Waiting for Baby

Today is my official due date. At this time with Eli's pregnancy I was in labor...this time little Cochise is taking his sweet time. Granted last time we wanted the baby to come as soon as possible so we were going on walks in the mall often two times a day to try and get labor going and this time we wanted to wait until after Labor Day (for insurance reasons) before I began labor. Now that we are officially covered in Waterloo with insurance I am ready for this baby to come. But today it is too hot and humid to go walking outside and our mall isn't really good for walking. It is mostly a big square and there is a carousel and kiddie playground right in the center. While those don't grab my attention, Eli is slightly enamoured with them.

We did have a great weekend though. Saturday Pete, Emily, Guy and Amy came up and we had a wonderful BBQ with hamburges and bratwurst patties. The guys went disc golfing and the girls sat and chatted. It was fun to show off our house to family.
Sunday we drove to Iowa City so Morgan could stand in the circle for Isabella Ortega's blessing. We only stayed for Sacrament meeting because Morgan had to teach his class for the first time (Sunday School teacher for the youth) and the Nursery put a little concert on for parents and grandparents during the last 15 minutes of church. Eli was really cute but didn't start really singing until the last song. It was still cute.
Monday the Ortegas came up to our place and we had another BBQ and played games and hung out. (Again, the guys went disc golfing.) It was great to see them, we missed them while they were gone for the summer.
And today Shannon came up to spend a few days with us. We are really grateful that she agreed to come up. She is going to be our babysitter for Eli while Morgan and I are in the hospital. Hopefully this baby will come so we can take advantage of her before she has to leave to head to Provo, Utah and the MTC.

Here are some pictures from the weekend.

This is Eli and Isaac playing. Isaac liked to knock over the towers with his feet, Eli wasn't too happy about that. Although I think in this picture Eli was saying cheese. Either way, while the boys had a lot of fun together there was also a lot of pushing and crying and getting used to each other again.

This next picture is Eli playing "baseball." Obviously we need to get him better equipment.


And finally, Morgan has been saving up money to buy a disc golf basket. He's saved his allowance, mowed the lawn and sold textbooks online to get enough money and today he picked it up. We've got it set up in the basement. When Eli woke up from his nap we went down stairs and he was so excited when he saw it. He ran straight to it and hung from the rim (just proving to us that we need to make sure it is anchored well.) It is a great basket and I'm sure it will last us throughout our marriage. Now we can practice disc at home (yeah) and inside in the cool basement no matter what the weather is like outside. Horray!