Still Waiting . . .

John and I thought for sure we would have a baby by Sunday morning, but no luck! I had small contractions 3 minutes apart for at least 2 hours before I went upstairs to try and get some sleep, but they never got any stronger between Saturday night and Sunday morning. I think Sunday morning was the one time EVER that John was disappointed that he didn't need to cancel his tee time. At least now his bag is also packed and ready to go.

In the meantime, we kept ourselves busy this weekend by cleaning out the garage, "swimming" in Reagan's kiddie pool, taking a walk to the park, a wedding shower and celebrating my Auntie Phyllis' birthday.

Unfortunately, as I've gotten farther along in my pregnancy, my picture taking has slowed significantly. I have a few pictures to post from Father's Day and will try to do that tonight, but wanted to give a baby update first.

"La Lu"

I don't know what's sweeter . . . hearing those three magical words from the person you're going to one day marry or hearing them for the first time from your child.

As part of our night time "ritual," John and I kiss and hug Reagan and of course, say "I love you." Most of the time she'll repeat it back to us. Tonight, however, as I was about to lay her in her crib and say those words, I heard "La lu" in her sweet, little Reagan voice. She said it to me first! I love her sweet little voice and it's even sweeter when she says "La lu."

Father's Day at Como Zoo

John, Reagan and I met my parents and John's parents at Como Zoo to celebrate Father's Day. Although John probably would have rather gone golfing, being 9 months pregnant, Como Zoo was just the right amount of walking for me to handle and allowed both grandfathers to spend time with their granddaughter.

Reagan with her Daddy and the flamingos.

With Papa Jim and Papa Mac.

It was nice that the animals were so close to the walkway, but I felt bad that they had such small living spaces.

The whole group on the antique carousel.

Riding her horsie with Daddy.

Company Picnic

We went to John's company picnic at the end of June. Reagan and I were excited to escape the heat of our house since our air conditioner had blown a fuse the day before. It was actually cooler outside than in our house. It was fun that she was old enough to participate in some of the activities this year.

Reagan was really excited about the water balloon toss.

Her toss wasn't quite far enough to break the balloon.

Moon bounce.

Playing with Daddy on the playground.

I love the slide!

One of the last pictures as a family of three!

Little Mac Update

Here's a quick update on Little Mac and our preparations for baby #2. We're 10 days away from the due date and really, I guess the baby can come at any time, but I'm not getting my hopes up. The hospital bag is in our room, but completely unpacked (but I made a list last night). I now have the blog updated so that's one last thing on my list. John's list seems to be growing however, and we hope to get some painting done this weekend in our bedroom. When that is complete, I'll post some pics of Little Mac's "room."

The doctor's update made us realize that we needed to start getting some of these things done. At Tuesday's appointment, I had dialated to a 2 in a week's time (which I never did with Reagan) and she agreed that the baby has definitely dropped. She estimated that Little Mac will be around 7 lbs, which was the same guess for Reagan although she came in a bit smaller.

Thank you all for voting for baby names, but unfortunately, we probably won't go off the poll results and really we have no clue what name the baby will end up with. We keep going back and forth and just when we think we've figured it out, it changes again. I guess we'll just have to wait to meet the little guy before we decide.

Reagan really has no idea what is going on, but she knows that a lot of things belong to her brother. She will walk around with baby clothes or the baby's nuk and say "Brother shirt" or "Brother Nukie" or climb on the new crib and say "Brother crib." Her definition of brother changes daily too. One day "brother" means my belly button. The next day "brother" is our 7 month neighbor Ethan. She's in for a surprise when she learns the true meaning of brother and that he doesn't live across the street!

Neighbor Kim says that the hospital gets a lot of babies when the storms roll in and I guess there are storms predicted for this weekend and next week, so we'll see if that will make Little Mac want to come out too.

In the meantime, we continue to be super busy with activities and really, I don't know when I have the time to deliver this baby, but he will come when he wants to!

Future Olympic Gymnast?

Does Reagan have a future as an Olympic gymnast? Maybe if the Olympics adds some of these events to the competition . . .

Walking the balance beam (no fancy tricks necessary)

Daddy holding you up to the rings while smiling

Rolling over the barrel (in this event, our little girl cheered everyone on with "Reach, reach!" but when it came to her turn, she wanted nothing to do with reaching or the barrel!)

Running in bubbles

Helping

And for all that work, Reagan (and Daddy and Mommy) received their first medal.

Future Team USA