A little Imagination

Today Calleigh pushed all her chairs from her table into the living room.  I am not sure why she does this, however, some times acts like a train saying "chooochooo", than others, well, she just pushes the chairs together, I am sure to just make a mess.  Today she pushed them together, but then mom and dad a great idea, to make a little fort with them.  We got a blanket and draped it over the top of the chairs.  I showed her how she could go inside and be under the blanket.  She looked at me with a big smile on her face and said, "that's neat".  She of course had to get all her animals, and books to put in the fort.  Well dad got in on the action as well and joined her to the best of his ability.  I think it was the highlight of her day, we will see if she does it again tomorrow.  It was pretty adorable.

A Tea Party........with the dogs!!!

Calleigh decided today was a great day to have a tea party.  She got all her tea stuff out, cups, plates, sugar, cream, and of course the tea pot.  She sat down on the floor, beside the dogs and was serving the dogs some tea.  She was forcing the dogs to drink from the cups and the tea pot.  I am sure the dogs really did not enjoy having the tea pot shoved  into their faces.  They were however good sports with the whole situation.  They just laid there looking at her and probably thinking "really child we are dogs we do not want any tea". I guess our little girl needs a brother or sister to share her  tea parties with, or some friends.  Kids these days really know how to use their imagination!!!

French Fries

A couple of weeks ago, Calleigh and I had just finished up grocery shopping, when we drove by a McDonald's.  She pointed to the McDonald's and said "french fries".  Now we don't go there very often, but I guess she was in the mood for some french fries, and just put the words and place together, and wanted to let me know.

Well today was another one of those days.  But today we drove by In 'N' Out and she said, "french fries" again, so not really having a plan for lunch we decided to stop.  How can I resit when she says it so clear and uses the word please.  She ate them all of course and wanted some of mine too!!!

Sauce, Sauce and more sauce

Recently Calleigh has become completely obsessed with having sauce on EVERYTHING.  She will run over to the fridge and ask for "ketchup". Even if we have nothing to put ketchup on.  I have no idea where she has gotten this idea from, its rather funny that she needs something to 'dip'.  It wouldn't be so bad if she decided to dip then bite, however, she dips then licks, then asks for more.  Last night we had pizza for dinner and well she needed to dip her pizza in Ranch dressing.  It was all over her face and needed to have the bottle next to her, so that when she ran out it would be right there.  Oh my goodness, I have no idea where she is getting this from:)

Saying a little prayer

Today Calleigh was having some quiet time, she loves looking at books and telling her version of all the stories.  She makes a huge mess of all the books she has, a puts them all over the floor.  Today however, she picked up one of her church books, "Hail Mary" which is a prayer we say to Mary (a mother, a sister, or friend).  The prayer/book goes like this:

Hail Mary, full of grace.

The Lord is with you.
Blessed are you among woman,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

I could hear her saying, "Hail Mary, full of Grace. Amen" has she flipped through the pages.  This absolutely melted my heart, to know that what we say she really is listening and picking up on ALL we say.  As time goes on, I am sure she will pick up on more of the prayer, and others to.

Our Exciting News!!!

The Streit Family is proud to announce that we will be expecting baby Streit #2 on October 24.  That puts me at about 15 weeks along.

I have been feeling pretty good with this one.  I have had no morning sickness, just the odd nausea here and there, but mostly really no side affects.  However, a few weeks ago, we had a little scare, I got up to use the restroom, and a huge gush of blood started running down my leg.  Off to the ER we went.  They did blood work, urine sample, and ultrasound.  Everything was completely normal and fine.  They figure, as my uterus has been getting bigger it could have been a little cell left over from my last period.  Nevertheless, it was very scaring.  I was ordered to take it easy, and try not to do much lifting.  Hard for me, but we have managed.  Things are good, now, just got back from the doctor today and everything looks good.

Once again with this one we will not be finding out what we will be having!!!  We are excited, and trilled to be giving Calleigh a little brother or sister.

A week away

Amanda and Dan on their wedding day

A few weeks ago, Andy and I went on a little vacation to Mexico for my girlfriends wedding.  This was our first vacation without Calleigh.  Calleigh stayed home with my mom.  We sent messages every day of how our day was going and mom sent some back to inform us of how our little girl was doing. 

Andy and I had a really nice and relaxing time.  I highly recommend everyone needs to do this every now and again.  The highlight of our trip had to be my girlfriends wedding.  She looked absolutely shunning on her special day.  We couldn't have asked for better weather that day.  On our last day there, everyone who attended the wedding went on a boat cruise, we saw baby whales, mother whales, dolphins and of course sea lions.  It truly was amazing.

Our little girl got to spend time with grandma Cathy and grandma Barb.  Of course she was a perfect delight, is what we get told.  However, she did manage to climb out of her pack and play two days.  So that was an experience for grandma Cathy.  She hasn't tried it again since then, so hopefully we are past that.  Calleigh got to go to a hockey game and of course once again she was happy and content.  Overall our little girl did great without us for a week.  But we sure did miss her and were REALLY glad to get home to kiss our little girl, even though she didn't give us the welcoming we were looking for.