Madison made her first homemade bread last night almost completely by herself! Justin told her what to do and helped her take it in and out of the oven and she did the rest herself. It was delicious! She was so excited to have a sandwich made with her bread to take for her lunch at school today.

It's Official...

We are homeowners!! We got keys to our new house yesterday! We are planning on moving on the 28th. In the meantime, we have lots of cleaning and packing to do. I will be sending out an email beginning of next week with our new address and phone number - if you aren't sure if I have your email address and want this info please post a comment here and let me know.

Introducing...

Justin Michael Hansen
born November 7, 2009
at 3:22 am
8 lbs. 11 oz.
21 inches long
We didn't want to use another "J" name but what can you do? He will go by Michael.

The kids are having a lot of fun holding and loving their new brother. He doesn't know what to think about it yet.

House!!!

We are so excited! We finally found out the offer we made on a house was accepted!! The house is a short sale and we have been waiting for more than 2 months to get the offer approved. They want to close on it in less than a month! So, along with having a new baby, we will be moving the end of November or beginning of December! Life is crazy (good crazy though)!

Guessing Game!

Now that we only have about 2 weeks 'til our little guy is due, we thought it would be fun to have everyone guess what day and time he will arrive, as well as his weight and length. We will write down everyone's guesses in his scrapbook, so please leave a comment with your guess!! Just like with the name game, the winner gets a treat!!

Thanks to everyone who left a comment with name ideas. It has really helped us narrow it down a little bit, although we still haven't decided on a name for sure. So, if you haven't left a comment with a name yet, go ahead and do so now - we'll accept ideas right up until he's born!

Pick the Name Game!!

K- it is countdown time (about 4 weeks) for our baby to be born and we are drawing a complete blank on names. We need your help!!! Please post your best baby boy names - both first and middle names - in the comments. If we pick the name you suggested I will send you a special treat. We do not want a name that starts with 'J' - we've got too many 'J's' already. For family: both Jordan and Joshua's middle names are family names and we would like to use a family name for this baby too - please give us ideas of good family names to use.

Thanks for all your help and may the best name win!!!

Funny boys...

Just a couple funny and sweet stories from the last few weeks...

Josh recently had to have a little blood drawn (no big deal - he's fine!). Our pediatrician's office is great - they put numbing cream on his elbow so it wouldn't hurt so bad. When they took the blood he only cried for a minute and was fine as soon as they were done and put the band-aid over it. On the way home he became extremely annoyed with the band-aid because it prevented him from bending his arm. So after we got home we took the band-aid off. He was left with a tiny little red spot on his elbow. Apparently, this tiny red spot, which didn't hurt anymore, was too much for him. Every time he saw it he started sobbing hysterically. He would try to pull his sleeve over it to hide it, but it wouldn't stay down. So, I put my hand over it and he was completely fine. After holding my hand over it for several minutes I tried to remove my hand and once again he started sobbing. Again with the hand - he was fine. After another 10 minutes of that I tried to move my hand and again he started sobbing. So, since he was annoyed by the band-aid and I obviously couldn't sit there with my hand on his arm for the whole day, I got out my concealer, put a little dab of it on the red spot and voila! he was completely fine!!

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A couple of nights ago Jordan woke up crying just before 11:00. Justin and I were getting ready for bed and both went in to see what the problem was. He had had a bad dream - terrible enough that he had wet the bed. As I was getting him cleaned up I tried to get him to tell me about his dream. All he would tell me was that there was a dragon. When I asked him to tell me what happened with the dragon, all he would tell me is that he didn't want to tell me the rest because then I would have the same bad dream. Then he just let me give him a big hug and went back to bed. Isn't he just the sweetest thing? So concerned about me, even when he is clearly terrified! Moments like that make me love being a mom!