Random Comments

So, These random comments on my rather large tummy are getting better each day!! Today I was paying (a whole 1.25$) for my new tire, and here is what the lady says to me(!!!)

Lady-Are you having a boy or girl?
Me- Boy
Lady-When are you due? Next week?
Me-(laughing...) No, June 23rd.
Lady-WOW!! Are you like having twins or something?
Me-No (fake laughing at this point!)

Yikes! Huh? Definitely a first...
My next appointment is Tuesday, so I will let you know how it goes! I will be 31 weeks tomorrow. It is pretty exciting, the end is in sight.

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Happy Birthday
Aunt Sarah!!

We had SO much fun with you last week. Can't wait until you come back!!
We LOVE you.

Happy Birthday
Aunt Donna!!

We love you!

Spring time

Happy Rainy Day!

Earth Quake!!

Did you guys feel the Earth Quake this morning?(540am)
We did!! It woke us up, and we were like what is happening! We were shaking and there was this unexplainable low rumble noise. By the time we woke up there was only about 30 seconds left of it. Dan was like I bet that was an Earth Quake! So he turned on the TV, and sure enough it was. It was a 5.2. Crazy.
We lived through an Earth Quake!!!!! Let me tell you, it is the oddest feeling to wake up shaking!
Have a great day. It is supposed to be 80 here.

Big belly

This is what happens when you take your child maternity shopping with you!!!!!
Hannah is trying on the "belly"...and enjoying it.
(a little too much).

Our Zoo

As I mentioned last week, we also went to our Zoo with Dan while he was on vacation. Here are the photos from that. It was a VERY nice day!! We went yesterday and it was beautiful as well. I will down load the pictures from that as soon as I take a few for Dan. (he sells books, and needs them photographed...)

Dan, Hannah, and Marco (her elephant).

This is the best shot of our Tiger that day. I think Dan spent 10 min trying to get a good shot. He (the Tiger) was SO close to us and kept walking right by! The Zoo is currently remodeling the Tiger area so they are in this little cage and are really close to you while you look at them.

Dan and Hannah got to pet this baby Kangaroo. I think he got stuck here and his Mom wouldn't come rescue him. I bet she was afraid, b/c all of the other Kangaroo's were really far back off the trail!

beads

Hannah now makes beaded jewelry! Feel free to put in an order.

Jesus

Here is the BIG Jesus on the way from Dayton to Cincinnati. You can't miss it if you ever go that way. Dan would like to know how much it cost to make this...

Columbus Zoo

Wow...where has the time gone? I am just now down loading pictures...yikes. Sorry to have kept you waiting! Here are the pictures from the Columbus Zoo. This was a huge zoo and had a lot of amazing exhibits. We were pretty impressed. Some of the animals were gone due to the winter, and the day we went was pretty cold. But we still enjoyed it and had a lot of fun!

Dan and Hannah on Manatees

Hannah and the Kangaroos. They didn't come close enough to pet here. They did 4 days later at our zoo!

Me and Hannah riding wart hogs.

Hannah on a Kimono Dragon.

Hannah and the turtles.

Dan and Hannah with the Manatee and a Sting Ray. The Manatee is behind the SR. on the left. It is pretty hard to see...

The Sting Rays were eating cabbage. Hannah trying to touch it.

Hannah enjoying the ride to and from.

Calvin

I've been asked by several people to post something on our "needs" for Calvin. There aren't many as we have been very blessed already. We are currently saving money to buy him a pack-n-play, and we will need to purchase a bigger dresser for him and Hannah. I am also registered at Baby's-R-Us. (to get my free gift card, so I will look and maybe add a few things now that everyone will know) I am pretty sure that diapers should go on the list too. And that should be about it. I "think" I have everything else. My sister is bringing the car seat Friday!!!! I also have enough clothes to keep him (and possible 3 other boys!) dressed through January.

Thank you for blessing us so far! He is doing well. He loves to kick all the time now, which I like too. I have had 2 women (this week) tell me that they think he's dropped!! Not what I would like to hear at this point...but I am sure that they meant well:) lol.

Movies

Are you missing my daily blogs? We have been really busy this week b/c Dan is on vacation from work. Today is his last day. I am so sad. We have had a lot of fun.
We have seen 2 movies, which I'd like to comment on. The first was Zodiac. It was VERY good. I highly recommend it. It is about a serial killer back in the 60's and 70's. It can be found at your local Red Box. We both enjoyed it. The second one was Jane Austin Book Club. It was Horrible!!!!! Do not waste your dollar on it!
We went to the zoo yesterday. And had a blast. ALL the animals were out and playing. Dan and Hannah got to pet a baby kangeroo! I was taping/taking pictures. We also got lots of sun. Dan played tennis last night, and I had Bible study.
Today we went to the park. Hope you are all enjoying this nice weather. Someone told me that it is supposed to snow Monday!!
Pictures are coming I promise. We just keep doing fun stuff so I am waiting to download them all at once!
-Anne

Monkey PJ's

We had a nice time on our vacation! It was very nice to get to spend some quality time just the 3 of us. It was cold and rainy...but still a lot of fun. It is also nice to be back home. We are supposed to have nice weather today so hopefully we can get outside. I will download the pictures from our trip soon. Here is a picture of Hannah in her new monkey pj's.

Yummy!

We have pop cycle makers now!!
So, please invite yourself over for one!
They are VERY good.

More Updates

Saturday Hannah and I participated in a local clean-up day with our church. The community had given us a couple block radius around the church and we split up into teams and went and picked up the trash. It was actually a lot of fun. Hannah really enjoyed it and is eagerly looking forward to the next one! She keeps asking when we can go on another trash hunt...I think that is a result of last weeks egg hunt. lol. I even won a t-shirt in the raffle. It doesn't fit right now, but should after the baby is born. It was like 30 degrees that day as you can tell, we are bundled!

I had a dr. apt this morning. I have gained 6 lbs in the past 3 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP! She said it was ok, but to not let it be a habit of gaining that much each time. yikes.
She gave me this packet of info for the actual delivery. We can take Hannah to this 1 hour class if we want. It is designed for big sister/brothers. She said they talk to them about what to do and not do(like pick up the baby when mommy isn't looking...ect) They even take them on a tour and show them where the baby will be born and where mommy will be when they finally get to come see the baby. Sounds neat, and it is only $10.

We had to get our van fixed again yesterday!! This is a sad and yet funny story all at the same time....at least to me(Dan would disagree). A chipmunk crawled up into the engine and ate up all the wiring!!! It cost us over $600 to have it fixed...that is the sad part. There went our vacation money, there went our new couch money, there went the pack-n-play money and pretty much everything else!! lol. But it is fixed now! They told us not to park it in the same place b/c those kinds of animals will return to the same place and do it again. It is in their animal nature. I guess this is a common problem(who knew chipmunks liked car wires so much?) But anyway...there is really no place to park our van or the mustang really, that an animal can't get to here. So we have our cars parked by the front office for now. But I guessing that will last a week! BUT-the walk there may help me burn some fat!!!! So maybe it is a good thing!
Anyway...you can pray that Dan NEVER meets a chipmunk! I think he is pretty much ready to kill every little creature he ever sees again. Rightly so. Poor guy. He is NOT happy about this!!

Tomorrow is our vacation! We are pretty excited. I am going to help Hannah pack her clothes when she gets done resting.