Movement!

This morning as I tried to convince myself to roll out of bed to get Ellie to diaper study by 7:30, I felt our little baby moving around. I thought I may have felt it a few days ago, but there was no doubting this time that it was the baby moving around. I miss the way it felt when Ellie was inside and now I get to experience it all over again.

Now, for movement of another kind, Ben and I took a walk and we stopped at the park to let Eliana play for awhile.

She loved "racing" Ben to the bottom of the slide.

On the big girl swing.

Autumn Adventure

Autumn Adventure is an evening at a local park where the kids have all kinds of learning stations and fun things like the local baseball team's mascot and the train ride. Of course there's food too. The Evan and Ellie had a great time and Ellie didn't want to go home.

Ellie and Evan tossing eggs into the bucket. Melissa gave them a hand if they needed it.

Have you seen a more adorable couple. Check out the hand holding.

They had this station and a girl took a polaroid picture of the kids. Then they got to make their own picture frame. Ellie went to bed with her frame and picture, it wasn't worth crying.
Ellie rode the Borky Express all by herself! It was quite a long ride and she did so well, unlike the crying child behind her.
More hand holding :) while waiting in line for supper.
Neither of them really wanted to sit inside the fire truck, but they were just fine with sitting on the front or back of it. Melissa and I were just hoping one of the kids checking out the inside of the truck didn't accidently blow the horn.

Baby Update

I am now 17 1/2 weeks pregnant and we had another MD appt today. The baby is doing well with a heartbeat of 160 bpm. I have been getting headaches every day at about 11:00am for the last 3 weeks. Dr. Anderla said that I could take ibuprofen, but if my headaches continue I will have to see the "neurology brain guys". Our ultrasound is scheduled for Oct 2nd. I can't believe the halfway mark is coming up.

Yesterday we went to mom's house to celebrate Ben's birthday which is coming up on Thursday. We had German Chocolate Cake...mmmmm. Of couse Ellie had to sport her Green and Gold for a Packer victory.

Visitors

Aunt Tracey, Uncle Chad and Cousin Jacob stopped over after church for a bit. Chad read Ellie some books.

Jacob's ready for the game.

Ellie shared her books with Jacob.

Funny Faces

We had another lazy day. Ellie stayed in her PJs all day.

Eating her "cook"

Eliana is still not feeling 100%. She was very cuddly this morning and was feeling warm on and off. She was in such a good mood at supper though. Ben was making faces and she would try to make them back at him, it was priceless.

Sick Days

Eliana has been dealing with a nasty cold. She actually fell asleep while sitting in my lap at 11:30 today and tood her nap without eating lunch. She made up for it by eating a sandwhich and a "cook" aka cookie after her nap. We are praying she will get better very soon.

I was able to get her outside a bit today as the weather couldn't have been more pleasant and it looks like we have more rain headed our way.

She was "painting" on the sidewalk with her paint brush and water.

Taking it easy

We had a pretty low key day today. We went for our Monday walk with Melissa and her son Evan and just hung around the house the rest of the day. We have some more errands to run tomorrow.

Building For Kids (Children's Museum)

Today Ben and I took Eliana to the Children's Museum. Ellie of course had a great time and was pretty tired at bedtime.

One of Ellie's favorite spots was of course the book area.

Sitting with the Zebra. That's a squishy golfball in her mouth.

Building with blocks.
Watching the construction crane.
Being strapped in by daddy in the fire truck.

Playing in the dress-up area.Going down the slide.

Checking out the birds.
Playing in the water, you can tell in some of the other pictures that the little raincoat didn't completely prevent her from getting wet.
Putting the balls in the baskets.....
...and then waiting for them to pop out of the ceiling.

Baby Jacob

Baby Jacob spent his first night at home last night. We stopped by Tracey and Chad's to give them some pizza and get our baby fix. Not only did Ben get to hold Jacob for the first time, but Ellie got to meet him too. She wanted to share her water with him. We look forward to spending more time with them soon and we pray they get some rest.

Pizza

Ben, Ellie and I went to Hungry Howie's for their grand opening. Ellie had her first piece of pizza and she definetly loved it. We don't give her things like pizza too often.

Of course she got a balloon too!