Current Happenings . . .

Tami is now the most pregnant she has ever been, and not all that appreciative of the experience. At our last doctor's appointment (on Thursday) the doctor indicated that he is planning to deliver the baby this coming week. No day was mentioned, but Tami's mom gets here Thursday morning, so we're thinking if Sierra doesn't choose to come before then, Friday morning might be a good day to have a baby. On a side note, if she is born on Friday, she'll share a birthday with her cousin Averi!

Dan is enjoying the world cup. He has a friend coming over to watch the USA vs. England game tonight. He has been having a friendly banter about the game with a British guy who's villa we are renting in September for our FIRST REAL family vacation! We've taken several 1-2 night trips before, and of course trips to visit family which we love, but we've never just gotten away for an entire week! We're pretty excited. This place is a 4 bedroom villa with a BBQ grill (which is a real treat for us). There is a big swimming pool, plus 3 different beaches all close by. Also, we'll only be 30 minutes from Ephesus which Tami and the kids have still never been to! Very exciting!

The kids are doing great. Last night they were watching TV together and Tami looked over to see Zeke laying there stroking Kaiyah's hair. Too sweet. Hopefully a little video clip will follow sometime soon. Also the other day Dan took the kids to the park and for ice cream. Kaiyah ended up dropping her ice cream on the ground and started to cry. Zeke said, "Don't cry Kaiyah, you can share mine." We love this sibling relationship and pray that the addition of Sierra will just continue to strengthen this.

Shower

Last week some sweet friends threw a surprise baby shower for Sierra. With it being a surprise, I didn't have my camera, but some of the others at the shower took a couple of pictures. Even though we don't need a lot with still having all of Kaiyah's things to use, it was really nice just to have a little celebration of this sweet baby's up-and-coming birth! Plus, they made a diaper cake. I've never had a diaper cake and I think they are pretty cool!

Thank goodness for technology . . .

At the end of your pregnancy here you do these test to monitor if you're having contractions and how the baby is handling them (or at least that is what we think they monitor!). Anyways, you have to be strapped to a machine for 20 minutes, so we've been allowing the kids to watch their cartoons on our ipods. This is a picture from Tuesday's appointment. Today we only had one ipod with us so they shared. It was cute and Dan took a picture, but, alas, his camera is out with him today! Tuesday I was apparently having regular, light contractions. Today there was nothing. So, I guess we wait a little longer . . .