Sweet Sisters :)

I will be the first one to say when we went to our ultrasounds to find out the sex I was nervous!  I always want a healthy baby above anything, but I also was having really mixed feelings about the thought of having another girl.  I see so many different types of sister relationships the good, the bad, and the down right ugly.  I grew up with two older brothers and my Mom grew up with three older brothers so I would tell people I don't know how to do this sister thing, the drama, the fights over stealing someones shirt or shoes, the I am mad at you one second and now we are best friends saga that seems to go on between sisters.  I also am very close to my Mom and I love the idea that Lanie and I will get to share that, but I wasn't sure how that would work if I had to do that with both my girls, so when we had our reveal party and the icing on the inside was pink I had a small freak out inside.  As their mother I still have no idea how to deal with all the things that will be coming my way in the coming years, but as I see my GIRLS it warms my heart to know that no matter what they will have a best friend for life.  I am not a super emotional person, but a couple mornings ago after I had laid Zoe back down after her early morning bottle and Lanie was getting up for the morning my big girl came running to me with arms open ready for a big morning hug and almost immediately she asked "where my baby sister" she is so excited to be a big sister :) With them only being 2 years and 3 months apart it is going to be super fun to see all the adventures they are going to have along the way and the best part is they will get to share them with their sister (and hopefully a couple with their Mom!)

Water baby

Last week update: Lanie loves to swim, but does not like sprinklers! Lanie's Mimi bought a little pool for the grand kids and who would have thought a little $10 blow up pool would bring so much joy to a two year old.  Of course half of that excitement is the pool the other half is her cousin Lala that comes to play with her.  Last week Lanie, Zoe , and I went to Mimi's and meet Aunt Chandra and Lala there for an afternoon of fun, Mark was paint balling like a crazy man all afternoon so we thought we would have some fun too :). Later that night grandma sandy and papa dick came to visit and Lanie got everyone to push her in the swing which is still one of her favorite things to do.

Today: Mark is doing last minute things to the rental house because we hand off the keys to our new tenants on Friday.  So the girls decided to go to Burdette and walk on the trail for a little bit and play on the playground.  Lanie has not been wanting to stay in a stroller so I didn't even think to bring hers about half way through the walk the combo of walking, being hot, and doing some major exploring Lanie had a melt down and wanted to be in a stroller! So the walk ended with me strolling Zoe and carrying Lanie, let's just say I was exhausted and seeking out a double stroller! My sister in law has a sit and stand one so I am going to try it it to see if it works for Lanie and Zoe.  Oh the adventures of being a mom to two little ones :)

Lanie has two more weeks of her own special blog and then we will become Wade Weekly. I looked back and started this one when Lanie was 4 weeks old so I thought that would be the perfect time to switch it over.

Lanie is a big sister!

She is here she finally arrived!!!! Lanie is a big sister now and oh what fun she is having.  She really is getting better each day that our sweet Zoe is around.  I think she has finally figured out that she isn't going anywhere and that our home is now Zoe's home too :) It has been a great week with Mark home and adjusting to being a family of 5 ( I have to count Mike the dog).

Zoe came into this world in all her glory at 5:34 weighing in at 9lbs 6oz and 21.5 inches long! I knew she was a big girl in there I just didn't realize that she was that big.  Eventually I am going to close out Lanie weekly and make it into a book for our sweet first born and the blog will then become Wade Weekly, catchy I know. But I with demands of a newborn and well just watching Lanie become a big sister I wanted to carry out her first several weeks as a big sister on her very own blog.  She is learning to literally share everything so I thought I would let her still have her blog for awhile longer. Also I have to figure out exactly how I am going to get this printed in book format :) I will post some pictures soon of our sweet new girl, but the best part is that she is here and healthy!

Busy, Busy, now waiting

I wrapped up another school year, but really today is the first day that has been laid back.  We own a rental property (aka: our house that would not sell) we had great tenants, but they informed us in April that they would need to be leaving in June due to needing more space, so the search began.  We asked around to see if anyone we knew would like to rent it and after a brief panic attack of thinking no one was going to and Mark and I would have to carry two mortgages I decided to put it on a site for rental homes here in Evansville.  Wow was I shocked when within the first 15 min of being on the site we already had 5 apts set up to meet people and show them the house.  Obviously I didn't want to take it down until we had a lease and security deposit for new tenants, so for the next 5 days I was averaging 7-10 phone calls a day about the property! Mark has a good sense on meeting people and gut feelings and I took care of all the applications and paper work.  So last Thursday and Friday we meet with six different people all who were interested and all were seriously great people.  Mark got a good feeling from the first couple and I really liked them too so after doing some responsible landlord phone calls we decided on them.  They signed their lease and gave their security deposit last week and will move in at the end of June, one more thing to cross off the list. Our deck finally got finished after rain delays and some old ladies railing that needed squeezed in before they started ours and it looks awesome! We love to spend time out there and I finally feel like its not an accident waiting to happen, check. Then we had other things like a friends wedding, a birthday party, finishing some stuff in the babies room, work stuff, etc. The problem is I told this new little miss to stay put until all that stuff was done and now that it's done well.......she is still staying put! I go to the doctor on wednesday and we will talk about an induction so it looks like she will be here one way or another real soon! As our little family is patienty waiting we are just having as much fun as this over tired mommy can handle.  We have been hitting up the library, spending time with cousins, hanging out with Mimi and papa, overall just trying to give Lanie as much special attention as possible because pretty soon she is going to have to share her mommy and daddy!!



Lanie on her 'birth' day , hopefully soon we can post one of her sister :)

Lanie on her 'birth' day, hopefully soon we will post one like this of her sister,