Hodge Podge Zoo Belly

No real theme to this post... just some snapshots of what's been going on here the last month or so.

Trip to the zoo. She loved it, especially the spider monkeys :)

Joella with her new little weights. Look closely and you'll see our latest experiment with her two fingers. Trying to stop what we started two years ago by way of her sucking them. Should be interesting...

"Doing exercises." Not sure where she learned this one...

Getting ready to be a big sis.

Approx. 23 weeks along here. Hopefully this "photo session" doesn't make Joella think she gets to stand on the fireplace whenever she wants :)

Baby boy, watch out for that feisty little girl! He goes by name these days although Joella can't pronounce it correctly yet. She likes to talk to and pray for him and have him "talk back." She also likes to share food with him. We'll see if that lasts!

Hangin' with Daddy

Not much new here really. Matt's still been working some long hours so Joella's especially excited to have him around more on the weekends.

Matt started flying fixed wing recently. He did his first solo a couple of weeks ago so that's kind of neat that technically he can fly helicopters and airplanes :) He still has quite a few instruction hours left to get to a point where he could fly our family anywhere, but it's still fun to think about! Joella loves pointing out any airplane or helicopter that we see and talking about daddy...

No major baby news -- it's definitely moving around in there. We're excited to find out boy/girl in a couple of weeks. If it's a girl, our house is going to have a LOT of drama, but if it's a boy -- well, we don't really know what to do with a boy yet. Either way, we're excited.

Baby Moses

Grandpa and "Debbie Debbie" (aka Grandma Debbie) came to El Paso just after Christmas. They came to visit all of us, but mostly to hang out with Joella while Matt and I went to a conference in Colorado. I don't think she missed us much... sounds like they had a lot of fun.Joella LOVES reading her Bible. If she's bored, she'll most likely grab that and flip through until she finds her favorites. Samuel, the ouwie guy (could mean Goliath or the guy that the good Samaritan stops to help), Jesus on the cross or up up high in heaven, Noah, or a recent favorite, baby Moses.

For a while ALL she would talk about was baby Moses and she especially likes to get wrapped up like him or wrap a baby up like him. I guess it made her day when the monkey at the zoo looked like baby Moses too...

From the picture, you can tell that Joella's going to need some practice with that swaddling and holding before the next little baby joins our family. Yep - if you haven't heard, we're expecting this summer. Our best guess is early July (considering Joella went 42+ weeks). And no - its name most likely won't be Moses :)