Time is flying by

Our little man is two months old today. We love this new addition to our family. He does everything he is suppose to - eats and sleeps! He is getting lots of cute baby chub and many people respond to him by saying he is huge. Our Little Tank is growing up quick!

He readily gives out smiles to anyone willing to tell him how wonderful and dashing he is. Catching them on the camera is another story. These two blurry ones are closest I've gotten.

Fish

Little Bug is a fish. She came out loving the water. It started with her adoring bath time and led to loving pools, sprinklers, water slides, water parks, and water tables. She even loves watering the garden (mainly because she comes inside drenched from the hose)...anything having to do with water this girl is in. Needless to say, Bug has spent the summer in the water. And I was happy to discover she has Andrew's skin that tans. I'm a little bit jealous of that one.



Bug going strong on hour three at the water park.

Utah

We just returned from a quick visit to Utah. I did a pretty lousy job documenting the trip, but it was filled with boating, trips to the park, swimming pools and snow cones! It was so cute watching all the cousins interact.

I was able to snap a shot of Little Tank meeting Grandma and Papa for the first time.

And a shot of these two cuties. I told them to be silly and this is what they gave me.

Little Bug was pretty sad to say goodbye. She ran up to cousin R and told her "I love you."

Hope we can all get together again soon!

'Playing'

When I was about five months pregnant, Little Bug and I were out shopping when another mom and little girl duo stopped next to us in the store isle. This little girl then looked at Bug and asked if she wanted to play. Little Bug responded by confidently exclaiming, "No, I have a baby brother to play with." Needless to say, it has been quite the wait for Bug. After this, we of course had to redefine the term 'play' by telling her Tank's form of play would be being fed and burped, at least for a while. So here she is with the much anticipated feeding/'playing' with baby brother.

I have to say, I had no doubt in my mind that once the novelty of baby brother wore off she would not like him. Granted, he is still pretty new, but she still likes him! Although I owe Little Bug an apology for completely underestimating her, I am still shocked.

Summer garden

We love our backyard for many reasons. One being, we finally had a spot to plant a garden! It has worked out pretty well; I was excited for the prepping and planting and Andrew has been happy about the maintaining and harvesting. We planted green beans, sugar peas, carrots, basil and tomatoes. In hindsight, we should have planted only one to two plants at a time to get more of each crop. Unfortunately, we don't have that big of an area to dedicate to the garden and have gotten sample size portions of some of our veggies.


Our first carrot. It was an anti climatic harvest.

We have eight tomato plants. I wonder what inspired me to plant that many tomatoes? Especially since I am the only one that likes them...

We all loved the sugar peas. Little Bug happily gobbled most of them up. Little Bug still has yet to expand her meat and dairy taste buds, so this was a big moment.

In addition, while my mom was here helping with Little Tank she planted us a beautiful flower garden in what use to be a dirt patch in the corner of our backyard. It is so nice to look at flowers instead of dirt.



Is it silly to say I am already dreading the end of summer?

Pictures

If this picture were of me as a kid I would look at it and think, I was not as cool as I remember.

On the other hand, if Andrew were looking at a picture like this of himself he would think, man I used to be cool.

Either way, we both hope Little Bug finds this picture as entertaining as we do in years to come.

Baking with Mama

Bug mastering the art of making sugar cookies. Despite her excitement for stirring, rolling and tossing flour everywhere, I still can't get her to try a finished cookie.

Two weeks

And baby makes four

Introducing Little Tank. Born June 19th at 1:42am, 8 pounds 1 ounce, 20 inches long.

Sadly, Bug got two different colds, a double ear infections and the stomach flu all in a 9 day period right before Little Tank was born. So, she missed a trip to the hospital to see baby brother. Here she is seeing him for the first time right after a bath. When we made the introduction she said, "Baby brother is an angel" very sweetly and was genuinely pleased.

Bug has already been a good helper and as you can see is throughly enjoying being a mini mommy. We are all so excited to have a new addition to our family!

39 Weeks

The idea of taking photos while being pregnant has never appealed to me. However, I knew that I needed at least one to document each pregnancy. So, here I am, 39 weeks pregnant with Little Tank.

With my second pregnancy rapidly coming to a close I thought I should record some of my memories down. Although, I really can't complain about this pregnancy there were some annoyances along my way.

1) Having your baby decide to move up into your ribs at 20 weeks and stay there the remainder of the pregnancy makes for a really uncomfortable 4 months. When you then factor in the morning sickness for the first 2-3 months you only have about 1-2 months of feeling comfortable. Bummer.

2) I love soda when I am pregnant. Loved it with both my first pregnancy and my second. I only caved to such a craving about three weeks ago when McDonald's started selling $1 large sodas. Thank heavens that deal just started.

3) My last pregnancy I craved apples. This time around grapes did the trick. I could eat those tasty juicy balls of sugar any time. I wonder if Andrew noticed we started having them as a side to dinner...a lot.

4) And finally, 9 months really is a long time to be hauling another human being around. I know I thought this at the end of my last pregnancy but I must have forgotten.

And now Tank, with the couches done, pillows sewn, and a picture of my pregnant self posted on the blog, you are welcome to enter the world.