A Fun Weekend~Marbles Museum, Geese, and Birdseed!

(This post is a little late we didn't get it up before Benjamin arrived)

Since it was our last weekend as the three of us we wanted to do something fun with Christian (to clarifty not that we don't usually have fun:) We decided to go to downtown raleigh to the Marbles Museum. It was a ton of fun and there was so much to do. Here are a few pictures from our day.

The weather was beautiful so we also went to feed the geese at the pond behind our house.

There are also a few pics of Ed and Christian throwing birdseed out in the backyard. Christian loves to look out the back door for birds so they got some seed to throw and now he looks for them everyday!

Looking at the fish with Daddy

Picking veggies out of the garden

Pushing the wheelbarrow to gather up all the veggies he picked!

He make a cute fireman! :)

Driving the mail truck with Daddy

Shopping with Mommy- he was headed for the turkey!

Playing at the watertables- this was one of his favorites!

Telling us the duck says quack quack quack!

Seeing himself on the big screen

Climbing the steps on the ship all by himself he was so proud!

Driving the car with Daddy

Throwing birdseed in the back yard with Daddy

Carrying the bread to go feed the geese

Checking out the geese with Daddy

Chasing after the geese......

saying quack quack quack!!

Robert Benjamin Singleton- 2/28/08 12:19am 8lbs 5oz 21"

Our new addition has arrived (actually a little earlier than expected)!! I will update the full story later but the short version is that I went into labor without having to be induced. We arrived at the hospital Wednesday night and I got checked in at 11:46p.m. and then at 12:19 a.m. Robert Benjamin was born. It was a FAST delivery and there was no time for meds. Everyone is doing well. He looks exactly like Christian did when he was born-check out the picture down on the righthand side of Christian the day he was born. Here are a few pictures of our new little man...

Please feel free to leave comments for those of you who have asked how at the bottom of the post there is a comments link just click that link and follow the instuctions in the pop-up box.

Family Pictures and More.....

We wanted to have some family pictures made with Christian before the new baby arrives. We were able to get that done this week. I personally was not interested in getting any maternity shots but the photographer talked me into it and I am actually glad that I did. One of my favorite pictures is the one at top of the page. I love it!

First Trip to the Dentist

Thursday we went to our first dentist appointment. It was quite interesting. Christian did a great job- although we did have a few tears :( The dentist Dr. Johnson said that his teeth were spaced out very well and that they looked wonderful! She did say he will probably need braces but that didn't really suprise us being that both Ed and I had them growing up. I wasn't able to take any pictures of them cleaning his teeth because I was holding him but I did get a few of him playing while we were there.

Playing while waiting to see the dentist- trying hard to reach the crank to move the balls

Jessica- the dental assistant who helped clean Christian's teeth helping him read a book

We Have a Date for Baby #2!

Well it's official- We went to the Dr. yesterday and things are going well. We had our last ultrasound and the babys weight is right around 7lbs 1oz (by their best estimate). We are scheduled to be induced on Feb. 28th!! Please pray for things to go smoothly with the labor and delivery and for Christian to adjust well. So the boy girl poll was split 50/50 I guess now we will let you vote on how much this baby will weigh....

Weekend Activities....

First we will start with Friday afternoon as I was finishing getting ready to head out to a Dr. apointment Christian was running around playing in his room, then all of a sudden I didnt see him anymore and went looking for him he had climbed up in the rocking chair in his room and was rocking away just saying rock rock rock.....

Can you tell he is so proud of himself??

On the weekends we usually try to find things for the 3 of us to do together. I have made a "short" :) list of things I would like to do with Christian before baby #2 arrives. One of which was go to the pottery place and make a plate or something with our handprints on it. Well we accomplished that Friday night. It was interesting- Ed really doesn't care for crafts but participated to make me happy (Thank You- Christian will appreciate it when he gets older). Here are a few pictures and we will post some of the finshed product when we pick it up next week!!

Mommy starting to paint our plate

Christian helping Mommy paint the plate- he did a great job!

Getting ready to make my handprint

How is it going to turn out??

It looks great!!

Mommy's turn

Daddy's turn....

He is so excited :)

All three of our handprints
Mommy writing on our plate

The "finished" product before they fire it... Looks pretty good.

We made our pottery at a place called the factory they have a big fountain outside- Christian loves water and wanted to get in SO BAD (you can tell from the pictures).

Going to look at the waterTrying to keep him out of the water... :)

Sunday afternoon the weather was great so we went to one of the parks. Christian loves to go to the park. His favorite thing at the park is the slide. He loves to just RUN at the park I guess he is a typical boy...

Gettting ready to go down the slide.....

So much fun can you tell!

Walking across the "bridge" to the slide again....

Riding on the squirrel