The countdown

We are officially 2 weeks (actually a week and 6 days) away from Gracie's arrival. But who's counting, right? We (aka Gene) still need to hang pictures in her room. We also need to rearrange some things in the kitchen to accommodate bottles and pump equipment. Other than that, everything is done.

Austin is asking a lot of questions about how the baby is going to come out and is bragging to everyone that will listen about how his baby is about to pop out. He's very excited but very concerned about me. I've tried to reassure him that everything is going to be OK. Andrew doesn't know what's coming of course. He's still too young but he does talk about his sister, Gracie, and is very interested in his new cousin Max. He likes to hug and kiss on Max although he doesn't quite know how easy to be with a new baby.

I'll post pictures of the room soon after the pictures are hung. In the meantime, the countdown is on!

The tooth fairy flies again!

Austin has had 2 loose teeth for a while and we've been just watching and waiting for them to fall out. He refuses to let anyone mess with his teeth. He'd rather walk around with them barely hanging on rather than wiggle them enough to pull them out for the tooth fairy to visit. I guess those dollars aren't all that important to him.

Last week, he and a friend bonked heads at school making the top tooth even looser than it already was. So all weekend, we watched and waited. On Sunday, we thought we were going to be able to pull it but Austin refused. So, Monday I e-mailed his teacher to let her know to be on the lookout for the tooth. She responded a little bit later that the school secretary pulled it!

Andrew had to show me his teeth too!

Then, on Thursday, Austin came home with another pulled tooth! Again the school secretary pulled it. She must be one magical tooth puller. The tooth fairy visited our house twice in one week. I think that may be it for a little while.

Baby Shower #2

Friends and family threw me a baby shower. We truly are blessed to have such wonderful friends and family members to help us celebrate our little girl's arrival!

Basketball

Last fall, Austin kept asking if he could play basketball. The season didn't start until winter and, as luck would have it, would end just a few weeks before Gracie's scheduled arrival which worked out well.

The first practice and game were painful to say the least. But he practiced and got somewhat better. By the end of the season, he had decided that basketball wasn't his thing. I think Austin thought that they'd just stand around and shoot the ball like he does at home. At least we've ruled one more sport out! We did manage to get some pictures of him playing though.

Valentine's Day 2011

Happy Valentine's Day! We always get the boys something small from us for Valentine's Day. We got Andrew a couple of books, some Mike & Ikes (his favorite candy), some M&Ms, and an Iron Man toy. He's obsessed with Iron Man; we have no idea why. Austin also got some books and M&Ms, some gummy bears, and a Lego set.

Baby Shower

The people I work with threw Gene and I (and Gracie) a baby shower. Luckily, we hadn't gotten rid of everything that we had with the boys so we had most everything. But, every baby should be celebrated whether it's your first or third. And since this one is a girl, she needed some new pink pretty things!