Best gift

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According to my mother, the stork brings some babies, Santa brings others...

Lauren's in love!!

Jack's here.

He's perfect.

We are a family of four.

Awesome!

The day before

Tomorrow is the long awaited arrival of Jack. I think we have thought of everything, but if not, we won't know until it's too late. Lauren is taken care of, we have to be at the hospital at the specified time, our parents know when to be where, I have my coach, I have Jack, I have our bags packed, I think we are as ready as we can be.

I will post a picture to my www.flickr.com account as soon as I can.

Off we go!

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This is what Thanksgiving looked like for us.

Sunshine, blue skies, short sleeves. Yes, she is standing on an airplane. Yes she climbed up there all on her own. Man, can she run fast!!!! She out ran an almost 5 yr. old boy, me (which isn't hard to do) and out ran her daddy. She is so anxious for Jack to be born so she can teach him to run just as fast. My life is about to change, chasing two kids in two directions!! 13 days to go, but who's counting?

Pick a day...

Jack is due on Tues. Dec. 12. Today, my dr. said that the earliest she would induce me was the Friday before. Now comes the task of picking the day. His birthday. We picked Lauren's, now we'll pick Jack's. Seems like a lot of power...Wish us good luck!

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Happy Halloween!!!

Hey, you try to get a group of 2 to 4 yr. olds to all look at one camera... Eat lots of candy, but not too much and be safe!!!

Is it Halloween yet? How about now? Now? NOW?

So, guess what Lauren's excited about now? Did you guess Halloween? You're right! She is dressing up as a kitty per her repeated request. White shirt, black pants, ears, tail and drawn on nose and whiskers. It is a very cute and quite inexpensive costume and she loves it. Today we have a Halloween party to go to with our playgroup and she keeps calling it a candy party. Guess she's hoping for some sweet stuff. I know she won't be let down.

Sorry it's been so long between posts. I'll do my best to step it up in the coming weeks.

Testing...testing

Now that blogger is working again, here is what has been happening here.

School: Lauren LOVES it!
Painting Jack's room: It's going well
Pregnancy: He is very, very active
Work: It's work...

More later...

Rumor has it...

There will be rides. And food. And friends. All ours for the enjoying tomorrow at the West Side Nut Club Fall Festival (www.nutclub.org) during wrist band day. There will be photos, oh the photos! If you are reading this, chances are, I have already sent you an invitation to my Flickr account, but if not, leave a comment and I will. All of my family photos and friend photos are now listed as private due to sick-os out there.
More later...

Preparing for Jack

Lauren will be a great big sister. She talks about and to Jack a lot. She is drawn to all babies, big or small. She is very empathetic when someone is sad or upset.
I just hope that after a week or two she still feels the same way.