Happy 2nd Birthday Seth

 Happy Birthday to our 2 year old!!!  I love our kids' birthdays and taking the time to reminisce about the day they were born!  Seth's life has brought us so much laughter and love.  He has kept us on our toes from the very beginning, surprises us with his sweetness every day, and makes us laugh at his randomness.  I love the stage he is in; speaking in sentences and talking all the time, running/jumping/climbing/throwing whenever he can,  dancing without any music,  Mr. Independent, belly laughing, excited to see family and friends.  He finds his little bottom in time-out a fair amount of times, but he is also very willing to share and help out!  He is learning things like crazy, singing the abcs, counting up to 12 sometimes, memorizing bible verses,  noticing everything around him.  We love our Seth so much!  Here are some pics from our birthday celebrations...

 Here Seth is with is birthday balloon after waking him up with the birthday song!

 Hannah picked out "Cars" Squinkies for his birthday.  He really loved them, and she was so proud of her gift! 

 Cookie Monster birthday party!!! 

 Eating pizza for his birthday.  The morning of his birthday I asked him what he wanted for breakfast and he said "pizza"! :)  He loves it.

 In his cookie monster tshirt.  Below he is showing his muscles, or "big boys" as he likes to call them.

 Cousins and grandparents...

 Eating cookie monster cookies!

 Clark Birthday party after Thanksgiving...

 Seth really likes birthday hats!

 All the cousins...

 Loved blowing out his candles!!!  Definitely a slobbery blow!

 Opening presents with the help of his cousins.  Below, he is jumping on his new trampoline from Papa Jack and Maggie!!!

Happy 2nd Birthday Seth!!!

November Update

 With Christmas card season coming up, we have been attempting to take some pics of the kids!  Here are a few we got :) It is hard to get them both to smile at the same time. 

 I wanted to get a few pics of Baby #3 and the kids as well. Next week starts the third trimester!  I can't believe how fast the pregnancy is going.  I am feeling really good, thankfully.  I love being pregnant as usual :)  This baby is extremely active...if I slow down for a minute he/she is kicking away.  At my last appointment the doctor said I was measuring exactly to the week and heartbeat has been in the 140s.  Nate and I are both predicting boy...we shall see! 

26 weeks!

 Hannah dancing and Seth climbing.  This is typical! 

And a few random shots from the past month...

Playing in the raked pine needles!

Playing Wii!  Seth has not figured out that his "wii board" doesn't work, ha! And yes, they both have bandaids on their faces.

 

They play so sweet together. 

We have started "Friday night pizza and movie night!"  The kids love it.  Their favorite movie right now is Annie!

Lastly,  Nate celebrated his 32nd birthday!

Kids making cake batter cookies! 

Enjoying the cookies together!

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Halloween 2012

Our kids had a lot of fun this Halloween.  We had a Belle and Batman in our house this year :)     Hannah is definitely in the princess phase, and has been looking forward to dressing as a princess for quite awhile. Seth dressed as Batman, not because he likes the superhero, but because I found the costume at a good price, ha!  He was happy to wear it while trick or treating and kept telling people he was batman!  In the morning we went to storytime at the library and he did not want to wear it.  He kept telling me he just wanted to wear his bib!!! Poor drooly boy.  They had a good time going up to the houses to fill their bags with candy and treats! 

Eating pumpkin shaped PB&J sandwiches for lunch! Silly faces!

Trick or Treating at the library!

Meeting another Belle at the Children's Museum Halloween Extravaganza

Painting Pumpkins

Making pumpkin cut-out cookies with Grandma! This was before the sprinkle mess!

Fall Fun

 Some random pics of what we have been doing the last couple of weeks!  Above, Hannah is having "school time" with Seth :)

 Kids helping Nate outside!

 I celebrated my 31st birthday in September!  Hannah "surprised" me with a cake.  Nate and her went to pick out a cake and she was determined that it had to be a vanilla cake with pink frosting :) I got some very sweet birthday songs from our kids! (see videos of songs at the bottom) They are the best gifts :)

 Hannah with her cupcake!

 Some family came over to celebrate!

 The day after opening gifts, the kids had a blast playing "in" the bags! This cracked me up!

 Fall Fun!  We went and picked out pumpkins at our local farmers market. 

 Seth hugging the pumpkin.

 Nate playing chase with the kids!

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 We have been loving our fireplace in our new house!  It has been nice in this fall weather!
Here is Hannah and Nate with matching IU sweatshirts!

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 Seth and I!  Can't believe this little guy will be 2 in a couple months! 

 Finally,  we have made it past the half way mark! Above is my 21 week baby belly.  Below is a pic from our ultrasound.  Baby is growing great and seems healthy and strong, which we are thankful for!  We decided to try and be surprised with the sex this time around.  I am missing the excitement of knowing what baby is now, but am looking forward to finding out at the birth!  Yay!