Monday, March 29, 2010

Getting ready for the baby...

Time is flying by for our family and this little boy is going to be here before we even blink an eye. It's kind of interesting with having #3 on the way, I realize the "baby" things that we don't need and then I realize so much of what we really do need. We got rid of so much stuff between Avery and this baby, because to be quite honest, for a long time we thought we were "finished" having children. We got rid of the car seat, the crib, the swing (which we never really used anyway), bottles (which also never got used much since the girls never took a bottle of breastmilk until they were well over 10 or 11 months old!), the high chair, and a lot of baby toys. Our stroller is broken in some places and probably won't hold up for this 3rd baby.

So now, we find ourselves needing "big" things this time around, but then there is so much we do have...like baby boy clothes thanks to my sister, a dresser, lots of blankets, a bouncy seat, and some of the cloth diapers (though I think we might need a few more...we're not going to be putting this little boy in pink diapers like Avery wore!).

We've had some friends and family members asking us what we really need, so I finally got my act together and created a registry on Amazon.com, trying to keep it to things that we really need. And, okay, so there might be a few things that would be nice to have but we truely don't need them :-) ...like baby bedding :-)

Oh, and we are almost decided on a name, though it's not definite. We think we're going to name this little guy Zachary Christopher Davis and we'll call him Zach. Zachary means "the Lord has remembered". We love that...in so many different ways, that meaning speaks volumes to our lives and where we have been as a couple and as a family.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Some new pictures...




Here are some new and very overdue pictures of our family! A vintage carosel came to the downtown mall here in Charlottesville for a whole week to celebrate the coming of spring and rides were free! The girls loved riding on it! And here is me, almost 30 weeks pregnant...just about 3 more months to go!


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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Tell Me a Story...

Today, during homeschool time I asked the girls to tell me a story about their pet fish, Lily and Daisy. (Lily is Avery's fish, and Daisy is Kyla's pink fish) Here are their stories, word for word.

Avery (age 3.5)

"Lily was growing soon but she couldn't grow all the time. She had a dress on when she was a boy fish. In Charlotte, North Carolina we didn't have fish. Okay, she had socks on and cinderella on her dress. Isn't that really cool she had cinderella on her dress? So, she had eyes. Yeah, she had eyes. She had a tummy, she pooped a lot. This is going to be a really funny story."

Kyla (age 6)

"Once upon a time, Daisy used to have a planner. She planned a bunch of stuff and she finished it in one whole day. She finished her book. She lit a candle and then burned the book. Then she got near the radiator and broke it by accident. Then she got a bunch of presents because she broke the radiator. Then she had a dress and a headband and socks and leggings on. "

These stories really cracked me up...and Avery really suprised me with how much she "told" of her fish, Lily. Avery went first when I asked for the stories. I kind of thought if she went 2nd, then she would just copy Kyla's story. But she thought all of this up in her own little imaginative mind :-) I'm going to have to do this more often, it was so fun!