Last Week

Creative title for this post, I know. Forgive me. 

I have hit a wall and I'm trying to regain my energy as I sit here eating my Eggel Bagel. 

Never had an Eggel Bagel? Shame on you. 

Eggs and cheese on a bagel. Delicious.

Anyway, due to my lack of witty flowing juices, I shall just post some pictures for all to enjoy.

(Aren't these boxes amazing? 

Scott made them for Yale and Alyse. 

And his sister made those quilts on top.)

And here are some more pictures from when we were with Lish's dad and stepmom. 

Since they hadn't met their grandchildren yet, we decided it would be fun to surpise them at the airport. 

And surprise them we did. 

We also took Yale and Alyse on their first swmming adventure. 

And an adventure it was. 

Good times!

 

Babies are Blessings...

...so we give blessings to babies. Before we moved, and way before (as in a couple months before) the babies were even born, Lish's sister and her husband and me and Lish all decided that we should bless our babies on the same day. Even though we moved, we went ahead with our plans. We thought having the blessings over President's Day weekend would be best because Brandon's family could fly out and we'd have that long weekend to spend time together with all the fam. And it was such a great weekend, which was actually a full week for me and Yale and most of the week for Lish. Yay for us!

Here are some pictures from the day of the blessings. Coming up will be a bunch of other pictures from the week, including several from Mitch and Bev's visit to us. That's right. Lish's dad and stepmom came out to meet both of the grandbabies for the first time. And the little ones are Mitch and Bev's first grandkids. Yay!

Anyway, here are those delightful pictures.

See? Delightful, right? (That white and green blanket, by the way, was made by Yale's Great Great Great Grandmother. Isn't that awesome? I thought so too.)

Two Months and Such

I'm playing a little game of catch up...again. I seem to do this quite often, but at least that means I'm probably being productive with the rest of my life. Right? Yeah, we'll use that excuse...

First:

Yale went in for his 2 month check up last Thursday. I can't believe he's already 2 months old! He's not a newbie anymore. And he's a Lil' Chubbo. Yes, that nickname still works well for him. He measured at 23 inches long (50th percentile), his head was in the 60th percentile, and his weight? 13 lb, 3 1/2 oz. (90th percentile). So, we know he's eating well, gaining 5 pounds already and all. We love our little chunky man cub! He's getting much stronger and he's awake more during the day. I enjoy his awake time. It's fun to play with him. He's generally a pretty good sleeper too. Except for last night. And the night before. I think he's still getting over the shock that his mom would let some stranger poke him with a big needle, not once, but twice. Yes, I'm a mean mom, letting someone do that to him.

Second:

Boo to the Steelers not winning the Superbowl. I'm not a huge Steelers fan, but Lish is, and I'm a huge Lish fan, so I support the Steelers. We had some prop bets going, and I did not bet well. I got 10 points for guessing that the color of the Gatorade that would be dumped was orange, and getting that one right doubled my points. Yeah...
But Lish won with double what I had. How's that for a math problem for ya?  
(Spoiler: He had 40 points.)

Third:

Being at home and such gives me time to think about stuff I haven't thought much about. This has led to many random thoughts and questions. I'll work on this as a post for some time later, because really, the things I think are pretty intriguing. You wouldn't be reading this post otherwise.

Fourth:

I'm not sure how many of you got the chance to watch the documentary on Brooke Wilberger they did on Dateline this past Friday, but her story took up the full two hours of the show. We sat down to watch it and didn't expect it to be that long. They did a good job with it though. I was happy to have known her and to have had her in my life. She was amazing and her family continues to be such a great example to me of never giving up hope and being able to forgive. Her family is so wonderful.

Fifth and Last:

Lish has been working like crazy on his dissertation. He's in the final home stretch. You know, the one where you can barely see the light at the end of the tunnel but you're racing to get there so the light gets brighter and bigger every day? Then you have to take some steps back to fix some stuff, but then when it's fixed you're running even faster? Yeah, that final home stretch. He has been working so hard and has been so diligent. I'm really proud of all the things he's accomplished.

Well, that's about it for now. Someday I'll be good about blogging again...someday.

Happy Little Stinker

I can't really call him a stinker actually, because he's not. He's awesome. And can I just brag for a sec and say that last night he slept better than ever? We put him in bed at 11:15 or so last night, and he didn't wake up until 7:30 this morning. I was awake at 5 and couldn't go back to sleep. Lucky guy got better sleep than I did! And than his dad did. Maybe that's why I have in my head that he's a stinker...

Anyway, I wanted to share these amazing pictures of our Lil' Chubbo. Yes, in case I haven't used that nickname on here yet, that is his nickname, because he is a little chubbo. We go in for his 2 month appointment on Thursday, and we can find out just how chubby he's gotten.

Look at this cuteness. Doesn't it make you melt? Me too. Every. Time.

The middle one just steals your heart, doesn't it?

Home Sweet Home

I've spent a lot of time these past few days cleaning so I had to take pictures afterward. 

Proof that this place was clean once upon a time:

And now just some cuteness:

First Day of School

Lish's first day of his new career was today, his first day of school as an offical professor! I am so proud of him! Of course I had to do the classic first day of school picture, even though this time around he isn't the student.

And today was my first official stay-at-home-mom day. I say that because Lish wasn't working full-time before and since Yale came along, he has only had to leave to go to work twice. And it was lovely. I love this little guy. Here are some pictures from when I was playing with him today and then from the walk we went on. It was really more for me, because he just slept the whole time. But how cute and chunky is he?! Seriously. Makes my heart melt!

 

So this all means that we have moved and are finally settling into our new place! We love it here. We really enjoy our condo and the area it's in. Plus, we live close to some of my extended family, and we have other family that stays here quite often so we will get to see them often. I think this place will really work out nicely.

PS. Yale giggled for the first time this morning. He started shaking and making a weird noise and it scared me before I realized what it was. And then I about died from an overdose of cuteness.