Gymnastics

Erica had her first gymnastics class on sat. I was not sure what to expect but it was great. She got to experience the floor with tumbling mats, she was learning to do sommersault and handstand( of course with moms help). We also we on the trampoline - which for an 8 month pregnant lady was quite interesting. She got to play in the foam blocks by the trapeze- though we did not venture to that yet...as well as the horizontal bar- she practiced holding herself up while mom brought her hips up. I do not have any pics sorry to say- Jimmy was at a wedding in wisconsin so I could not chase little Erica around and take pics- maybe next week. I can't wait to see what next week will brin but we are doing some practicing at home.
As for mommy I had my MD visit last week on Thursday and the MD told be that the baby is breech right now- he said theres -plenty of time fo the baby to turn though--- I hope so. I am 32 weeks so a few more weeks and we will talk about the options availabe.

August

Hello all- things here have been busy with trying to get the new babies room together- our furniture came in early!! This is amazing if anyone remembers the huge problems we had with Erica's furniture. So we painted and Brian - Melissa's husband put up a chair rail which looks great now the furniture will be here wed. I can't beleive how it is looking more and more like a baby boy room. Don't worry I will post pics next week.
As for me and the baby we are doing well I am 31 weeks as of friday and can't believe how mych this baby is moving compared to Erica sometimes I feel he wants to pop out through my belly. As I get bigger it is more difficult to be playing on the floor with Erica and as most of you know Erica like to use me as her jungle gym!! She is so cute though!! Erica has been changing by leaps and bounds- she still only has her cute four teeth that just keep getting bigger, I am wondering when the rest will appear? She has been walking for about 1.5 weeks now- it is so cute!
I was there to witness the first few steps so I was thrilled- she has been going back and forth between walking and crawling though since she is still much faster as a crawler. She is so cute how she gets herself into her standing position with this large squat she has good strong legs. She is going to start tiny tots gymnastics also at the end of the month. I can't wait this will be something that we can continue through the winter months when it is cold outside and also something that we can to spend special tim with Erica after the new baby arrives.
So many things though so little time to do everything. I also have to cath up on my scrapbooking. I will post some shots this weekend of the baby room as well as Erica walking-

Here are some cute zoo pics..

Erica is having so much fun being an animal!

She is taking a few steps here to mommy..

She loves her water table she plays almost everyday- thanks auntie amanda

I love my doggie

me and my mommy

I love her in these pigtails- she loves to brush her teeth..

bears training camp

well since I will not be attending any bears games this year I thought it would be a great idea to go to training camp. We packed up and went as soon as I got home from work and it was fun, hot but fun! There was a lot of things to do for kids which I was not aware of and we got to see all the players up close. we took a few pics during practice but I was not aware that we were going to be getting autographs too I I was not prepared for the camera then--- I got John Tate, Ricky Manning, and Garza. though Tommie Harris was standing next to me though did not take my autograph sheet--too many other kids. It was crazy seeing all of them so close and how huge they looked. I will try to post some practice pics later in the week.

Erica as a little bored at times...

Summer Fun

we have been busy this summer- here are a few of the things that we have done. We went to the zoo on beanie baby day and got some pics taken with the frog and the shark. We went to the family area and there were bunnies to pet which we though Erica would be all over though she was afraid of the bunnies. The one brown bunny kept approaching her though she kept trying to back up into me. She loves the merry go round so of course daddy took her this time.

Here is the beanie babies

look at that mean bunny Ha Ha

she loves the merry go round look at that smile

We also made our way to the splash pad over at the bolingbrook mall and she loved playing with all the kids that were there though it was stressful for me cause I didn't want any of the bigger kids falling or tripping over her.

here she is waiting for the water to come out

fearless

teddy bear

She is now more into her stuffed animals and thank goodness, she has tons of them. Here are a few pics with the teddy bears and her chair. She likes to sit in her chair and cuddle with her bears or read her books with them.

She loves her teddy bears!

Erica looks like she is kissing her bear!

Here she is reading to her teddy!

erica 1 year appointment

Erica had her one year appointment this past week and we have stayed pretty steady on the growth curves, still a little peanut. She is not yet 20lbs yet so we were told to hold off on turning her car seat around-- sorry peanut. She does understand simple one step questions and comments- She has been making the funniest of faces lately as well.

Her b day pic are below!

My pregnancy has been going well, I have definetly started to gain weight and look nice and round again. The baby is moving tons- I had my glucose test done a few weeks ago and it was negative. After this appointment comming up I will be down to every two weeks. It is crazy I can't beleive how quickly these months are flying by.

On that not Congrats to the graske family, who added Cole Anthony to their family on 7-16-08 he is so cute, I have gotten to see him twice already and it feels so comfortable holding a small, cute, cuddley, warm baby.

Look at those blue eyes!

Happy Birthday Peanut!

Family pic

Here is erica's cake and the small one is her smash cake. We found a new cake lady and the cakes were great. She was not too happy the first time around so we put it in the fridge for take two later in the weekend and she had a blast with it of course.

Blow out the candle!

take one (birthday party)

take two (later in the weekend)look at the happy girl!

present time- she was all over her gifts! (literally)

comfy chair

Here is baby Cole Anthony Graske

Sea World

We went to sea world when we were in California, it was great definetly worth the admission which was costly. We took our picture next to one of the Clydesdales which look HUGE next to our peanut. We saw many different types of penguins and erica got to feel the arctic ice on the walls of one of the exhibits.

We got to see somw awesome shows including the dolphin show Erica was so amazed with the dolphins and the tricks that they were doing, she started clapping when everyone cheered. We also saw the shamu show which is named Believe. It was so great the trainers were so good it has got to be an amazing job to work with these animals. Here are a few shots of the great day that we had.



here she is cheering in the stands

these trainers are awesome!

here are jellyfish BEWARE!