September 29, 2009

Big day in our house. Grace's baby sister was born this morning. Claire Marie Nelson. 6 pounds, 5 ounces, 18 inches, full head of hair. Claire and her mommy are both doing well right now. The plan is for Michelle and Claire to come home from the hospital on Friday. Grace is overwhelmed with joy and excitement at the idea of having a little sister. When I called and told her the news this morning her quote was, "I just knew we were going to have a baby sister!" We'll get some updated family pictures on the website when we get a chance.

September 22, 2009

If you're reading this we're assuming you've had a chance to look at the updates to the websites. Michelle's brother Austin made the changes, and we think they look great. He added a ton of pictures from this year's RAGBRAI, and the home page of the site includes a list of all the participants in this year's Race 4 Grace. We're thrilled to have so many new donors, and we are so appreciative to everybody. We're close to sending our final check in to the Iowa FSMA, and we can are happy to say that we raised a lot of money this year!

September 10, 2009

All is good here. We're busy getting ready for baby #2, and Grace is especially excited. She is constantly saying that it's taking forever for the baby to come, but overall she seems to have a pretty good grasp of the whole baby thing. She says that she'll be happy with a baby brother or a baby sister, but if you press her, she would prefer a sister. That's not surprising to us, because she'd see it as an opportunity to have another doll to dress up and play with.

Grace is off to a very good start at preschool. She still loves it, and she remains one of the more social kids in her class. When we bring her everyday, she says hi to pretty much everybody (students and teachers). One skill Grace has (that her dad definitely does not) is an uncanny ability to remember names. We're continually amazed when she'll remember the name of a person who she met months ago. It took her about a day or two to know everybody in her class, and she knows the names of a lot of the kids at her school who aren't even in her class. Not sure if we can make money off that skill, but maybe we should look into it.