We are having a baby!

You may have noticed that I having been posting as many pictures as I used to, and that we have been laying a little low.  We'll we are having a baby in May!  My actual due date in May 28th, but the baby will most likely come a week early via a c-section, so maybe around May 21st we will have baby Heiss #2.  Unless of course I go into labor early.  Seeing Emily will turn 3 on May 20th, they kids will be 3 years apart.  We are very excited about having another baby, the only unfortunate thing is I haven't been feeling well.  Pretty much all day morning sickness, headaches, and now heartburn, but it will all be worth it!  I am 13 weeks tomorrow November 20th, this picture is at 10 weeks when I saw my OB.

Great Grandma Weidmayer & Play group

We had another fun day today.  First we went to visit Great Grandma Weidmayer and take her some homemade Chicken & Rice Soup and fresh WARM Banana Bread out of the oven.  Grandma is always so happy to see Emily and it's nice to visit and catch up with grandma.  It must have been the day for soup because my cousin Amy dropped off bean soup for Grandma too, so she won't go hungry today!

After Great Grandma's we went to play group at Peace Lutheran Church and had a great time painting for the FIRST time!  I was truly amazed that Emily followed the instructions very well, which was to color one color per square with the paint.  At the end the kids weren't rotating the paint as much so Emily ended up with several squares of orange.  I thought for Emily not being 2.5 yet she did a good job trying to stay in the lines, the longer we did the painting, the more relaxed she got, at the beginning it was almost perfect.  It was cute, we were sitting next to Blake and he was having a grand time using the teal blue color, he thought Emily needed some blue on her picture she got a little dollop of Blake's teal blue that he was using.  They share so nicely.

Grandma's make great babysitters

Sunday Jim's mom and grandmother came to hang out with Emily when we went to a Piston's game with my family.  Emily had a blast with her grandma and great grandma doing puzzle's, playing on the swing set and going for a walk.  

Jim and I have not left Emily with a babysitter yet, we have only left her with family or our friends' Julie and Erik.  It's something we need to do soon, I am sure she will be fine, we just been spoiled by parents being close and watching her and Jim's mom and grandma watching her too.  I goal is this winter to find a nice babysitter for Emily so have some options outside the family, who knows maybe Jim and I will actually go out for New Years Eve this year?

Trick or Treat

Halloween was chilly this year, so Emily had long johns on and was layered up under her Carebear costume.  I had to share this picture of the kids handing out candy and watching the trick or treaters out the window at Julie & Erik Cabble's house (Blake is the lion, Megan is in the orange and green, and Emily in the long johns).  

We didn't go to very many houses on Halloween because it was so cold and the kids were  having almost as fun being inside watching the kids come up in their costumes.  We went to about 10 houses and I think Jim and I ate all of Emily's candy within a few days, minus the one dumb dumb sucker Emily had after Trick or Treating.  I am glad we didn't get a lot of candy and have a lot left in the house calling my name.  I was shocked that Emily has not asked for her Halloween candy once since we brought it home, I guess she forgot about it, which is fine with me.  Emily's thing these days is to ask for ice cream which she sometimes gets if she finishes her meal and eats all her veggies.

Carving the Pumpkin with Daddy

Emily wasn't so sure about getting her hands all slimy when she was cleaning out the pumpkin with daddy.  But after a while she got more into it and was excited when she pulled out a pumpkin seed or two.  She really didn't dig in like some kids do, she doesn't like to get messy or dirty.  She was excited with the finished product when we lit the pumpkin at our friends house. 

Music Together with Daddy

On Halloween we went to a make-up Music Together class and Jim got to go too seeing it was on Saturday!  Emily was so excited that Daddy was going to her music class and she talked about it for days.  Emily is so cute at music together, she copies pretty much everything the instructor does and is great at playing the musical instruments, it is definitely the highlight of our week.  Emily sings the songs and dances around the room, I love going just to watch Emily get so excited and be so happy.

Halloween Fun

Here are some of the pictures leading up to Halloween.  The day before Halloween we went to the library in our orange festive pumpkin outfit from Grandma Jane and then we headed over to my grandma's house for lunch.  We had to put on our costume for Great Grandma, so she got to see both the orange outfit and the Carebear costume!  The last picture is of Emily trying on her costume a about a week before Halloween, I found this great costume for a steal at a Mom 2 Mom sale.  YEAH!