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Quite a while since I have updated here. We even have a computer at the house now and it still doesn't seem that I get to things! Its been a busy year so far......
Ella accomplished the feat of potty training with flying colors several months back. I finally just forced her to try when I asked her to for a couple days and its been easy cheesy since. She is even dry 98% of the time overnight and wakes up to go sometimes! Its amazing what candy and consistency can bring!!
Ella attended her first horse expo and rodeo at the Mn State Fair grounds April 24th. She had a blast and loooved all the horsies! She also sat enthralled through the two plus hour rodeo performance!
Here is Jake and Derek at the expo...looking particularily red-neckish....
The next day Ella turned three years old!! I cannot believe how fast she is growing! We had fun celebrating with her and we even managed to get the moonwalk set up for when we had friends over with their kids...it was a blast (Thanks Joe and Rachel!!).
May flew by, but Jake did good for mother's day and set up a vegetable garden area in the yard!! It was nice to have him around for mother's day for once too! Since he went on a Boundary Waters trip the week after he skipped fishing opener this year! Ella had fun helping too! We did lose some plants because I apparently planted too early and we had two nights of frost after that Sunday - jeez! Uh well, we figure this will be our experimental year to learn some lessons....lesson 1 learned!
Jake went to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) for over a week with Erik, Jeremy, Jim, and Dan. Apparently they had a good time, and Ella and I did ok without daddy around. Ella did miss him though and so did I (I hate doing the dishes!).
While Jake was gone I managed to finally get some photos of Ella as her official three year photos. I used my old(er) non-digital professional camera in the back yard. I got some nice ones...
We are starting to get ready for baby number two and I got all the clothes washed and in the drawer (how did I end up with so many onsies?!). We know its a girl, at least thats what the ultrasounds indicate. We have decided on the name Maven Olivia...I know its different, but we love it and I think we will call her Mae for short. I am now 33 weeks so under two months left!! I do get another ultrasound tomorrow...I am measuring small so the doctor will double check the growth - not really worried, I measured small with Ella too and she was above "average" size everytime they checked!
Ella is excited to be a big sister, this being perpetuated even more by big sisiter books that we have been reading. They really did the trick to get her to think about it more and identify herself as the big sister. She talks and sings a lullaby with me to Maven several nights a week before bed....too cute!
Hope everyone is having a great summer so far and I will hopefully bring updates on a more regular basis.
Love,
The Allens
