Welcome Hannah Joy

We invited Katie and Thomas out to brunch on Sunday.  They were looking forward to coming, but ended up going to the hospital instead.  Katie was in labor for a VERY long time, but everything else went fine and both Katie and Hannah are doing very well.  Hannah was finally born at 2:30am Monday morning Feb 17th.  She weighed 7lbs and 8 oz.
We went to visit them with Jake and Ruth when the guys were done with work yesterday.  She is so precious, and now we're even more excited to see our new baby too.

Hannah reminds me...
I had an OB appointment with ultrasound and biophysical profile last Friday.  Katie actually watched the kids.  It seems weird that she has hers already now.:)  Anyway.  The ultrasound measured the size of the baby.  The doctor said that the baby is perfect size for age and she wouldn't be able to tell the baby was from a diabetic mom.  (Thank you CGM!-the continuous glucose monitoring system that came with my new pump I got in January.)  The biophysical profile was good, except they didn't see the baby practicing breathing, which the doctor said the age of the baby is young enough that it's okay.  We're opting out of the extensive testing that the doctor recommends and only doing biophysical profiles when I go to Fargo for doctor appointments.  Since my bloodsugars have been under good control and we haven't ever had anything show up with any of the other pregnancies and all the testing we've done with them.  We set up the date of the c-section for April 10th.  Hopefully everything goes well and we can deliver that day and not have to force it earlier.
I better go.  Jeremiah has his third poop of the morning in his pants and I can't handle the smell anymore.  (He's sitting next to me coloring.)  This is one time I'm thankful he's in diapers.  Our sewer line is clogged and we are limited in the amount of water that goes down.  No solids allowed!  What I cleaned out of the basement shower yesterday was enough.  (Thankfully the solids were contained to the shower!)  I don't want to have to see that stuff more than once.  Hopefully the plumber can come sometime today.  I'm tired of seeing a sink full of dirty dishes.  Okay.  Now Jerry's eating the crayons.  Gotta go!

January and Olue's Birthday Party

The first weekend of January was Lu Lu's birthday.  We had a party for her.  Roger and Sue came for the weekend.  Jake and Ruth, Katie and Thomas, and my parents came for the party too.  What a golden birthday!

I made curtains for our french doors the day Roger and Sue came.  Roger is putting them up here while Jerry helps him.

 Jeremiah always wants to help, but usually doesn't listen very well.  I likes to do the opposite of what you tell him.  We try to praise him really well when he actually does what he's told, but I think the 2 year old mind set is setting in.:)

Lu's Cinderella birthday cake

Lu got to stay up late the night of her birthday.  She sat on Grandma's lap while we visited.

Best Friends!

Happy Birthday to you

 Eating cake...

Sue went to sit in the kitchen, but nobody followed her.  We were looking around, wondering where she was and found her by herself there.  She came back to join the party when her cake was gone.:)

Opening presents

Everyone wants in on the action

 Very strange, but we never took a family picture in all our Christmas gatherings.  We had bought a real tree this year and I wanted a picture of the kids by it before we took it down.  Here is part of the progression of photos that we took.  As you can see Jerry wasn't very cooperative.  More of that independent 2 year old setting in.

 Ruth and I watch eachothers kids when one of us has an appointment.  Here's what they were all doing one time while Ruth was at the dentist:

 Mom's 60th birthday:

Happy Birthday Grandma!

 My Christmas Present...
Josh's Christmas present (and birthday present, since it was the weekend before my birthday) was a night at the Bird House Inn bed and breakfast, Fiddler and the Roof at the Chanhassen Dinner Theater, and trip to the MN Science Museum.  We had an awesome time while Roger and Sue watched the kids for us.

Flowers Josh had added to our room.

The kids had a blast with Grandma and Grandpa.

 Years of planning and preparation finally see an end...
Josh had the idea to make a table out of some of the nice wood of an old fence that we ripped out in New Salem.  We pulled out the nails and he prepped the wood and had the table almost finished before we moved.  This was the final step, putting on the glass finish.  It's a beautiful table!  Thank you Josh!

Eating at the new table for the first time

Josh mentioned all we needed was some flowers to set on top.  (I had just thrown away the ones I got on our trip)  So I bought a bouquet the next day while I was in Fargo.  The table is so nice and shiny.  I love cleaning it off and placing the flowers back on after we eat.  :)

Lu snuggling with Daddy next to the fire during a movie

The boys

 Okay.  Now I'm up to date with my blogposts.:)  Jerry is being a pain, so I better go get him some breakfast.  I'm sure Lu and John are hungry too.

Christmas Celebrations 2013

Here's some pictures from Christmas celebrations with the Loegering's, Hayes' and Hanson's and from New Year's Eve.

Blaise and Stacie

Johnny and Vika playing dinosaurs

Cy with Lu and Addy

Stacie and Jared with Blaise

Kristina reading to Johnny

 Opening Christmas Presents

 Christmas Day and Grandma and Grandpa Hayes' house.

Johnny sledding

Addy

Johnny

Grandpa L and Lu Lu

Jerry and his scraped up nose.  He biffed it that morning.

Grandpa is still sitting in the same chair, but Jerry has replaced Lu Lu and well...as you can see Grandpa's a little sleepy from all the Christmas excitement

"Oh my gosh!  A cleaning set, just like Addy's!"

Grandma wanted to take a nap with Susanna, but Susanna just wanted to play

 Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa Hanson at our house.

Daddy and Johnny

Jerry giving Cedar hugs and kisses

New Year's Eve Movie.  The kids watched Planes while the Moms and Dads (Jake & Ruth and Josh & I) played a game.

Now we're updated through 2013.  Now I need to get to the present.  I don't think there is much after Lu Lu's birthday as far as pictures go.  But I think that'll be for another day.:)