Winter Playdate

A few weeks ago, Paeton and I went over to the Lavins for a playdate with the twins and of course, to see baby Skylar. Paeton loves playing with Austin and Cole because they are just as energetic as she is. Here's the 3 kiddos breaking for lunch.

And here's baby Skylar!

Paeton LOVES babies so much. She just wanted to hold her hand and make sure she was okay when she was crying. It was too cute.

Big Girl

Just want to quickly comment that Paeton is getting SO BIG - where has my baby gone?

Grandpa Ulrich's 55th Birthday

This past Saturday we drove up to Oshkosh to spend some time with Jodi's parents and then celebrate Granpda Ulrich's 55th birthday. After Paeton's nap, Paeton and Grandma Ulrich worked on puzzles together, colored and baked chocolate chip cookies.

For dinner, we went to West End Pizza - a family favorite. Present were 4 sets of Ulrich families (Jodi's parents, Jodi's brother's family, Jodi's Aunt & Uncle's family and us) and Grandma Sievers - Jodi's grandmother. Paeton was so excited to see Fern (her cousin who's 1 week older) and I think Fern was equally as excited.

I LOVE this picture - Paeton and Fern totally engaged in conversation with everyone at the table but sitting there holding hands. Just precious. I think these two are going to be close :)

Paeton sharing one of her favorite books with Fern.

Paeton checking out the toy daddy won her at the arcade.

Jodi helping Paeton (left) and Fern (right) to play at the arcade. They are racing sports cars here.

Baby #2!!!!

We are excited to announce that our family is growing....Baby #2 is due to arrive the first week of August, 2010! We feel so blessed in so many ways and this is yet another reason. Paeton is very excited - well, she likes to say 'baby' all the time and she specifically likes to lift my shirt up, pull my pants down , remove the belly band and simply do whatever it takes to get to my belly and look at it. We're working on just doing this at home and not in the middle of the grocery store...like the other day. Regardless, we're so excited for this new addition to get here!

RSV

Paeton's been with RSV (respiratory virus) for a few days now so we've been laying low at home. For the most part, her energy level has been normal except for last night when she became quite lethargic and gave us a little bit of a scare. She's had pretty high temps getting up to 104 at times. She seems to be doing better today after we made it through the night. This morning we did LOTS of coloring. I covered a portion of our island in Christmas paper turned over on it's backside. She had a lot of fun.

We've been working on making straight lines, circles and 'x's. She completely shocked me when I drew a circle, a square and a triangle and she could name all 3. I was impressed.

Hopefully she will back to normal soon. Jodi left for Tampa today and won't be back till Friday night so it's just us girls around here. Wish us luck!

Bucks Game

Saturday night, Jodi and I joined nearly 600 of our fellow church members at the Bucks game to watch our Worship Pastor, Dan Forness sing the national anthem. What a treat this was! We not only got to have a date night but we got to enjoy the evening with so many of our friends. We're so glad we didn't miss this!

There's Dan in the middle of the floor singing his heart out. It was beautiful.

Our Diva

Jodi and Paeton were playing upstairs Saturday afternoon and Paeton came down looking like this. Apparently she wanted to try on a pair of mommy's dress boots and Jodi added my fur shrug to complete the look. I feel as though the picture doesn't do her justice - she looked so adorable when she came downstairs. She was so proud of her outfit!

The Big Backyard

A few weeks we went to The Big Backyard for a Saturday morning playdate with just the 3 of us. We had never been to this place before and just went off of pictures we saw on their website. We were pleasantly surprised when we arrived and saw how much fun there was to be had!

By far, these are the fastest slides all 3 of us have ever been on. Jodi did most of the climbing and sliding with Paeton.

Paeton also enjoyed riding around on the bikes they had and playing basketball with daddy.

Their infant and toddler area had lots of fun toys as well including this house that Paeton just loved. She played peek a boo with a little boy she met there.

Here's Jodi running after Paeton. This was a common theme this morning. It was REALLY hard to get her to leave :( We will definitely go back to this place!

Christmas: John & Brooke 2009

And now for our final Christmas...January 2, 2010 with John and Brooke. We spent a really fun day catching up with them, hanging out at our house and eating lots of food! Paeton loved seeing them, opening gifts and playing with her toys.

Brooke helping Paeton open her cupcake baking set. It's so cute!

I think Paeton's wondering if she will continue to open gifts year round since she's been celebrating Christmas for an entire month!

Getting help from Brooke - Paeton also received a really cute outfit. Thanks so much Brooke and John!

Christmas: Oshkosh, WI 2009

After not blogging for almost a month, I figure I should finish Christmas up and give you some January updates. These pictures were from January 1, 2010 when we celebrated Christmas with Jodi's family in Oshkosh. I tried to capture pictures of all 4 children opening presents and enjoying the morning. Here's Irie, my oldest niece actually riding around on one of Fern's toys. Irie is 5 1/2 years old and in kindergarten.

Here's Paeton taking a break from the festivities with Grandpa Ulrich.

Paeton seeming a bit confused with everything going on.

Opening her first Cabbage Patch doll from her great grandmother. His name is Clifton.

Organized chaos.

My nephew Leo, 3 1/2 years old.

My niece Fern 1 1/2 years old.

Paeton admist all the action.