I'm in Love........

To Set it Straight

OK, for the 4-5 people that have asked, no, we did not really name our children 'Peanut' and 'Babykens' (or as we like to call her now, Monkey) These are nicknames, we just don't want to publish their real names on the internet, that's just us. We use our names mainly because we don't really care about us. If you want to know any 'real' information, excluding copies of our girls' birth certificates, shoot us an e-mail! :)

As an update, Ang and Monkey are doing well, and Peanut is still adjusting very well to having a baby sister. Brad is almost done with his summer semester final exams, and is looking forward to 5 weeks off to help out around the house.

Some more pics of Babykens

Here's some more pics. Mommy and Babykens were able to come home yesterday on the 4th, they both are doing very well. We shot off some fireworks in Babykens honor! (She's gonna get that her whole life now, how everyone celebrates her birthday with fireworks!) The delivery went very smoothly, and we're doing great! Thanks to Oma for coming up to help us out!
By the way, Babykens was 6lbs. 8 oz, and 18 1/4 inches.

Babykens has arrived!!!!

We're excited to announce the arrival of the newest member of our family, Babykens! All I have time for is to post some pics, more details to come. Baby and mommy are both doing fine (and so is daddy and Peanut!)


I can't believe I'm back to changing diapers! Ugh! :) More to come...

A Quick Little Trip to Seattle...............

We decided to take a quick little trip up to Seattle a couple of weeks ago. We checked into our hotel and then immediately took off walking around the city. We walked to Pike's Market, the Space Needle, to the Outback, and then we took the street car to the hotel. Luckily, we had the bike trailer, so Peanut stayed dry from the rain, and we didn't have to hold her when she got tired!
The next day, we went to the aquarium and had fun seeing the animals and walking around.
This is me at almost 31 weeks. I told Brad to stick me in the aquarium and I could be the live orca exhibit!
Peanut got to touch the starfish and the other creatures in here!
Then, she got to get her face painted! She loved having a whale on her face!

What we've been up to.....................

We decided to have a picnic up at Council Crest Park. We got there, laid our picnic blanket down, and looked up and this was our view from where we were sitting:
Mt Hood
Mt St Helens
Peanut loved playing in the grass. She also loved picking the flowers in the grass. She would blow on them and then tell us that she was "making wind"!

Brad's parents and sister were in town for a week and we had lot's of fun playing! We went to Silver Falls and had a picnic lunch before we hiked down to the waterfall. It was a little cold while we were there! I was warmer in February when we went than this time around!
We went to Cannon Beach and had lots of fun playing in the sand and flying kites and finding seashells! I love sitting on the beach and hearing the ocean. It is so relaxing!
Brad had his white coat ceremony and is now officially able to see patients in clinic! I am so proud of him and all of his hard work these past two years. It's exciting to see how far he has come! We love you and keep up the good work! Only two more years to go!

Updates.........

• Brad is officially done with school for a week! Yea! He has to do summer school, but at least he is a THIRD YEAR and gets to go into the clinic!

• Peanut is POTTY TRAINED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got her a doll that can "swim" and she had to earn it by going potty. Every time she went she got a sticker on the box and after about 2 weeks, she finally got her doll! She has been dry for almost a month!
• The rain won't stop! It is May and it is still raining. It hailed 2 days ago. There is something wrong with that!
  
• I am in my THIRD Trimester! 3 months to go! I can't wait!
  
• We took Peanut bowling last night for the second time in her life. The first time, we didn't take pictures, so I had to make up for it last night. Here are a couple of my favorites: