Pictures Here Pictures Everywhere

As promised I was able to get some pictures up for you so ENJOY!

The other day Lehna picked out her own clothes to wear after her bath so I took a picture of it b/c I thought it was soooo cute! She defintely doesn't understand the "matching" concept but I was proud that she was able to bring me both a shirt and a pair of pants!

Some dogs are just MADE for kids and let me tell you even though Daisy is the biggest pain in the butt she was defintely made for children. Her temperment with Lehna is perfect. Lehna plays with this dog all the time... everything from giving her hugs (LIKE YOU SEE BELOW) OR putting her baby blankets on her, to stepping on her (accidently of course) Daisy has never bitten or even nipped at Lehna which mades her perfect for us. (Even though she can be the most ANNOYING dog in the world!

Lately we have been spending HOURS outside this past week mainly b/c we purchased a swing set for Lehna & Maya we saved our change for about 6 months and any birthday gifts in which the girls recieved money we used towards it. It just goes to show you a penny saved is worth it! Lehna LOVES to swing so we spend many hours outside pushing her swing and blowing bubbles. This picture is of Lehna pushing her "baby" in the swing. Luckily we have a pinic table bench so we can push Lehna and not have to stand for the length of time she wants to swing.

Maya on the other hand would much rather spend her days sleeping or being WIDE awake in the pouch snuggie thing that I wear. She will fall asleep in this contraption and it is REALLY nice when she doesn't want to be put down or when the person holding her has to be standing up... for some reason it makes all the different, but for many of the parents out there holding a baby and standing up for LONG periods of time can be killer on the back so this thing allows me to hold her and still allows me to get things done at the same time. As I'm holding her I can just look down at her and see her darling face.

Here is a sweet picture of one of the rare occasions I was able to put her in the swing and actually have her stay asleep.

Lehna seems to really enjoy Maya. She usually tries "playing" with Maya and she will mimick anything that I do with Maya such as talking to her and making funny sounds to her. As I was trying to captures Maya's smiles Lehna got down and I was able to capture the two girls responding to one another. Maya will look for Lehna when she talks and when Lehna starts talking Maya will start to smile and respond it's really amazing. I just hope that the girls still enjoy each other when they are 12 & 14 years old... Lord help us all if not!

As luck would have it I WAS able to capture one of Maya's beautiful smiles. I was NEVER able to capture Lehna's smiles until she was MUCH older so I am glad that I have on of Maya. She has one little dimple on her left check that will peek out from time to time when she smiles. She's such a happy baby it's just so wonderful.

We did get our pictures back from JCPenny and since my scanner doesn't talk to my computer I had to kind of take these creatively and then I had to "adjust" the color so I apologize for the suckness of them... but at least you can see them... right!

This is our NEW family picture. I have to admit I don't like it as much as the pictures we had taken at Chirstmas but I still think it's cute... and poor Tait always having to lay on the floor...
This is Lehna's Two year picture. She was SUCH A PAIN IN THE BUTT the day we got our pictures taken. It was a total nightmare and this was the very LAST picture they took of her... the only way she would go out on the back drop by herself was to kind of chase her with the stool and then take it away from her and then she would laugh and do it all over again... And in doing this "trick" we FINALLY got a geniune smile.

Maya was pretty good during the photo shoot. I figured we would have all pictures of her eyes closed, but she was wide awake and actaully she wanted to eat during the session so we kind of teased her with the bottle but at least she had her eyes open.

These two pictures the quality on them is pretty sucky but they are really cute pictures and I just could NOT go without posting them so if you are able to see them in person I'm sure you will enjoy them a lot more b/c they are beautiful in person.


Here's one just for the art factor. This is baby Maya's feet in Tait's hands. I just think it is so sweet just to see her tiny feet the feet that I was waiting to kiss in her daddy's very large strong hands it's just an emotional picture I think... not to get too sappy of course...

And the last two pictures are for the grandparents out there... Here is one more smile from both of your grandchildren!


Have a good night and I hope this has satisfied your need for pictures for awhile...

Another two week update!

Well I know it has been about two weeks but we have been pretty busy around here. I can’t believe that Maya is already ONE MONTH OLD! It’s totally insane let me tell you!

Maya Update!
The great news first… Maya had her hearing test yesterday at her Month old appointment and she passed both ears. The doctor said that she has perfect hearing so I was VERY relieved to hear that. She also is a big 10 lbs. 4 oz. and she’s 21 inches long. So she’s growing and growing… Most people that see her think she’s so little and I think just holding her you probably wouldn’t guess that she was weighing in a 10.4 but she is she’s my little stuffed sausage. She has been smiling quite a bit and we discovered that she has a dimple, which is really cute. I will “try” to capture it but don’t hate me if I can’t. She is also responding to voices she looks for Lehna when she talks which I think is super sweet and she will usually look my direction if I’m talking around her. She is also sleeping through the night which is FABULOUS! She sleeps from about 9:30 p.m. to about 3:30/4:30 (some where in that hour) which is GREAT! Of course getting her back to sleep once is a little rough she wants to play and just be awake but usually after about an hour she falls back to sleep. She’s a really good baby though she usually just cries to eat it is a little difficult when I want to lay her down in the afternoon and she wants to be held so I found that her trick is to swaddle her and that usually “tricks” her into thinking she’s still being held.

Lehna Update!
The great news first for Lehna… we are potty training… and so far things are looking GREAT (it’s early of course)! I bought her big girl underwear and she seems to really like them. I put her in her underwear for about 5 hours on Monday and NO ACCIDENTS I asked her if she wanted to go potty like 5 million times but she did GREAT. I then took her out to Wal-Mart and I put a diaper on her then and when we came back I put her back in her underwear and she did have an accident… so we did have some progress. They are REALLY working with them at daycare they said they want to have them potty trained in 3 weeks. Which she goes three times a week starting this week so we will have to continue to work with her at home but she really likes wearing her big girl pants so I was excited. Hopefully we can meet her teacher’s goal of 3 weeks. All of the two years olds are ready for the potty that’s why they are doing it so intently. Lehna is still adjusting to baby Maya she has had a LOT more fits since Maya has arrived but I don’t know how much of that is her being two and how much is her jealously. She will come to me when I’m rocking Maya and ask to be rocked. Which usually I will either put her up with me or I pass Maya off it just depends on how late it is. I know that sounds odd but if it’s late enough where Lehna will fall asleep then I want to take that opportunity so I can put her in her bed to start with instead of having to move her later. We are still struggling with that but we are making progress once she falls asleep we put her in her bed… she will wake up though and we move her back but then we will move her again once she falls asleep again. I really would like BOTH girls in their own beds by the time Maya is two months old… sooooo hopefully.

I wanted to let everyone know that in my last update I neglected to announce that Tait received a raise at work! I didn’t mean to not mention it last time but I did, they are now doing their raises by merit and he did VERY well which I was very proud of him so CONGRADULATIONS TAIT!

Another piece of news is Tait and I have been started attending the Crawfordsville LDS church. We have been going for the past three weeks and we have had regular meetings with the missionaries. The thing that I really enjoy about it is we are learning all types of new people and that has been wonderful. This ward has several YOUNG families so we have been meeting lots of people with children about the ages of ours so it’s really nice to make some new friends. The missionaries have asked Tait if he would be interested in being baptized and at this point Tait isn’t sure yet and I’m okay with that. I know that (for those that ARE familiar with the church) some things may seem really strange to him and confusing so I don’t blame him for having some hesitation. Most of you know that I am a member but I have been inactive for about 10 years. I have to say going back to church is really like feeling like I’m going home. It’s really a good warm feeling when I’m there and I’m so excited that Tait is starting to investigate the church. So keep us in your prayers. There are so many new things that I am learning about the church. Tait and I are in the Gospel Principles class and this is kind of like the class that teaches you the different elements of being a member it’s kind of like the owners manual and I am learning so many new things. I mean even though I am a member there are still so many things that I am learning. Tait has questions about and I'm able to answer some things but then other times I don't know... so I have to ask someone else... This Sunday I am going to ask the bishop about getting Maya blessed so I will give more information about that when I know. They said that it would probably be June 1st, but it depends on the bishop and I would like to do another BBQ after the blessing… since it will be in Crawfordsville I would like to have the BBQ after church on Sunday instead of the event being in Peru like Lehna’s was… But again I will pass on that information when I know.

Last weekend I took the children to Peru to my cousin B.J’s wedding. The bride just had a baby two weeks ago so she was a definite trooper. I don’t think I would want to get married two weeks after having a baby but she looked great it was a very nice wedding. My Uncle Stephen was the officinal for them and it was a good ceremony. Tait was on call last weekend so I had Lehna and Maya by myself but it wasn’t too bad since most people wanted to hold Maya and I kind of wrestled with Lehna when I needed too but she was REALLY good so it wasn’t bad at all. After the wedding we went to visit Nana Helen. The sandbox has been removed (thank goodness) but the kids had a great time playing with one another. We spent most of the afternoon in outside. Lehna LOVES to swing so we stayed outside and talked while the kids played… of course no visit wouldn’t be complete without a visit to the OUTSIDE sandbox so Lehna of course came home sandy… but she did have a bath once got home… and she was out like a light once we got home she has a GREAT time!

This weekend my mom is coming to Indiana so that will be really fun! I don’t have details of when we are going to get together yet but I’m sure by this weekend I’ll have some idea of what’s happening when. Hopefully it will be a nice weekend so we can take the kids outside to play. Lehna got a NEW swing set last Sunday so we have spent A TON of time outside the last couple of days. Luckily all you have to Do is pull a bench up and push her while you sit… b/c I don’t think I could stand for as long as she wants to be on the swing. We also have been playing with bubbles quite a bit. Lehna likes to pop them and she does have her try at trying to make them… it seems to work best when there’s a breeze outside… then she doesn’t get frustrated when the bubbles don’t come right away.

Well that’s my update for now… I do have pictures to update since I have been taking quite a bit since I have been home… unfortunately Tait didn’t bring the laptop home this evening so I will have to upload them when I have that guy… so hopefully very SOON. Thanks for reading about us and take care!

Update update whose got the update…

Okay so it’s been a couple of days since I have last updated but I have to tell you trying to balance two new children is A LOT different then trying to balance one. So I’ve been busy and on top of that I have had my mom for the past week then we went to Tait’s parents for a couple of days so I haven’t been home and yahda yahda I’ve been busy okay so DON’T JUDGE ME! LOL just kidding of course

Well those past couples of weeks have been busy and it’s been an adjustment period for all of us. It’s hard to believe that not more then 12 days ago I was still pregnant wishing for the whole thing to be over with. Crazy just how fast things change isn’t it? Well I’m still glad I’m no longer pregnant but it has definitely taken Lehna a couple of days to decide whether or not she was going to be “difficult or easy” with the new baby. Of course today just might have been a bad day AND we have been over at the Wagner’s for the past couple of days so now we are in the “reprogram” mode. She gets away with EVERYTHING when we are visiting Nana and Papal which I don’t really mind it just sucks after we get home and we want her to return to her normal “behaved” self. Of course we are now in the two-year-old mode so maybe it’s adjusting to that too. Lehna has developed this very INDEPENDENT part of her personality where NO one can help her with ANYTHIGN and if you even SUGGEST it, it makes the entire situation worse and it’s basically like trying to reason with a stubborn mule. Of course I hear from my mom that this is EXACTLY how I was so maybe it’s just genetics… the poor girl.

Lehna has been pretty good with the baby for the most part. She wants to help all the time, which is kind of nice but if she doesn’t get the help just in the way she wants to throws a fit. So that’s been kind of driving me crazy but of course this IS an adjustment period so I just have to wait it out. She also has decided that ANYTIME that I am not with the baby is her time and she has decided to follow me around that house asking me a million times what I’m doing and how she can help. Cute and sweet but I don’t know if any of you have ever “experienced” help from a two year old but it usually makes the task take quite a bit longer, and you usually have to do it twice, b/c in the process they have managed to “undo” what you have already gotten accomplished. Again today might have just been a bad day so maybe I’m not being 100% fair to her but today was a BAD day in the fit throwing modes and the “helping” modes so it’s really affected her attitude, oh and she didn’t get a nap today so by 6 p.m. I was ready to put her in her room the rest of the night just to get some peace and quite. I didn’t lock her in her room or anything like that but I was EVER so grateful when she decided to conked out at 8:30 this evening. I was able to get the budget done, bills paid, AND blogging… so there you go. So enough about me whining about dealing with my two-year-old and let me get down to what I was doing for the past couple of days.

I am going to insert some pictures into the blog so you can see what Maya looks like and see recent pictures. The next couple of pictures are from Lehna’s two-year birthday I was finally able to get them off of my camera. The evening was pretty uneventful we couldn’t really plan anything in the weeks prior b/c we didn’t know if Maya would be making an appearance before or after her birthday so we decided just to have a quiet evening at home. We took her out to pizza hut b/c she loves to eat pizza and we had a cake and gave her a few things. This child needs no more toys so we got her a small train set and a basket full of precious moment’s items like a coloring book and a small doll for her to play with. Below are pictures from the birthday celebration. I realize that Lehna doesn’t have pants on… most of the time once we get her diaper changed we can’t wrestle pants back on her or she wants to do it herself and for some reason we didn’t get them back on her… so that’s why she’s pantless.

Lehna's Birthday Cake

"A Card for Me?"

"Is this MY Birthday?"

"I wish"

"I hope my wish comes true!"

The next group of pictures are from when we were in the hospital with Maya. We really didn’t take very many pictures b/c we were pretty tired and we just didn’t have the camera out as much for some reason. I feel bad I didn’t even get out the video camera when we were at the hospital. I really haven’t gotten the video camera out very much at all even with Lehna so I have been VERY bad in that respect which is really bad of me… you would think I would know better but I really am very bad in that respect.

Maya's First Picture

Sweet Baby Sleep

My Family

We went to stay with Tait’s parents for the last couple of days so today was the first day back. We did get to go to grandmas for Easter and that was a good time. Lehna was able to hunt for eggs and she made out pretty good. We added her “findings” to her swing set fund and hopefully we will get her swing set in the next couple of weeks. Well after we got home from grandma’s we came to a surprise. Helen and Tanna put up a sandbox in the living room. Now I don’t know many grandmas’ that put up sandboxes in their living rooms but Lehna and Maya’s did. Lehna and Landyn had a good time playing in it. They would fling sand all over the carpet, couch, and table so after that point as you walked through the house it was like walking at the beach. Both Tanna and Helen figured they would keep most of the sand in the box and it wouldn’t get all over but that wasn’t quite the case. I mean both kids really enjoyed it so I guess it was worth the mess but I hope Lehna doesn’t expect ME to put up a sandbox in my living room b/c it just ain’t going to happen I don’t even like sandboxes on the outside not alone INSIDE!

Sand in the living room

While mom was here visiting we were able to get all the grandkids together so I wanted to share this picture with everyone. Getting all Three was kind of a crazy job but we managed to get it done.

Nana with her grandbabies

Also Lehna has really enjoyed holding Maya and we were able to get a picture of them together. So enjoy.

"I love my sister!"

We are going to have to meet with the lady from First Steps tomorrow since Maya didn’t pass her hearing test at the hospital. I talked to Dr. Patel Maya’s pedestrian when we visited there last week and she said that it’s pretty common with newborns it normally happens b/c they get fluid in their ear and it kind of blocks their hearing for a couple of weeks and eventually the fluid will drain out and she will be fine. She passed her hearing test in the left ear it was just her right ear that didn’t pass. She doesn’t “fail” it just she is referred to this First Steps place and they have to do additional testing. We are meeting with her tomorrow to ‘enroll’ use in to the program and then we will take Maya to Purdue where they will do additional testing on her. I am hoping to have more information on it tomorrow and since we have had her tested I think the fluid has drained out. I mean we won’t know for certain until they do the test again but we have to wait. I will keep you posted on it.

Well have a good evening and I’ll keep you posted on Lehna and Maya’s progress.

Thanks for reading about us.

One last picture for you…

Welcome Maya Elizabeth

Finally an UPATE!

Well it has been a week now since Maya has been in the world and I figured that it was time for an update to let you know just how Maya entered the world… of course G rated b/c who wants to read about gross nasty stuff.

On Friday March 30th about 6:30 I started noticing contractions and from all of the false alarms I really felt like this was going to just be another time of getting my hopes up. So I timed them for about 3 hours and then I called the doctor on call and it was Dr. Brown and he said that I should start packing. He said that if by the time I'm "ready" I’m still having contractions then it's time to come in. So I thought that was kind of funny since I had had my bag packed for almost 2 months. So Tait jumped in the shower and I sat in the chair with the passed out Lehna on my lap.

I called Helen in the meantime to let her know that we were going to go to the hospital so she could make plans accordingly since she was the person we had arranged to pick up Lehna. I told Tait that I wanted to wait to have Helen come b/c I just wanted to make sure that she wouldn’t make a wasted trip.

After we go to the hospital it was about 10:30 p.m. and Lehna was sleeping peacefully on Tait’s lap and I was strapped to the different monitors and we waiting patiently for things to progress. I talked the nurse who kept asking about Lehna and if we had made arrangements for her and we told her that we had talked to them and they were on their way.

We had a couple of good hours of contractions close together and things moving progressively. My nurse would come in and talk to me about the monitor and what the “contraction machine” (I know it has a more scientific name but I don’t know what it’s called) and she would tell me what was happening. At one point my contractions were getting pretty strong and I had some pain medication and unfortunately the pain medication did slow me down quite a bit my contractions started spreading out and they lessened quite a bit.

Helen, Tanna, & Landyn arrived and they pulled Lehna into the waiting room with them just to kind ‘wait and see’ what would happen. I had talked to my mom on the phone and told her not to come b/c I was afraid they were going to send me home and I didn’t want her to drive all the way from Wisconsin only to have to go back home. So by the time 4 o’clock rolled around the pain medication had worn off and my contractions were slowing down. Helen, Landyn, Lehna, & Tanna left to go to Williamsport to sleep for a couple of hours. I was pretty sad by 6-am b/c I figured that they were going to send me home, still pregnant!

When 10 a.m. rolled around the Dr. Brown came in and said that he was waiting all night for the call that I was ready to push and he said that he wanted me to get on with it already. I told him that I was ready to “get on with it” but the baby was being stubborn. He said that if I lived near the hospital then he would have no problem sending me home and waiting for the baby to come. But since I didn’t live in near that he would feel better if he broke my water b/c he didn’t want it breaking in the car home. I of course was VERY excited to hear this b/c I knew that I would have this baby in 24 hours or less! And I would DEFINTELY NOT be going home pregnant! So I called my mom and told her they were going to break my water and it was time for her to COME ON DOWN also we called Helen and let her know what was happening and they said that after the kids woke up they would come back.

By noon I was asking for the epidural b/c my contractions were so strong and they hurt pretty badly. I nurse said that we would have this baby by 3 o clock and I was excited she felt like it was going to be so soon.

2:30 p.m. rolled around and the nurse was starting to get frustrated she said that my contractions were starting to spread out. She said they were between 2-5 mins apart and they just weren’t staying anywhere near a “steady rate”, so she was perplexed she and increased my potocisn again. We waiting to see what would happen, and just like the nurse predicted by 3 p.m. it was time to push.

By that time everyone had arrived mom, Terry, Helen, Tanna, Lehna, and Landyn which I was excited about. The nurse checked me and called for Dr. Brown, a tech, and a table. Tait of course had just left the room to go eat… So I asked the nurse if they could call for Tait and she did. By the time everyone was assembled the doctor said that he wanted to see if I could push the baby out in one push since she was right there. Well I didn’t get it accomplished in one push it took three then Maya Elizabeth was in the world, and I was GLAD to finally see it come to an end.

So after a total of 21 hours from start to finish we had another beautiful baby girl. She is 8 lbs., 19 inches long. She has blonde hair and blue eyes so far. I think her hair looks a little wavy but it’s hard to say if it will stay that way or not. I do have a ton of pictures to put up but I have to wait to use Tait’s laptop since my camera won’t talk to the computer. So as soon as I get them up…

So Tait and I have been utterly spoiled this week I have had my mom all week she has been taking care of us and it has been so nice! Lehna has been pretty good with the new baby she wants to talk to her and play “tickle” her which is kind of funny. Today was the first time when I was holding the baby Lehna demanded attention from me at the same time so I held both babies at the same time. Which wasn’t too bad since Maya was fast asleep and Lehna wanted to watch T.V while laying on me. So overall it’s been kind of crazy around our house. I have been feeling really good overall I think that by the time Tait goes back to work in another week I will be ready to accept the challenge of having both kids for at least three days a week. It should be interesting; I’ll keep you posted on the progress. Until then have a great day and wonderful Easter!

Update!

Okay now I know that I’m starting to slack when my husband asks me about updating my blog so that just goes to show you that I’m really being lazy!

Just so you all know I’m STILLLLLLLL pregnant! I know that I have like 19 days to go but still I was at least hoping to go EARLY would that be too much to ask! Okay enough of this let me give you the 411 on Maya.

I did go to the doctor on Thursday March 8th for an unexpected doctor’s appointment b/c I wanted to see if they wanted me to travel to Peru this weekend AND they did a check. Basically they said that I am dilated to 1 cm and I’m about 50% effaced. Which by the way is great news also Maya’s head is right where it needs to be (pressing up against my bladder, making it impossible to move without having the feeling of having to go pee). She said that she may not come down any more since this is the second baby. They said they normally don’t come down as far but she might I’m thinking any more pressure on my bladder and I will have to wear diapers! I have gained about a pound and a half so I’m hoping that that’s ALLLLLL baby! So she’s probably about 7lbs and some ounces which are about where Lehna was when she was born. Also they did measure my belly again to see how “big” I am and I’m measuring at 39.5 cms which means I’m measuring about 2 cms bigger then where I’m supposed to be which I don’t know if that is a predictor or what I sure hope so though! She didn’t really know what to suggest she said since Peru is within an hour’s drive to Lafayette that it would probably be okay, but Tait and I decided to play it safe and we stayed home. I walked and walked and walked some more this weekend just trying to move things along.

So this weekend we pretty much didn’t do a ton of things. I was able to get the laundry COMPLETLEY done and I’m talking COMPLETELY I even got the odds and ends done like bath mats and such so I was EXCITED about that. I also picked up my living room about 5 billion times. Lehna just loves to make messes then walk away. We have been working with her but she still just doesn’t grasp the concept that she has to put away the toy first before getting another toy so we’ll have to see what happens about that so far we have been unsuccessful.

One thing that I didn’t know Lehna could do that we just discovered is Lehna can count to ten all by her self! I know that sounds kind of odd that I don’t know that she could do that, but they have been working on it at daycare and they just don’t go over everything that they are learning at daycare and we normally don’t see her teacher we normally get there after her teacher has left for the day. But Lehna was standing in the kitchen doing her normal “Lehna thing” and she started counting her steps as she walked and she went from one-ten without any help. She also tried to continue from 10 but she just started randomly stating numbers so I think they are working on adding more then just 1-10 but right now they are stopping at 10. I knew she knew her alphabet b/c she will sing the song to you if you ask her to so I was pretty excited about it.

Lehna’s 2 year birthday is next week! I can’t believe it’s truly amazing just how fast time flies by. I know I have had a few people ask me if we are going to do anything for her birthday and right now I can’t say for certain unfortunately with baby Maya coming ANYTIME we don’t want to make too many plans b/c I don’t want to have to cancel them later. So we really don’t know what we are going to do probably just a cake and that’s about it unless baby Maya decides to cooperate and we will be able to have a little thing for welcoming that baby AND being able to celebrate Lehna’s bday. So everything is pretty much in the air right at this moment. I have her birthday present so I feel prepared for that but I don’t have a cake or anything like that but it’s just too early to get that kind of stuff. She really likes Elmo so maybe something Elmo as far as the cake but again it’s just too hard to judge. Helen was talking about it last night that she may have bring a cake to the hospital or something like that so we’ll just have to wait and see. Darn stork!

So that’s pretty much life right now I hope baby comes soon or I will die! LOL okay so I won’t die but still!!!!

News from our corner of the planet

Okay so I know I’m a week behind in update but it’s been a crazy two weeks! So enough excuses welcome to the update.

First bit of news is Tanna and Sam welcomed Baby Decklyn Samai Finnegan into the world on Tuesday March 5, 2007 at 4:59 a.m. I think my earlier post said a different time but I don’t know if anyone really knew on Tuesday. I haven’t seen her yet besides pictures but I’m told she doesn’t have the classic Wagner nose… I won’t be able to judge until I have seen her for myself so it’s hard to say. Tanna said she’s having a hard time keeping her hands off of her so I think she’s a keeper. Landyn has some mixed feeling about his new baby sister. He is trying to adjust the best he can and they are all helping him through it. He is starting to show some protective attributes about his sister. Sam’s mom was talking to baby Decklyn and said that she wanted to take her home with her and Landyn very STRONGLY stated “no that’s my sister” so that’s a good sign. It will take some adjustment but I’m sure he’ll come around with flying colors. Tanna is home now she was released yesterday and has set up home with Sam and Landyn will be moving out there probably by next week once Tanna gets of the first initial week of having a baby. She’s nervous about it but I think it will be good for her and Landyn.

The second bit of news I have is I had my third ultrasound last week and there is some interesting news with that. They did the ultrasound b/c my belly was measuring about 2 weeks ahead of schedule and with the ultrasound they have confirmed that baby is measuring BIG. Which of course has me a little concerned only b/c I know this baby will have to come out “some way” and the idea of having a 12 lbs baby really doesn’t sound very appealing to me CALL ME CRAZY? She is was measuring at the time of the ultrasound 5lbs 8oz and from this point on you put on about a pound a week and I still have about 4 weeks left. Soooo we are looking at a 9-10 lbs baby if she continues to put on weight like she’s ‘supposed’ to. It’s hard to believe that this girl only has about 4 more weeks before we have another rugrat (soon) to run around. The ultrasound was really amazing they recently got a new ultrasound machine and it was so clear even the normal 2D we watched her yawn and put her fingers in her mouth. They were then able to switch it to 3D and we could really see her face really clear. I think she is going to look just like her older sister b/c she DEFINTELY has the Wagner nose. So it will be exciting when she finally decides to make her way here. I have been waiting and waiting for Tanna to have Decklyn b/c I knew that I wouldn’t be far behind.

I was able to train my “fill in” at work the girl who will be taking my place while I’m on maternity leave and was able to contact all my clients to let them know I wasn’t going to be there. It took 2 ½ hours to get her up to speed on all my clients and I wrote her a tip sheet so she can have a quick reference to look back on when I’m gone. I am sure she will have questions and there maybe a chance she’ll have to call me with questions but I think that there are enough people in the office that will be able to help her which ever way she will need. Becky (that’s her name) is nervous about taking over for me so I think that’s sweet. I told her that she can change whatever she wants as long as the end results are the same that’s all I care about. So I figure now that she’s up to speed and ready to go that I can now go anytime. I think mentally I was waiting for that to be completed b/c I didn’t want to leave Becky completely in the dark. Tait has also been able to get all of his hours for two weeks to be off which is GREAT b/c now I will have extra hands for another week. My mom is planning on coming down for a week but with two kids I will be grateful to have an extra set of hands for another week! So now we can have baby Maya b/c we are now “prepared”.

The third bit of news is Lehna’s birthday is literally in 3 weeks! I can’t believe that she will be two years old! I have been saying she’s two like for the last couple of months only b/c I hate doing the math when people ask how old she is. Tait and I have decided that we are going to get her train with some tracks. I know that’s not the most exciting thing in the world as far as being a “girl” toy but to be honest this kid does not need another doll or stroller, so I figured that a train would be good b/c it would be new. I mean I know she plays with Landyn’s trains when she’s around him. I just can’t believe that she is going to be two already it just seems like she was just born.

Lehna now knows all of her animal sounds and can identify them in a picture. She likes to Moo so usually the first animal you ask her what do they say she’ll say “moo” then you say try again she’ll tell you the correct sound. But we are working on learning the colors right now. She loves to say the work Yellow she says it like “lallow” but that’s usually the first thing she’ll say when you ask her what color something is. She still is confused on what color is what but we are working on it. She’ll get it. She also gets confused to say when things are on and off she is always saying the opposite of what she wants. If the light is on and she’ll want to turn it off she’ll ask to turn the light on but then you correct her then she’ll say it right. I know eventually she’ll get it. One positive thing is Lehna used to say “I want bottle” and I’ll tell her no bottles are for babies you are a big girl what about a cup… she now asks “I want bottle, no I mean a cup” so that’s a positive thing. I know that once Maya does appear she will want her bottles but I think one drink from it and she won’t want it anymore. She does have an Elmo container that we call her Elmo bottle that she’ll request for every once and awhile but usually a cup is good enough for her. It’s amazing just to see her little mind work. I like to try to get her choices when I offer her things and sometimes she gets confused but I’m trying to get her options. She will tell me that she wants a cookie and I’ll hold two types out either chocolate chip or an Oreo and I’ll ask her which one she will look at both and go “this” and point to both… and I tell her to choose one and she’ll usually make the choice but it’s almost like you can see her wheels turning when you tell her that she has to choice between the two of choices.

The potty training is of course coming. It’s still a game to her and anytime she gets to sit on the potty she gets excited about it. So if she requests to sit on the potty we make a big deal of it and let her sit on the potty. She doesn’t really want to sit on the potty chair but instead the insert that goes in the “big” potty is where she wants to sit, which to me I really don’t care which she wants to use as long as she’s requesting to use it. But I need to work on getting her a reward system like a sticker or something b/c she LOVES stickers and I think that would be good for her. I just have to do something like that and I have been dragging my feet big time on it. I just need a poster board so that I can keep it updated. I would like to post I in the bathroom so she can just jump down and put a sticker up I think she’ll like that A LOT! I just have to do it! Her actually use of the potty is another story usually if she tells you she wants to sit on the potty that means she’s already wet so she hasn’t quite go that part down yet… but I know she will.

As far as other things going on there really isn’t much going on. Tait and I have decided that we are going to clean and vacuum the cars this weekend. I’m hoping that it stays nice all weekend. I really want to wash the car BAD and Tait said that his car needs shop vac’d pretty bad too. It’s supposed to be like 50 degrees this weekend so we’ll get it done this weekend. As you can tell I have been nesting quite a bit. This week I was a good girl and kept up on the laundry I only have like 2 loads left and it’s not even the weekend! So I’m excited about that. If it’s windy I may hang our blankets and sheets out on the line if I can get all caught up. I love that outdoor fresh smell.

Welcome to the world Baby Decklyn

Big Announcment! I have a new Niece! Decklyn she's 8 lbs and 1/2 oz. She was born this morning to Tait's sister Tanna & Sam. She was brought into this work at 4:15 a.m. Tanna had 5 hours of labor so she went VERY quickly! She was 19 3.4 inchs long so she is VERY long. I have a picture of her that they sent me.

This is Decklyn after only 5 hours of being welcomed into the world!

Here's another picture of Decklyn. Tanna said she's being sneaking and sleeping right now.

Welcome to another update

I am updating early this week exciting isn’t it! So let’s get to it!

This weekend was really nice Tait, Lehna, and I ventured out in the snow on Saturday and was able to get the rest of the things that I would need for baby Maya’s appearance. We went to Toy R Us to get the mighty tight and a couple of new monitors for Maya’s room and we also picked up a few pacifiers for Maya.

As we were walking back to the front to check out Tait and I stopped to look at the Quo blocks that Lego makes. Kris and Christina got these blocks for Lehna for Christmas and let me tell you every night we are playing with the blocks. We like to make the towers really big and then have Lehna knock them down! She gets really excited about it when we break them out. She tries to help us put them together but usually gives up after a few blocks and starts knocking down the three she just put down. So she will watch us put them together. We were going to pick up some more b/c we just enjoy playing them but we decided not to get them since we figured that they were more for us then for Lehna. So we got Lehna a new baby doll instead.

This of course was a hard task since most of the babies that they make now are so freaking ugly. She of course didn’t care what the baby looked like she was just excited to see them so she was saying over and over “baby baby baby” she’s so baby crazy. So we let her pick a baby out and we went to the mall.

I purchased Tait this golf game that he said he wanted well apparently he didn’t want it so he took it back to the store. His game player wouldn’t read it but even then he just didn’t like it he said “it’s just not what I expected it to be” was his exact words. So he exchanged it for another game. After that we ate out and then we went home. It was a pretty productive day for the most part. I got home and got allll the laundry done which was a nice feeling and wrote down my shopping list for Sunday.

Sunday came around and we went grocery shopping. I enjoy shopping but I like it better when I have a list then I don’t end up with like 12 boxes of noodles but no main dishes or something like that. So planning out the menu for the week was helpful b/c now I don’t even have to “think” about what we are having b/c I already know. Of course trying to come up with the menu was a little rough I mean I just can’t think of things to fix when I have to just think of stuff. So I referred back to a recipe book that my Aunt Joyce made for all of us and that really helped b/c I was able to get ideas for it and create a menu with things we mostly had the stuff for. I mean there were a few things that I had to get but it will be nice to use up some of the items in my cabinets that I just don’t know what to do with. That’s another problem I have is I will read a recipe and be like “yeah that sounds great” and go out and get all the things I need and we will either not eat in the day I have it planned OR I will decide to do something else for dinner then all the things that I purchased go to waste b/c I don’t end up using the ingredients b/c I decide not to use the recipe. So this book is like a recipe book of dishes that I actually have the items like “normal” meals. I usually will look for recipes when it’s like a big dinner and I want to make something “new” that of course NEVER turns out. I know that’s what I struggle with. I guess I just didn’t pay close enough attention when my mom would cook for us every night b/c I just simply can’t think of things to fix or know how to fix them. That’s why this book is so helpful b/c it’s like recipes that like my grandma and mom use like on a daily basis!

On the family front Lehna is doing better with the hitting battle. She still hits when she’s mad but we have really put our foot down and made her stand in time out once a warning has been issued. We have also changed her time out a little bit. We make her go stand and face the wall for 2 minutes and then we release her after she apologizes of course. I talked to the daycare on Friday of last week asking if she had been hitting there and they said no that she doesn’t hit at all at daycare so I was glad to hear that. I also asked about how often she was put in time out b/c lately Lehna hasn’t been responding to time out instead she plays with the wall and sings and stuff when we sit her down and that’s not quite the reaction that I would like from her. I want her to at least cry or something but she just wasn’t doing that. So they said that making her stand by herself really had a good affect on her so that’s why we changed her time out. Of course this weekend she cried the first time but now she doesn’t care when you put her in time out… she doesn’t like it and will kind of pout at first but then after she gets standing there for a few seconds she usually just starts playing with wall and staring at the ceiling. I mean the only thing I can think to do is just keep doing it and eventually it will sink in.

Maya has been kicking the crap out of me lately. Last night I lay down on the floor with Lehna while she slept in her bed to wait for her to go to sleep and Maya kept kicking me over and over. I told Tait that I can’t lay in there any more. I was so uncomfortable. I don’t like feeling like I can’t do things but I think I have to draw the line. Tait didn’t want me to go in there but I like to be able to help too. I mean I’m pregnant not on my death bed! I have to tell you I have a feeling that this baby is going to make an early appearance. I don’t know just how early but I think some what early… of course that will probably mean she’ll come LATE b/c that’s how it works.

Tanna is due in just two weeks I wish that she would have hers already b/c then it would mean that I’m like only a month away! She’s getting exciting I think I think she’s about where I am and just ready for it to be over with. I know that this is going to be my last baby so I am trying to enjoy the process as much as possible but it’s kind of hard when I know that it’s so much better once they are here! I don’t know it’s a strange situation.

I have the go ahead to call all my clients and start letting them know that I won’t be here for 6 weeks and get the girl who is currently the front office girl trained and put into my position. I know she is nervous but I think she’ll do fine. I know I will enjoy the time being off of work for 6 weeks and it will of course be hard to come back but I really like the daycare so I won’t have the same kind of anxiety that I had with Lehna since I trust Penny with Maya. I think that that makes it much easier for new moms when they trust their daycare.

Well I am adding some pictures to my blog this time so I hope you enjoy them. This is from last week. I apologize I know that I have had my digital camera for about 2 years now and I still suck so I apologize for the pictures for not being good. I have to use the camera more but it’s so frustrating for me to us b/c the delay is so freaking long compared to film that I’m still not used to it. I know I know you’d think two years would be enough but it’s not I know I’m just fullll of excuses. So enjoy the pictures anyway!

My Snow Baby!

"I Want UP Daddy!"

Lehna running around to go down the slide again!

"Mama it was COLD outside!"

The Lonnnnng awaited Update!

I had an update all prepared and I had pictures to go on there as well and I didn’t get it posted so NOW it’s out of date! So I’m starting all over… but enough of the whining let me get to the update!

Jackie came over to our house two weekends ago and helped me get baby Maya’s room ready! It’s FINALLY ready to go and all set up! Jackie was quite the bargain hunter and stumbled across the John Lennon’s baby crib set a 12 piece set for $88 bucks! I was VERY excited! The set included: a crib skirt, bumper, mobile, two shadow boxes, carpet, a shelf, with 2 book ends, quilt, valances, a diaper bag, and lamp. It’s very cool the colors are yellows, blues, greens, and whites. Which the room was already painted white and yellow so it worked really nicely. It looks like the room was painted that way on purpose. It also kind of gives us a “buffer’ just in case baby Maya ends up being a little boy instead! So thank you Jackie for the crib set and thank you for the help in the room. We also were able to go through all the baby clothes and get the clothes hung up and put away in the drawers and let me tell you I have sooooo much pink already for this kid she doesn’t need anything as far as clothes. We have clothes out the wazoooooo! I had forgotten just home much Lehna actually owned! So now that the room is ready I do feel better about it. I was really getting nervous b/c I was afraid that the baby wouldn’t have a place to sleep.

I went on my regular scheduled two-week appointment last week and the doctor said that I was measuring two weeks ahead of schedule. They determine this by holding a tape measure across your tummy from the top of your uterus to the base of well just the bottom. Well then he noticed how much weight I was gaining and said that I gained another 3 lbs. in two weeks. He said that since my blood work came back normal as far as gestational diabetes and my blood pressure was in a good spot that he wants to do another ultrasound to check her size. He said that he’s not too concerned with it he went into this sepal about what the difference is which is basically a two inch difference which he said that you have to use this “normal” sizing for all different size women which makes it harder to judge. But he wasn’t too concerned b/c he did after all schedule the ultrasound for three weeks. Which will be like Feb 26th but he said he wasn’t going to be here the week of the 19th which would be my 2 week normal appointment. Which leads me to believe he’s not toooooo nervous about it b/c if he was then you would think he would do it earlier. Which is kind of exciting if I just gained two weeks without having to actually “earn” them, but it could also mean that she’s just a BIG baby… which you know that has be a bit concerned… I mean Lehna was a small baby and I thought that was pretty well gross the aftermath stuff so we’ll just have to see just how BIG this baby is b/c it may mean worse AFTERMATH which that’s the part that SUCKS about having kids.

Also in the past couple of weeks Tait and I was able to go to Peru to visit Tait’s parents. I was able to play bingo on both Friday and Saturday night which was fun. Of course I didn’t win anything but I was able to come close on two different games both times my number was up in the monitor and then someone else yelled bingo before me! So that kind of sucked but at least I kept it interesting for our table.

This past weekend it was nice Tait and I relaxed and played with Lehna it was so wonderful. We didn’t have to go anywhere nor did we have to do anything, which made it SOOOOO fabulous! I was also able to get the hospital bags ready for the baby and for myself. I don’t have a bag packed for Lehna yet but I’m kind of waiting just a little longer only b/c I need her to be able to wear the clothes that I am going to put away from her. But I am trying to stay up on the laundry and that type of thing to make sure the if baby DOES decide to come early I will at least be a little prepared. Besides if I have to pack Lehna’s bag then that’s fine I mean it won’t take more then 10 minutes to put a bag for her together.

In more recent news Indiana was hit with some pretty hard snow for the past 24 hours it has been snowing, drifting, sleeting, and has created blizzard like conditions. Work was cancelled for me and unfortunately for me I didn’t get the message from my supervisor until I had left two messages on my bosses cell phone stating that I wasn’t going to go in b/c of the weather. Which Lehna and I got to play all day around the house, which was fun. Tait did have to go into work and was sent home shortly after lunch. I called him several times during the day to see how the roads were in town. He kept telling me they were getting worse and worse and was cursing the governor/central office b/c he hadn’t closed all the STATE offices yet. So even though we were under a snow emergency he was able to leave at least half the day. It’s still snowing outside and it’s not supposed to stop for another 10 hours. Which they announced in our county that they were going to pull the country workers off the road at dusk and not bring them back on until the morning. So I talked to my boss just to let him know that I will have to play it by ear as far as getting to work tomorrow. So hopefully the wind will stop blowing when the snow stops b/c then the roads won’t drift shut that’s what I’m most worried about since I take mainly county roads to get anywhere! So we’ll see what happens.

Tait and I took Lehna out this afternoon to play in the snow and I did take pictures unfortunately I can’t get them off the camera right at this second but I will get those off… but I do have some pictures for you to enjoy.

The first pictures are of Maya’s new room. I wanted everyone to see all the hard work that we did on her room.




This is the first night in her bed. She slept so well the first night she didn’t move at all in her bed. Now she’s alllll over her bed when she sleeps she hasn’t fallen out of the bed yet but I’m waiting for the cry from that!



This is a picture of Lehna and on Sunday afternoon I came home from Lafayette to discover my daughter passed out on the living room floor. Tait said she ran herself totally out. She was lying in the mist of all the toys and literally fell over and went to sleep. She slept for a good 2 hours on this nap so it was nice to have some “peace” for a little bit. I did move her back to her bed and she didn’t even budge so she was incredibly tired.



This is another picture of Lehna creating a "mess" for me in the kitchen... she pulled out ALLLLLL the pots in the kitchen and put them all over the floor for me to enjoy... wasn't that nice of her!



Well that’s all the pictures I have for right now. I hope you enjoyed the pictures and I hope to update again really soon! Thanks for reading about us!

Weekly Update!

Well another week has come to an end and it’s time for the weekly update!

Baby appointment.

I had a baby appointment yesterday and well I have gained 9 lbs in ONE MONTH! I was very SHOCKED AND HORRIFIED at this information. The NP asked me if I have had any dietary changes and I was like not really… but I didn’t realize how FAST I was putting it on… so I’m going to SLOW DOWN! She said that it’s normal for women to put on weight between the 2-3 third trimester which is right where I am but she said that now it’s going to be coming on even more so I will need to make “healthier choices” and kind of slow down and I agreed! Mercy me I’m going to be bigger then a HOUSE by the time it gets done with! So I haven’t talked to the doctor about it yet that won’t be for a few more weeks I’m going every two weeks now so I’ll be seeing him next. So we’ll see what he says HOPEFULLY he’ll be kind! But baby is doing well. The NP said everything is on target. She asked if I was feeling any bumps and stuff and I was like yep. So she measured me and said I was right on target. She tried to find the baby’s heart beet and it took FOREVER! She couldn’t find it and finally she found it for like 3 seconds and the rat moved. So she kind of chased her around and found it again. And we listened to it for awhile. She said that the heart beat was at 130 which she said that’s where I have been averaging so she said looks well. So I guess that’s encouraging. I also took my sugar blood test. The lady that did the blood test was CRAZY! She kept going on and on about having an order and I told her that I didn’t have an order sheet and she goes… well you need one I can’t draw your blood unless you have one. And I told her that I understood that but when I was there at my last appointment they gave me the drink and I was told at that point that they would have an order down here. Well the lady was NUTZ so she holds up this pink order sheet and goes… “Do you have this” and I was like no… I have the one from this time but I don’t have one for this time. And she goes well I have to have this… at that point the lady that does the check in intervenes and goes “well did you get one from upstairs” and I go yeah but it doesn’t have an order on it from this time. So she took and repeats exactly what I just told her. So I was like well okay and she was like well let me check and see if we have one on file for you. She came back and sure enough there was one there… I was like just GET ME OUT OF HERE so when she turned her back I gave her the bird. It didn’t think it was necessary for her to go on and on the way she did! But that was the ‘drama’ from the doctor’s appointment oh and the 9 LBS!

Lehna has NOT been sleeping through the night this week so Tait said that she wasn’t feeling good on Wednesday and he said she “looked warm” so I called the daycare and asked how she was doing and they said she wasn’t acting herself. So I called the doctor and got her into b/c I thought maybe she had a sinus infection or something like that. So Tait took her to the doctor and the poor kid has an ear infection. They said that she had a “slight” fever but after she took some of the medicine she would be able to go back to daycare. So Tait said when he dropped her off she threw a HUGE fit and refused to go and cried. Tait said that she looked warm again and so I called to see how she was doing and they said that she was doing fine but if something changed they would let us know. I didn’t get a call so maybe she perked up. Lehna NEVER throws fits in the morning at daycare she is usually running down the hall and can’t wait to eat breakfast. So I don’t know I think it didn’t help that Tait was home with her all day yesterday I think that made her want to stay home again. But the good news is she DID sleep through the night last night… She woke up one time we put her in our bed ONCE and moved her back… but 10:30 she was asleep and gone for the entire night. I was SOOOO EXCITED! So hopefully no more babies in the bed, I know she loves it but it’s getting really annoying b/c I can’t really sleep with in the bed and then I have to move her back… it just makes me crazy! It was a HORRIBLE habit to get into and now we are suffering to break her luckily it’s only been about 2 weeks with this new sleeping in our bed thing so hopefully breaking it won’t be too hard.

As far as everything else goes I was able to get a dresser this weekend for Maya’s room. I’m VERY excited about it! So I know I have said this OVER AND OVER but I am going to get the dumb bed down and actually start setting up things in that room. I really want to get it ready to go b/c baby will be here in about 10 weeks if I go on time… sooooo that’s a little bit of pressure! I know it’s not like tomorrow but I can only do about one project a day one the weekend b/c it wears me out so quick so I have to decide what I’m going to work on a little at a time so I can get it under control and I know it’s going to take some time in that room b/c there are just some many little touches to do.

Jackie was so very nice and purchase Tait and I a whole bedroom set for baby Maya. It’s the John Lennon Animal set it’s VERY cute! And it will look really nice in the room. The room is painted a soft yellow and white so it will look really good in there it almost looks like it was planned. Jackie also offered herself up as FREE slave labor this weekend to help me work in that room. So I KNOW I will be working in there now which is good b/c I need to do it! So if I get it all up and looking pretty I will take pictures so everyone can see. It will depend on the progress. I need to get a staple gun though so I can “fix” the carpet. Daisy the dog was kind enough to pull the carpet up around the door sooooo when you open the door you have to push REALLY hard to get the door open and the carpet gets stuck under the door and stuff… It’s a whole lot of mess. So I need to come up with a way to fix it I figure a staple gun would be the easiest then I can just refasten the thing back down. It won’t look pretty but I’m not too concerned with “pretty” I just want to door to open without having to fight the carpet. Tait suggested we cut the carpet back around the door but I don’t know how that will look; with staples it will at least be hidden. So I don’t know that will be one thing I will have to “figure” out. We also have to get sealers for the windows so that will be done before next winter since we won’t be getting the windows. I am VERY sad about it! The sales guy keeps calling me asking me if I’m for CERTAIN wanting to cancel the windows. I haven’t called him back yet to tell him yes. I just can’t do it. I hate the idea they are going to suck until next winter. We were SOOOOO CLOSE to getting them but the furnace kind of changed our plans, but the new furnace was something that HAD to be replaced and the windows are kind of a thing that can wait. If you know what I mean they aren’t the most exciting thing but hopefully something will come along!

Something exciting happened at work! We just landed a new client that is REALLY going to help keep work flowing in! I’m VERY EXCITED about it b/c it’s now a new 5 year contract. So that will help with our hours which will help and we will be able to place more people at work. Which is SOOOO important? I found out that after I get back from my maternity leave they will become my client. The senior staffing agent will have it until then but then I’ll get it so I’m excited about it. I was able to get another client who they are soooo much harder to fill b/c it’s only weekend shifts right now. Soooo I hope that eventually they have more perm positions or I am going to STRUGGLE every week trying to get it filled. It’s just one of those things you know what I mean! But that’s work.

Tait is really enjoying his new spot as an Investigator. He has only been an investigator for about 3 weeks and he has really enjoyed it. So that’s kind of fun! I have been meaning to write about this before but I kept forgetting. So he is still working for the same company and everything just he’s doing more investigations. The only that kind of sucks is he has weekends where he’s on call and like this week he has been on call all week so he doesn’t sleep very well b/c he’s afraid he’ll miss a call. So it’s kind of strange. It’s like he has to be tied to this beeper it’s kind of funny.

Well that’s all I have for this weeks update. I know it’s kind of long and boring but hey… that happens.

Thanks for reading about us!

A little touch of winter!

Welcome to the update for this week!

Well we have had our first taste of winter yesterday! We woke up to snow and ice all over the road on Tuesday morning. I am sure as many were driving in their morning commutes you saw many slide offs and accidents and you probably thought to yourself and said “what an idiot” Well I must say that I joined that ranking of “what an idiot” Yep that’s right I was one of the many LUCKY people that go to put their cars in a ditch and had to get a tow truck to get me out! It happened on the huge hill just outside the town in which I live and I started to slide on the hill so I tried to correct myself and I managed to spin the car around and end up in the ditch the hill was pure ice it was just like wet glass it was wonderful. I was going 35 mph up the hill so it didn’t take much. As I was parked in the ditch I had many people that stopped to ask if I was okay and see if I needed assistance. I did have a couple of very nice gentlemen that did try to push the big SUV out of the hill but the ground was too soft and the road was just too slippery so I was unable to get out on my own. Sooooo as I was waiting I got to witness several almost slide offs on the same damn hill and I got to see a school bus slide down the hill sideways b/c of the ice so that was exciting! Some cars drove fast and many drove slow I was more afraid about the fast driving cars then the slow one’s so I stayed in my car hoping that no one would hit me. Soon the tow truck showed up and he got my car out in like 10 mins not much effort at all. As we were pulling the car out the sheriff did show up to offer assistance but of course the car was out of the ditch by then. Sooooo when the car was out of the ditch the suv was parked in the middle of the road so I had to of course move the car so other cars could go around and as I was walking back to the SUV I managed to slip and fall on the VERY slippery ice. This of course made on lookers painic the Sheriff turned on his lights and then came RUNNING out of his car asking if I was okay. I of course was more embarrassed then anything and was totally fine. So the tow truck driver came over and he about fell down and asked if I was okay and I told him I was fine and that was the end of my EXCITING morning! I’m glad that the car nor myself was harmed but I was just very embarrassed so I can live with that!

I love Indiana Weather!

Opps I messed up and I was CAUGHT!

Joyce noticed that I happen to mention Baby B's name in my last post and I am confirming the baby's name.... Her name is going to be Maya Elizabeth pronounced Sky-Ya but with an M on the front. We have been calling her Maya for the last couple of months so I slipped... Opps. But yes that is her name.

Update

So I have some cute pictures that I am going to add to website but I didn’t have time to get them off the computer.

On the Lehna front a few new things have been happening… FIRST THING Lehna is now officially a BIG GIRL! She is sleeping in a toddler bed. This is night three and so far things are going well. When we went into the room she asked me very politely if she could get off the bed. And I said yes and thanked her for asking. I have a feeling that they make them ask for permission at daycare. Then last night Lehna was crying and Tait went in there and she was just sitting on the bed and asked for her mommy so Tait goes “do you want to go see her” and so she goes “yeah” like all teary in her voice. It just made my heart feel so good. So she’s sleeping through that night even though she is in a big girl bed I was worried that she would be up playing all night long but she really doesn’t have any interested in that she just wants to sleep. Also another break though that the baby is growing up. About 8:15 we will ask her if she wants to go to bed she will say “yes” and we walk around giving kisses and go straight to bed. No fussing any fits just wants to go to sleep. It’s so wonderful. Now getting the munchkin dressed in the morning would be GREAT if we didn’t have to fight her every morning but right now. I’m happy with what we got.

We are also starting to get Lehna accustomed to the potty. She is REALLY showing interest in it and we are starting to work with her. The ladies at daycare are also working with her so hopefully it will be a smooth transition. I don’t necessarily need her out of diapers before Maya appears but it would be nice to have one out of diapers before the next one appears. I don’t know though she doesn’t quite understand what we want her to do but she at least realizes that she has to take her diaper off to sit and she is up on that part. So we are working with her it will take some time but I think it will be good. Last night she even patted her diaper and I asked if she had to go potty and she said yep so I took her in there and all she did was play with the potty so I don’t know it may take some time but I know we’ll get it.

News on the home front, this weekend was a weekend to clean out closets. I managed to get the “coat closet” completely cleaned out we only had like 20 bags of trash to take out which was CRAZY! But it looks so nice now I was also able to work in Baby B’s room and I moved things around and started to organize things. I won’t be done until I can get the darn bed out of there and a smaller dresser. We looked at little dressers this weekend I think I can get one at Wal-Mart so I will probably be getting that this weekend or next so I can start going back through Lehna’s clothes to get them organized and ready to go. I really want to take the dumb bed in there. We had to take apart the crib to get it out of Lehna’s room and once I get the stupid bed out of the room I’ll be able to set the crib up and move the changing table which will be nice. I need to get some things for the walls in there b/c they are a little bare but I’m sure I’ll come up with something. It’s just hard to believe that that baby will be here so soon!

Also on the home front we got a new furnace, something we weren’t planning on getting but heck why not, who wants new windows when you can invest in a new furnace right? It broke Christmas Eve so luckily when we went on vacation it didn’t break anymore which was lucky for us! So now our house is all controlled by numbers which is nice. I have noticed that we haven’t turned it down as low as we did with the other furnace but that is okay because it keeps the house warm anyways!

We got back from Wisconsin and it was very sad to leave. We had such a good time. I’m sure by reading Jackie’s blog you know that we went to the Miller Company but it was closed. We also went to the Jelly Belly company and that was “interested” we knew that we were going to go on a tour but we didn’t realize it would be a big tour of a warehouse where we would watch some videos of the creating of jelly bellies there really wasn’t much to it other than that actually. We did have to wear this ridiculous hat that I think was mainly b/c they wanted everyone to ware b/c they are cruel rather than it really serving a purpose I mean it was a warehouse for goodness sakes. We also when to this church on the hill and it was really pretty. We really had a good time at the church it was so beautiful, I enjoyed it. I figure we probably won’t be able to go back to Wisconsin until the summer with the baby coming in the spring so we will have to make some plans then. Of course I don’t think I’ll have vacation days until Julyish but that will be okay, I’m sure we will work something out.

Work is going pretty well right now. We are kind of slow but for the most part I’m really keeping busy. We are trying to get a bunch of people in the system b/c we have a few companies that we are waiting on contracts from but once they come down we are going to be FLOODED with new job opportunities and for being general labor we need to make sure we have enough people in the system for when the storm hits. Which I have to say I’m not really looking forward to it but then at the same time I am looking forward to it so it’s kind of a strange feeling it’s kind of the calm before the storm, so as it develops it should be pretty interesting.

What else is going on? I want to go baby shopping for Baby B. I don’t really need anything for her but I was looking at the baby clothes that I have for her that I have gotten for her and I just want to get her a few things so she can have her own stuff. Which I’m sure she will get her fill of new things. Helen said she found us a double stroller yesterday so I’m excited about that. I know that I wanted to get one of those so I will be able to take both babies out for walks or shopping or whatever so I can’t to see it. Helen said we have to put it together which we have become experts of the last couple of weeks getting things together for Christmas and also Lehna’s new bed and stuff so it will be fun to put the stroller together.

Oh another funny thing before I forget. Lehna has become a little parrot she has discovered a new phrase… it’s “oh sh%t” Yep that’s right she has learned her first curse word. She was playing with her play horse the other day and she couldn’t move it and she goes “oh sh%t” and I didn’t think that what she said so a couple of days later she was playing with one of her new spoons and she accidentally broke it and goes “oh sh%t” again… and I was like Lehna no no don’t say that. So yep we have quite the little curser on our hands… I guess it could be worse it could be something REALLY horrible like the F word or something like that. So we will be curbing our language around the parrot. So that should be interesting I wonder what it will be like when she says it at daycare. I mean I wonder if they will point it out to us or what. I don’t know it should be interesting.

Oh here’s a little update. Our very BIG girl used the potty on her own last night! We were VERY excited! Tait put her on there and she went right away no problem. Of course this morning she wanted NOTHING to do with it. I asked her if she wanted to use the potty and she goes “no” and I go asked her again then she finally said “yes” then we went in the bathroom and she was pulling on her pants but not really taking them down so I reached down to help and she pushed my hands away and goes “NO” really loudly and didn’t want my help… soooooo I didn’t torture her I figure we will keep trying every morning to get her and then maybe she’ll get used to the idea. She just isn’t a morning person. So a small step towards potty training!