January in review

January has already come and gone and this is my first post for January! We had a major computer catastrophe right at the end of December and have just gotten our computer back to working conditions! Thank goodness!!

Not much new here in the Foster house. Marlee continues to impress us by the things she says! It's always something new everyday! She's also become very opinionated-letting us know EXACTLY what she wants and doesn't want. Oh, and if she doesn't want/like something, she will throw a mini temper tantrum on the floor, which we simply ignore!! Oh I can see the terrible twos coming already!!

We are also getting a little closer to Baby Brady's arrival! Right now I am 28 weeks and feeling really good! I will say that being pregnant now has been much more exhausting. There's nothing like chasing around a 21 month old that will cause you to count down the minutes till nap time!

To get ready for Brady's arrival, we have just had our basement "finished" off! We'll be able to put the office and a bunch of other items down there that are in the playroom; which is going to become Marlee's new room! Once we get everything relocated, Marlee will move rooms, and we'll be able to get Brady's room ready! Poor kid, his room will probably be ready the week before he arrives! Oh well!!

Here are some pictures from the last month!

Marlee loves to fingerpaint!! The first few times she fingerpainted, there wasn't much to clean up, but now, she makes sure paint gets everywhere!!!

Big smile for the camera!!

Playing "paydough"!

Gotta love Parker!!

Marlee getting to hold "Baby taden" (Kaden) for the first time! She loved holding him, but was a little more interested in watching Elmo too!

Time to fingerpaint with Courtney

Christmas 09 recap

It was another terrific Christmas in the Foster household! The week leading up to Christmas was busy, of course, but all the presents made it under the tree, wrapped!

Christmas Eve was a busy day for us-just like last year! It started with lunch at the "Greats" house (Kendall's grandparents)-yummy spaghetti! Then it was home for what we hoped was an afternoon nap for Marlee (it ended up being a nap in the car on the way home), then it was off to church for Christmas Eve service! Afterwards, we headed to the Riese's house for yummy pizza and goodies! It was fun to see Parker and Marlee get into opening presents this year. Last year, they were more into crawling all over the boxes! We also got to hang out with their neighbors Rick, Lorelei,and Terry! To end the night, we stopped off at James and Audrey's house to see my parents who had just driven in from Huntsville! Needless to say, Marlee finally fell asleep that night at around 10ish!

Once we got home, Kendall and I had some gift wrapping to finish up-not to mention open up an envelope and put together the baby's gender gift for all of our families! I think we both went to bed at 1!

Christmas morning was so much fun this year! We both went in to get Marlee (who had convientely woken up at 7am) so she could open her gifts! She loved ripping the paper and checking out all of her gifts! After she opened all of her gifts, she tried to open other people's gifts, so we had to stop her!!!

Not long after we opened up gifts at our house, we headed to Kendall's parents house to open gifts with his family! We had a blast and I think Marlee did too, but by then I think she was getting a little overwhelmed by all of the presents! Once we finished there, we headed over to James and Audrey's to open gifts with them and my parents! Again, more fun!

We finally made it home with a trunk-full of gifts around lunch time and by then we were all exhausted! I think we all napped that afternoon before James, Audrey, Courtney, my parents, and Kendall's parents came over for dinner and some hang out time!!

It was a great day we had together as a family and with all of our extended family! I'm already looking forward to next year as a family of 4!!

Coloring with Charter and Leigh!


Christmas Eve with Parker! Playing with a new tea set!

Bathtime!

Preggo friends! Me-20 weeks, Jenn-36 weeks!


Lorelei, me, and Jenn









Christmas morning!

Good Morning, Marlee!

Loves her new baby doll!








Taking her baby for a stroll!

More gifts!

It's a BOY!!!!

Kendall and I opened up the best Christmas present on Christmas Eve! It was the envelope saying that Baby Foster is a BOY!!! We are so excited that Marlee is going to have a little brother in a few months! He already has a name: Brady Edward. We are praying that each day he is growning strong and developing and that he will be a healthy baby when he arrives in a few months!

"No, No Santa!"

Well, as you can see, this year's visit to Santa was almost a carbon copy of last year's!

This year, instead of going to the mall, we went to The Avenue @ West Cobb! It was fantastic! The line was only about 5 min, it was inside (we thought Santa may have been outside that's why we dressed Marlee in non-Christmas clothes-we opted for warmth rather than style) and best of all, it was FREE!!!! Marlee was fine up until it was her turn and as soon as Kendall started walking her towards Santa she started crying. Now there were several kids infront of us who did great, and after her, we didn't hear any other kids crying!! Oh well, maybe next year!! After Santa, we met Jenn, Mike, and Parker and watched Parker feel the same way towards Santa-displeasure! Then we went outside to take a little carriage ride! It was great! While we were waiting in the cold, Marlee and Parker were so cute playing together and they even decided to have a seat, right there on the concrete!! Too cute!!!

Burr! It was a cold night waiting for the carraige ride!!

They just decided to have a seat right there on the concrete!!

And then right in front of my favorite sign-a sale sign!Marlee thinks Parker is too funny!

On the carraige ride!

Catching Up...

Well it's been over a month since the last post. I didn't realize that being pregnant and chasing after a 19 month old would take up so much time-actually that's just my excuse for being really lazy the last month!! Anyways, with that said, Thanksgiving came and went. We had a great Thanksgiving week-starting off with a weekend visit to my parents' house and then spending Thanksgiving day with Kendall's family. Now that Christmas is coming up we're staying busy shopping, keeping warm, and enjoying the season! Not only are we excited to celebrate our second Christmas as a family of 3, but we're also excited to find out what baby #2 is! Our appointment is Dec. 23rd and that is when we will find out the gender-well, we won't actually find out! Kendall and I agreed that we're going to have the ultrasound tech put the baby's gender in an envelope and we are going to wait until Christmas morning to open it! What a great Christmas present! All of our family will get to find out on Christmas morning too!!!

Here are some pictures taken over the month of November. Hopefull this next month I'll be better about posting!! Merry Christmas!