Introducing...

Anya Mali Roundy

6 lbs 3 oz

18 1/4 inches
(For privacy reasons I am not going to post what day she was born. I am in the process of making birth announcements, if you want one let me know. They will be the electronic kind so just an email will work).

Mommy holding her after getting cleaned up.Daddy holding her for the first time.

Big Sister Aspyn holding her for the first time.

Love this face!

All ready to go home from the hospital.

Aspyn holding her when we got home. She was so excited that I came home and that I brought the baby with me.

Happy Easter. Gotta love matching outfits.

First family picture. Not too bad for what we were working with.

Sorry to leave you all hanging. But here is our newest addition to our family. We love her so much and she is such a good baby. She looks a lot like Aspyn did when she was a baby except for the fact that she has a ton more hair than Aspyn did. About all she does is sleep and eat and eat and poop. Aspyn is such a good big sister! She loves Anya so much and will sit and hold her forever. I am doing pretty good. Still kind of sore because when she finally decided to come (she was a little late) she came pretty quickly! My parents just left this morning so I am surviving on my own until tomorrow when Josh's mom comes for a week. I had intentions of writing more but Aspyn just informed me that Anya is awake and that she wants to hold her now! I will update you more later!

36 Weeks and more!

I am 36 weeks now and we are just counting down the days until our little girl decides to make her arrival. I'm good with anytime now!! Here is my belly shot at 36 weeks.

This was also the night before I went in for an external inversion. We found out that she was breech and so my doctor wanted to try and turn her. Yes, it it as much fun as it sounds. Luckily he was able to turn her and now we are just hoping that she stays head down!! The only good part of it is that I got to have another ultrasound and take a good look at what she looks like now.
This isn't the best because it is a picture of the picture but here you can see her face. It's amazing how much detail the ultrasound tech was able to get. Aspyn was so excited to see pictures of her baby sister. And we are pretty sure that she is going to come out with the Walker nose just like Aspyn!

In other news, I just downloaded some pictures from the camera and thought that I would post some of them. Since we watched the Olympics all the time for the last couple of weeks Aspyn got really into it. One night she set up a little game of hockey between Daddy and her.
She was the one that set up the blanket for the playing surface and got the "sticks" (which consisted of her brush for her and her baby's spoon for Daddy) She had a blast hitting her ball back and forth and getting goals!

A couple of weeks ago I was using one of Josh's sweaters to stay warm (because none of mine really fit anymore). Aspyn decided that she wanted a turn wearing Daddy's clothes too so she put it on by herself and then Daddy helped her get the right look.
She looks like quite the gangster.

So in an effort to try and do something more with Aspyn's hair now that it's getting a little longer. We bought some Velcro curlers and Aspyn was so excited to try them out.
Here she is with them in. Her face doesn't show it but she really wasn't excited.
Here is the back view of it. Unfortunately her hair is so fine that the curls were gone before sacrament meeting was even over. Maybe someday it will work.

My Craftiness

I had started looking around at getting those trendy headbands for the new baby because we all know she won't have much hair for the first part of her life (you can thank my genetics for that one). I decided that they really didn't look all that hard to make and went for it. I found a video on youtube that showed me how so make the headband and went from there to this...

Not the best picture because I took it with my cell phone to send to my sister because she is also having a girl and so I made a set for her as well. I am hoping that I can maybe find some other colors of tights and flowers to add to the collection but this is a good start.

Here is a close up of what one looks like put together. I am pretty proud of myself for figuring it out. I can't wait to have our little girl here to try them out!!

Farewell

We had to say goodbye to one of our fish this week. Ever since we got the fish the white one (named Mommy) has picked on the little black/gold one (named Nemo) and it was just too much for him. I thought that I would post the obituary that Josh wrote up, Aspyn and I were at a play date when he took care of it and so he sent it by text to let me know.Just to let you know Nemo died last night, he was pronounced dead at approximately 10:47 AM on February 1st 2010, he was approximately two months old. It is thought that he passed away peacefully during the night, after a long struggle of repeated abuse. Upon confirmation of his death, he was given a quick funeral service and was then buried at sea. Nemo left behind an abusive wife, who is the only person of interest in an on going investigation in his unexpected death. In lieu of flowers, Nemo requested cash donations so that a much bigger fish can be purchased and avenge his death.
(Just so you know, we did get another fish yesterday to replace Nemo. Aspyn picked out the same color of fish and named him Nemo. But he is bigger and fights back so they seem to be getting along. Hopefully we don't have any more deaths.)

Sports Girl!

This last weekend we went to a couple of girls basketball games at Princeton. We just went to get out of the house and give us something to do. But Aspyn had a blast and everyday tells me she wants to go to another basketball game. She even told us that when she gets older she wants to play basketball. Josh may have her brainwashed already to be a sports girl! I took a few pictures of her at the game but since I only had my cell phone they aren't the best pictures but you get the idea.

Here she is watching them play. She knew all the right times to cheer and would clap when they made a basket.

Here she is saying, "Go Tigers!!" for me with her baby duckie that goes with us everywhere right now.

The rest of the time was spent climbing over the bleachers and...

going up and down the stairs.

This last picture she wanted to cheese-it for me but I was a little slow, still a cute picture though. Not only did she play around a lot she also had fun telling me she needed to go the the toilet about a million times when we were there. I took her a couple of times and the last time we were climbing up the stairs back to Josh and about half way there she stopped and yelled to him, "Daddy, I went poo-poo!!" Everyone around us started to laugh and she went on with climbing the stairs. That's my daughter!!

Aspyn Updates!!

I have a few pictures of Aspyn and what she is up to lately that I thought I would post. This first picture was from a while ago but I finally got around to taking a picture of it. It is the first picture she has drawn.

If you can tell what it is she has drawn stick figures. She loves to draw people, when she is coloring I constantly hear, this is you and this is daddy, this is grandma...etc. This was the first time she had done it by herself and not me or Josh doing it for her.

This is Aspyn new favorite place to play. It is the biggest cupboard we have in our kitchen and it's where all our baking stuff is. She sets her babies and stuffed animals on the flour and sugar on their seats, then climbs in and shuts the door and they ride the bus together. She has lots of fun and I can cook without help from her. It makes things go pretty smoothly.

This is her during "school time". We try to have it everyday but that doesn't always happen. But she loves to learn new letters and tell me what starts with it. She is a really quick learner and loves to have school just like daddy.

Here she is in front of her new pet fishies. She got them as a reward for potty training. It is so nice to have her potty trained and not have to change or buy diapers (at least for a few months). She loves her fishies and has finally named them, the big one is Mommy (I feel so good about that, I think) and the little one is Nemo. She loves to watch them swim around even if they are a little scared of her!

Christmas!!

Christmas was so much fun this year because Aspyn was so excited. When we got all the presents wrapped and put under the tree, her first question the next morning was, "Are the presents still under the tree?" She was also really excited for Santa to come and bring her new toys. It was a pretty fun morning. Santa brought Aspyn a kitchen and food to go with it. She LOVES it!! She was so excited to see it and play with it. She also loved opening the presents, once she got one open she was ready to open the next. Here are our pictures from Christmas.

Let it Snow!!

(I am getting to Christmas, I promise. These two post were just ones that I had started before Christmas and thought I should post now!) We had a pretty big snow storm about a week and a half ago. So big that our ward Christmas party got canceled that night and also church the next day. The funny thing is yesterday at church they made the comment that they had canceled church the week before because we had over a foot of snow and now it feels like spring (most of the snow is gone and over the weekend we got into the 50's)! We decided to take Aspyn out in it and see if we could do anything with it. Unfortunately it was pretty powdery so there wasn't much you could do with it. Here are some pictures of what we did do with it though.

Here is Aspyn all bundled up and ready to go out. She was so excited to go play in the snow, she had a different opinion after all the cold though.

Here she is on the sidewalk that had kind of be shoveled.

She really wanted to get in the snow and so Josh put her in it. This picture shows 2 things, how much snow there is and how much Aspyn really didn't like being in it!
Here is her footprints in the snow, I thought they looked pretty cool.

We did some walking around, luckily Josh and I have some pretty good boots so it was easy for us. Aspyn at the time didn't have any boots so Josh carried her a lot (she now has boots but there's no snow so maybe later she can walk in it).

Here is Daddy and Aspyn in a little wooded area by our building.

After we walked around for a while Aspyn decided she needed to go potty so we had to go inside and get all the layers off her so she could go. She then wanted to go back outside so we had to bundle her up again. Here she is with her "snowball" (just some snow she picked up saying it was a ball).

We decided to brush off our car so that it wouldn't freeze to it overnight and be easier the next day to drive. Aspyn wanted to help but struggled holding the scraper with her mittens on.

Here she is scraping the snow off of the car.

Then Daddy discovered that the snow that had been shoveled was kind of good for making a snowman with. He made a little one and moved it over to our patio so Aspyn could see it, she was pretty sad when he melted. This is them building the snowman, I forgot to get one of the finished product.

We have some neighbors that have some bird feeders that they keep stocked at all times. It's fun to see all the birds (and squirrels) that come and eat there. These birds were not bothered at all by the snow.

Or were they bothered by the fact that we were out playing in the snow about 15 feet from them.

Belly Shots!!

Here are some belly shots for those that want to see. This is me at 24 weeks, I am a little slow putting this up because I am now 27 weeks (only 13 weeks to go)!

While we were taking pictures Aspyn decided that she wanted in on them too. So, I asked her where her baby sister was and this is what she did.

If you can't tell she is putting her hand on her stomach because she thinks that her baby sister is in her tummy, not mommy's. So we decided to do a side by side shot of us together.

I think I win for biggest tummy!! She's pretty insistent that the baby is in her tummy though. When she gets the hiccups she will put her hand on her tummy and say, "Oh, baby sister is kicking me!" She is one funny little girl!

Finally, an update!!

I finally did it! I buckled down and blogged about what we have been doing this last month. I would have done it sooner but every time I get some time it is during Aspyn's nap time and when I put her down I usually like to try and take a nap too. So, that's why I have been slacking. But I have made up for it in all the post I have done today!! Enjoy!!

Drumroll Please....

We had our big ultrasound last Friday and we know what we are having!! Despite what Aspyn thinks she is getting a little Sister!! We are so excited to have another girl and can't wait to see her. She is such a little mover. During the ultrasound she put on a little show for us moving all over the place, kicking her legs, trying to get her thumb in her mouth (she was a little off and we could see her trying to suck but her thumb we up by her nose), and just generally moving all over the place. We actually only got a quick glimpse that she was a girl but the tech. said she saw it so we are happy with that. Here are a few pictures we got of her, they aren't the best because they are pictures of pictures but that's okay.
Here you can see her hand really well.
This is the picture of her trying to suck her thumb
We got some got pictures of her despite her moving so much.

Washington D.C.

For Fall Break we decided to go to Washington D.C. for our 5th Anniversary. We were able to drop Aspyn off at my sister's house in Delaware to spend a couple of days with her cousins and she had a blast. We had so much fun and it was such a nice break. We did so much, went and saw the capitol and supreme court building, went to the Library of Congress, three Smithsonian museums (Air and Space, Natural History, and American History), walked down to the White House, saw the momuments at night, and then to finish off the trip we went and did a session at the beautiful Washington D.C. Temple. Again, we had so much fun!! I can't wait to go back again and see more. We took so many pictures I just decided to put them in a slide show (this is just a few of the good ones.)