Has it really been 5 months since I made a Blog post? Life has thrown us a few curve balls in the past few months, so this will be the first in a series of posts to catch everyone up!
Curve Ball #1: In March, we found out we are expecting our 2nd baby! We are really excited yet completely terrified at the thought of having 2 kids. Most of our friends with more than one child have assured us that it can be done, but then again, they don't have a Brandon at their house. We're hoping for a much calmer, laid back child to offset the spirited and often strong willed (yet fun and lovable) one we already have.
Here's one thing we did this spring in Kansas City:
For Mother's Day we went on a fun walk and picnic at Shawnee Mission Park. Sometimes Brandon is so good at playing by himself and reading books...
But this devious smile should assure you that it usually doesn't last long before he takes off in the other direction.
While Valerie's mom was in town, we went to the best children's farmstead ever, Deanna Rose. One of the best activities they have there is the chance to bottle feed baby goats. The first time Brandon did this, he was not a big fan. The goats are pretty competitive with each other for those bottles, and they like to jump up on little kids. You have to use some strength to keep the bottle in the goats mouth as they can pull it out of your hands easily. This was Brandon's second time doing the bottle feeding, so he was now all pro.
The 2-handed technique works the best.
Curve Ball #2 came to us on May 31st. We got a call from the landlords of our house. They informed us that they had decided to move back into the house and try to sell it, and we were to be out in 30 days. 30 days! After much debate, they extended it to 45 days. It was a long few weeks as we figured out what to do. Should we buy a house in Kansas? Should we find a temporary place to rent? Everything was so uncertain because we were supposed to already know Ford's plans for Krzysztof's job at that point, but they had not made any decisions. We didn't know how much longer we would even need to be in Kansas. And where was this baby going to be born? With some pressuring, and after several weeks of waiting and waiting, Ford finally decided to go ahead initiate a move to Michigan. If the process had gotten delayed any longer, we would not have been able to get out of our house in time! We had very little time for packing and organizing, but luckily Ford provides packers and movers, so there isn't too much prior preparations that had to be done. We just had to separate out what we needed for a temporary apartment in Michigan and what we wanted for storage.
We started the process of getting together with friends for one last time, and stupidly we didn't take pictures at most of those gatherings. Here's one picture we did take from a dinner at our house with some of our "Brewing Friends." The funny thing about this group is that out of the 4 couples, 3 of us were moving away from Kansas City in the coming weeks! Ed and Kristin were moving to Iowa and Ken and Stephanie were moving to Seattle. Warren and Kristin are staying in KC.
This is your first glimpse of my growing baby belly by the way.
And here is a picture of Brandon with the best babysitter that he loves - Julia (or JuJu as he calls her). She was so helpful to watch Brandon a lot during the moving process.
More to come in the next post!
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