Happy Birthday, Steve and Erin's Blog!

It's been a year since we started this blog, and a lot has happened in that time. I'm very excited that we've kept anything like this up for a year. Here's to another exciting upcoming year!

Pool Party!

Evie got to use her pool for the first time today! Unfortunately, the bathing suit I bought her a while ago didn't fit (so what else is new?) so she had to go swimming in her almost birthday suit. Thankfully, I did have some "Little Swimmers" that I had bought a while ago (this time in a really big size!) so she at least got to wear those. We bought the swimming pool about a month ago but just haven't had the time to use it. Well, the weather was great today, and we had plenty of time to relax in the pool!

Here is a new trick of Evie's. She is now able to get up on her hands and knees. She can't crawl yet (she'd rather just drag herself across the floor using her arms and feet) but she does rock back and forth.

Baby's First Pictures

Steve and I always love to show off pictures of our kids. Here are the most recent.
I’ve been to the doctor’s office 3 times now in the last 3 weeks, mostly for blood draws. I think they are a little concerned since we’re having the two so close. I had a doctor’s appointment this week to check on the progress of our latest addition. Since we couldn’t hear the heartbeat on the Doppler thingy, my doctor gave me an ultrasound to make sure everything was ok. Here are the pictures of our son or daughter. The main thing this shows is that there is only one baby. No twins!



OK, so you have to use your imagination. The baby is the kidney bean shaped blob within the bigger blob shape. I’m told the head is down, and the body and the tail are up. Although, really I can only see the vague blob that is my baby. It’s too early to tell whether it is a boy or a girl.
I also had to add a picture of Evie here that I thought was adorable! Can’t show off one kid without showing off the other!

New Blog

We have decided to move our family blog off of a server I was running at home and onto blogger (Its free!). We will be moving all of the old posts over as time allows. We probably won't be able to post movies on blogger so we'll have to find an alternate method. At any rate you could always just ask me to mail you a CD or DVD.

The Missing Tree

OK, so the tree is not really missing. We know exactly where it is! Steve and his friend, John, dropped this tree yesterday. Thankfully, I wasn’t home at the time. Steve was nervous about the root system breaking into the foundation, and we just wanted more space in the backyard, so bye-bye tree!

News for some

OK, this is not new news for everybody, but I’m sure someone out there doesn’t know. We’re pregnant! The next comment is usually, “Again??” Yep, again. And yes, we do know how it happens. We just decided to have another one close to Evie so we would be through the baby/toddler years early, among other reasons. I’m about 6 weeks, 5 days along and our due date is March 28, 2006, exactly 14 months after Evie was born. We’ll get to hear the heartbeat is about 2 or 3 weeks and have ultrasound (and learn the gender) in about 13 or 14 weeks.

Steve wanted me to tell everyone that we went to the park today. It had a waterfall, which was not really that exciting because it was really more of a dribble, and a cave, which was more of just a hole in the wall of a cliff. This info would have been more interesting if we had some pictures, but lately we have been too silly to remember the camera for these short trips.

Even More Professional Pictures

Here are the latest pictures, this time with my family instead of Steve’s. Evie is now 6 months old, and apparently decided that she didn’t want to smile this time. She must be tired of these!

More Movie Fun

Here are 2 more movies. In the first Evie is taking her first bite of food that is not milk. I think she had rice. The second is of her first time rolling over (back to front). The full video is actually about 10 mins. long but I got the important part in.

EviesFirstSolid.wmv
EviesFirstRoll.wmv

Rolling Evie

Evie has learned to roll from front to back. She can now roll from back to front and then front to back and sort of take off in a sideways direction. Its not quite crawling but it is productive.

EvieOnTheGo.wmv

First Tummy Movie

Finally a Movie. Here’s Evie a few months ago. I think this is one of the first movies that we have of her (not including the birth movie).

FirstTummyMovie.wmv