Smiles and haircuts

Noah got a new haircut the other day. I wanted them to make it short. Boy look at how those cheeks really pop out now!























































And speaking of cheeks, Gloria is really showing us her smiles these days. Big ol' toothless grin.



































And she's giving me that one-eyed popeye look of hers.

2 months ago there came a baby.

A few baby updates for the "baby book." Gloria found her thumb all on her own today. She's also getting stronger evey day. She can hold her head up fairly independantly by now. She's smiling at all of us a lot and she sleeps almost all night. We all seem to be settling into a daily routine and life is getting back to "normal."

Happy Happy 2006

Happy New Year. I'd like to sit here and tell you all my resolutions for the new year, but frankly I'm too busy enjoying my visit with my mom and enjoying her with the kids. Here's a few pics from Christmas. I will update you more in the coming weeks. Thanks to all of you who thought of us at Christmas time. We have been blessed with 2 beautiful healthy children and we are really enjoying ourselves.

Gigi

Ah the wonder of Christmas lights.







Also, Gigi enjoying some activity and just waking up.

Christmas is in how many days ??

Wow. How time flies when you have two kids.

Noah learned to dress himself today. Of course, it was with one of my shirts (maybe that was easier)

I was also cleaning out my pantry the other day and Noah just had to help. Here he is moving all canned goods.

I'll have some pictures of Gigi up tomorrow.

Future Psychopath?

I don't know how well you can see this picture. Last night as Noah was playing with his "Little People" He deliberately set them all face down on his blanket. If I turned them over, he returned them to the face down position. I thought it was a little disturbing...

Awww...

These kids of ours...

New Star makes her Debut

Gloria Kathleen Denmark was born on 11/9/05 at 11:03 am. She weighed in at 10 lbs 1 oz and 21.5 inches long. I had a very easy labor and she came quickly. We've been doing very well at home. Noah is adjusting better than I thought. He points to her and says "baby" all the time. He likes to sit down next to her and poke her nose and rub her head. He pulls us to her when she cries. The only jealousy we're seeing is that he wants to be held when we're holding her.
Here are a bunch of pictures.

For whom the bell tolls

Just a quick update. Spoke to the dr. yesterday afternoon. We're going in at 11:45 pm Tuesday night next week. She'll be born on the 9th, but it may be early in the morning. He said he couldn't get me in at any other time. Hopefully, it'll be nice to be done by the afternoon. Next update will probably be the baby update!

Now that's what I call progress

Good news from the doctor today. I did progress naturally. I am currently at 3-4 cm. Doc called the hospital to schedule my induction for next Wednesday, the 9th. I'm VERY happy with that date. It's superstitious, I know, but everyone in our little family has a birthday on a multiple of 9. Mine is Jan. 9, Noah's is Feb. 18 and Wally's is Jan. 27. So, if I get to choose which day my daughter is born, I'm going to go for the 9th. Now, she could still decide she wants to come out on her own earlier, and that's fine too. But holy cow! That's next week!! I feel like I have so much to do, but I'm not sure what I need to get done. I guess a clean house would be on the top of that list.
In other news, we had a great Halloween night last night. We put Noah in his costume and he helped pass out treats. Or rather, he ran up and down the sidewalks and one of us chased him. We just went to a couple of neighbors to get candy for him. He had got a boatload from daycare earlier that day. Here's some pics of the little dalmation having fun.

We can barely contain our excitement

He was running like this the whole night!

Noah, enjoying some candy before the wrapper is even off!