April Showers!

Well, it has been entirely too long. We have been super busy the past few weeks. Mommy is back at work and Annabelle is enjoying spending the day at Linda's day care. Here's a picture of our first day.
We spent Easter weekend in Green Bay visiting our families. Andrew made a trip to the National Railroad Museum (and here you thought Green Bay was only on the map because of the Packers!). He had a blast at the train museum.
Nikolas and Andrew at the train museum. So Cute!
Easter egg coloring.
Daddy finally has a girl in his life that loves to watch baseball with him. No complaints from Miss Annabelle!

Andrew and Mommy have been enrolled in swim lessons for the past 6 weeks that run through mid-May. Andrew didn't have much fun the first time out, but now loves his time in the water. He even goes down the Caterpillar slide all by himself. We'll post some pictures as soon as we get Daddy and Annabelle to come watch us.
It looks like May is going to keep us busy as well. We have Annabelle's baptism the weekend of May 22nd. We are looking forward to our visitors that weekend. Enjoy the pictures!

Time Flys WAY too fast!

It is hard to believe that Miss Annabelle is 13 weeks old. It is already time for her to start day care and for me to go back to work. (tear). Although we've been cooped up in the house for the last 3 months (4 months for me - thanks to bedrest) we have had a good time. We got to miss out on the endless snowy commutes, negative 20 degree days and instead just sit at home, watch TV and snuggle.
I am looking forward to interacting with adults, but I will definitely miss my time home with Annabelle. She will be attending the same in-home infant day care Andrew did - Linda's!! yay! We know she will be well taken care of and will learn so much.
We recently made a trip to Green Bay. Here's Mr. Andrew hangin out in the car with his ipad. What started out as Mom & Dad's ipad has quickly turned into Andrew's ipad. He maneuvers around it better than we do.
Here we have Andrew, Grandpa and Nikolas. We discovered it is impossible to get all 3 boys to look at the camera at the same time, so this is the best picture I got. No one is sticking their tongue out, flashing the camera or making a crabby face.
If you don't already know, we are planning to baptize Annabelle on Sunday May 22nd after the 6:15pm mass. You are all welcome to join us!

Koko Cave

For the past couple months I would come downstairs and find all of the rugs in our house scrunched up into balls and it was driving me nuts fixing all of them. At first I thought it was Andrew messing with me, but then I noticed it was happening during the day when he was at preschool. I snapped this picture of the guilty party. Since you can't train a cat I guess I'll have to learn to live with it or live without rugs. Silly Koko!

Burrrr.... Winter in Minnesota.

While the weather outside has been quite frightful, we've been keeping ourselves busy inside. This weekend we visited the Mall of America. Like many other Minnesotans we tend to avoid the MOA unless one of our touristy family members begs us to go, but it felt like a fun thing to do on a cold winter day. Andrew loves the Underwater World and Lego Land. We found a life size "Woody" made out of Legos (see above). Andrew got to buy a Lego Buzz to assemble with Daddy.
Yesterday we enjoyed the Packer victory with our friends the Genovaldi's. In case you don't know, the Genovaldi's are from Chicago and big Bear fans (ugh). This has been an interesting season with them. The best part of the game (other than the end) had to be when their 5 year old daughter said "Daddy, why don't you just cheer for the Packers already!"
Annabelle is growing like a weed. She seems like she's doubled in size since we brought her home. She's smiling and laughing now. We'll see the doctor next week for her 2 month checkup. Andrew is really enjoying being a big brother. He talks to her all the time and offers to watch her. He's looking forward to her sharing a room with him. She's been sleeping in Mom & Dad's room, but soon she'll be making the move to Andrew's room. She's been such a good sleeper, probably better than Andrew is now. She gives Mom & Dad at least 6-7 straight hours of sleep a night.
Littlest Packer Fan.
Mommy, Annabelle and Andrew at Underwater World.
Andrew and Daddy checking out the new Ambulance at the new Chaska Medical Center. We went on a tour of the new place.
We are looking forward to seeing everyone in Green Bay in a few weeks!

Awake!

Hey, she is awake once and a while!