29 weeks

Yesterday I "turned" 29 weeks! We had a doctor's appointment on Wednesday, and everything looks perfect. She could even tell that Baby's head is down, so hopefully he settles in and stays that way! Everything measures just right for Baby and for me. I got to drink the fabulous glucose drink (which is sort of like drinking 3 cans of orange pop, condensed into one cup of sugary syrup). I'm just glad they don't have to do a salt tolerance test ;)

Anyway, here is a picture of me and my tummy at 29 weeks... I even smiled!

March Madness

Hooray for BYU! Made it to the second round!!

Watching the BYU/Florida game, I tried to get Leah to say "Go BYU!". She would look at the TV and say, "No BYU! Go Jazz, go team!" Guess she's not that in to collegiate sports ;)

Also, Villanova better not have any more close calls like that... they can't lose until the championship game!

Animal Crackers

A conversation overheard between Leah and her animal cracker:

Leah: "How are you?"
Animal Cracker: "..."
Leah: "Good!"



Animal Cracker: "..."
Leah: "Okay, bye bye!" Chomp.



Note: These pictures are reenactments.

Leah's Pretty Dress

Maybe I should rename this blog to "A Blog about Leah, and Sometimes Her Family". ;)

This is Leah's "pitty dess" that she got as a Christmas gift. Lately, whenever she wears it, she has to run in to her room and put on her Sunday shoes! Then she likes to tell me all about how pretty and cute she is :)

Anyway, it is hard to get really nice pictures of Leah mid-play, but she makes them pretty cute anyway (at least I think so!).

Park #1

A trip to View Ridge Park.

Learning that we are about to go to the park ("I love park!"):


Picking flowers on the way to the park (and developing yellow noses):


Trying to share flowers with the birdies on the way to the park ("Here go birdies! For you!"):


Playing on the little kid playground:


Going down the little kid slide over and over ("boo side"):


Taking a quick break:


Playing on the swing ("wing"):


Discovering the very big kid slide (and making mommy a little nervous!):


Playing in the tunnel, and looking darn cute while doing so:


I think we'll head there again right now :)

Park #2

A trip to Magnuson Park.

Throwing rocks in the water:




Picking flowers:


And just a couple of pretty views at the park:

Smart girl

Leah surprises me every day with something new she knows. Usually with something that we never taught her, and we have a hard time figuring out where some of it comes from! Here is a cute little video of her. I admit, we taught her the first two questions, but she came up with noticing people's eye color all on her own.

Camera Fun

Leah and I had some fun with the camera the other day!

A few of the many faces of Leah:


Mom trying to set a good example of smiling for the camera:

Lately

So, we have been really busy lately! Matthew is in the middle of midterms and research, and I am trying to juggle work and motherhood and pregnancy. But we have had some good times in the middle of everything! In January, Matt's brother Adam and our soon-to-be sister-in-law Kylie came to visit! (See ferry picture below.) They were our first official visitors since we settled here in Seattle! Also, my parents came a couple of weeks ago! (See picture of Leah with the statue of Mr. Ivar below.) Then, we went to visit our parents this weekend! We got to help see Matt's brother Daniel off -- he is starting a mission to Brazil tomorrow!

Okay, here is a group of pictures to help catch you up :)

Video: Big and little animals

I realized I hadn't posted any videos of our little cutie lately, so here is one of my favorites from back in October.

Video: Leah's favorite song

Here is a video of how much Leah likes her song. This is from back in November. I guess she's mellowed out a little since then :)

Another "my girl is super cute" post :)

Okay, so I haven't posted any new pictures of Leah for a while, and there have been quite a few cute ones recently. Enjoy!


Comfortable #1 (note the legs)


Comfortable #2 (note the legs again)


"Leah, stay out of the Restricted Area..."


Shy face


And a whole bunch of cute hat pictures:

Leah's favorite song

We have a digital piano that Leah likes to play with once in a while. I'm sure she has figured out more of the features than I have! I was surprised once to hear her play back a recording of herself.

Anywho, Leah gets up on a chair and presses the button for the demo songs, then turns to me to tell me "it's coming". Demo Song #1, as it has hitherto been known, starts up and Leah dances and giggles and then stops it and restarts it again... and again. This might sound a little annoying, but Leah has very good taste in music, and even Matthew and I are big fans of Demo Song #1. I even attempted several internet searches for the real title, all unsuccessful. All I had to go on, after all, was the name of the piano and "demo songs", neither of which were any help.

Now, on Saturday, Matthew and I were watching figure skating on TV... slightly uncharacteristic of us, but still quite fun. My favorite by far was Sasha Cohen, not because of the skating, but because she skated to Demo Song #1! Finally, I had something to base my search on! Within five minutes, I found that Leah's favorite song is Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, third movement. Go ahead, look it up :)

Too bad Leah was asleep during the skating!

It's a ... BOY!

We had our ultrasound today and got to see our next little baby! This is his cute little profile :)

It was so amazing to see a new life growing and moving inside of me! This was a very special experience for us. We brought Leah with us so she could be a part of it too, and she can already say "baby brother"!

Children's Museum

Yesterday the three of us took a trip to the Seattle Children's Museum (thanks again, Bryce and Kathy!)! We had a great time, but of course, only took pictures of Leah! Here are a couple fun ones:




On the way back home, we stopped by the temple and took a nice little walk. Whenever Leah sees a picture of a temple, she says, "Oh goodness!", so it was fun to take her here and listen to her say, "Seattle Temple, oh goodness!"

Merry Christmas!

A few weeks before Christmas, our ward had a Christmas party. We brought a pumpkin roll, and this was all that was left of it at the end. Let's just say it was a good start to a month full of delicious food :)


Here is Leah by the Christmas tree.


I redeemed myself in a Farkle rematch!


We had two Christmases--one with each family! At this one, Leah loved to wear the bows and ribbons. At the other one, she couldn't get enough of dropping piles of wrapping paper on people's heads, particularly hers and mine (not pictured, unfortunately!).


Matthew's side of the family has a traditional fish dinner on Christmas Eve every year. This year, we brought a contribution of homemade sushi. Mmm!


The night we were planning on driving back up to Seattle, this little storm hit. The roads were not cooperating, so we stayed an extra night at my parent's house. Too bad we showed up too late to help with these snowmen that my brother and mom made!

Our "baby" is two!

Leah had her second birthday last week. Happy Birthday, Leah! We love you!

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!