The merry month of May

Well, as usual, it's been a while again. We've been quite busy up here getting ready for the new addition. The end of April and so far in May have had quite a few events.
We'll start out with the May 1st weekend in the Dells for Gram's big birthday party. As you may have already read about on other family blogs, it was definitely a memorable one! We began with a trip to a familiar hangout for a big family dinner. The Moosejaw Pizza place. You may remember this from Baka's birthday party last year. In case you are fuzzy... here's an image to freshen your mental picture.

Now then we'll move on to the current picture. Yes folks, this is one measly year later. Can you all believe how big she's gotten?!?!

The cabin we stayed at had it's own little built in movie theater. The kids enjoyed several videos there. Carly was a little more enthusiastic than cousin Isaac.

There was also a great indoor pool. Carly is becoming quite the little swimmer. Well... maybe not yet, but she's not afraid of the water, and is even beginning to learn to kick and paddle.

Here she was taking a break from all that 'swimming' to try out cousin Cassidy's new little raft. She enjoyed this momentarily, then decided that rafts are evil and were to be avoided at all costs.

Gram thought the three girls needed some new shades. Here's Cassidy, Carly and Emily checking themselves out.

So this will be the last and only picture our child(ren) will likely have with this famous statue. This was unfortunately the most memorable part of the trip. Some of you know Paul Bunyan, pictured here in the background. Paul poisoned the family.

After recovering from the above mentioned event, we move on to Mother's Day weekend. The weather had again switched to the chilly side, so we went and checked out the sites at the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley. (I think it's Apple Valley... who knows where those stupid suburbs' city limit lines are?) Anyway... here's Kim and Carly about to be swallowed by Jonah's weird cousin made of wood and paper mache'.

Hrmmm... how'd this get in here again?

Ok...back to the zoo.... They had this nice little playground to relax in. Notice the rather tight bend in the slide? Well, lets just say it's not meant for 6' tall adults.

Carly was absolutely fascinated by the leopard. The leopard was also fascinated by Carly, and paced back and forth for several minutes.

Just a pic of Carly and her dad.

During these last few weeks we've also been getting Carly ready to transition to her new big girl room. We've got her toddler bed set up, a dresser refinished and ready for her, and even moved her big letters from upstairs to down. She was a little apprehensive about the move. We had several attempts at making friends with the bed before we gave it the first night.

Didn't take too long to adapt.

In addition to all the moving things around in the house, several things moved out of the house...and into the driveway for participation in the Kasson town-wide garage sale weekend. Carly was a big help.

Here's our little marketing director working with some advertising materials.

She really get's into her work.

Ok... well that's all for now, I suppose.

I guess we could do a quick Rocky update. 36 weeks along, and all is well. Kim's been to the Dr. for checkups a few times in the past weeks, and they say everything is measuring as it should be and seems to be just fine.

Ok... that's really all now. -bye!