Baby # 2

We are having BABY #2 due December 27-December 31. My projected due date is December 31st but the ultrasound lady said that from the length of the baby my due date could be early which means that I'm about a week farther along then I thought. We are super excited about bringing another baby into our family and William hasn't completely understood that I'm having a baby yet but he will learn soon enough. I am currently 10 weeks and 4 days along.

Adding a Member to the Engelsman Family

So it has been a long time since I last wrote a post on here. Life has been super busy and lots of fun. Most recently and importantly I found out Friday that I am expecting BABY #2 December 31, 2011!!! We are super excited and hoping this time the baby will be a girl since we already have William and would be happy with another boy too.

Update on Life

Hi everyone, sorry its been forever since I last posted on here. Lots of happened in our family. All of your summer activities, William's first birthday, trip to Bend, and Halloween. In July we camped for a week by Mt. Saint Helen's on one of the lakes and had lots of fun. Also, William had his first swimming lessons for a month starting the end of July to August. Here are some pictures of our camping trip where William loved playing in the dirt and with sticks.. Here he is playing in some leaves when we went hiking to some see some waterfalls. August 29 was William's 1st Birthday! We had family and some friends from both sides meet us at Bush Park by the playground closer to South High School. I bought a cake from Roth's for everyone else and my sister Andrea made William's cake. William's Cake: Chocolate cake, banana Everyone else's cake for his party filling, and chocolate frosting Before eating his cake I decided to have presents. He got new clothes, rain jacket, books, videos, shoes, toys, and a riding car. William was very unsure what to do when I handed him the cake at first. Then we started eating it on the side near to him and liked. He didn't get too messy until about 10 minutes in when he got a sugar high because there was frosting/cake everywhere on him, the highchair, the ground. He started throwing and smashing his cake. It was super funny. Here are before and after pictures of him with his cake: September I started back to work as a substitute teacher with Jason watching William and things started to slow down. Then at the beginning of October we went and visited my sister, brother-in-law, and nephew in Bend for the weekend. We left Friday and had dinner at their house, then sat we went to a Pumpkin Patch on the outside of Redmond where there are pony rides, pumpkin launchers, petting zoo, pumpkins, and food. William had lots of fun eating the hay, riding the pony, seeing the animals, getting pumpkins. Here are some pictures of us at the pumpkin patch: Riding on Dad's back around the patch First horse ride with dad holding me With momma eating some hay Picking out my own pumpkin Eating some hay on the haystack

1st Family Camping Trip

We went camping for the first time as a family at Swift Reservoir, which is on the North side of Mt Saint Helens. We were there from July 11-16th with my mom's side of the family. We had 4 camp sites with 8 tents because we could only have 2 tents per site. William had a wonderful time walking around finding sticks and playing in the dirt. The picture above is of William walking around the campground smiling. William did a wonderful job with playing, eating, and sleeping except for 2 nights when he had a diaper rash and the 2nd night when it was super cold. Here is a pic of William playing in the dirt and his hiding spot. On the second day we went up to a lookout spot of Mt. Saint Helen's and then went to a place where there were waterfalls that were beautiful. Here are some pics of the mountain and the waterfalls.

9 Months

Sorry it has been a long time since I last posted something on here. Life has been busy and getting ready for summer. My dad has an appointment next tues to see how his cancer and then decide if he needs more treatment. William is getting so big as you can see in his picture. He is 9 1/2 months almost now and at his appointment he weighed 20.5 lbs and 28.5 inches long. He weighs mostly 9 month clothes now, but still some 6-9 months because he has short legs like his momma, haha. He is moving all the time these days especially getting ready to walk. He walks with or along anything and has started standing by himself for about 2-3 seconds and has taken 1-2 steps before falling. He will stand for about 10 seconds if he has something in his hands and doesn't notice he is standing by himself. He has 6 teeth now, 4 on the top and 2 on the bottom. Also, just this last week he learned how to fake laugh and it is adorable when he does it because all the other noises he makes. He says mama, dada, and hi along with waving goodbye or hello. Standing with the help of our furniture. William sporting his shades in the car to Grammy and Papa's house

Cold Medicine Recall for Infants and Chidlren

Here is a link to a website talking about the recall on Infant and Children's cold medicines. I'm going to call William's doctor office monday to ask about it because I've been giving it to him off and on the last couple of weeks for his teeth again. Here is the link:

Children's cold, allergy medicine recalled

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/01/drug.recall/index.html

6th Month Photo Shoot

Today we had William's 6th month photo shoot done at JC Penny. He did super even when he got tired towards the end and wasn't really cooperating with the photographer. I will put a few pictures on here and then give the website for you to look at the rest of the pictures. The website is https://www.smilesbywire.com/home.asp?AC=LTPP0131114687JCP and for customer enter Tara Engelsman and enjoy all of our wonderful pictures. This bath picture is probably my favorite out of all the pictures that were taken. William having some fun in the bath tub William in his second outfit and all smiles.

6 Months Old

William is growing super fast and I can't believe that he is already six months old. At his 6th month appt he got his shots again along with being 17.4 lbs and 27 1/2 inches long. He is in the 90% percentile for his weight, height, and head. He is sitting up on his own, drinking from a cup, eating fruits & vegetable, and getting ready to crawl. Its super cute when he gets up on his hands and knees and just rocks back and forth not going anywhere. Also, he moves himself forward by getting up on his toes and leaping himself forward to whatever he wants. Sometimes he goes backwards by pushing with his hands. William has one tooth on the bottom and two more teeth working their way through. He still sleeps 10 hours at night and takes at least 2 naps during the day. He talks, plays with toys, smiles, and laughs all the time. We love having William in our lives and enjoy seeing him grow and change into a young boy. William is sitting up on his own!!!

4 Generations Visit

4 Generations: Jason, William, Laurel, Ann, Julee (Jason's Mom), and Grandma Sue 3 Generations: Jason, William, and Great Grandma Sue So earlier this month we went and visited William's great-great Grandma Sue on Jason's side of the family. We visited for about 2 hours where we talked, showed her some christmas pics, and remembered things from the past. She looked amazing for being 89 years old. Her hair is long and up in a ponytail and super strong still. Also, a side note is that William got his first tooth on the bottom front last week. Here are pictures from the visit. Laurel, Ann, William, and Grandma Sue Jason, Me, William, and Grandma Sue

5 Months Old

William turned 5 months old last Friday. He is rolling all over the place, scooting on the ground by putting his face down and pushing with his toes, and getting some teeth. The teeth haven't come through yet, but you can feel lots of them on the bottom and top. He is eating like a pig too with eating 2 stage 1 baby foods at each meal time along with his bottle on demand. At his 4 month appointment he was 14.8 lbs so he is now probably about 16 lbs but I haven't weighed him since his appointment. He is wearing 6 month clothes and almost into 6-9 month clothes too. Still isn't able to sit up on his own, but he is getting better at sitting on his own and needs to use his hands to hold himself up. Here are a couple pictures of William.

4 MONTHS OLD

William turned 4 months old last Tuesday and we had his appointment NewYears' morning. He is rolling all the time from his back to his stomach, holding his head all the way up, trying to sit up but now able to yet, and eating baby food. So far we have just tried cereal and apples, which he LOVES apple sauce and its the only way he will eat all of the cereal. He makes all kinds of noises now when talking, laughing, spitting, or just noises. At his appointment William weighed 14 lbs and 8 oz. He head is 43.2 inches and he is 24 inches long, which the doctor said he is above what average babies are at his age. Also, he got 3 shots in the leg and 1 oral shot. He liked the oral shot, but screamed as soon as the needle touched his skin again. He was whinny the rest of that day and a little the next so we gave him some medicine which he loved. Hope everyone had a great New Years and we'll keep you updated in the next couple of months.

Celebrating William's First Christmas

We went to Jason's parents for Christmas eve where William opened some presents where he tried ripping the paper before eating and following asleep. It was just the 3 of us and Jason's parents at their house. We had dinner, apple pie, and presents where we got lots of gifts that will be well used in good time. For christmas day we went to my parents house where all 6 of my siblings, their spouses, 7 grandkids, my parents, us, and 2 dogs. It was very crowded but great to see everyone together for christmas in a long time especially with my dad not being well. We even got family pictures taken before people started to leave. First we let all the kids open their presents, which took a long time because they get the most and I opened William's presents cuz he was sleeping on Aunt Jamie's lap. Then all the adults opened presents followed by eating ham sandwiches, salads, and dips. For dessert my sister Andrea made 2 cheesecakes that were really good. Towards the end some of the adults played poker while the kids played with their toys in the play room, aka my mom's sewing room. Hope everyone had a wonderful christmas and more pictures to come soon.

Thanksgiving 2009

This year like the last 2 years Jason and I have gone to both family for thanksgiving, getting 2 meals instead of just one. This year we went to my parents in the afternoon where we ate kinda light and then we went to Jason's parents at 4 where we ate more food and pie. At my parents house it was us, my parents, my sister Andrea, and my brother Alan and his family. At Jason's parents house it was us, his parents, and his sister Jami and her family. There are so many things to be thankful of this year, but especially for our healthy baby boy William who will be 3 months old sunday and growing tons. This morning Jason went shopping on Black Friday at 2 in the morning to Walmart first and then to other stores so that i wouldn't have to go or wake up William. He got gifts for me and his side of the family. We're not planning on buying William many gifts because all of our family will be getting him things and he will only be about 4 months so he won't know what is going on. I am going to buy him a stocking and put things in his stocking for Christmas morning. Hope everything that went shopping this morning survived and got what they were looking for along with having fun.

Update on my Dad's Health

My dad and I at my high school graduation

For those of you that know my dad has lung cancer and is doing really well with the cemo and radiation. He has 1 more cemo on monday and then a 2 week break before getting more and he'll continue with radiation for 5 more weeks. He hasn't been sick, but super hyper where he stays up till 11 at night where before he went to bed at 8. Please keep praying for my dad and family as we are going through this with him. Hope everyone has a great thanksgiving.

First Post

This is my very first post on my blog. I am back subbing for Salem-Keizer school district along with other surrounding districts. I am glad that I am subbing lots, but at the same time I would love to have my own classroom which will come in God's own time and not mine. William is 10 weeks old now and growing a ton. He was 10 lbs 13 oz and 22.5 inches long at his 2 month appt The doctor said that he is perfect and that the little hole in his heart is all closed up because she couldn't hear it when listening to his heart. I will try to keep this up to date as new events occur in our lives and thank you for looking at my blog and reading all the wonderful things about my family.