STILL pregnant.

You may have noticed that my pregnancy ticker on the side bar of the blog says I have "3 days to go"... that's really how many days I'm overdue. Either that or it's psychic and I will have the baby in 3 days, but that's just depressing, and their predictions will just keep getting longer!!!

Anyways, here are some pics Jason took of the kids playing outside this week...

Claire loves driving this little car, but she really only ever goes backwards in it :)
She fits into Josh's Thomas helmet now and wants to wear it whenever he has his on!

Awww this is sad... he must have just fallen off his bike.
Jason kissed his owie better, but took a picture first :)

Here is Claire with her diaper wipe :) She does this when she's tired!

All is well.... Josh gives Jason the thumbs up!

Party time!

We threw Claire a little birthday party the saturday after she turned 2. It was pretty low key, and turned out really fun!

We ate lots of junk and let the kids run around for a couple of hours. It was great :)

Since Claire loves ladybugs so much I made some ladybug cupcakes for her.
The head is a junior mint, and the polka dots are upside-down chocolate chips.


She was really shy when everyone sang to her at her party, but not when we sang with just our family at home on her birthday.



We also had a little "game" where the kids simply picked black polka dots and took turns decorating a big paper ladybug.


Claire was given her first pair of real ballet slippers from her friend Scarlett!

She loved the ponies, dress up clothes, paints, and pretty sweater.


(Mom especially loved the paint set that only paints on certain paper.... to save our walls! Thanks Tara!)

Thank you every one for coming and for the wonderful gifts!

Happy 2nd Birthday Claire!

Claire is 2!!!

On September 10th our little girl turned 2 years old.
Can't believe how fast those 2 years have gone!

We celebrated the day by taking her to the petting zoo at Domino's farms with our good friends, Abrea Adams and her 3 kids.

Abrea's daughter Danny lent Claire her tinkerbell costume to wear for the day because Claire loves Tinkerbell!

Later that night we had cupcakes at home with our family.


Claire opened a few presents.... she loved her ladybug luggage!

Some of claire's favorite things right now are Charlie Brown (she'll sing the theme song all the time!), ladybugs, Tinkerbell, winnie the pooh, rain boots, bead socks, animals, firetrucks, airplanes, and coloring. She likes to take a stack of post-it notes and peel them all off, then take a "pencil" which is anything to write with, and draw all over them. Last week she took a magnetic note pad I had just bought to stick on the fridge and drew on every page, then brought it to me and said "look mama, a book!"

She is always drawing "kitties" and will point out details like their ears and whiskers in her drawings. She really has a clear artistic side to her. She has drawn and painted on our walls, floors, couch, doors, cabinetry, and even some toys and furniture. Oy. And of course, herself! When Claire hears a beat or music of some kind she can't help herself and will stamp her feet to the rhythm. She also can carry a tune beautifully!

Claire has a girly side and a tom-boy side... she loves to dress up and put on chapstick and ribbons. She loves to take care of her baby dollies and animals, but she also loves to play with pirates and racecars. She has a very active imagination already and will turn inanimate objects into people and animals and make them talk to each other.... usually with a deep gruff voice that cracks us up.
She loves to eat oranges and will devour several before anyone else in the family has a chance to take a slice off the plate!
Claire's vocabulary of words is too large to count now! She speaks in complete sentences and will tell us in no uncertain terms what her opinion is.
She is still a very cuddly little girl, and still sucks her 2 fingers on her left hand. She also will carry around a diaper wipe and cuddle with it... she will not fall asleep without a fresh diaper wipe in her hand, and her little Tucker kitty.

She loves her big brother. He is her best friend!
She was pretty upset and worried when we left Josh at preschool on his first day back!

Josh made this picture at preschool to give to Claire on her birthday.

They play well together most of the time, and he really looks out for her. She's excited for baby Wyatt to come so she can be a big sister, although we're not quite sure she really understands the concept! She seems to get it though.

Happy Birthday to our little Claire bear!!! We love you :)

Labor day (not mine!) and Josh's first day of preschool!

Well, tomorrow is my due date, so I figured I'd better hurry up and blog some of the exciting events that have happened in the last couple of weeks before the next exciting event happens!

Josh started his 2nd year of preschool and he is loving it!
Here are some pictures from his first day at school.



Last fall Jason and I started building this flagstone path in our front yard, but an early frost put our efforts on hold until the spring. Here is it, fall again, and we are still working on it. But we are almost done!!! Since I'm 9 months prego I'm pretty useless when it comes to construction and landscaping projects. Jason is hoping to get it all done before winter hits again!! We're so close, and it is beautiful! I'll post pics when it's done.

Here are a couple of pictures of the kids "helping" Jason with our front path...


They started out playing in the sand with their trucks and trains, and ended up building sand castles :)

These pictures were taken on Labor day, so we hadn't given Josh his back-to-school haircut yet.
His before and after hair styles are hard to miss!

I kinda miss his shaggy look though :)


My kids love to catch bugs.... Josh had caught a butterfly (I think it was really a moth...shhhhh) and was very excited!


Claire is always looking for a ladybug.
At night when the fireflies come out the kids will run out into the grass to try and catch one.

Claire will set out in search of ladybugs... yes, at night, in the dark.
The girl is determined.


Bless her heart, she really wants to catch one!!