!! Labor was approximately 1 hour with no time for an epidural. We're all doing fine now and little Miss Maia is sleeping away the afternoon.

Happy Easter, Joshua!

Joshua had a great Easter. He was so excited about the whole idea that there was a hidden Easter basket that he kept stopping looking for it to do a little dance. Here is Joshua with his basket. We had Sean and some friends over for Easter dinner and Joshua had a fantastic time there too. On the baby girl front we're at 3 weeks and counting.

"Hello BeeBee Dit Duh!"

The translation for anyone who doesn't speak Joshua would be, "Hello baby sister!" Joshua asked yesterday if she could come out. He seems like he's starting to get excited about being a big brother. We'll see how things go once she arrives.

Where is Joshua?

I went in to check on Joshua the other night and found that he'd pulled down his curtains, but where was Joshua? After my eyes adjusted I noticed that there was something tangled up in the bottom of the curtains. Here's a picture of what I found. I also added a picture of Joshua taking a very proactive stance on dental hygiene.

My Tummy

This is a picture of my tummy, my very very large tummy. I've also included a picture of the house. The time before last when I was visiting I noticed that Grandma had printouts of the rental house we'd lived in, so I thought I'd post the current house here along with the nursery so Grandma could see them.

Updates

Here are a couple new pictures of Joshua. The first is in his car seat and the second is him in his little lederhosen. I realized I had almost no pictures of him in the lederhosen since he was so sick at Oktoberfest. Baby girl is getting bigger and bigger and kicking the heck out of me. Joshua has started setting little toys aside and telling me they are for baby sister when she somes out and isn't "stuck" any more. He's a very sweet boy and is going to be a very good big brother.

Horse playdate

Joshua went on a horsey playdate with my mommy's group. He kept his seat like a little champ. Here is Joshua riding his forst pony and then riding in the pony cart with Mommy. He had a great time riding and then telling me what horses say.

Merry Christmas from all of us!

Merry Christmas from all of us! This was Joshua's first time out in the snow and first time sledding. He wasn't quite sure what to make of it.

Tiny Santa

Since we werren't able to make it down for Christmas this year, here's a little visit from the world's smallest Santa.

It's a Girl! (Well, we're pretty sure.)

The ultrasound tech seemed as sure as she could be without meeting the baby in person. I bought some pink fleece so she'll have a few pink things to go with all the blue. Now Gene and I just need to start thinking about names. Here are pictures of the new baby from her most recent and last ultrasound. Joshua says we should name her "Joshua's Baby." Gene and I are thinking maybe not.

Happy Birthday and a problem solved

Joshua has been taking off all his clothing and running around naked. After the third time of putting all his clothing back on and tucking him into bed I decided to start putting his jammies on backwards, so here's my little nudist in his backwards jammies, playing at his toddler party, and being terribly excited about the laptop he got for his birthday.

A new ultrasound

Group Health has started offering an ultrasound at around 12-14 weeks. I was just a tiny bit too far along for them to do the test they were trying for, but we got some neat pictures of the new baby anyway. The technician also said that everything looked fine and normal. The next ultrasound should be sometime after 20 weeks and we should hopefully be able to tell gender then. Here's the tiny baby being just as cute as a black and white squiggly shadow can be.

Happy Halloween

Joshua had a very happy Halloween! He learned the word "treat" and got to go to 2 Halloween parties as well as trick or treating. He also said "roar" to a bunch of people. Here is mu little dinosaur carving his pumpkin and then being a cute little Joshuasaurus.

The ultrasound from 8 weeks

I'm now just over 13 weeks along, but it took a while to get this scanned and posted. There's no way to tell gender yet, but he or she has a little foot sticking up just like Joshua always did in the womb. The head is off to the right and one foot is up and the other is sticking out toward the left of the screen. The next ultrasound should be toward the middle to end of December. Joshua is a little confused. He's gotten the idea that there is a baby in Mommy's tummy, but he's thinking now that this means there may be one in his tiny tummy too.

Joshuasaurus

This is the ferocious Joshuasaurus. It is indigenous to the Kirkland area and roams the neighborhood roaring and seeking candy to eat with it's brand new teeth. I think most of the 2 year molars should have finished coming in by Halloween. Baby #2 seems to be coming along nicely. I'm continuing to plump up a bit and the nausea is starting to get better off and on. Mostly I'm sleepy. Joshua is chaining words together more and more. My favorite so far is "dit dou Momee" or Thank you, Mommy for anyone out there who doesn't speak Joshua-ese.

Joshua Update

As I think most of you know, Joshua has been sick the last week. His fever spiked up over 104 and freaked Mommy and Daddy out to no end. A week, antibiotics, and one diagnosed sinus infection later he seems to be mostly back to his old self. Here's my sick pumpkin playing in a box at great-grandma's, then running a fever and being a limp dishrag of a toddler on the couch with Daddy, and finally helping Mommy with the laundry. The funny looking scarf in the last picture is actually a pair of Daddy's underwear. Joshua is a little confused on the whole idea of dressing himself still.

Joshua Loves his Dragon

Joshua and Daddy were playing last night. First Joshua tucked Daddy in, then offered him a doll bottle and finally here is Joshua giving his dragon puppet a kiss. Lately he's been having his dolls sign "thank you" when you help change the doll's diaper. He's a very sweet boy. He also kisses the spot if you get hurt. Joshua has learned most of the animals on the new toy Grandma and Grandpa got him and can consistently identify 1 and A and occasionally 2, 4, and usually the letter o. We're still working on the rest. It reminds me of Kim singing her alphabet as a kid, " A, B, B, B, B, B, B..."

Hooray! Guess what, World?!

Gene and I have been wanting a second child very much. For the last couple weeks I've been telling myself not to let the nausea and fatigue get my hopes up. Today I just couldn't wait any longer so I took an early pregnancy test... and I'm going to be a mommy again! Group health lab tests confirmed it today as well. I surprised Gene with a onesie that had a little penguin thinking about a big penguin on it. The caption is "I love daddy", but it's in binary. This posting will have to wait in my drafts box for a month or two more. We're waiting to tell people untill I'm mostly through my 1st trimester and we know everything is going ok. I can't wait! Look out world! Super baby is on the way!

Little skipper

Here's Joshua wearing the only hat he's willing to leave on his head. At least it's adorable, even if it's kinda silly. He's cooking up some bird seed from his sandbox on his play stove.

My little computer geek

So, today started out with a choice, 1-enjoy Joshua's cuteness or 2-see if the gypsies advertise in the yellow pages. Joshua has taken to drinking from a sippy cup and then spitting it all over. This combined with his chronic spitting up is driving me mad. This morning after finding that he's spit milk in no less than a dozen or so places in the house I finally secided that food and milk are only allowed in his booster seat. When I moved his snack table into his room it became apparent that Joshua needs a little office. Here's my little tech-geek working away in his new office space. The second photo is of Joshua playing in the sand portion of tot-land at the microsoft company picnic. His shirt reads, "My daddy can outcode your daddy!" The third is of Joshua playing the piano.

Attention everyone, I'm silly!

Here's my little monkey announcing how silly he is. He loves running around the house in Mommy and Daddy's shoes.

Snacking, Playing and then Sleeping it off

Here's my little man explaining to me why the quesidilla is on his head. Then he's peeking at mommy from his favorite toy...the lawnmower box. Finally he's sleeping it off in his big boy bed. When Joshua sleeps he sleeps hard.

The World's Best Toy

I remember that when I was a little girl, Sean and I LOVED it when Daddy would bring home a box for us to play in. When we got the new lawn mower in a box I couldn't resist. It seems to be Joshua's new favorite toy. Here's my little man peeking out of his new house. No, it isn't your imagination. He does have a shiner. He slipped and whacked himself on the table last week. The rest is just dirt from the Skandia Midsommarfest we went to just before this picture was taken.