Hello family and friends! We have a very exciting announcement....we are going to be grandparents for the 2nd time! Yay!!! Kirsten and Adam are expecting!! We were a bit surprised that it happened so soon, but they are very happy and excited!

"Baby Lakose" is due August 16th! They had their first doctor's appointment this week, and had a sonogram. They were able to see the baby pretty well. Kirsten emailed me after the appointment and said, "There is definitely a little peanut in there!" So...that sweet little bundle of joy will be called "Little Peanut" until we find out if it's a boy or a girl!
We are so happy and grateful that another precious grandchild will be joining our family soon!

Any guesses ...boy or girl?? Hmmm....right now I'm guessing it's a boy. McKenna wants a baby girl cousin....anybody else care to get in on the guessing game? (they hope to find out the sex of the baby around April 1st...) We do know there is a BIG possibility that Little Peanut will emerge with red hair...(Kirsten's hair is auburn and Adam has some red in his hair and beard)....IF any hair at all....most babies in our family tend to arrive with very little hair or totally bald.... and very long fingers and toes! (from Adam...)

We'll of course be thrilled with a boy or a girl and just want Little Peanut to be happy and healthy.

Also, I became a "Great Aunt" for the first time last week...my niece Shareese, who lives in Chattanooga, Tenn., delivered baby Gabriella on Jan. 22nd! She's a cutie!

We'll keep you posted on Little Peanut!
Cindy

Christmas...a little late!

Hi everyone! One of my goals this year is to update my blog more often...oh boy...I've failed miserably on that one so far! I'll work on it!

Here is what we did this weekend.....yes, THAT is the beach, and yes, it was 81 degrees! In JANUARY! Sheesh!



McKenna loves the beach and asks to go there all the time. We actually hadn't planned on going to the beach, just to Balboa Parkin San Diego, but it was so warm we decided to take her there for a little while, even though she wasn't dressed for it.

Here are Kirsten (Auntie Kiki) and McKenna on the merry-go-round at Balboa Park! McKenna loved it so much she rode it twice, and also road the little train there.

And now...better late than never....Christmas photos!

Kirsten and Adam help McKenna play with her new toys! (We started calling Adam "Grizzly Adam", since he grew a beard!)

McKenna LOVES the movie The Lion King. In fact, it's safe to say she's obsessed! So Santa brought her this tiny Simba lion cub, and here she is "re-enacting" a scene from The Lion King...where Rafiki holds up the baby Simba!

She also got a new Dora bike! Her first words when she saw it: "Now I need a helmet"! We're not quite sure how she knew she needed a helmet to ride a bike!

Grizzly Adam and Mark, on trash duty!

Auntie Kirsten and Adam brought McKenna a GIANT stuffed Simba and she LOVES it!

With every new gift McKenna said, "What's inside THIS one?"

We had a nice, relaxing day. Instead of a big dinner, we had a brunch, and just munched the rest of the day. We spent Christmas Eve at Kirsten and Adam's new place in downtown San Diego, and they cooked us a yummy dinner! It was a very nice Christmas!