So another fun thing about Reena’s wedding is that Emily was in town! She brought her 6 month old, Sadie, to play with Hayden and me one day. It was so fun. I think they were pretty smitten with each other. 🙂 And I don’t know why this happens, but it seems like whenever Emily and I are taking a photo together with our babies, we happen to be holding the other’s baby!
Two new babies have arrived in our world!
Sadie Mayhill Shoop was born on Feb 8 to Emily and Carter. Emily told me she was pregnant at my baby shower, so it is amazing to me that the time has already come for her baby to be born!
Alexander Michael Lowne was born Feb 12 to Marianne and Jon. He shares my mom’s birthday (and Abraham Lincoln). They had their first baby – Bella – a couple of days before I moved from England back to the US, and that doesn’t seem like that long ago (although we are coming up to 2 years this summer already) since I was blubbering over the birth of their firstborn! I haven’t even seen any pics of Alexander yet, so I get the feeling that 2 is really more than twice the work. 😉
Boy did I have a wonderful Thanksgiving! I actually got four Thanksgivings. That’s not bad for my first time! The Sunday before Thanksgiving one of Mommy and Daddy’s friends, Hollie, had some friends over for a Thanksgiving meal while watching the Colts game. (Speaking of which, what is going on with Adam Viniteri? When did he become such a lame-o kicker?) Then on Tuesday my day care had a Thanksgiving lunch and parents could come have lunch with their kids. Mommy and Daddy came to the lunch and they sat in the infant room with me and ate their meal. It was funny because they had to sit in these little kid chairs at a little kid table. So silly! Then Thursday was real Thanksgiving and we went to Grandpaman’s and Grandma G’s. Mommy’s cousin Mandy came to celebrate Thanksgiving with us. I love when she comes to visit because she has these fun nursery rhymes that she sings to me. She brought all these photos of Mommy’s and her grandparents when they were young adults. They had a great time looking through them all with Grandpaman and hearing stories about what my great grandparents were like. It turns out my mommy looks a lot like my great grandma! Mandy gave Mommy a beautiful picture of Great Grandma Harfst that she is going to scan in and put on this site soon so you can be the judge. Daddy thinks Great Grandma Harfst was a hottie!
So back to all my Thanksgivings… Friday we went to Grandma and Grandpa Hammond’s for my final Thanksgiving. I got to see my cousins Jesse and Robby and my aunts and uncles. I had a lot of fun. It won’t be long before I am causing all kinds of trouble with my big cousins!
Mommy’s friend Emily is in town from San Francisco, so last Monday she and Daddy went out to dinner with her, Reena, Sunil, Tom, and Tracy. I stayed home and Grandpaman and Grandma G came over. Mommy put me to sleep before she left, and I stayed asleep for about 45 minutes. Then I woke up and it was time to PARTY! Oh, they tried everything to get me to go back to sleep, but I laughed at their feeble attempts. They thought I was going to sleep when I had my grandparents over?! That is far to exciting for sleep! We hung out; I made sure they didn’t steal anything. It was the best!
This weekend we put up the Christmas tree and decorations. I love looking at the twinkly lights on the Christmas tree. Mommy says I have to be really good so Santa brings me lots of presents. I said to her, ‘Mommy, haven’t you been paying attention? I’ve been the best baby for nearly 4 months now!’ Sheesh — what is she like! 😛
John was away in San Francisco for a conference last week, from Sun – Fri. I don’t know why I do it to myself, but for some reason when he’s gone I watch this show Criminal Minds which is a drama about FBI profilers who work on these murder cases. John doesn’t really like the show so I save them to watch when he is not around. And then I turn off the TV and the episodes creep into my consciousness and make me paranoid. You would think I would learn to watch nice things like Sesame Street. You always feel good after watching Sesame Street.
We got on ok while John was gone, but of course the week was not without drama. On Tuesday when I went to Hayden’s daycare to feed him he started screaming at the top of his lungs for quite a while and didn’t really eat much. I figured he must not have been well because that is not like him, especially when it is me holding him. They called me in the afternoon and said he had a little temperature, so I picked him up early and talked to a nurse at his dr who thought he might have had an ear ache. He had a good night that night and was well enough (although not completely back to normal) the next day to go back to day care. He has been fine since.
Lucy threw up two different times while John was gone. She would be off doing her own thing elsewhere in the house, then run into the family room where I was and throw up three times. Thing is, she had alllllll this tile she could have thrown up on her way to the family room, but she had to get into the carpeted area where I was so I could 1) be there to witness the act and 2) get to clean it up off of the carpet instead of the easy tile. She is so thoughtful! 😉
Today was Emily’s baby shower. She is in town for Thanksgiving. It was a lovely day! I cannot believe she is already 30 weeks and due in two short months. She told me she was pregnant the day of my baby shower, and she was only 8 weeks then! Where does the time go? I took Hayden and everyone thought he looked just like me. Yessss! In your face, John! 😛
Random: Have you seen The Illusionist? It’s a movie that is out on dvd now. We watched it last weekend and it is fantastic. See it. Do it.
Hayden and Layla's Place 