Everyday Life

This is just a bunch of stuff from our everyday lives. Hope it isn't boring! Fall Foliage
One of the many Squirrels

Alexis's dance class

We are really getting excited about our house going up. They are just about done with the electrical and getting ready to finish the outside and put up the sheet rock.

It is fun to see it all coming together. Living Room

Backyard

Colbie's room

Alexis's Room

Garage and Laundry room

Basement

This is Colbie in her new present from Shaun's Family. It is this cool chair that even newborn babies can sit up in. We put her in it and she smiles. She must think it's fun. They also got us a cool snap on tray so we can use it as a booster seat. Thanks for the awesome gift!

Poor Colbie! Mom was so embarrassed! While sitting in the waiting room at Alexis's Dance class Colbie had a poopy "blowout". I took her into the adjacent bathroom to change her. I realized I only had pants in the diaper bag and not an extra onesie. I decided to try and salvage the outfit by cleaning it off with a wipe. Well...... Colbie had other plans. She peed all over. I came out of the bathroom with Colbie in just these pants to a waiting room of smiling and laughing mothers a few of them said "blowout?" I just smiled and nodded and said I didn't have an extra outfit. I sure felt like a mother of a newborn... totally unprepared without the extra outfit!

Alexis sure loves preschool. She goes everyday from 12:15 to 3:15. The teachers are great. Alexis's favorite thing to do right now is art. I don't have room for the several drawings she does a day. She also does more art drawings when she gets home from preschool. It is cute to see how she is with her little friends. I've noticed that she is the leader of the group. When I drop her off several of the little kids yell "Alexis!" and gather she then facilitates a game of tag until the teacher comes. It will be interesting to see if that changes as she gets older or if she continues to be outgoing and social. Her class is pretty diverse and she has some Spanish speaking friends. She has taken to making up her own Spanish words. Her new word she made up on the way to preschool was "donprecito". She was convinced it was a real word. She loves to copy other hairstyles of the little girls in her class. If I don't get them just the same she gets pretty upset. She is really particular about her hair and clothes. I can just see the teenage years coming!

So far we are adjusting pretty well to having two kids. It has been a pretty smooth adjustment with having an older child to help out. This week (week 3 of having a newborn) has hit us a bit though. We are pretty tired lately. It is totally worth it and such a blessing to have Colbie here though. We all went on a walk tonight. It felt liberating to not be pregnant! It was a beautiful fall day and the trees and flowers are just so vibrant her in Nebraska. I love the fall!

Two Weeks Young

Two weeks young and Colbie is growing like a weed. She just had her 2 week appointment and weighed 7 lbs. and 11 oz. I am really enjoying every moment of her being little even those “blowouts”. I do an average of 2 loads of laundry a day…. usually I put the washer on the soak cycle and throw clothes in as the accidents happen. I was laughing today when Colbie decided to poop then pee then poop while Daddy was changing her. This was the squirt across the room kind of poop. (If you’ve ever had a newborn you know what I mean!) I love to hold and cuddle her and look at her little hands and feet. I love her fuzzy hair and her soft skin and to kiss her cute little face. So far Alexis has shown no jealousy whatsoever. She absolutely adores her little sister and loves to talk to her every time she sees that she’s awake. She sings her the cutest lullabies and when she holds her she gets the proudest smile on her face. When I’m driving Alexis to school she gives me updates from the back seat on how Colbie is doing. It is so sweet to see how much Alexis loves her already. It makes me think of how they must have been the best of friends in Heaven. I hoping that as they grown up together they will stay the best of friends just like me and my sisters and brother are.

She's Here!

It seems like this pregnancy went by so slow and so fast at the same time. It feels so good to have Colbie Jan here. She was born Wednesday at 3:27 p.m. I went in at 6:30 a.m. and was induced at 7:30. Within a couple of minutes I was having contractions every 5 minutes. The doctor broke my water at 1:30 and she was born by 3:27 p.m.. Luckily my epidural worked just in time. I had to push the pain medication button about 5 times because it wasn't working toward the end. The labor was a bit harder than Alexis and I could tell she was definitely bigger but everything went really smoothly and I feel so blessed to have a healthy beautiful baby girl! She was 7 pounds 6 ounces and 20 inches long. I think she looks like Shaun and a bit like me. I can see both sides of the family in her. Alexis has been the best big sister to her. Helping me to throw away diapers and get me things for her. She washes her hands every time she wants to touch her because she has had a cold. So far Colbie is sleeping and eating really well. She is really mellow so far. Crying very little and so far is doing 3-4 hour sleep stretches at night. I love to feel her chubby cheeks!

Dance, Dance, Dance

Some members of the Columbus Branch at the Stake softball tournament in Lincoln Nebraska
Alexis her first day at Centenial Elementary Preschool

Alexis's new Tap shoes

Alexis's new ballet shoes and her ballet pose

We signed up Alexis for Dance lessons and she is very excited. She starts on Sept. 10th. Today was her first day at her new preschool. I asked her how her day was and she gave me a moment by moment itinerary and then ended with it was "so, so, so, sooooo fun!" I'm excited for her to go back tomorrow. Her teacher is an early education major and there are two para professionals that help in the classroom. Alexis got to do some art projects which she loves. She brought home a long piece of paper with bunch of feathers glued to it. As for Shaun and I we went to Lincoln over the weekend for a Stake Softball tournament. Still no baby yet but I am content on waiting. We are getting excited to see our little one though!