We're still here! Sorry for the long silence. With a new baby and my parents being here for the last week blogging hasn't taken top priority.

Mom and Dad arrived last Saturday. It has been great having them here to enjoy little Nathan and entertain Isaiah. Dad left this morning, but Mom will be here another week. She has been working so hard that I'm afraid she will need a vacation when she gets home. :( Today she washed windows for me. It's starting to get dark outside, but I don't want to close the blinds because the windows look so nice!

Isaiah is of course loving having "Pa" and "Ma" here. He hasn't been feeling well the last few days so that has made him a little grumpy. I'll try to post a picture of him soon. I don't want him to think his brother is getting all the attention. I think he's starting to finally notice that Nathan is here. Today I found him putting Rufus on top of Nathan and another time he was filling up Nathan's bouncy seat with balls.

Nathan is doing well. He loves to sleep! He's had a few hard nights, but for the most part even those haven't been bad. Nothing that a few gas drops (baby beer) can't help. We are very grateful to have a good baby! Some days I have to remind myself to sit and hold him. He's so good that it's easy to sit him somewhere and almost forget he's there. He's two weeks old today and I can hardly believe how much he has changed already! Grandpa Funk got the first smile!

If I close now I may be able to read a few or your blogs -no promise on comments though. :)

Thank you for all your comments! I decided if a picture gets that kind of attention I'd better post another picture. :) We are doing well. Nathan is a content baby so far. He does cry, but usually just when he's hungry or needs burped. Of course he's still at the age where he sleeps all the time. I have a hard time waking him up to feed him. We are enjoying him a lot!

Isaiah is adjusting well to the new baby. For the most part he doesn't pay much attention to Nathan, but if we hear "baby" we watch closely because this is usually followed by Isaiah running to Nathan and patting him on the face and saying "nice". His nice is a little harsher than we'd like, but he really is just loving on his little brother. So far he doesn't seem jealous of Nathan. Isaiah has spent several hours the last two mornings at my aunt and uncle's house (they live across the street from us) Isaiah loves being at their place and it has given me some down time for which I've been very grateful!

1 day old

i'm holding a baby. more later.

I thought I posted a picture last night, but now it's gone?? Sorry! I'm also sorry to say that I'm too tired to sit here and wait for it to upload again. I'll try again tomorrow. We're enjoying Nathan. Last night wasn't very good, but how many people have great nights the first night home from the hospital? (don't answer that) Isaiah is doing great with Nathan as well. We don't trust them alone together, but Isaiah loves him. He doesn't like when Nathan cries. Today Nathan was crying and Isaiah quickly brought him Rufus and Puppy, his two favorite stuffed animals. Ahh... I promise I'll try to post a picture soon.

Welcome Nathan Gabriel Lehman!!!

Jeremy and Sabrina had their little boy this morning- August 16, 2007. Nathan Gabriel Lehman was born @ 8:23 a.m. He was 7lbs 11oz and 21 inches long.

More details to follow...

Ready and Waiting

Isaiah's surgery went well yesterday. Here is a picture of him in his stunning purple outfit. Doesn't Jeremy look thrilled! :) I was not allowed to be with him when they put him to sleep because of being pregnant. The last time we went through this they held a gas mask over Isaiah's mouth until he feel asleep. I can still see his little eyes looking at me while he cried his heart out because he didn't know what was going on. I had Jeremy all prepared for this heart wrenching experience. We were at a different surgery center this time and they allowed Jeremy to hold him and just put the gas close to Isaiah's face for a couple of minutes until he fell asleep. What a great idea! Jeremy said he didn't even cry. He was a little fussy when he woke up, but overall he's doing great. You would hardly know anything happened to him except for a few times while he was eating. Praise the Lord it's over.

Good Times

Isaiah learning to close his eyes

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  I decided it was time for a post with a picture! Last night we had a great time with our friends Rodney and Beckee and Ysmaille and Melanie. We meet for dinner at a little tea room to celebrate Beckee's birthday. We had a lot of fun!
  
  
  
  I was tempted to post something about having a baby, but since it would be a complete lie I decided against it. Isaiah is scheduled for surgery tomorrow morning to have his tongue clipped (second time. :( ). I don't like that he has to go through it again, but hopefully this will take care of the problem. It is also giving me something to focus on.
  
  
  
  My friend Charity is going to post the big news here when it does happen so stay posted. Don't start checking every hour or anything though because I do have 1 1/2 weeks until I even reach my due date.
  

Questions

I have wanted to send out this question for awhile. However, it's taken a conversation with some friends and Joy's recent post to actually get it done.

Here is my question. How do you sort and store clothes that children have grown out of and clothes that they will grow into. Isaiah has clothes that are size 12 months that he still can wear, but then some of his 18 months stuff is too small. Any suggestions on how to pack up his clothes so that I'll be able to find the right size when this baby needs them? This sounds like an odd question, but I'm curious to know if anyone has suggestions.

The countdown is on

19 more days until the big due date. Why do they even give you these due dates? I feel like I for sure have 19 more days to prepare and yet I know that may not be the case. I don't like to get things ready too early because I'm afraid I'll start to think I'm going early then I'll be totally miserable if I go late. Oh the unstable ground of the pregnant woman's brain! I feel very irritable lately. Things that normally wouldn't bother me drive me crazy. My poor husband! One minute I'm feeling great and the next I'm crying because I wonder how in the world we will adjust to a second child. Will my house ever be clean -every part of it at the same time? Will Isaiah really grow up without deep emotional scars due to the birth of a sibling that needs lots of mommy's time? Will Jeremy and I ever again be able to just sit at the supper table and talk for however long we want? I'm sure we will adjust eventually and I'm thrilled that we are giving Isaiah a brother. I wouldn't trade anything about my life right now. Just thought I'd let you in on the emotional roller coaster I've been on lately.

Jeremy is preaching tomorrow. On the weekends that he preaches I usually try to disappear with Isaiah for at least a few hours on Friday night or Saturday or both so that Jeremy can study in peace. (our house isn't very big). This morning I went to Wal-Mart. I DO NOT like Wal-mart on Saturdays! However, there were things I had to get (ever use your husbands deodorant?) so off we went. I wasn't in the store for 15 minutes before a little lady that works there gave me a good tongue lashing for walking 2 feet away from my cart and leaving my purse in the cart. Someone could have taken it. Oddly enough she didn't say anything about my son who was also in the cart. ?!?! Ok, so she was right. It's not a good idea to do what I did, but I didn't want to hear it from her. So there I was, with my messed up, emotional, scattered, forgetful, pregnant brain standing beside the deodorant telling myself not to cry. Just so you know I didn't cry and I was able to move on without it ruining my morning. If someone is visiting my blog for the first time and this is the first post they've read, please read on. I'm not really as cracked as I sound! (I don't think, but then again maybe I'm always like this...ok enough of that)

How do you get your children to eat healthy? Isaiah is a picky eater. I thought I was doing everything right, but low and behold he doesn't like some foods. Actually, it's not that he doesn't like them, he seems to not even like how they look. Sometimes when we put his bowl in front of him he'll look at it and hand it right back to us. :( Lately, he doesn't eat supper. We don't make anything special for him. He either eats what we eat or he gets down. Last night I gave him a little bit of chicken, a little macaroni and cheese and a little green beans. He loves mac and cheese so of course he promptly ate all his share then started to beg for more. We told him he needed to eat some chicken and gr beans first. Of course this was not met with rave reviews. However, after some complaining he quited down and I couldn't believe my eyes when I looked over and saw him starting to pick at his chicken. Pick is exactly what he did. He picked off the seasoning that was on the chicken, but did not eat the chicken! Have you ever tried to do this? I'm not talking about big cornflake seasoning, I'm talking spices, very fine breading. What to do, what to do! I did put broccoli in his cheese sandwich for lunch today and he ate it! heeheheheee! I win, I win! (P.S. if there are grandma's reading this please know we love our son to distraction. However, man can not live on bread alone and that is exactly what our son would do if given the chance)

OK, enough of this nonsense. Sorry this is so long. I just started typing and low and behold this is what came out. Have a wonderful Sunday!

Clothespins and a belly

Here's a pictures "the belly". I hope you all feel loved because I do not enjoy posting pictures of myself and especially not when I've been pregnant for 37 weeks! The main reason for the picture was to show Isaiah's response to his daddy's weird sense of humor. I have to admit it really was funny to see Isaiah walking around covered in clothes pins, but Isaiah didn't seem to see the humor in it.

Tomorrow I will have completed 37 weeks. In some ways it's hard to believe I'm at this point already, but in other ways I feel like I've been pregnant for forever. We've had a pretty nice summer, but the last few weeks have been hot and humid and I have to say it's starting to really get to me. Oh what I'd do for a Canadian summer day! Over all I can't complain. I've had a good pregnancy. Here's a question for all you moms. I started to pack my bags for the hospital today. Any suggestions on what to take?

My mom and dad are on their way to PA! I think I've been so wrapped up in waiting for the test results and being afraid that maybe they wouldn't be able to come that I didn't allow myself to get excited about their visit. Mom continues to receive good reports from all the doctor's she has seen. There is a cancer research center in Thunder Bay that is supposed to be really good. She has been meeting with doctors there about future treatment. She's scheduled to start radiation on Sept. 12 which means she won't need to cut her visit short on my end. (they will visiting Matt's and Brandon's for the first part of their visit). They told her if she was in Toronto she'd be waiting at least a month for treatment anyway.

I can't think of anything else so goodnight!