New Developments

Hello big wide world!  I have {mostly} given up blogging for the moment because of my frustration with the computers in my life, but I fugured I should at least try and give an update on what is going on in our lives.  We are great!!!! 
Emma:  learned to ride a bike with no training wheels!!  She learned while we were on the farm in June.  (The best place to learn if you ask me; the dirt road is a whole lot more pleasant to land on than our asphalt cul-de-sac!)  She is a pro now and loves to ride all over the place. 
Emma also lost her first tooth!  It is on the bottom and so it is not glaringly obvious it is missing unless she really opens her mouth wide or gives a BIG smile. 
She also wears glasses now!!! She has a type of strabismus, or misalignment of the eyes, called Accomodative Esotropia.  The doctor is hoping that wearing the glasses for a while will correct the problem and then she won't have to wear them any more.  In the meantime, they fit her well and she looks adorable. 

Arianna is as spunky as ever.  She never ceases to amaze us with what her little mind comes up with.  A week or so after we returned form New York, she was outside dumping dirt all over the patio (which she knows is against the rules).  I asked her why she was doing that and she responded that she was trying to make a dirt road, like at the farm!

Grant is growing up so fast.  He will turn 3 years old at the end of this month!  I can hardly believe it!  Unfortunately, he is still not interested in ditching the diapers.  I am hoping he will do what the girls both did and surprise us right around his 3rd Birthday.  I certainly don't want to be changing a 3 1/2 year old's diapers along with a newborn's!!!

Yes, you heard right!!  The biggest development of all is that I am expecting our fourth child in January- the day after Arianna's birthday to be exact.  We are very excited and feel so thankful to be able to have another child, with the chemo and all.  We weren't sure it would even be possible.  Much to the chagrin of my sister (you know who you are. . .) we will not find out the sex of the baby this time.  Oh! the surprise is wonderful!!!  So, I am 15 weeks along and feeling pretty well, just VERY tired. 

So, there you have it! Sans pictures.  Unfortunately, I can't seem to be able to upload pictures due to afore mentioned computer problems.  Story of my life. . .  I even bribbed Emma with a jelly bean so I could get a picture of her with her glasses and her missing tooth.  Na ja.  Hopefully we will buy a new computer soon and I will be back to sharing all our adventures.