Greg's Big 3-0!

Daddy and Ben posing with the Birthday Cake
Family Pic

Marnie figuring out the bumper car at WhirlyBall

Good job teams!

Doug and Greg posing with their Ice Cream Cake

Valentine's Day is special in our house every year because we also get to celebrate Greg's Birthday! This year was extra special since Greg hit one of his milestone birthday's-30! We had a great day, my parents came up so they could babysit and we made plans with our friends to go out to dinner and then play some WhirlyBall. Dinner was really good although our waiter was interesting...WhirlyBall was a blast to play and to watch :) We are so glad we have such great people around us to celebrate with and the night would not have been the same without all of them there! Thanks again to everyone who came :)

Cousin Fun!

Ben at Castaway Cafe...going down the slide like a Big Boy
Picture Time :)
The Cheese Bandits...and Ranch too!
All the cousins snuggling watching a movie
After bath, snack, and movie time :)

The Abbott Family is super busy after Christmas too...the majority of the immediate family celebrate birthdays in Jan/Feb. it is crazy but it is also nice to see everyone on a regular basis! Ben has been spoiled with spending a lot of time with Emma, Kylah, and Sam recently and they all have such a good time together! I just had to share some of the cute pics we had of all these little cuties together :)

Hands On Museum

Ben playing with the water wheel
Ben checking out the spinning egg
Pushing buttons to hear animal sounds

Ben putting himself in a large bubble

Ben was not so sure about the Tornado

A few weeks back Ben and I met my dad (aka. Grandpa D) at the Ann Arbor Hands on Museum. We all needed to get out of the house and it was something that I thought Ben might really enjoy at his age...I was right! It was a blast :) We checked out the Preschool Section first and the only thing that Ben was really interested in was the water table, other than that he was ready for the big kid stuff. Obviously Ben doesn't understand the science behind any of the exhibits but he sure enjoyed testing them out and pushing all the buttons. My dad and I even had a great time exploring. You could easily spend an entire day there but we were good for about 2 hours before I was starving and ready for some Mongolian BBQ! It is def. something I would enjoy taking Ben to again and again...maybe next time we can go when there isn't a herd of Kindergartners running around though!

Baby Brother

Straight on view of the face
Side profile
I'm a Boy
Me at 21 weeks and 1 day

Well I am FINALLY updating with the fact that Ben is going to have a little brother! We couldn't be more excited and I know Ben will have a blast running around with his little brother when he is big enough. My doctors appointment was a little under 2 weeks ago and the little guy is growing great and looks healthy...that is always good to know too :) He is measuring right on so all dates are staying the same. I know that having 2 little boys is going to be quite the handful but I am up for the task! Greg is a great dad and he will have so much fun playing with his little guys. I am starting to think that maybe we need to get a female dog or something though...including Riley I am outnumbered 4 to 1. Oh well, on a side note I am still feeling great and have definitely felt the baby a ton at this point. It started off as just in the evenings around 16 weeks or so but now has moved to through out the day and then going crazy at night while I am watching TV...Greg has even felt him which is always so cool too! We are excited to meet this little guy and can't believe we are over half way there :)