George & Lela's visit, take 1

One night we had dinner in Waikiki and all the kids wanted to go swimming. Here's Lela and Kylee.
My favorite beach in Hawaii! Others are prettier but this is the most kid friendly

lol. all three kids wanted to get buried.

Gosh Kylee you are a looker!

touchdown! but seriously....watching cartoons with your special chair on our couch is so much more fun, huh Kylee?

Daddy after another long day at work, all smiles for his little girl

resting at the beach...

Papa George and one of his babies, relaxin

another view from Tantalus

The day before I was induced we went and had lunch with Josh at work

Nico right after a wave took him out.

my 9 mo belly

a battleship. we got really lucky during their visit and were able to see all sorts of ships.

Papa and Kylee snuggling

Grandma and Nico and a big pineapple drink

posing at the Oceanarium

Diamondhead

Our first time seeing an aircraft carrier! It was open for tours, too, but we all had sandals on. Bummer.

Grandma cuddling with Lexi

Nico and Lexi

Daddy and his girls

Grandma playing WIZARD and holding Lexi

Papa and Kylee having fun

This is the Oceanarium. A great seafood buffet restaurant, and has a huge fish tank you get to look at during dinner. Usually you see a diver in there as well, swimming with the fish.

Kylee loves messin with her sister and giving her kisses during tummy time

Alexis "Lexi" Grace Engstrom

Wow. This is a little late, considering Lexi was born two months ago. July 30th, 2010 at 7:32pm. I was induced because like with Kylee, my amniotic fluids were low. Daddy and Grandma rushed over to the hospital at 1:30pm when the Dr's induced me. Six hours later, and the epidural didnt work, I had Lexi. Healthy baby, healthy Mommy, that's all we can ask for!

oops. this is when the contractions started getting rough...

Daddy's first time holding Lexi

Grandma's first time

Lexi's first bath

Happy Family!

the next day Kylee came to visit her sister for the first time. Since day 1, like in this picture, all Kylee wants to do is kiss her baby sister

Lexi's going home from the hospital outfit. This is a newborn outfit and it was too big on her.

Big sister giving 'lil sister a stuffed animal

see...more kisses!

beautiful blue baby eyes

proud Papa George

I'm back so I'll be posting much more frequently, trying to catch up the last two months.

40 & 41 weeks

41 weeks
40 weeks

39 weeks

Josh's parents get here in 24 hours...hoping 'lil girl makes her entrance very shortly after that. I have a dr appt tue and a dr appt fri. Really hoping she doesnt do what Kylee did and wait until almost 42 weeks.

Dont have any other pictures to post. The camera has been packed in the labor bag for the past two weeks. Next time I post hopefully it will be with pictures of our new little bundle of joy!

our 4th of july weekend

my fav 4th of july pic. i want to blow this up and frame it.
kylee and nash love playing together. i had some more pics of a petting zoo we went to but for some reason they wont post. she loved loved loved the rabbit. i wanna get her one.

a rare moment kylee was willing to sit still. never thought kiddie leashes were a good thing until we had to bring our always on the go child to an event with 10,000 other people. we sat right on the water, close to a live band that was playing lots of rock n roll classics from the 60's, 70's and 80's. loved spending the 4th at a military base although i'll always miss rythym and booms.
almost ready for fireworks...

i think this is my favorite fireworks picture. loved that they lit the fireworks off right behind the American Flag so you got the flag in the center of the fireworks.

fireworks show was really long. they played five songs, and at the end of each song had a grand finale of fireworks, including the Star Spangled Banner and God Bless America

she loved the show but i still had to bribe her with M & M's to stay still. she wanted to run to be closer to the fireworks

kylee and i at the navy's 4th of july festivities

across the ocean on an island, the city of honolulu as a backdrop to watch fireworks

getting ready for fireworks

during a friends going away party kylee was content to chase birds. boy does she love birds and planes.

i think she's gonna be a surfer girl

kylee and her buddy landon

josh and i out at bellows beach for 4th of july festivities

37 week photo

i was positive i was going to go into labor within the next few days. in fact i think i told almost everyone i would have her by this weekend, but its starting to look like i'm wrong. oh well. this pregnancy has been so good to me that waiting a few more weeks doesnt bother me. i have my 39 week checkup in 5 days.

Dinosaurs at the Mall

kylee loves watching planes and birds. you say those words and she will instantly stop what she is doing and look. so at night sometimes we let her watch videos of birds or planes on the computer.

Last Sunday we took Kylee to the mall. They had this huge dinosaur exhibit all throughout both malls. She loved it. This was about as close as she would get to the dinosaurs though.

kylee wouldnt even look at the camera and get a cute picture taken. she just wanted to look at the dinosaurs. the moved realistically and made noise too. it was awesome! and free!

josh and i decided to scrub the house one day, since we are both working its been difficult to keep on top of cleaning. so we put headphones on kylee and let her watch the wiggles. it was great.

34 weeks

I cant believe we have (roughly) 6 weeks to go. It seems like time is flying by so fast! We are about as ready as we can be. We spent yesterday shopping for the last of the baby stuff we need, and stocked up on tons of basic house supplies, and I'm spending today cooking and freezing meals. Hoping, really really really hoping, that she makes it until at least 4th of July weekend. I'm on orders to work with the Army through that time.

Josh was supposed to be taking this picture from a better angle with a better background, but with an 18 month old, you take what she will give you. All you photoshop people...is there a way to make the background of this picture white so its only me and Kylee?
34 weeks! Still feeling so great. I've had pretty severe back pains for the last week or two, but thats really the only side effect I've been having.