Bean Sprout Cafe..

Our new favorite restaurant for a special treat after "The Little Gym" class on Wednesdays... they have cool sparkling ice cubes in thier drinks! Fun.

A preview of Halloween

We ended up with the Witch costume from Target for Halloween this year.. we've been practicing our best 'eee hee hee hee my pretty.." Elida loves the hat- we'll see about the dress~!

There's a strange man in Grandpa's kitchen!

Elida took a strange liking to the waiter in grandpa's kitchen.. it took a minute for her to warm up and then they became fast friends!

Fall in the UP..

We recently took a trip to Houghton, MI to visit my dad...

mittens and a hat!

Elida had been struggling with the changing weather, refusing to wear jackets, coats, hoodies or sweaters, but tonight we had a breakthrough! When we weren't looking she put on her hat and mittens all by herself! Here's some photos of the step in the right direction.

A good picture

A reminder of the splendors of the midwest.. I found this picture of my dad and liked it. So, here it is.

Oldie but goodie..

Found this older picture too of my 7 month old! Wow... I can't believe how much my baby has grown!

Copper Country..

Today we're up in Houghton, MI visiting my dad...I found these older pictures on his computer from our last visit (in April) that I never got my hands on.

A brief halt.

Sad but true....cannot seem to upload anymore tonight. Keep getting error messages.

All for now.

Pictures, phew.

Finally got some new (old) pictures from our last week in Los Angeles.. here's one of Elida and cousin Megan on the Santa Monica beach.

And the date will be.....

We've scheduled our c-section (wait, did I say 'our' .. as if anyone else has to go through it but me??) MY c-section for December 17th!

Many of you will note that is two days prior to my own birthday- also the little one's due date! So- I'll be waited on hand and foot on my birthday- the way it should be! And what a gift to have my 2nd daughter there in my arms!

As they say: The Lord is in the blessing business!

Best wishes to all and I'm hoping to keep in touch in the next ten weeks- cuz I'm feelin like I'll be hard to find once the little babe arrives. Hugs- Shelley

Coming along..

Hi everyone. Much to my disappointment, there will be no new pictures tonight. Finding our camera cord in the box of magic computer cords we have is just not something I'm able to get to.. so, I'll tell ya what's been going on.

OUR BIG GIRL ELIDA is: Sitting on the potty. Reading and waiting and being SO cute. She commands me to 'sit' next to her on the floor and we just chat. It's a fun, cute and rather clean (since she's not doing anything) step in her life.

Also, along those big girl lines, Elida is sleeping in her big girl bed these days. Her mumma has been sleeping next to her for most nites- which works great if you've seen our trundle bed. One of the biggest benefits is that she won't fall out of this thing.. and, it's ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE when she wakes up- she gets up, comes to find me/us and upon seeing us, runs to us with her cute arms up... hair all messy and cute and snuggly- it's juts a wonderful time. She's really been good at making changes while other changes are happening.

In other Elida news, we joined "The Little Gym" this week- wow. What fun she has in those classes. It's like a little work out for kids. There are several other kids in her class and she actually likes Mr. Scott - her teacher. good times.

That's it for now- and for Elida news... stay tuned for news on our little bundle "Duecette".. this news is too big to share with all the other good stuff!