Miscellaneous

Well over this past weekend, we moved Rachel's bed to Sarah's room so we could set up the crib for the new baby. Rachel has actually been doing pretty well in there. She has slept all night long for 3 nights in a row now! Yay!!!! Hopefully she won't give her big sister too much grief!

I also attached some misc pictures and a video! I have noticed that all of our pictures seem to be of Rachel. Yes we do have 2 other children still! Ha! I will try to get some good pictures of them over Easter weekend and add them next week.

Rachel waking up. We do keep the door closed at night still!
Rachel on slide at Duck Pond Park in Ponca in Feb.

Rachel laying down and rolling around with her baby! Jim does this thing with Rachel where they lay on floor and roll and Rachel loves it, so now she does it with her babies.

When we had the snow/slush, Rachel decided to write with markers. She really enjoyed it but has a little trouble with the lids. Sometimes, she even has trouble staying on the paper(see below).

What? There is marker on my chin? I looked over and she had put one of the markers on her chin and I guess she liked the way it felt so drew a little bit. She didn't do it again after I said no though so that is good! Washable markers are great!!! It was all off in time for church that evening.

Rachel likes her various riding toys. She gets on this one and will say "rock, rock" as she goes crazy on it! This time she had her MP3 player in the background playing classical music.

"Melmo"

We took Rachel to Sesame Street Live last Thursday so she could see "Melmo". She actually did pretty well. She watched the whole show and even danced a little here and there. After the show was over, I guess she did a re-enactment of some of the dancing and stuff out in the lobby area. I of course was in the bathroom so missed it. Jim said people were stopping and watching her. I guess she was talking and moving her arms around and her body side to side. She talks about "Melmo" quite a bit.

Rachel moving her head to the beat while having a little snack.

The one and only "Melmo".

Standing up and dancing!

The Great Blizzard of '09

So, we had our snow/slush day. It was not much fun since the kids couldn't play in it because it was so wet. It was just like walking through water pretty much. It did look pretty while it was coming down though.

It snowed all day Saturday.
(looking out our backdoor)But it was a really wet snow.

Fortunately, it had stopped snowing before church. Mom and dad's Murano is in the background.

Unfortunately, that meant we had to walk through 3 inches of slushy water everywhere!! Notice my(Jim) giant "Sasquatch footprints" in the foreground.
We all had wet pants legs from it.

In other news, Rachel's new word to try at home is "move" and occasionally we will get a "move please". She usually uses this when I am in her way as far as sitting in my chair at the kitchen table and she wants in it. She also was using it on both Jim and I the other day in the bedroom. Usually on Sat/Sun mornings we get to sleep in. Once Rachel wakes up, we bring her to our bed and just sit or lay there while we try to wake up. However, this past weekend, we were in her way when she wanted to look out our bedroom window. Her routine is to look out our window, and then we will discuss all the parts of a face and then of course her legs, arms, feet and hands. She is quite funny.

I continue to get bigger and bigger in my pregnancy. Hopefully I can make it about 8 more weeks. The doctor seems to think I will be about 2 weeks early again which puts me towards the first of June or so. I passed my glucose test, however, my blood count was low so now I have to take an iron supplement. Yuck. However, I have found that since I have been taking it, I am not near as tired as I have been so that is good.

Jim and I have decided to upgrade to a king size bed. We end up sharing so much with a certain 20 month old and now with another one on the way, our queen size is just not big enough, plus it is old and needs replaced. We have bought the frame but haven't bought a mattress yet. I think it will be sometime towards the end of this month when we do. I can't wait. We just wish we would have done it sooner. Maybe now we can sleep w/o waking up in pain. Or maybe that is just we are getting old already. Ha!