My Diva

I know you can't see Chelsea's face, but I LOVE this picture. The pose, the attitude, everything! She loves walking around in our big shoes. What kid doesn't?

So after I took that first picture above, Chelsea started saying "Baggies! Baggies!" I wasn't sure why she wanted baggies, but I let her get some anyway. I don't know why I took a picture, but it works well in sequence with the following.

After getting out two baggies, she sat on the floor and opened them.
Then she stuffed one baggie in each shoe.

Then she put them on and walked around a bit more. Silly girl! I don't know what gave her the idea, but oh well!

This was after bath one night. We were about to put PJs on and she decided she wanted to read one of our bathroom Reader's Digests, so she grabbed the "ma-zine book" (as she calls it,) raced into her room, climbed into bed, covered up, and promptly started to read.

Yay! A chance to get wet! It was so warm out one day last week that we got all decked out in our swim gear and headed to the splash park. About five minutes after we got there, the temperature dropped about 10 degrees, it clouded over, and it started to thunder. :S Crazy weather. We managed to get in a little splashing before we decided it was too cold.

Cheese!

Daddy holding Chelsea under the waterfall. She loved it, as long as he brought her back in close to warm up right away!

Running through the middle, into Mommy's warm arms! She carried that flag from home and didn't put it down the entire time we were there. Too funny.

The long awaited ultrasound...

Before I show the ultrasound, I have to show off our cute family! We decided to dress all alike one day and practice using the self timer on the camera. Chelsea had a ball! She said "Cheese!" and then "Again!" several times. Is she used to her picture getting taken? :)

This is actually quite flattering as far as belly shots. It doesn't look very big at all! I feel much bigger than this photo looks. I'm bigger at this point than I was with Chelsea. I'm not uncomfortable or anything yet, although I've had some problems sleeping the last few nights. I don't know if that was just excitement about the ultrasound or not. Chelsea was cute posing with me.

This is a closer view of my 21 week belly. We did the ultrasound today. I'm at 22 weeks now. I was going to take a picture of my belly today to go next to the ultrasound image, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. My tummy doesn't look much different than it does here, so this one will have to do.

Ta da!
Here she is, looking straight ahead for us. I put it sideways because it is much easier to make out her facial features. I'm sad that this is the only image the gal printed for us. Chelsea's doctor gave us four different images and they were far clearer than this, and it showed her sucking her thumb. This ultrasound was much harder to see anything at all. Oh well. There is a baby in there and she will join the family in a few months! Yay!


Oh, by the way, it is a girl!

It's not 100% certain. She was moving around an awful lot and kept her legs close together most of the time. But as the gal doing the ultrasound says, we "didn't see anything that looked like a boy" at any point during the whole 30-minute process. Chelsea has been saying she wants a sister for quite some time now. It seems she will get her wish!

Washin' the Car

This was last week when the weather was actually nice. It's been somewhat cold and/or rainy this week. Chelsea is pouring water on the car with her little bucket. Some of the water actually made it onto the car.

Scrub, scrub, scrub! What a good helper!

Chelsea had fun helping wash both vehicles!

"Need more soap."

It took Chelsea quite awhile to notice the leaking hose, but once she did, what do you suppose she wanted to do? Drink it, of course! So much for staying dry!

We didn't go full out in swim gear because we were trying to get the cars washed before our dinner was done baking in the oven. I guess it would have been worth the extra couple minutes it would have taken to change clothes since she ended up soaked anyway, hehe.

Aunti Elizabeth dropped by while we were outside. She helped Chelsea get dry (and warm!) before going back inside.

Professional Family Photo

The Kelly Family plus us Heits and a Bowles
Chelsea wouldn't smile until she got to sit in the little white chair. Oh well.
This was also before her hair cut.

Us Heits
Erin, Rick, and Chelsea.
We ordered a slightly different photo of the same pose to hang on our wall.

Grandma Diana and Grandpa Mike
They also ordered a slightly different photo of the same pose, though personally, I like my dad's little grin in this one, hehe.

The Sisters: Beth, Jennifer (Bowles), and Erin

We'll end on the cutest one of us all. Miss Chelsea, actually smiling in her little white chair and long hair.

It's Birthday Time!

A little pre-party swinging.

Starting out healthy with Doritos! Yum! For Chelsea's second birthday we took her to the auditorium where they had sloppy joes, chips, brownies, and soda to eat. For five dollars a kid they could jump all they want in those big blow up jumpy things. I don't know what they are called, but we thought Chelsea might enjoy them.

We were right! She loved every minute! She was bounced around and jostled by some big kids. One little girl even jumped on her back (we got it on video even) and Chelsea didn't seem to mind. She just got up and kept jumping. Whew! That was a relief, since that potentially harmful jump happened in the first five minutes she was in there. No other potential heart attacks (for ME) happened, thankfully. Yay for uneventful excitement and fun.

Whee! Get all that energy out!

Some of these were too big for Chelsea to go in. She had a blast in the few she was big enough for and didn't even ask to go in the huge ones. Smart girl.

Making her way up this big slide. I have some really cute video of her coming down and getting really excited that she DID IT! DID IT! DID IT! If I can't get it to upload on blogger (I seem to have trouble with that) I'll put it on facebook later.

We had a Princess theme this year, so of course, we had a Princess cake!

Not as a big a spread as last year, but I didn't have my professional party planners (my sisters) do the party this year. My mom bought the cake and I made cookies and we mixed up some punch. I made the pink punch because it was pink, and Chels loves all things pink, and I decided that's what I wanted to drink. I knew Chelsea wouldn't care what was served, hehe.

Holding her TWO candles.

And now blowing them out! Happy Birthday, Chelsea! Watch your nose, those candles can get HOT!

She managed to get a bit of cake on her fork and is slowly and carefully bringing it to her mouth.

Got it in! Yum! It must have been worth it because she went back for more!

She liked the plates all by themselves, also.

This picture is fabulous. Looking at it, you'd think that she just tasted something yucky and was not liking it. In actuality, she had just double fisted a whole cookie into her mouth and was brushing her cheeks with her fingers. She LOVES chocolate chip cookies. And chocolae milk. And brownies. Yeah, she's a girl who loves her chocolate.

Time for presents! She is getting better at this gift opening thing. By Christmas she will be a pro and we won't be able to hold he back!

From Mommy and Daddy she got Princess books! Books are some of her absolute favorite toys. Yay for books!

Here is a fun igloo from Grandma and Grandpa Heit. After the festivities we went downstairs to watch the assembly of the igloo. Then we all just hung out and watched Chelsea play until bedtime. What en exciting day!

Under the igloo.

In the igloo with Auntie Beth, talking to Beast.

This is the next day. Chelsea got a couple swim suits and other assorted swim accessories from Grandma Kelly. She decided that she wanted to wear her new suit. Ok. Whatever makes you happy! I love this picture. So cute. She also wore those water shoes for days until I finally hid them. She wore the suit all day, including shopping and to the park, though I made her take it off on the playground. Fun times. We officially have a two-year-old!

The joys of a two year old.

Dancing Queen

This is in the first five minutes in the jumpy thing. She gets jumped on, and watch how she reacts.

First Official Haircut

Does this girl need a haircut or what? I've been meaning to cut it for MONTHS, literally. In the meantime, it just gets shaggier and shaggier. This is a pretty good "before" picture, even though it was taken long before the actual cutting took place.

Here's a couple before and after pictures. I'm disappointed in my picture taking abilities, but I decided now is as good a time as any to give her a haircut and it was going to happen whether she liked it or not. Well she didn't really like it. She wanted to lay back against daddy and watch her videos instead of sitting up. She didn't want to look at me so I had NO idea what the sides were looking like. I ignored the bangs because they don't count anymore. They've been trimmed a number of times already. She didn't really sit still, and I have no idea how to cut hair. So this is what we get. :S

Here is a view of the back before and after. It doesn't look like I cut all that much off, but I cut at least 2 1/2 inches or more off. I saved the majority of it in a little envelope to put in her book. Yes, it is as uneven as it looks. Though after the fact when her hair was washed I straightened and evened it out a little bit while it was wet, but she didn't enjoy that either. It looks better than this picture shows, but it's still not perfect. I am just glad to have it done. I notice every bit of hair that I'd like to trim right now, but oh well. I guess I'll just have to learn to be a better hair cutter. Now I need to spring for a haircut of my OWN. Blah. Who can ever decide what to do with their hair? I have no idea personally.