Announcing Ethan David Wood!!!

Ethan was born Friday, May 28 at 11:21 am. Everything went great! Easy peasy! He weighed 6lbs 15oz. and was 19 inches long. He's a sweetie and sleeps really well....almost too well! Audrey met him and didn't seem to think much about him. We'll see what she thinks when he comes home with us! We're headed home from the hospital in a few hours. After that it will be a while before we post more pictures. In addition to being crazy busy, our internet is down at home and I don't know when we'll get it fixed. Other stuff to do right now! Christy popped in for a minute and snapped these pictures. Thanks, Christy! Thanks to everyone for all the phone calls and well wishes. We're really happy and excited about our new addition!

Sprinkler Park

We went to the sprinkler park today. We had only been once before and that was last summer so I was curious to see how Audrey would like it now that she's older. We stayed for more than two hours and she had a blast. It took her a long time to approach the water, but Christy showed her this little spinkler and she played with it for a bit. Mommy sat in the shade :-)

Her favorite part though was wandering around and seeing what all the strangers were up to...trying take part in their conversations, eat their food, climb into their strollers, you name it.

I love that this place is fenced in.

Molly and Owen enjoying the water.

I think Molly had the best time of all!

Christy and Audrey

Playtime

I got Audrey this baby doll for her first birthday, after just finding out that she was going to be a big sister. About two months ago she started taking a real interest in it. She feeds her, kisses her, cuddles her, covers her with a blanket, and last week became obsessed with pushing her around in the toy stroller. And she's appropriately wearing one of the many "big sister" shirts Grandma Izland has bought her. She says "bye", waves, and takes off to push her in circles around the kitchen island.

Grandma went with us one day to Gymboree. Here they are doing Audrey's favorite game, "the freeze".

Audrey at the toddler play area in the mall. She loves climbing on everything and interacting with the other kids.

Ahhhhh....they're all quietly entertained.

Weeeeeeeee!

Daddy and Me

Audrey loves playing with shoes, especially when they belong to daddy.

Chris bought himself two giant Nerf guns. Here he using one with Audrey for the first time. He shoots stuff and she retrieves the bullets. Now their thing is to line up her toys at the end of the upstairs hallway and he shoots them all down.

Sitting in daddy's chair, covering up with a blanket like mommy...before she was in the third trimester and always burning up.

Learning to color

Audrey has her very own picnic table in the backyard.

Duck Pond

We went with the Chambers a while back to feed the ducks at a local pond. Audrey wasn't too interested in the ducks. She preferred to spend her time playing chase. And guess who had to do all the chasing? grrrr.....

Molly going after a duck

Audrey eating the stale bread that she was supposed to feed to the ducks.

Oh, good, I have a helper to retrieve my little wanderer.

Molly and Owen

Their cousin Lila.

Duck Pond #2. This is just a game we played at the Cedar Park Heritage Festival. Audrey enjoyed playing in the water so much that she took about five minutes to pick a duck to see what she won. We picked out a pink ball, the one that Lila is playing with above. Daddy wanted a plastic Ninja sword. Oh, daddy!

Bubbles!

Audrey sure loves the bubbles. These are the "gymboree" brand bubbles. They last forever, so here she is with them still in her hair.

And more bubbles outside

Miss independent wants to blow them herself. Lucky for her it was a windy day.

Audrey and Ethan's Rooms

Ethan's Room!

As you can see, Ethan got most of Audrey's furniture. The pictures below are the "before" of Audrey's room. Forgot to take pictures of the "after".