Today's the day!

"Today's the day, the sun is shining, the tank is clean!" 

Today we finally get to find out the gender of our new little baby on the way. I am so excited! I'm excited to call this baby by name or refer to it as he or she instead of it! I'm excited to teach Rachel how to say baby sister or baby brother and to teach her this little ones name (once we figure it out that is.) I'm excited to start sewing baby blankets and buying whatever else we need for our new little one. I like to be as prepared as possible, I would have a really hard time not finding out my baby's gender til they were born. I'm glad I don't have to! It's kind of exciting, in my family there are 7 grandsons and 7 granddaughters so which ever my baby is will tip the scales. :) Also in Jacob's family there are 4 granddaughters and no grandsons, so we could either be having the 5th girl or the 1st boy. Either one would be fun. Jacob is sure that this little one is a boy, mostly because this pregnancy has been so different than my last one. My guess is girl. Partially so that one of us can be right, and I just think it would be fun for Rachel to have a sister. Either way though, we will be thrilled. I'm just excited to finally know. Wish me luck that this baby will be wiggly and not too modest!

Ring Around the Rosies

Rachel loves to dance. A few months ago we taught her Ring Around the Rosies for a family night game and she has loved it ever since. She always wants to do it over and over again. I'm lucky because she doesn't need to hold my hands to do it anymore the way she used to. Now she will just turn in a circle all by herself. She makes me laugh because when she is telling me she wants to do Ring Around the Rosies, she just gets up and starts turning in a circle and kind of tries to hum while looking pointedly at me like, "Aren't you going to start singing, Mom?" I love watching her dance and figured I better get it on video while she is still little. Isn't she cute?

Just like Mama again

Here are a few pictures I forgot to put in my other post. I asked Rachel to bring me a blanket which she did, but she immediately turned around to get one for her too and this is what she did.

 

 

 

 

 

Baby

I am convinced that Rachel is going to be such a good big sister! She loves her baby doll and tries to do all of the things for it that I do for her. She even asks me to put diapers on it and to clip its finger nails and toenails.

This is a common sight as well at our house:
 

Buckling her baby in so it doesn't fall out:
 

Feeding her baby fish crackers:
 

I love my little girl!

Show me a sign...

Rachel is signing so much these days. We show her Signing Time movies every so often, maybe only 3 times a weeks or something like that but it amazes me how quick she picks up on sign language. She can probably sign over a hundred different signs and it is so nice because she can sign a lot of things that she can't say yet so it is really nice to get more of a glimpse of what she is thinking about and its nice to be able to communicate more with her. Here is a little video of her signing a few things.