Number Two!

We are excited to announce that we are expecting Baby #2 on June 3, 2010! Yay! :)

P.S. Here is how we told our families, around the table at Thanksgiving dinner. We just took off Leah's sweater, and waited to see who would notice her new shirt!

Eat it, duckies!

The other weekend, some friends of ours took us to the Arboretum here in Seattle. It was very pretty there, and they have a duck pond :) We brought a lot of old bread and Leah had lots of fun feeding them. When we ran out of bread, Leah started picking up handfuls of gravel and tossing it in front of the ducks (she couldn't quite throw it far enough to hit the ducks, thankfully). "Eat it, duckies!"

Here is a really cute picture that our friend took (thanks again, Emily!):

Ferry!

Last Saturday, we went exploring! We drove over to Bremerton and caught a ferry across Puget Sound back to Seattle! It was really fun, and a great way to see a lot of sights!

Our cute girl

Leah loves to wear her "big jacket".


She even likes to put it on herself!


And this is just a cute Leah in a cute dress :)

Nursery Battle Scar

This (see arm) happened sometime during nursery this past Sunday. Both Matthew and I were in with her the whole time, and neither of us heard any shouts or hollers, so it's still somewhat of a mystery... Though it is quite cute when she says "kiss owie" and kisses her own owie :)

"Leah Stories"

Whenever I talk to my mom on the phone, she asks me to tell her a "Leah Story". Of course, I can never think of the really good ones right there on the spot! So, this is for my mom, and anyone else who wants to hear a good story (or five or ten) about Leah... because I've got a few saved up: (WARNING: Leah is really cute, so this is going to be long.)

• Leah found her daddy's contact case the other day and immediately said "Wash chin!" Then she rubbed it across her chin, my chin, and Matt's chin. (Since then, she likes to help "wash" just about anything... with her hand, paper, a towel, or whatever she has nearby.)
• Whenever she sees a picture of a temple, she says "Temple, oh goodness!"
• When I go to change Leah's diaper first thing in the morning, she has started saying "Oh, man!" My best guess as to where this came from is me saying "Oh, man!" if there is a leak (which is not that often, really) or if her diaper is messy. Oops!
• Leah loves to point out if something is big or little. She will use her big voice or little voice accordingly. For example, a little cow says "moo!" really high, and a big cow says "MOOOOOO!" really deep.
• When she's happy, she will say "Woo-hoo!"
• If you say "Row row row your", Leah will say "boat, mewwy mewwy mewwy" (for merrily... etc.). If you say "If you're happy and you know it", she will say "clap hands" and clap her hands.
• When I am brushing my hair, sometimes Leah will say "Pretty Mommy!" :)
• When I get out a cookbook, or set the timer in the kitchen, Leah will say "Twenty minutes!" (This goes back to one time when I was looking at a recipe and said "Okay, Leah, it needs to cook for twenty minutes.")
• Leah likes to run up to me and say "Boo!" Then she asks me, "Boo Daddy?" I say "Okay" and she runs up to Daddy and says "Boo!"
• Leah also likes to tell me what color I am wearing: "Blue Mommy" or "Green Mommy" or whatever.
• Just now, Leah sneezed and I said "Bless you!" She then proceeded to say "Bless you, Mommy" to me (I fake-sneezed for her and she thought that was pretty fun) and "Bless you, duck" to the stuffed animal duck that was nearby.
• The other day, our box fan was down on its side and Leah said "Oh no fan. Boo boo fan. Up-daisies fan!"
• I was laying down yesterday and Leah approached me and said "Wrong, Mommy?" like she was asking me what's wrong!
• One more (for now): Last night, she tripped a little and fell on a couple of her toy cars. Immediately she pulled them out from under her and said, "Sorry, fire big truck. Sorry, taxi." :)
• Nope, she just did one more. She dropped a small ball behind our TV stand, which is slightly inaccessible to a toddler. She said, "Mommy, ball!" but I didn't really know what she wanted. I looked up to see her grab her penguin toy, drag it over to the TV stand, and say, "Penguin, get it, help!"