So Much For Tummy Time

So they say your supposed to have tummy time with your baby to strengthen them. Let's just say Liam is not gonna be early at holding his head up... :) Get's him every time.

A Little Jealousy?

So apparently Macy really enjoys the boppy too. She is always on this thing and it makes me so mad. I am thinking that we are going to throw away her doggy bed and buy her a matching boppy. And we thought Jaiden was the one that was going to be jealous of the baby but Macy has been something else since we brought him home. She is actually really good with him but she is a nervous nelly if she doesnt know where he is at.

Liam Reeve Root

I am finally getting around to posting that Liam has finally arrived. He was born March 27, at 4:47 p.m. He weighed 8lbs 8ozs and 21 1/2 inches long. Jaiden is really enjoying having a little brother. She loves feeding him and tonight changed his diaper for the first time by herself. At first I thought I was crazy starting the whole baby thing over again after 6 years but now that he is here and Jaiden loves helping it is kind of nice having her old enough to be able to help out. Here he is minutes after he was born.


His face was a little bruised when he came out but now he is perfect in every way. He is a wonderful baby. Here he is saying good morning yesterday. He was having a hard time waking up :) Still yawning.


I am hoping that I will be updating this blog a little better now that he is here. He has his 2 week checkup on Friday and I am anxious to see what he will weigh in at. He loves to eat!

Pedicure Anyone

Since I can no longer paint my toenails (without cutting off my breathing) I decided to let Jaiden give it a try. She didn't do too bad and she even made little puppy paw prints on my big toenails :) It seemed to take her a long time but she really enjoyed doing it. She called it Jaiden's pedicures.

3rd Times A Charm!

FINALLY! They are pierced... She has chickened out 2 other times and I just figured she would never get them done. Last weekend she wanted some stick on earrings so we went to wal-mart to try to find some. We couldn't find any and ended up getting nail stickers and were going to use them as earrings and I told her no one would know the difference. She threw a little fit and said they would fall off and not stick. I told her that all stick on earrings fall off the only way to have earrings stay on all the time is to get them pierced. Then she wanted a DS game and Eric told her that if she gets her ears pierced then he would buy her the game. She thought about it on the way to Evansville and when we got to the mall she said she was gonna do it. Yeah we heard that before... But when we went into Claire's she hopped right in the chair and put her hair behind her ears and was all smiles and ready to go. She picked her earrings and they marked her ears and she was good to go. At this point I think I was more nervous for her than she was. When they did it her eyes got as big as baseballs and she looked like she was going to cry but then at the same time realized that she did it and it was over so no tears were shed :) Then she says okay let's go get my game... All in all it was a great weekend!

A Little Update

Since it has been forever since I have blogged I thought I would give a little update. We found out in November that we are having a boy. We are all super excited for him to get here. Jaiden wasn't real excited at first about a brother but when I told her now she won't have to share her toys she perked right up and decided a brother wouldn't be too bad. I only have 7 1/2 more weeks left. This pregnancy has just flown by for me.

And finally, we sold our house in Iowa. We closed last Friday the 12th and being homeless has never felt better :) So now we are house hunting. We had a house found but it sold before we closed on our house. Looking is usually fun for us but since Eric is only home on weekends it is hard to get that into our schedule. And with the baby due in 7 1/2 weeks it is kind of stressing us out and we are afraid we are going to jump into something we don't really want just to get a house bought and moved into. Oh well eventually we will find something.

Other than that not much else is going on. Eric is working in Kankakee throughout the week until the end of April so me and Jaiden are couch buddies every evening. Good thing American Idol is on twice a week :) I am really going to try to keep this blog updated a little better. I have really been slacking but when you spend the days at work and the evening vegged on the couch not too much happens... :)

Where Has The Time Gone?

So I have really been a slacker when it comes to blogging since we moved back to IL. It seems like we are always on the go. Jaiden started Kindergarten this year and she loves it! Jaiden was getting up all on her own and in a great mood every morning. She was upset the first few weekends we had because she didnt get to go to school. My dad kind of joked and said "do you think this will last for the next 13 years?" Let's just say now it is hard to get her up in the mornings but she still loves school once she gets up and going.




Our house in Iowa still hasn't sold and it is really getting old paying for a house that you don't even live in. We are so ready for it to sell.



Most of you probably already know, but we found out that we are expecting and due April 12th.


I know it is a little late at posting this but I have not had energy to do anything. As soon as we get home from running, I just want to go to sleep. Here is a picture of the little one.

Jaiden is so excited to be a big sister. She doesnt care if she gets a brother or a sister just as long as she gets to pick out the baby clothes to buy. She is a shopaholic!

Hopefully, I will be able to keep this blog going again. I really do enjoy posting and sharing with everyone :)