Happy Memorial Day

Today we spent the day over at my parents house.  We had a relaxing day, my in laws came over along with my sister-in-law and brother-in-law with their little guy.  We had a small little cook out, brats and ribs.  It was delicious.  Calleigh played with her cousin Austin, digging in the sandbox and swimming.  We had a great day, the temperature was very pleasant outside, I guess if you have misters and a fan on you then its perfect.

So I haven't written a blog since Aidan has been born.  Talk about not being very good about writing.  However, I want to do another post every day for a month again.  I did it last year, and it was very overwhelming, but I really loved going back and reading about what happened during that month.

Anyways, lots has happened since my last post about Aidan being born, goodness me. 
 

First, we took a trip to Vancouver in April so that everyone could meet Aidan, as well as, attend Sierra's (Aidan's godmother) graduation party.  The whole family came this time.  It was a new experience as Calleigh is now old enough to sit in her own seat, and well we had Aidan.  All went well, Calleigh was so good, considering we got up at 3:30am to catch our 6:30am flight.  And Aidan well he was perfect, slept for most of the flight and played the rest of the way.  We were very proud parents with both our kids.  We got many compliments about our kids and how well behaved they were.

Soon after getting back Aidan started sitting all by himself, which he thought was kind of cool.  He loves to be around the dog and pull on the dogs tail.  Poor Cash:( Just recently he has started scooting on him tummy.  He gets around pretty well, and fast too.

Calleigh has turned into one big girl, she is now completely potty trained.  It really only took a good week of hard core sitting on the potty every 15 minutes and she is done so well.  She doesn't even wear a pull up or anything at night either.  It is fantastic, we are so proud of her.  I am truly amazed at how well she has done, with no accidents at all.

Well anyways, I was finding the need to do a little update on our blog, so stay tuned for some more from us, as we will be posting something on a daily basis, hopefully......

We Proudly Announce...

The Streit Family is proud to announce that on Monday October 17 at 7:16am we proudly welcomed Aidan Paul into our family, weighing 7 lbs 8oz and 20 inches long.

My water broke at 4:30am, that is when I knew that this baby was coming today.  He was listening to Grandpa David.  (My dad had to travel back to New York, and if he hadn't arrived this weekend he wouldn't have seen him for almost 3 WEEKS.  My dad was thrilled that it all worked out and Mr. Aidan listened to his grandpa.)  I called my mom at about 4:45am and told her about my water, by 5:30 I called again and told her she should probably start making her way over to the house.  In the mean time, we also called my mother in law, Barb, and she decided as well to make her way over to the house as well.  By 6am we decided to make our way to the hospital.  My mom came with us, and Barb stayed at the house to watch Calleigh.  We got to the hospital and got checked in, as soon as we entered the doors of the hospital my contractions were so close together and painful.  They wheeled me over to triage, and had me wait for the nurse.  By this point, I had probably 3 contractions in the triage room waiting for a nurse to come and check on us.  I had my mom go and tell them that I was having the urge to push, so they rushed over to me.  I was dilated to 7.5 cm by this point.  They then pushed me in the bed to delivery room, where I was having more urges to push.  They checked me and was dilated to 9.5 cm.  Next contraction I was completed dilated and ready to have a baby.  However, I had NO DOCTOR, the doctor who was on call was on her way out and the other one hadn't gotten there yet.  Well she came running back into the room, and three pushes later our little Aidan Paul was born at 7:16am.

This was a very fast delivery as well, only 2 1/2 hours of labor and three pushes and our little man was here.  He truly was a surprise, but we are very happy and excited to have him here.

Andy's Birthday

  

Last night we celebrated Andy's Birthday, yes I know his birthday was a week ago, but it was the only time all the family could get together.  For Andy's birthday he requested to have some lobster, crab and cesar salad for his birthday dinner.  He was very excited to go and pick out his lobster to cook.  Yes, he wanted a real live lobster.  Calleigh wanted nothing to do with it, and really didn't even care.  Andy was very thrilled that he could experience cooking a live lobster.  He ended the evening with his favorite cake, cheese cake, which I made, and it was delicious.  Andy had a wonderful night, celebrating his 29th birthday with his family.

Coffee with Daddy

Every Sunday morning Calleigh looks forward to having some coffee with her dad.  Together they make the coffee.  Calleigh gets to add the scoops of coffee grains, and push the button.  She sits so patiently waiting for the coffee to brew.  Once ready Calleigh and her dad, go and have coffee at her little table, and Calleigh talks about who knows what.  I love listening to their conversation, and watching them interact.  Calleigh sure enjoys this time with her dad.  She really looks forward to having coffee with her dad every Sunday morning.

Wrap up Week

 

Calleigh and ALL her art projects

28 weeks

Face of baby @28 weeks

This week was busy, but in a good way.  Calleigh finished her art class on Wednesday, and swimming lessons on Thursday.  She really enjoyed her art class, she made so many different things.  She came along way from the very first day of class.  The first day she wouldn't touch anything, and on the last day she was all about the shaving cream and getting it all over her hands and rubbing it all over the table.  We finished up swim lessons for the summer.  She really did well this third time around.  She has absolutely no fear.  I am convinced that if she were to every fall in the water she could get her self out of the water or swim to safety. 

I also had my 28 week appointment this week.  It included another ultrasound, to measure growth and to see if baby's head was down or not.  Everything is good and where it should be.  Got my results back from my glucose test and everything came back good.  So we don't have to worry about that, thank goodness.  Now I start going every two weeks to the doctor, oh how I love to visit the doctor.

Last night Andy and I decided to change Calleigh's crib into its toddler bed.  We weren't sure how it was going to be but she did so great at it.  Yes, she got up a few times but after about 45 minutes she was asleep.  I checked her before I went to bed and she was in her bed.  Andy checked on her this morning and she was sleeping on the floor.  However, he checked on her one more time before he left for work and she was back into her bed.  She also did really well for her nap today, this time it only took her 30 minutes to fall asleep, so we are getting better.  We are so proud of her, she is growing up so fast.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!!!

Calleigh's favorite page!!

Calleigh points to the letters
and sings the alphabet

About three weeks ago, I took Calleigh back to the library to get some new books.  We picked out a few that looked interesting to her.  But the one she absolutely loves is Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.  We have read it every day multiple times a day every since.  Well we went back to the library today to return the library books, I had full intentions of renewing the book, however someone had requested it and so we had to leave it at the library.  All hell broke lose, she had a complete melt down in the middle of the library.  It broke my heart, she really didn't understand why we had to give her book away.  So off to the book store we went.  We purchased the book and all was better.  Now we will have this book forever.