God Bless America

Lydia is learning lots in preschool, I look forward to every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon when I pick her up and see all the stuff she did that morning. She has learned how to write letters A, B and C and what common words start with them. She is now tracing her name and can tell you she has a L Y D A in her name but not sure how they go. The drops off are a little tough but when I pick her up she is a happy little girl ready to tell me about her day. She goes to a Christian preschool so she says prayer before snack and lunch and they sing "God Bless America" every morning. She comes home and sings it for us and I finally got it on video, here you go enjoy. I set my c-section for Dec 10th, we do not know what time yet but will by next appt in two weeks. I have 10 weeks left, I am not sure if that sounds like a lot or a little but back at 8 weeks when I was so sick I never thought I would make it this far so I guess it too will fly by.
This past weekend Kris's old college roommate, Jason Smith and his good friend Mike ?, flew in from Upstate New York, they had a great time, I think they said it had been 12 years since they saw each other. Very nice men and I enjoyed having them around, they cooked for us two nights and took us out to eat a few times which was really nice treat for me. They timed up their visit or should I say got lucky with "College Game Day" being in town and a HUGE BSU football game on Saturday night. Someday we hope to make it out their way. Jason owns his own Lumber Saw Mill and I would love to see how that operates and meet his wife and kids. I have been busy busy busy with house nesting, I am almost done with Hananh's room, I painted all the woodwork from puke yellow to white and this project proved to be a tough on, sanding, priming, three coats of crappy Sherwin Williams paint, followed by sanding and two coats of GREAT Behr paint. I just have three little walls left to roll in lavendar and then we need to buy a crib and get her room set up. I or I actually can say we canned 20 quarts of peaches Saturday and 5 pints of salsa. The garden just kicked it into gear and I am finally getting tomotoes. I am working on Lydia's halloween costume which I will surprise you with a photo later once it is done. Well I better move it on out and get her from school.


"29 week belly shot"

Ohio

We got back from our trip to Ohio this past Sunday and I don't think we are yet back to normal but are working very hard at it. We were there for 12 days and had a great visit. Kris was able to take his Dad, Brother Jason, his cousin Jenny and good friend Brian to Washington D.C for the Virginia Tech BSU football game and they had a blast.
Lydia had so much fun playing with her cousins. It was so dang cute to watch how happy she was to have a playmate most every day. She absolutely loved Grandma and Grandpa and took full advantage of being around them. She played with them none stop as well. I took advantage of having Grandma around as I did a lot of relaxing which was great. The weather was perfect most days in the 70's and Fall like. Kris and I were able to sneek away for two dates, one to dinner and a walk up on Lake Erie and another to his alma mater Ashland University and to Amish Country. It was so nice to have together time.
On our flights home we had a LONG layover in Denver so we meet my parents for lunch, it was a special treat to be able to do so, despite how tired the 3 of us where. On our way back through security you would have thought I had the next atomic bomb, I had 5 TSA agents on me searching my bags (I had a back pack and her carryon and my purse) comes to find out Play-Doh is a Haz-Mat item and not allowed through Denver's airport, the funny thing is it made it through both Boise and Cleveland and on every other 30 flights we have taken since she was old enough to play with it. Made for an interesting experience.
Thanks to everyone who made our visit special, it was great to see you all and spend time with you.

Grandma, Baby Kiptyn and Lydia playing the the yard

Playing at Aunt Lindsey's and Uncle Jamey's

Cole and Lydia (they are two peas in a pod and she loved him to pieces, he did EVERYTHING she wanted)

Hanging out on Uncle Fred and Aunt Kathy's combine

Sitting on a John Deere

Playing in the yard

The four Grandkids

Wearing Grandpa's hat