Mae Turns 2!!!!!!!!

Its official Mae is 2! What a fun day we had. The morning started out with a delicious breakfast of Dutch Babies and Sausage (Mae loves sausage she ate 5 links), and a Birthday balloon. Mae and I then made cupcakes, yes even though I don't like cake doesn't mean I'm going to keep Mae in the dark about it. She had tons of fun helping me make them. She pored in all the ingredients for me it was really cute. Then she went down for her nap, while I cleaned the kitchen and prepped dinner before we meet Misty and her kids for ice cream at The Scoop (out favorite ice cream shop). Then we picked up her Ice Cream Cake (a compromise) and headed home for dinner with Seans parents. Very very busy day, but Mae loved it and knew it was a special day just for her.

I don't know how many of you remember how she cried and cried last year at the Birthday Candle. Well this year was the opposite, she blew out the candles at least 5 times. She even sang herself a little happy birthday song before she blew them out one of the times. I was really bad at taking pictures this year (I got a lot of video), but we got pics of her candle blowing.

Mae really had fun with all her gifts this year. She really only gets toys around this time of year so I think it makes it more special for her. She keeps going into her room and saying "toys mama toys."

Greenbluff Fall 2009

We finally made it up to Greenbluff this fall. Our schedule was so crazy it was hard to find a time. We managed to find an hour on Sunday to get up there. We had a few things on our list to do once we were up there.

1- Get Pumpkins

Sean and Mae were the master pumpkin pickers. Mae picked out the little ones for her, it was funny because she took her time and checked them all out like Sean did. The pics show both of their processes in finding a great pumpkin.

Just looking at them, deciding which is best.

Nope not that one, try again.
She finally found one. It had to have a stem.
Seans turn now. This one looks good. Checking all sides. Yup this one works great. It was the one we ended up buying.

2- Take Annual Pictures

They have these every year, so therefore we have to take pictures of us in them every year. We got one of all of us this year it was pretty funny.

Daddy-O, Mae was cracking up when Sean was poking his head out.

Mommasitas turn.

Mae was saying "cheese" like a champ.

We also plan on taking her picture by this height chart every year. It gonna be fun to watch her growth this way. We were having a hard time getting her to stand still for the picture.
Finally we discovered that if I held her hands she would pose for a minute.

3- Ride Ponys

Mae loves to talk about horses, but when she gets up close to them she wants nothing to do with them. We tried to get her to ride on the wagon pulled by the big horses and she wouldn't do it. Then we talked about riding the ponies, at first she wanted nothing to with them. But then somehow we convinced her to give them a shot. She had so much fun! Laughing and talking the whole time, she kept talking about the "cow" horsey (it was black and white). After we finally got her on the pony it was hard to get her off. We decided that was an ok thing, she faced her horse fear and won.
One last final picture of Mae and I after her pony ride!

Happy Greenbluff Day!

Boy In The Belly!!!!!!

Its official we are having a baby boy! His name is still to be determined, but at least we know what we are working with. I had my ultrasound yesterday morning bright and early at 7:30am. We rolled Mae out of bed and off we went to the appointment. She did really well sitting through it, with the aid of a sucker and Sesame podcast.

So our boy didn't mess around in showing off his goods. He let us know in the first few minutes he was a boy. The ultrasound tech was laughing that she could tell so fast. We are crazy excited to have one of each! Now the pressure is off on what the 3rd one will be, doesn't matter since we already have both.

The classic profile shot. I always think their button noses are so cute in these pics.
Then we got some of the 4D pictures. The tech was waiting on him moving so she could get some of the other angles she needed. They are pretty crazy, and kinda freak me out, yet really cool all at the same time. I think this one of his legs are so cool.

This one makes me kinda nervous with the umbilical cord like that. But the tech wasn't worried about it. Its so cool to see his face though.

Then this one he was bent in half. You can see his head and his feet. It was so fun watching him, at one point we were talking about his fingers and he pulled his hand away really quick, it was pretty funny. I do think he is going to be more mellow then Mae after watching him, and how much more mellow his movements are in my belly.

Mae Around The House

Mae has been getting very helpful around the house. She wants a hand in everything either Sean or I am doing. The other day I was doing the dishes and she wanted to help. So in the sink she went helping me rinse the dishes.

I really needed her help as you can tell, Sean and I had let the dishes pile up for a few days.
Another thing that Mae loves are her dresses. She wears one every day no matter what the weather. Luckily she lets me layer long sleeves and jeans under her dresses when we leave the house. She also loves my shoes, doesn't matter what kind either, flats, heels, boots, etc..... Luckily she doesn't want to leave the house in those yet. When she does though it will be quite the melt down when we don't let her. This picture crack me up though it reminds me of a Secretary or something.

She has also really been getting into her baby doll. Getting ready to be a big sister. The funny part is when she is doing something with the baby then wants it done to her. Good thing we had a blanket to wrap her up in.

Apple Cider

Well I finally made it to Mom and Dads house to help with the Apple Cider Pressing. In all the years I have been stealing Apple Cider from their freezer, I have never helped. This year I finally made it down. Just Mae and I were able to make it since Sean has Cross Country in the fall.

Since Michael is no longer at home for me to wake up in the mornings I have focused my attention on others who are sleeping in. Poor Mae was the winner that weekend. I got aid from Clara to wake her up. It was really cute, she was very gentle petting her back until she woke up.

On to the Cider pressing. It was really hard work and we did not have the strongest workers on hand. Both Mom and Misty stole my line (jerks), but the jest of it is lots of women (either prego or nursing) and kids = not super efficient. Luckily Matt showed up later and really got the ball rolling. I made sure April got a picture of me working so there was proof that I was really there.

Mae and Clara remind me of 2 little old ladies supervising and gossiping.

This was Maes favorite thing to do, eat the foam from the pressing. I don't know if she even drank any juice, she did eat her weight in foam though.

4 Month Baby In The Belly Appointment

This morning Mae and I headed to my 4 month check up. It went really well. I'm not gaining to much weight, I'm actually gaining less then I did with Mae. Don't really know why though I'm eating just as much, but I am chasing a 2 year old around. I'm assuming I have good blood pressure, they never say anything about it when they take it. No news is good news. They took the heartbeat and it was at 154 this time so its pretty steady. I was able to record it again and email it to Sean since he was a work. I also like to record it so Mae and I can listen to it whenever we want. Mae was a champ during the appointment she sucks on her sucker that I bring for her and watches Sesame Street, while sitting in her stroller. Its really nice. Now to the best part of the appointment I got to schedule my ultrasound appointment for the 23rd of October!!! I cant wait its just over 2 1/2 weeks away. So lets hope this baby spreads its legs for us then :)

Mae Keeps Us Busy

Mae is insane! In a good way for sure, the girl never stops moving unless she is sleeping. Even when we have cartoons on in the morning she is all over the place. In order to even get her to eat a little we have to strap her down in her high chair, otherwise she has to much going on to eat. Mae has started to help pick out her outfits lately, its pretty funny Ill come out with something for her and she will say no mama dress, or whatever else she may want. In fact just now Sean was trying to get her running shoes on so they could go outside, she threw a fit until she picked out what shoes she wanted to wear. The end result were high top converse, pink shorts, white tank, grey hoodie with pink polka dots. I would say girly punk rock is the look she was going for tonight :)

Mae loves names. She like to learn everyones names and then always call them by their name when she sees them. Its really cool. She even pronounces them well, today we were looking at the family calender and I said "hey its Jess", "no mama, Jessica " was her reply. Everyone is hers also. My Papa Mac, my Jovie, my Ari, my Emmet..........you get the picture.

This is what I walked in on the other morning and I had to take a picture, it just melts my heart when they are sleeping together.

3 Months Pregnant With Baby 2

I know I'm 4 months along now, but I have to post the 3 month belly pictures. When I was pregnant with Mae we did pictures every month and it was exhausting. Thinking up the different outfit changes, posses, and locations. I wanted cool progression pictures this pregnancy too, just not that many. I came up with 3, 6, 9 pictures.

Here is the first round taken in mine and Seans bedroom. Mae of course had to get in on them too.

Family Pictures 2009

Sean and I were on top of things this year and had Misty do our family pictures early. We get so busy with x-country season, and Misty has lots of photo shoots in the Fall. We did the pictures in early September, it was so nice out that Mae and I got to wear cute dresses. Its hard to find places in town that we haven't taken our pictures yet, but Misty suggested S. Perry St. it has a lot of character for such a small community.

The screen behind us is the screen that they show outdoor movies on in the summer time.

Showing us one of her many owies on her knees.
I always love these walking pictures.

The cute little coffee shop called "The Shop". I was so glad that our pictures turned out great because Misty kept saying things like "stop fake smiling", and Mae was in a mood. So when she posted the preview pictures on facebook I was pleasantly surprised.

One Last Lake Trip

We got to got to go to the lake one more time this summer. It was awesome we headed out to Lake Roosevelt, it was 90 and sunny not a cloud in the sky.

I love this picture of Sean and Mae, they both have the same look on their face.

Mae was all about her shades finally. We have been trying to get her to wear them all summer. I'm just glad she finally figured it out.
Whats this? Oh its the Baby in my tummy :)
Chillin on the boat, wrapped up in a towel.

Awe Snap get of the lake people Mae is driving the boat. I cant believe that Sean actually let her take the wheel totally on her own a few times. She had a blast and she was really proud of herself.