Hannah is Here!!!!

The newest member of our family is here!!!

Hannah Evelyn Abbott was born on Friday, April 16, 2010 at 2:17 in the afternoon.

She weighed 7 lbs., 10 ozs.

She was 20 inches long.

Here are some pictures from her birthday!

The Last Pictures of Noah as an Only Child

It's hard to believe that this time tomorrow Hannah will be here and Noah will be a big brother. The poor little guy is under the weather right now. He has a low grade fever and I think his throat must be sore as he didn't eat much today except popsicles and yogurt. I sure hope he feels better, I will miss him so much while I'm in the hospital as it is. Here are some final "only-child" pictures.

Playing in the sandbox with Daddy:

Hugs!!

Kisses!

Tickles!

"Riding" his trike. (Okay, Justin's doing all the work, but it's still fun!!!)

We went to the new park at the Erie rec center today before I realized how crummy he was feeling. He had a great time, none the less and I'm sure the fresh air was good for him.

Here's the "choo choo train" slide:

In the tunnel:

On the big boy slide by himself!:

Waving hi to me:

He loves the slides. I couldn't get him to try the swings or riding toys. The nice thing about the park was that he could do everything himself and all the kids that were there were around his age.

We'll be posting pictures soon of our baby girl. Here's praying and hoping for a smooth transition for our little boy and a safe delivery of our little girl!

Love, Justin and Amy

Easter 2010

We hope that you all had a wonderful Easter!

We had a nice Easter spent with family and friends. The Easter weekend started with an Easter egg hunt at the local toy store on Saturday. It was VERY windy! And the parents were more than disappointing. The toy store owner had gift certificates to his store in the eggs and maybe that's what prompted it, or maybe it's just the teacher in me thinking that the egg hunt was about the kids doing the egg hunting, but the parents were like scavengers.

Here are a few pictures:

"It's so windy dad!"

Here you can really see how windy it was:

Opening the eggs at home:

My brother, sister-in-law, nieces and folks came over to dye eggs. It was a lot of fun, but I don't think anyone had as much fun as Noah. He was literally throwing the eggs into the cups. At one time he had half of the cups occupied with his eggs. He's so lucky that his cousins are so patient and loving with him.

The next three are pictures of him telling Uncle Aaron all about the egg dying process. You can see from his expressions he was quite serious! :-)

The Easter bunny out did himself/herself again this year. Noah got a slide that will eventually be moved outside, a whole bunch of sandbox toys, a sand and water table, two puzzles, some playdough toys and a "big, red truck." The Easter bunny also his eggs that had more cars and Easter trinket toys in them.

Here he is checking out his "stash":

Noah and I have been going to church at the church in which I grew up. Justin attended Easter Sunday with us and afterwards they had an egg hunt. Thank goodness this hunt was a pleasant opposite of the one the day before. And his cousins were there to help him:

My two lovely nieces on Easter Sunday. Aren't they so cute?! Mary turned ten in February and Ellie will be 8 on May 2nd!

I like to try to get pictures of the cousins on the holidays but this year it was quite a challenge. Noah was a little tired (but if you were up at 4:30 wouldn't you be?!). So, all the pictures we got of them he was either running circles around them or the girls were trying to hold him still.

Here's a short video of Noah running around the girls:

Noah adores his girls. Here's Ellie making Noah laugh:

I had a great spring break playing with my little boy. He finally opened one of his Christmas presents: the playdough dentist. He had a great time playing with it. We even named the patient "Fred", which Noah pronounces "Sred". Here he is taking care of the "bad teeth."