Baby prep is in full swing here. We're ready and waiting for the little guy to make his appearance. The house is clean, the groceries are bought, the freezer is stocked with freezer meals. And the blog is almost up to date. And thus, here we are updating, so the baby can feel free to make his appearance.
Saturday the girls and I went with Grandma Knight to the book festival down at the U of A. There were tons of people there. I think they estimated 100,000 would come Saturday and Sunday. We didn't stay too long, but the girls had fun visiting a few booths, playing and getting some free stuff (books, balloons, popcorn and the like). They even got their faces painted. I was amazed that Annie sat still long enough to get a flower on her cheek.
Rachel wanted to be a cat.
We headed back over to Grandma and Grandpa's house afterwards and I caught some fun pictures playing on the trampoline:
Love the hair!!
Sunday I made the mistake of holding the iPad while Annie was nearby. That automatically results in her climbing up to be able to see, while asking for "bir bir!" (birds, which all of her favorite apps have).
Annie has also gotten really good at jumping on our backs to do a horsey ride anytime we're in anything close to an accesible position. I think this was after family prayer:
She could be a horseback rider, the way she holds herself on just by squeezing her legs. And of course, if Annie does it, Rachel has to do it.
And vice versa, if Rachel does something, Annie is such a copycat. We got these new beach towels today, so Rachel laid one out and laid down on it, and immediately Annie got to work laying the other one out right next to it, and once I had helped her lay it flat, she laid down just like Rachel.
And Rachel decided it was time to start posing for the camera:
Oh, I guess if I'm going to be up to date, I'd better throw in a quick recap of our excitement from last week. We were driving in to my parents house to drop off the girls before I went to my doctor's appointment, and were just past the first light, waiting in a line of traffic at the second light from our house, maybe a mile down the road. Traffic started moving, so I did, too, at which point Annie started crying for something, so I looked back to see what she wanted, during which time the traffic came to a stop again. I looked forward again to see the truck in front of me stopped, but without time to stop myself. And thus ended my 31 years accident-free. Luckily we weren't going fast at all, as we had just started to move, and the guy's truck looked undamaged to me, but our lovely minivan did what it's designed to do, and took the hit for us, absorbing all the shock of the impact, so it didn't feel like anything harder than a stomp on the brakes, if that. No airbags deployed or anything, thankfully, and we were all fine and dandy, no soreness or whiplash or anything. They did a non-stress test when I finally made it into the doctor's office a few hours later and the baby was doing fine, too. Thankfully Jake was still home, so he came and picked us up and took us back home until the tow truck could take care of our car, then we took him to work. The car will be fixed in a couple of weeks, and in the meantime, my dad is letting us use his car as much as we need to, since most days, unless he has a doctor's appointment, or something, he sticks around the house mostly. And if he needs the car, Jake works 5 minutes away, so he can just drive it over, get dropped off at work, and get picked up at the end of the day. Very convenient. And lots of blessings all over. If we had to have an accident, I would have planned it just this way. :) Well probably not, but I'm glad God's wisdom prevails, and things have worked out so easily for us.
Okay, I think that's about it. We're caught up. Bring on the baby!
Ryan:
