The life of new parents

We went up to St. Jo on Monday to visit Nichole & Sylvie who’s 22 months old.  Here are the girls playing in Sylvie’s super nice play room.

We drove out to Savannah to see the land Nic & Chris bought to build a house on.  Its beautiful and hilly with lots of tree’s and is going to be so fun to visit when they’re settled in.

We went to DQ and took our blizzards to the park.  The girls had a blast and the weather was perfect.

Maya looking an awful lot like Auntie Brie!

Sylvie has the best toys!  A ball pit thingy and a horsey that acts real.

Silly monkey.

The girls played really well together, it was just a great day all around.  Mama’s got some time to catch up and babies got a lot of play time in.

My mom and Sheena hosted a shower yesterday for my friend Dawndy to welcome baby Luna who arrived on Christmas Eve.  Here’s a pic of Brie, Lora, Mom holding Maya & Lilli, Dawndy & Baby Luna.

Sheena did a great job on baby duty, as always.

Awwhhh, sweet little family, all that’s missing is Daddy Chris!  But no boys allowed at the shower, which I’m sure he was quite upset about.  )

Go to the mall with Mommy & Aunt Brie!

Play with the kids in the mall play place!

Convince Mommy to take you on the horsey ride even when she has NO cash and has to use an ATM & pay more in ATM fees than the ride itself costs!

We celebrated Grandpere’s b-day with him over at their house a couple weeks ago.  Here’s a pic of him, Grandma Rosie and Buddy.

Maya’s keeping an eye on her Uncle Corey.  She never knows what he’s gonna do next.  Something fun for sure.

Always, always, always begging to use their cell phones!

On March 5th Grandpa celebrated his birthday.  He’s still recovering from shoulder surgery so for now we just stopped by for a visit.  Maya likes to sit on Grandpa’s lap and take control of the remote.

Maya loves Shadow.

Maya sporting her t-shirt from Grandma Jacobsen’s trip to Colorado last year.

Baby likes to wear this hat during play time.

Maya had to have a sedated MRI last Friday.  Her right eyelid doesn’t close all the way and the peds eye dr. wanted to make sure there wasn’t anything going on in her head causing that to occur.  Her vision is perfect so the only issue is that she sleeps with one eye open and when she looks down one eyelid doesn’t look down with it.  The MRI was done at Children’s Mercy South and we had a wonderful nurse.  That’s such a great hospital, we are very lucky to have it so close.

Poor baby all hooked up and ready for the sleepy medicines.

Here’s baby girl after the MRI, she woke up w/o a problem and got a new puppy from the hospital for being so brave.  We went home and had lots of cuddles and naps the rest of the day.

The MRI came back normal! and now we’re looking into the next steps.