Introducing Butterbean!

Butterbean was born Thursday, January 13, 2011. After a long 26 hours she finally decided to join us at 2:17 pm.

Proud daddy

and sister.

Snow

We got a rare early January snow and Ladybug loved playing in the snow with Chase and Daddy. She has asked to 'chase Chase' almost every night since and has asked if it's snowing every morning. I think she likes the snow!

Christmas

I know it's been over a month since Christmas but here goes anyways.

Giving Daddy his presents.

Can I open it now?

More presents.

Chris' smoked Turkey. This has to be the best turkey I've ever had!

Merry Christmas!

Toddler's Creed

I ran across this post on another site and thought it was too appropriate not to link to.

http://iammommy.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/11/toddlers-creed.html

While her daughter is just about to turn two, Ladybug is right in the middle of two-dom, and boy do we know it some days. I'm hesitant to say terrible twos because she really is great 98% of the time. The only times she gets defiant is when she's tired so you could say that's our fault too.

We're enjoying the ride and are still very optimistic that she will do great transitioning to the role of big sister in the next month or so. But for now enjoy the truth in the toddler's creed!

Happy Halloween

Despite Ladybug not walking well we still decided to take her Trick or Treating. Another use for the wagon! We made a stop at Maamaa and Papa's before heading to Uncle Guy and Aunt Holly's for dinner and trick or treating with the group. These are the only pictures we remembered to take.

Chris wheeled her around in the wagon while the other kids went to the doors. We did skip in front of the group a couple of times to let her walk up to the door. I think we may have gotten her to say trick or treat once but she was good about saying thank you.

Announcement

Since the only people that read this blog are family (any non family readers please comment and let me know) this isn't much of an announcement. Ladybug is going to be a big sister in just a few short months! We are due the middle of January although Chris is hoping for the end of December.

We again decided not to find out the gender and will be anxiously awaiting to find out when this little one decides to make their arrival. We have been busy getting prepared for this one.

Chris left his job at the county and is working on his own at http://www.simmonscomputersolutions.com/ This is an exciting time/change for our family and we have faith that it has been God's will for him to do this since we have both had such a tremendous peace about it. With this development he has moved his office out of our house and into the Centercourt office building. This leaves us with a sitting room/office/craft room in place of his office and our guest room will now be the baby's room.

There is still a lot of work to be done and our hope is to be finished before we get Christmas decorations up.

I foresee a lot of Saturday evenings (after hunting of course) and Sunday afternoons (with the game on) spent organizing and arranging.

Pumpkin Carving

Chris and Ladybug had fun carving the pumpkin Wednesday night. I'm pretty sure Chris did most of the work but I know he enjoyed Ladybug's 'supervising'. She did help some although I'm thinking she wasn't to sure about pulling the seeds out!

I think the face in this picture says it all!

This was the only scoop we could get her to do.

Once she realized that mommy had the camera out she was more interested in posing for pictures, Cheese!

The finished product - Ladybug says we put a happy face on it!