Easter Train Ride

I'm a little late posting Jenna's train ride, but for good reason. Drew took Thursday and Friday off this past week so we could do some MAJOR overhauling/rearranging in the house in anticipation of Baby #2's arrival. We bought a new desk and hutch for the kitchen area because the desk we had in there was way too big for the spot, so we assembled the desk, moved the "old" desk down to the basement to use in my scrapbooking area, and moved the desk that was down in the basement up to the garage to sell in our garage sale this summer. We then moved the queen bed in the guest bedroom to the main floor and were planning on moving it on down to the basement when we realized we couldn't fit the box spring down there. When you go down our stairs there's about 3 feet at the bottom before you "hit" the wall and then it splits into two separate rooms. Well, we can't make the turn at the bottom and the ceiling isn't high enough to stand the box spring up to scoot it around the corner so they're now in the garage too. Then we moved a bookshelf and filing cabinet from one side of the basement to the other, and moved a dresser, TV, and TV stand from the upstairs guest bedroom down to the basement. I'll use the dresser in my craft room, but we're still trying to figure out what to do with the TV and stand. We then moved the baby's dresser, changing table, crib, and glider rocker and ottoman up from the basement to the baby's room. Keep in mind in the midst of all this there was complete and utter chaos and disorganization as we're rearranging everything. We have the main floor and the baby's room in decent order, but the basement is another story. That'll probably be my project over the next few weeks. We owe a HUGE thank you to my mom for watching Jenna all day Thursday and Friday while we did this!! There's no way we could have accomplished everything we did with a little toddler running around. Thanks Mom!

Now on to the Easter train ride...some church friends of ours told us about a train ride for kids in a local mall over the Easter holiday. It's only $1 for kids to ride so we thought we'd check it out. Jenna LOVED watching the train go 'round and 'round. She'd just stand there and peer through the gate at it. I decided to ride the train with her because I don't think she's old enough to understand that she needs to sit down. I could see her standing up trying to get off in the middle of it. I have to admit I felt a little silly riding the little train, but that's what Mommies do...silly things to make their kids happy! :)




We went to see the Easter Bunny while we were at the mall, but just couldn't bring ourselves to spend $17 on a few pics of Jenna with the bunny. So we cheated and just took a few pics with the bunny in the background.


I think Jenna had had enough picture taking at this point...



And then Daddy wanted to show Jenna the cool gumball machine. Too bad Jenna couldn't eat the gum afterwards. Poor girl!


Here's a short video of Jenna and Mommy riding the train...

Odds and Ends

I have some random pictures on my camera that I thought I'd share with you before I take them off the camera and forget to post them.

After we get back from grocery shopping, I usually put the bags on the floor and Jenna likes to "help" me unpack the bags. I got busy putting things away and when I looked over at her, she had grabbed some yogurt containers and was stacking them one on top of the other, then unstacking them, only to stack them again. It was so funny to watch her!

Pictures of Daddy and Jenna playing in the backyard. She just LOVES being outside, which we're so glad, but it does make it tough on rainy/cold days when she constantly goes to the door and wants out.

Our neighbors (who also go to our church) have 4 kids - 3 boys and 1 girl who is now 6 years old. A few weekends ago, the mom asked us if we'd like an outdoor playhouse that her daughter had outgrown. I was thrilled because that's something that's on my garage sale list for this summer. They brought it over and Jenna just LOVES playing in it. We even ventured outside one day last week when it was a little chilly just so she could play in it some more.

Tomorrow I'll try to post pictures and a video of Jenna riding the Easter train at a local mall.

March Visit with Grandma B and Aunt Cathy

Jenna's Grandma B (Drew's mom) and her Aunt Cathy (Drew's sister) came out for a visit last weekend. I was going to update with pictures, but my wonderful sister-in-law has uploaded them on her blog, which saves me some time! Yay! So if you'd like to see pics of our weekend together, check out her blog at http://chrisncathy.blogspot.com/ .

Thanks Cathy!

Piggy Tails

Jenna's hair is getting so long and out of control. I probably do need to take her to get her 1st haircut, but I just haven't done it yet. Part of me doesn't want to admit she's ready for her 1st hair cut and the other part of me doesn't want to spend the $ if it's not too bad (and I don't trust myself to do it!). Anyway, I realized that I could put her hair in pigtails which helps with the crazy fly-aways that are always in her face. I know I'm biased, but I think she's just too cute with those pigtails!

1st visit to the park

It was finally warm enough for us to spend some time outside, so we decided to go to our neighborhood park on Saturday. Jenna seemed to really enjoy climbing on the playground equipment and going down the slides with Mommy and Daddy. She is looking more and more like a little girl instead of a baby...time sure does fly by too quickly!

Poor little girl

Well, we've got a sickie on our hands. She's actually been sick now for over a week. I took her to the doctor last Friday after she'd been having a fever for a few days, congestion in her nose and chest, and tugging at her ears. We found out she had an infection in her left ear, so she's been on amoxicillin since Friday, but has continued to have a fever and she's now tugging at her right ear, and her chest congestion has progressed into a rather nasty cough. After she woke up this morning with a fever of 102, I decide to take her in - a fever for a week is just too long, especially when she's on an antibiotic. So today we found out that she now has an infection in BOTH ears and a wheezing in her chest. They checked her for RSV, which is a respiratory infection, but that came back negative. So pretty much it's just a glorified cold. She'll now be on a stronger antibiotic for the next 10 days. Hopefully this will take care of it! Poor thing!

Here are just a few pictures from February...

Edit: I started this post yesterday. Today Jenna woke up and seems to maybe be on the "other" side of it. Her nose isn't as runny, she doesn't have much of a fever, and her cough seems to be getting better. Yay!