We Are In Trouble

This blue eyed beauty

can go from this

to this in five seconds flat

she started crawling forward today

and she was on a mission

to play

with

everything!

My Little Wonders - Nick & Julia

These two are so gorgeous! They are both going to be heartbreakers.
Great pictures Melynda!

Jacob Kowalik

Many of you know our dear friends Jen and Mike and their adorable, ever happy Jacob pictured above. Jen & Mike met with the Children's Memorial Bone Marrow Transplant team this week. After over 2 hours of overwhelming information they were told that it is in Jacob's best interest to proceed with a bone marrow transplant.

The first step in this lengthy procedure is to find a close bone marrow match for Jacob. Both National and International Bone Marrow banks will be searched for the best possible match to Jacob. At the meeting they were informed that the search was in process and several "close" matches had been identified.

Jen and Mike have been told that the likelihood is slim that any friend or extended family would be a match, however I want to encourage anyone between the ages of 18 - 60 that can be to be tested. You can go to this website and get all the information you need. http://www.marrow.org/JOIN/Join_Now/join_now.html it literally takes less than 5 minutes to sign up and a test kit will be sent to your home in a week. Although it is not likely you will be donating to Jacob, you may be a match for someone else who needs a match.

My heart aches for the Kowalik's. Please keep them in your thoughts.

Is It So Wrong

I LOVE our new floors? As much as you can love an object I LOVE these floors. Here is a peak...

Beautiful

Of course no post of mine would be complete without a picture or two of Leah

I was trying so hard to get pictures of her in my newest tutu creation but she was not really interested in posing she really wanted to eat the grass

and make silly faces

Happy Birthday Aunt Mindy

Hope you had a wonderful day! We love you!

Part of Her Plan

I am starting to understand how it happens - how people find themselves having just one more. Who would want all things baby to end? Who would want the squishy cheeks, pudgy feet and squeals of delight to end? Drew and I were talking the other day about my labor with Leah and I was so surprised at my memory of how it all happened. How is it that all that pain can barely be recalled yet I can remember as if it were yesterday the very first moment I got to hold her in my arms and see her sweet face.

Funny too how much things can change from the first baby to the second. Drew has said to me , "First born is made of glass and second is made of rubber." I am finding out how very true that is. I find myself not wanting Leah to learn too fast, I simply don’t want her to grow up too fast. I selfishly want to enjoy all her squishy baby body parts forever. But she is growing up and if it is possible she is getting more adorable by the minute. Her eyes are getting bluer and more striking minute by minute. I think it is part of her plan, part of her plan to be so irresistibly cute that you can’t help but smile when you see her. Even if she is being mischievous.

Leah is very physical, wiggling all the time and she can barely be contained. She almost always refuses to sit still, loves to be tickled and laughs all the time. If she knows you and likes you, she will bounce in your lap forever. If she doesn’t like you, you will know it. She will cry her little head off. If she sees Mommy walk by when you are holding her… forget it. There is no one she likes more right now than Mommy. She has started to reach out to me to pick her up which melts my heart every time. When she is happy she screeches with joy and will clap her hands and wait for you to return with claps of your own.

Some other things about Leah at 9 months old:
She weighs 17.5 lbs (25th percentile)
She is 29 inches long (90th percentile)
No pearly whites yet… I know I said in her 8 month update that I was SURE she was getting them but I think I am starting to realize that with Leah we cannot be SURE of anything. She is going to keep us on our toes here at the house and I love her for it!

Toy's R Us

We loaded into the truck yesterday for a family trip

to the toy store because clearly

this guy

and this girl

do not have enough toys

clearly, they are deprived

Drew and I both were suprised when Jordan proclaimed,

"I want, I want, I want...EVERYTHING!"

He finally settled on this helicopter

we took the trip because he is always willing to do things

like this

and this

without a fuss,

that and we had a gift card