Happy Birthday Lane!!!

Today my baby boy turned 2 years old! We played a little yesterday, flew kites, and all took a trip to Target to pick out birthday presents. Today we had blueberry muffins and went to Stake Conference. The older kids really loved making a big deal about Lane's birthday to him. They sang "Happy Birthday" about a zillion times and Cade called him "Birthday Boy" all day long. This evening we ate lasagna for dinner, had cake & ice cream, and played outside for a while. Here is Lane licking frosting off of one of his candles:

And here he is blowing his candles out - he loved it!

As per LeCheminant family tradition, we all said nice things about Lane while we ate our cake & ice cream. Here are some of the responses:

Cade - "Lane is a fun birthday boy."

Maddie - "Lane is cute and he makes me laugh."
Dad - "Lane gives the best hugs & kisses."
Cole - "Lane is fun and he takes care of us if we get hurt."
Mom - "Lane is the best snuggler and he makes me laugh every day."

We all really love Lane and are so happy & grateful to have him in our family happy & healthy. We were reminded of our scary pregnancy with him and are so grateful he is here with us. Here are some of Lane's favorites these days:

Blue's Clues
blocks
balls
helping in the kitchen
reading books
singing songs
mowing the lawn with Daddy (seriously...he could do this all day)

We love Lane & had a fun birthday with him today - can't believe he is 2 already!

Pregnancy Update

We are slowly making our way to the end of this pregnancy - this Wednesday marks 35 weeks - yay! I had a rough few weeks but this past week was pretty good. I am still pretty tired and have to take things pretty easy but I am feeling like I can make it to the end! I had Cole take some pictures of me this evening so here I am!

These are some other lovely shots that Jeff took 3 weeks ago. I didn't think I had gotten much bigger since then but I guess I have a little.

This Wednesday I get to go down to Temple for another ultrasound/growth check. I am excited to see how much the babies have grown. 6 weeks ago, they measured 3 lbs. 1 oz. and 3 lbs. 7 oz. I'm guessing they'll be somewhere between 5 and 6 lbs. this time - at least I feel like I've got 10-12 lbs. of baby in there!

We are still working on names for these little ones - it is much harder than I thought it would be. I don't want them to be matchy matchy names but I want them to be the same type of names, ie. old-fashioned & old-fashioned together, not old-fashioned & trendy...does that make sense? Our top choices are: Sarah & Eliza, and Kimber & Jolee. We plan on using our moms' names for their middle names so that part is easy. I would like to have another set to choose from before they are born but we'll see.

So...the countdown begins - 5 weeks!!!!

First Day of Preschool 2010

In September, Cadeson started a little preschool that we do with some other friends of ours. He goes every Tuesday for 2 hours and he is really loving it. On the first day of preschool, he took his dinosaur for show 'n' tell and this is him modeling it:)

We had to get a shot of Lane - doesn't he look so grown-up?

These two boys have gotten to be pretty good friends since they get to hang out together all day every day. I love watching them together!

And here's the big preschool boy posing for the camera!

Cade is doing such a good job with preschool. He is very intellectual and interested in academics, which is somewhat surprising since he is also so athletic and physical. He is constantly practicing his writing. He is extremely good at writing his numbers and is working on his alphabet. He really likes to count things and is often lining things up according to size and shape. He likes to ask me questions and teach me what he knows, it's hilarious! Cade is such a sweet boy and I love watching him learn & grow!