BIG NEWS!

I have some big big news to share.

I AM GOING TO BE A BIG SISTER!!!

Yes, it is true!  Momma has a baby in her belly.  It is a boy!  I am so excited!

The other day, I got to go to the doctor with Momma and they used this cool machine to look at the baby inside Momma's belly!  Here he is!

I went ahead and labeled the photo so you could figure it all out.  These pictures are hard to understand sometimes.   Anyway, he is laying on his side looking right at us.  He was sleeping, and had his arm up by his head.  Isn't that amazing??

Momma is lucky because she gets to see our baby every time she visits the doctor.  Most mommas don't get to do this but my Momma is special because she is older than some other mommas.  So sometimes people think Momma is a crazy freak of nature because she is older and having a baby, but the awesome benefit to being older is getting to see our baby all the time!  She got to see me all of the time, too.  Momma is called "Advanced Maternal Age".  Anyone 35  years old or older is considered to be "advanced maternal age".  It is a lot of hooey, if you ask me.  The doctor Momma first went to when I was in her belly actually called Momma a "GERIATRIC PREGNANCY".  What??  Geriatric?  Have you met my Momma?  Momma ended up leaving that doctor (and I am sure being called geriatric probably factored in to that decision, wouldn't it for you??) and went to the doctor that she is still seeing for this baby. 

This baby is supposed to be born some time around Daddy's birthday, which is April 12.  We have lots to do before he arrives!  

Dancing in the Rain

I have my own umbrella!  I love it.  I like to pretend it is raining outside so I can play with it, but it is even MORE fun when it actually IS raining!  So one Saturday when I returned from dancing class and it was raining just a tiny bit, I grabbed my umbrella to dance in the rain!

As you can see, dancing with an umbrella is loads of fun.  I suggest you get out your umbrella and try it yourself!  I guarantee it will bring a smile to your face!

More Summer Vacation! Part 5

So the reason we went on this long vacation this summer (besides wanting to visit our families) was to celebrate both Grandma and Papa AND G and Poppy's 50th wedding anniversaries!  Yes, they all got married the same year, a couple months apart.   Auntie and Momma were in charge of planning the celebration for G and Poppy, which meant I got to help, too!  They had their celebration at their church, which is where Auntie and Momma went when they were little.  Everyone knows them there, and they know me too even though I don't know them! 

 

 Here I am with G in front of the cake/punch table.  Momma made the cakes.  

Aren't they beautiful?

 And we made a slide presentation about their lives together.  Poppy got teary-eyed!

  It was a truly special day!

Grandma and Papa had a celebration, too!  Theirs was at a restaurant and Daddy and Aunt Elisabeth made a slide presentation for them, too.  

I am so lucky to have such great families!

I hope you had a wonderful summer vacation, too!

More Summer Vacation! Part 4

When Auntie came in town, we went to the zoo!  The zoo by G and Poppy is GIGANTIC and is really great.  Momma especially loves this zoo.  Not only is it a truly amazing zoo, but she had her very first job in a gift shop in the zoo!  She had a great time working there, but the shop where she worked isn't there anymore.  

When we got to the zoo, Momma looked at the map to figure out what things the St. Louis Zoo has that the Houston Zoo does not so we could try to see them.  I am so glad she did that because guess what?  The first thing we did is go to the PENGUIN HOUSE!

It was cold cold cold in the penguin house, which is just how the penguins like it!  Do you see that cute penguin swimming right behind me!  They would dive in the water and splash all around.  We had to watch out or we would have gotten wet!

 Aren't they cute?

If we had penguins in Houston they would be miserable.  Too hot!

 There are also puffins in the penguin house! 

 The St. Louis Zoo has a train that goes all around the inside!  I loved riding the train!  We could get off and see things and then get on again and keep riding!

They have GORILLAS at the St. Louis Zoo!  Zowie.  This is not a real gorilla, in case you are wondering.  It is a statue!

We also saw hippopotamuses!  There were a bunch of them, all huddled together down in a big pool.  We could see just the tops of their heads and their eyes above the water, and then we could see the rest of their bodies under the water, too.  They are huge!  We started to sing "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" and a guy who works there looked at us and shook his head.  I love that song.  Too bad if he doesn't get it!

We spent all morning at the zoo and still only saw a small fraction of it all.  We will definitely have to go back again next time we visit G and Poppy!  What a great zoo!