Catching Up

Well, I know it’s been a long time since either of us have posted.  Things have been crazy in the Lehmann household.

As I’m sure most of you know by now we are expecting baby #2 in early April.  This time around the pregnancy is much harder on me than it was with Morgan.  The first few months were very rough with me losing ~10 lbs.  Things started to get better around Thanksgiving, and then rough again a couple of weeks before Christmas.  Thankfully, things seem to be getting a little better again this past week.  I am very happy that we only have ~3 months left to go.

Well with me not feeling well, Matthew being super busy, and Morgan being far more mobile it has become much harder to get good pictures taken (we aren’t entirely convinced that the camera doesn’t have something to do with that either, but that’s another story).  Morgan has gone from stumbling around at the end of the summer to full fledged running everywhere now.  Not only does she not stop, she loves the camera and will go for it any time she sees it.

Let me see, what is there to fill everyone in on.  Since we are having another baby we decided to turn what was the guest room into a nice new room for Morgan.  In September, we (and by that I mean mostly Matthew) cleared out the guest room (which had housed all our videos, books, and all my craft stuff) and moved on to painting it.  As you will can see from the pictures we decided to go with a bright green to make it lots of fun.  Morgan also got a bunk-bed and a beautiful new hope chest.  We haven’t moved Morgan into her new room yet, but we are going to try getting her in there for a nap sometime this week, wish us luck!

After Morgan’s room came Thanksgiving.  We hosted Thanksgiving dinner at our house for Matthew’s family this year.  Everything went very smoothly, if you ignore the fact that the washing machine died 3 days before dinner.  Not only did the washing machine die, but I also took it apart to see if I could do anything to fix it and apparently I didn’t get the hose connected all the way.  Luckily Matthew found the leak the next day and he managed to get it cleaned up.  Of course the carpet in Morgan’s room was soaking wet for our dinner.  Morgan really enjoyed having her cousins over for the evening, even with all the different outfits they made her try on.  My favorite part was the pumpkin pie made from the pumpkin that we grew in our garden.

We had grand ideas for Morgan for Halloween, unfortunately, she came down with strep throat and scarlet fever.  It certainly made for an interesting week.  I have to say that I am very glad that it was the first time that she was sick because she was horrible.  She decided that she doesn’t like to take medicine, so getting the penicillin into her 3 times a day was a HUGE fight, with most of it going everywhere but in her mouth.

November was just a big blur.  We had our second ultrasound and everything looks great.  Other than that it was mostly just chasing Morgan around, trying to keep the house semi-clean, and working on the business every other waking moment.  Needless to say we were really looking forward to taking 2 weeks off for Christmas.

December brought a few more interesting developments.  We had pictures with Santa (Morgan was great!), Ashaya’s birthday party, a house visit from a very friendly duck, getting ready for Christmas, destruction behind our house (it used to be a large treed lot, but now they have leveled it to get ready to put in 9 houses), a visit with Great Grandma Mary, and of course Christmas.

Morgan loved having her Daddy home for 2 weeks.  We did a lot of taking it easy and ignoring phones and email.  Now of course it’s back to the grind.  Things are still as hectic as they were before Christmas.  Of course we have to be sure to get everything finished up before baby time, and as we found with Morgan, that could be earlier than expected.

This week we are thinking about starting with potty training.  Morgan hates to have her diaper changed and at 27 lbs (and 33.5″ tall) she is getting to be much harder to control.  We have got some reusable training pants so we’ll see how things go.

Hope everyone had a happy and healthy holiday.  I should be posting a few videos next week.

Fifth Month

We survived another month!

This little terror (oops, I mean angel) has had some astounding growth in the last month.  She’s up to 15 lbs and has the smiling personality of a Mafia Don.  She’s all smiles and giggles right up until the point where she jams her hands in your mouth and rips off your lips.  Beth is covered in scratches from those sharp little razor claw.

We had a fantastic first Hallowe’en where Morgan dressed as Futurama’s Nibbler, and true to her namesake, she tried to eat all of the leaves in the backyard.

She has made the transition to solid foods.  Our goal this month is to really push this as she is still not sleeping through the night.  Maybe it’ll work.

She’s become a University girl.  We took her to some of my classes and we finally had to ban her and mom for being so disruptive.

See some of the pictures here.

Some First’s:

★ Hallowe’en

★ University Enrollment

★ Shopping trip to Vancouver (and ride on the Granville Island Ferry)

★ Day with Daddy

★ Eating Solids

★ Bath in the Big Bathtub

Hallowe’en 2009

Morgan celebrated her first Hallowe’en in style:

 

 

 

 

 

She went as Nibbler from Futurama.  Perhaps a bit too nerdy as not too many people got it (except for the two 17 year old boys working in the produce section of Clayton’s).  She absolutely loved the attention and the little red cape.

Pictures of the event: (Full Picasa Album: here)