Enjoying the nice weather...

We had a couple of days of really nice weather last week...after all the rain we've been having it was really a treat. We took Ella to the park for a little playtime and some fresh air. It's been awhile since we've been and she thought it was fantastic.

She loves the "side!!!":

On the seesaw with Nana (they didn't plan their matching outfits):

Loves to play in the rocks...:

But does not like the resulting dirty hands:

Sprained Ankle

If you're friends with Keith on Facebook you've seen this picture already. He was playing in a Volleyball game last Thursday night at church and unfortunately came down wrong on his ankle. We thought that it was broken, but it turns out it's just a really bad sprain. The doctor said it's the worst sprain he's seen. It actually looked worse than the picture shows. His ankle was swollen to probably 3x its normal size. He's been pretty good about staying off of it and hopefully it will be healed in about another week. Poor little accident-prone guy. :-)

Busy, Busy, Busy!!

We have been busy bees around our house lately so I haven't had much time for pictures or blogging. I've got a lot of energy right now so I'm trying to take advantage of it and get a lot accomplished. The guest room is all cleaned out now and is ready to be transformed into a nursery. We were able to sell the furniture (yippee!) and Keith and I combined closets since he had previously been using the guest rooms closet. It's the first time we've shared a closet since we've been married...pray for us...haha!! :-) I was pretty good about keeping and storing all of Ella's clothes and since the girls should be born just about the same time of the year, it will be perfect for handing down things. So I've been going through all of Ella's clothes and now have Anna's closet packed with pink things awaiting her arrival. Ella got her bedding for Christmas so I've picked out a paint color for her room (pale apple green). We're going to try and get that painting finished before her furniture arrives on the 31st. I ordered Anna's bedding, so once it arrives next week, we can pick our her paint color (I'm thinking a very pale, powdery pink) and get that taken care of as well. We're going to do the same in Anna's nursery as we did in Ella's and scrape the popcorn ceiling (yuck) and put up crown moulding. Still have a lot more to do! :-)

So anyways, if you made it through all of that then here are a couple of pictures to enjoy from the past few weeks:

Ella and Mommy in (almost) matching pjs:

When cleaning out one of the closets in our house, I came across this old office phone and gave it to Ella to play with. She loves it! She dragged it into the den and put it right in front of her chair so she could sit and talk on it. :-)

19 Weeks

19 weeks yesterday:

and here's 15 weeks in the same pants to compare. She's growing for sure!

Baby Anna is the size of a mango now:

20 Months

Ella is 20 months as of yesterday. She is changing daily it seems like and I can hardly keep up with the new words that she is learning and putting together. Her favorite thing right now is the kitchen that she got for Christmas. As soon as she wakes up in the morning, she's ready to go and play with it. When we walk into the playroom she says "oh boy!" because she just can't contain herself! :-) She is also really into her babydolls. She likes to feed them "bites" with a spoon and push them in their stroller. I love this because I loved babydolls when I was a little girl too. She's gotten very affectionate lately with lots of snuggle time, blowing kisses, and giving big around-the-neck bear hugs. Love that too! Finally, she has a pink pig blankie that she is really attached to. She used to have a square fleece blanket with tags around the edges, but mommy unfortunately left it in a hotel in Tenn. Oops! So we replaced it with her new pink pig and she loves it. I hear "bankie???" all day long. :-)

Happy (belated) New Year!

You know you're not a kid anymore when you spend New Year's Eve with your parents and grandmother and can barely hold your eyes open until 11pm (we're on Central time) to watch the ball drop! :-) We did have a lot of fun thought...ate yummy appetizer food (my fave!) and played a lot of Wii. Our family is looking forward to a very exciting 2009 and I hope that the new year holds many blessings for all of you!!

18 Weeks and a New 'Do!

18 weeks today and feeling great! I started feeling movement with my hand outside of my belly this week which I think is so cool! :-) I had my bi-annual haircut this week too and I always feel good when I get my haircut. I typically go every 6 months and have it chopped off so I can wait another 6 months to get it cut again. Sad I know! :-) Anna is the size of a sweet potatoe now. It says 6.7oz., but our last ultrasound measured her at 8oz.

I found this picture of an 18 week fetus on the internet. It was taken in the womb by Linnart Nilsson using an endoscope and an electronic flash. It was featured on the cover of Life magazine in 1965. It's a real photograph, not a drawing, so that's what Baby Anna actually looks like at this point. Pretty darn cool!