our baby brother

it is fun getting ready for a new baby brother! meredith loves her books that show a big sister helping with the new baby and she is especially excited to talk about the umbilical chord falling off of the belly button (oh yeah she really does talk about this stuff already.) this week she was able to goto the baby appointment with me and hear the baby's heartbeat really loud.

our little doctor

visiting nana and papa in the hospital is one of meredith's favorite activites right now! she gets so excited to be able to play doctor/nurse with the stethescope especially! she gets very possessive of her 'tools' in papa's room. she tries to hide the little blood pressure cuff and stethescope when the nurse comes in because she doesn't want to share it. she is also fond of the 'real' telephone and being able to make nana and papa giggle with her singing and dancing and pretending!

two years old

we are the proud parents of a happy two year old!! we had fun celebrating meredith's birthday all week long! (that way we could have some cake with nana and papa and meredith got lots of practice singing happy birthday and blowing out her candles.)

our growing up girl will happily sing happy birthday and tell you that she is 'two months' old! she loved playing with her cousin jake especially at her birthday party. she just adored everything that jake does!! the two of them really were excited about the curious george themed party, but baby katie enjoyed the balloons the most :) we just cannot get over how alert she is and meredith gave her lots of attention tooo! awww!

last year meredith just devoured her cake with wild passion, and this year we expected no difference! to our suprise she carefully ate the icing off of her cake using her fork mostly and was really rather gentle! she still loved the cake, but i guess just not as much as the frosting. we had a homemade german chocolate cake with homemade frosting.

a cute moment from today... when she was singing twinkle twinkle little star and changed the verse to be 'twinkle twinkle little guitar' when she was playing with her homemade guitar! it is so cute to here her sing the whole song :)

thank you everyone for such a wonderful day and wonderful party fun with thoughtful presents tooo!

100 units

today papa got a special award..... his 100th transfused donation of blood! it is amazing to know that so many volunteers have unanimously saved his life with each and every transfusion!!!! God bless every one of you!!!

please donate blood to the american red cross so that you can help save someones life tooooooo!!!