Joshua’s First Album

Wish us luck as we continue to prepare. I’ve still got to paint the nursery which we recently had re-textured top to bottom. 50 years of old paint, wallpaper, and more paint kind of makes it difficult for new paint to stick, and re-texturing was the answer. Aimee has most of the clothes organized, but not knowing the gender makes planning some of that stuff difficult. But c’mon – we’re realists…all the baby really needs is yellow, green, and white onesies, burp cloths, and diapers for the first few months anyway.

On to the other child – Sara is great and is currently doing very well with her potty training. She knows what to do, it’s just a matter of reminding her to go do it. We recently took Sara on her very first picnic as spring was arriving. Her mommy recently went through boxes of her old toys as we were preparing a garage sale to help purge our junk and found many of her old books and toys. One of them is a Mickey Mouse picnic story that Sara loves! As soon as she understood what it was talking about she began asking to go on a picnic. As soon as the weather turned we were able to take her, and she loved it. We will have to do it again soon.

It’s very exciting for us, though!

Overall, Sara is a very happy baby…she doesn’t cry very much and she even knows night from day (for those of you that are parents you know that is great)!  As of her one month checkup she was up to 9lb 11oz…that’s really good considering she lost over a pound within a couple of days of her birth.

I’ve also been working on another project here at the house. A buddy and I ripped out my enormous deck in the back yard last January. Well, I’m finally getting around to replacing it. In its place we’re putting in a flagstone patio. It’s coming along nicely, but geez it’s a ton of work!

More to come on this project later…

All of the grandparents are at our house patiently awaiting our call, but sadly, we have no reason to call yet. It has been a long 24 hours here at the hospital…hopefully, God willing, we’ll have something in the next 12 or so. An August 5th baby would be great!  Aimee’s doing great – she’s really a trooper.

So – keep your ear to the wind for the next time that you hear from me I will hopefully have some pictures of our bouncing baby _____!

Oh yeah, keep your nose to the grindstone while you’re keeping your nose to the wind (it’ll keep your boogers sharp!)