This weekend was a river weekend. We had a family trip on a sandbar on the Mississippi. Here's a few pics from our excursion. 
Less than 2 months to go for Baby Wyatt... Britt's ready! The little tumbler is really active. I can feel my little soccer player kickin around at any time of the day. As Britt says (real quotes), "I think he's over 8 pounds already." "I think he's bruising my ribs." "Oh my gosh, I can't breathe he's so big." 
mess right now since we have been soooo busy this summer. It's classified as a "cape-cod" home. It has a full (unfinished) basement, 2 bedrooms upstairs (master, and Ettoile's) 2 bedrooms on the main level (one is the office/guest room, and the other is a walk through room, right now it's the toy/play room, with a sliding glass door to our large 3 season porch with a small wood 
deck built off of the porch). There's a detached 2 car garage facing the alley (most homes in La Crosse have an alley) and a nice sized yard with a garden plot in the back as well where we have a sweeeeet garden! I have no idea the square footage, I think it's around 1700 sq ft+/-. The kitchen, bathroom (yep only one bathroom), and family room are also on the main level. Overall it's small but so stinkin cute. We're very happy with our home and the size is just right for us. Britt and I re-did the landscaping in the front, before there were overgrown/ unkept nasty bushes kind of like the woody pine like bushes that have pricklys and are really dusty. I dug out the bushes and yanked them out with 
the jeep. We then got some very nice healthy dirt from the city yard waste plant (for free) and most of the plants were either transplanted by me from around the house or were transplanted from Brittany's Mom's house. So basically it was a next to free landscape job and I think that it turned out pretty good. There's also a birch tree in the front yard, my favorite. We also did the landscaping around the garage (there was nothing before but half dead grass). We're pretty proud of our hard work. Like I said, I'll try to get some interior pics up soon, probably after we clean up on some saturday and I'll also get some pics of my sweeeet garden. So we got this puppy for only 105k. It was assessed @ 120k by the bank before we did any work to it inside or out and we all know 
that the bank always low-balls it. SOOO, talk about buying for less than renting. Our neighbors house is for sale for 135k and is pretty similar but with some updating to do, so we think we got an excellent deal. The elderly guy passed away and his kids were just trying to sell it... they took our offer which was lower than another offer because they wanted it to go to a family and not some single older guy. Anyways, our neighborhood is pretty mixed... but mostly either retired or young couples like us. With the guest room we'll be expecting y'all to come visit soon! Love y'all!We've started Etty on the potty. We sing the potty song every night right before bath time and she gets a little chocolate if she goes in the potty. It would be nice to have her trained before baby Wyatt so we only have one kid in diapers... I don't think we'll have any such luck...
So not too much has changed since last time. Ettoile is now over her infantaigo and all of her little spots have cleared up. She's just happy as ever and loves to be outside! The dirtier the better in her book. Before she didn't care much for the grass and would even do a modified crab walk just to avoid her legs touching the grass but now she's all over... Dirt in her mouth, hair, grass stains all over her knees... I've
had to start putting her in the pack and play because I worry she'll get sick from eating so much dirt and grass. Britt took her on a walk today and she grabbed a flower at the park and kid you not, ate it before Britt could get it from her. BUT we are very greatful that she likes to play outside especially now-a-days with most kids liking to be stuck inside in front of the CPU or TV... She really isn't all that interested in her kid movies... Veggie Tales is about the only thing she'll watch.
paramedics got there quickly and had to use a defribulator (spelling) to shock him back to life, I guess he had been not breathing for about 5 minutes. He ended up in a coma for about 3 days and when all was said and done they had found 2 cysts on his brain and he had a heart attack. I thought he had no health history but it turned out that he was born with some sort of issue with the valve going from his heart to his lungs. It was supposed to never be an issue in life but I guess they we're wrong... He has since come out of the coma 
and is back to normal... his short term memory is a bit off but he's doing much much better and continues to progress... Weird huh? We're just glad he's doing well! I guess that didn't have much to do with our family... oh well. Britt is doing well and she's really started to show the past few weeks... My little boy is going to be a soccer player with all that non-stop kicking! Poor Britt.. baby Wyatt keeps her up at night with all the kicking sometimes...Enjoy a few pics of Ettoile outside, Ettoile in her bike buggy, Britt feeding Etty outside, and me using my economy stimulation (We bought a new grill with a little bit of our stimulus check, thanx Uncle Bush).
