the results are in...

looks like we'll be adding another boy to our family in August! we're all super-excited. :)

random updates

I think that I've mentioned this before, but Roman likes hiding - squeezing his little body into tight spaces (which is totally not something his mama would do), sometimes even if it's dark (ie closets) and will sit there quiet for a surprising amount of time. One of his favorite places to squeeze into is our pantry - he opens both doors and (tries to) flatten his body so that he can pull the pantry door closed. If we don't acknowledge him right away, he starts saying "hide! hide!" It's pretty funny!

we finally spent some time outside in the snow last week - since it was actually above zero and not super-windy out! roman liked the snow - but even more, he liked the icicles. he was very good at spotting them and pointing them out for jake to grab. (luckily they were all within reach!)

last weekend, the davisons came to visit - yeah! roman and raefe had fun playing together, and the rest of us did, too! whenever we would drive somewhere, britt and i would have r&r in the backseat of our vehicle and jake and ross would follow us in vehicle #2. we're not sure what was so funny, but r&r would laugh at each other -- raefe would usually start, and then roman, and then raefe again, and on and on... and they were good, belly laughs... wish we could have got that on camera! next time!

weekend fun

roman got to spend some time with my parents last weekend - they came up to Ankeny so jake and i went out without the little guy!

here's roman enjoying some of grandma's congo bars... yum!
...wonder where grandpa's congo bar is? maybe he already ate it!

roman opened an (early) valentine's gift from grandma and grandpa - a very cool tonka truck that makes noises! he tried his best to say "thank you"...

...and then he started shredding the blue tissue paper that was in the gift bag. i asked him to please not make a mess. i got busy doing some other stuff and then found later that night where roman decided to put the torn up tissue paper...in my shoes! funny boy!!

it's poppin' time!

roman received many fun/noisy gifts for christmas. he tends to have a favorite gift-of-the-week... and this week, it's the popper from uncle conrad! thanks, uncle conrad. :\

welcome back!

this little greeting was to myself, since i haven't posted anything in awhile. we had a great month of december - roman seemed to enjoy the christmas festivities very much! the three of us celebrated christmas on the day before christmas eve ("christmas adam", as joni would say!) we got roman some toys, since most of what we had around here were more "baby" toys... but the new ones we gave him were surprisingly noisy! what were we thinking!?! thank goodness for "off" buttons!

we traveled to denver, co over christmas to celebrate with jake's family. roman did well on the trip -- we actually splurged and got a portable dvd player (especially with the bad weather forecast which ended up being correct!) -- so roman became a fan of "veggie tales". here are some pics of his driving experience... parenting at its best, right? :}

while out in denver, we went to the denver chidren's museum - very cool! we were there for about 2 hours... think roman could have spent the day there! we highly recommend it to anyone traveling through!

we traveled down to wayland over new years weekend to celebrate with my family. had a fun time watching movies and just hanging out! raefe and roman got toy tops that they were both very interested, and so was grandpa!

grandma rosie came down to visit us on saturday - she and roman spent some serious time putting puzzles together, which is a new love of roman's!

holidays always seem to be busy - lots going on but so much fun! another little fun christmas "gift" was that we got to share that we are expecting a baby in august! we are thankful for good health so far and pray for good health going forward!

random catch-up...

speaking of catch-up... roman loves dipping things in ketchup. that's one of his newest favorite things.

another new favorite thing... christmas lights. he is easily distracted by christmas lights as we're driving - he "oohs" and "aahs" with us. and he loves the lights on our christmas tree. he walks around the tree in circles, touching every ornament that he can reach (not grabbing the ornaments, but just touching...)

roman also loves the giant, glowing Santa that waves in the wind every night across the street at our neighbor's house... roman stands at the front window and yells "Santa!" in a jackie chan-type voice (try it out loud right now... funny, huh?) :) definitely makes us smile!

here is a pic that was taken on our thanksgiving trip to hesston with the yutzys -- roman and raefe are sporting their new, matching long underwear (thanks grandpa mark & grandma susan!) ... they don't look very happy in this pic, but trust me, they were having fun!! :)


hope all are surviving the holiday season and looking forward to spending time with family and friends in the coming weeks!!

Two "firsts" in one day...

Jake and I have both convinced the other at some point or another to NOT cut Roman's hair... but this weekend, we were both in agreement that it needed to be cut. It was getting in his eyes, and he had been called a "she" one to many times at Wal-Mart. :( So Roman had his first haircut (thanks to Barber Jake) AND.... his first sucker (to keep him happy while the cutting was going on!) He did very well - sat still while Jake trimmed away and enjoyed his sucker to the end!

This first pic is "pre-sucker"...

and the end result... a short cut, a big smile, and still enjoying that sucker!