A Child's Honesty

For Mother's Day in Joy School, the children were asked questions about "Mommy" and thier answers (unedited) were written down on a Mother's Day card. Here were Ashlee's responses. The truth hurts.

Danielle Elise Bylund

On April 27th at 12:48 pm, the Bylund family got bigger by 7 lbs., 2 oz., and 19". This is Aaron posting this not Heidi. You know this because if it were Heidi there would be a clever and efficient collage of pictures set to a Baby Einstein soundtrack. You might have even been able to click on the pictures to enlarge them. Not going to happen as long as I am at the helm so you are just going to have to scroll until your finger cramps. Welcome to our family Danielle, we love you!

Turn Baby Turn

So I have been standing on my head lately! I found out that our baby is breech and am scheduled for a C section in May if the baby doesn't turn before then. It's been an interesting few days. I have been crawling on all fours, face down- bum up, putting cold packs on my belly, holding a stereo to my belly, etc. You name it, I have probably tried it! I am hoping it will make a difference in the next few weeks. They say a baby can still turn right up till labor so keep me in your prayers. I really don't want a C Section!

The Biggest Loser....

I thought I would share Aaron's results in the Biggest Loser contest. Aaron ended up losing 29 pounds which was awesome! He really sacrificed a lot of his favorite foods for the past couple months. He didn't win first place but he came in second. So... close to winning $900.00. The last two weeks he hurt his arkeelies tendon running so that slowed things down a bit. Anyway, I am so proud of him. He gets to go back to some of his favorite foods, not everything though, and he definitely eats more vegetables now. After I have the baby, we'll both be eating a lot healthier.

Just been organizing.

We haven't been doing much lately except getting ready for the baby. We have both Ashlee's room and the babies room painted now, we are looking for some drawers or shelves to go into the babies room, Aaron put up fans in both rooms, and I've just been organizing. I guess you could say, with a month and a half left, I really need to get my labor bag packed and Ashlee's bag packed. I will post pictures of the rooms once things are put in place.

Here is a picture of Ashlee with her BF Madi. They play so good together. I just thought I'd share!

"I have two Grandpa's".

Ashlee and I were upstairs coloring some paper when, out of the blue, she said "I have two Grandpa's. Grandpa Heslop and Pappa" I smiled and said "That's right". Then she said "but I only have one Hemma and Grandma Heslop is in Heaven". It was so cute because this conversation was completely out of the blue. She must have been thinking about it, trying to figure it out. I love our conversations together. The things she says puts a smile on my face and often surprises me. She is so smart and who knows what she is thinking of next!

Ashlee's new bed.

Ashlee hasn't been napping lately so we have been doing quiet time. Well today she wanted to nap in this rubber-made box. I figured, oh well. She's not going to sleep anyway. LOL! I honestly didn't think she would actually fall asleep!