There are so many things to be excited for this month!
I am really excited, because I'm actually keeping my word in keeping current with this blog!! But more than that, we're having another baby!!!
The baby is apx 8 weeks old, and everything looks good so far.
As for the rest of the family, we are doing well. I'm a bit sick from the surging hormones of being pregnant, but other than the typical prego-symptoms, I'm okay :)
We are trying to have Elise talk to the baby and give kisses. She is such an affectionate baby, always blowing kisses, running up to hug us or kiss us. Her signing vocabulary continues to increase (which means Brian's and my vocabulary is increasing as well) and she is able to communicate so well. I've said before she loves to go outside and used to be very persistent, signing 'shoes, outside. shoes, outside' over and over until I would finally take her out. Now she signs 'outside, birds' over and over. Unfortunately, birds are hard to find in the neighborhood. There aren't enough trees for them, so the place for finding birds is in a parking lot at Target or Wal-Mart. She loves to go out and see the birds in parking lots.
Elise is also showing her nurturing side more and more with her baby doll. She often tries to have the baby fold her arms for prayers. She also tries to feed the baby with whatever snack or drink I've given her. She will be a wonderful big sister. She is a helpful baby, very curious as to what I'm doing in the kitchen, and will sign help often. The other day, I had a craving for pancakes, so I started to make pancakes and she wanted to help. I gave her chocolate chips to drop onto the pancakes. When she was finished with the handful I gave her, she signed more...so there were a LOT of chocolate chips in the pancakes. I was excited to have her give some to Brian. I did my taste test, and realized that my pregnant absentmindedness caused me to accidentally put baking soda in the recipe instead of baking powder. So, we never gave the pancakes to Brian, instead, Elise helped me turn on the garbage disposal to destroy my botched up batch of chocolate chip pancakes.
Brian is using his green thumb to beautify our yard. He's been working almost every day this week planting and moving plants in the front yard. It's beautiful!
Halloween is tomorrow and out theme this year is 1950's. Brian will be a greaser, and Elise and I have poodle skirts we will wear. I made them this year, to try and save some money. Elise found the only thing I could not sew on the skirt and ripped it off...the jewel in the dog collar! She seems to like her skirt. Kea and I took Eden and Elise to have their pictures taken in costume. I'll post the pictures when we get them back from the studio mid November.
It is a joy to have Elise and Brian in my life and I am so grateful for them and the opportunity to add another little bundle to our package :)
