Lauren is here and Emma is a big sister!

It is already June? How does time fly so quickly? Lauren Beth Rychter, the newest addition to our family, was born on April 30th. She weighed in at 7 lbs. 5 ozs. and was 20 inches long. She is a sweet girl with a happy disposition. Our little Lauren is a strong baby; she is already holding her head up and she rolled over for the first time at 4 weeks old!!! She just started smiling this week and we are loving it. I haven't been able to catch the smiles with our camera yet...in due time, I suppose! Here are some recent pictures:

More Pregnancy Pics and Name Reveal!

Here some moe pregnancy pics:

About 29 weeks

About 34 weeks

We have been deadlocked on our girls names for awhile, but we finally reached a decision. The new addition to the Rychter Familiy will be named...

LAUREN

(Middle Name Choices: Kate or Beth)

Some Pregnancy Pics...

Here are some various pregnancy pics I have taken throughout this pregnancy:

My 2 positives!

About 14ish weeks

About 18 weeks

About 22 weeks

WOW....Time has flown by. Lots to update

Hi All!

Well after quite a hiatus from blogging, I'm back. A lot has happened since August 2nd (my last blog post) and here's is the shortened version:

-Steve got a new job in late August and loooooooves it!

-We found out we were expecting again on Labor Day weekend...hehe, kind of funny with the whole going into "labor" again in the near future.

-Emma started walking in October at about 17 months. Along with that, her language exploded.

-Had a great Christmas and spent a lot of time with family...Found out in late December that we are expecting another girl! :) Enter double the pink explosion...

-Rang in the New Year with friends and celebrated early February (and Emma's 18 month birthday) at the Wilderness Hotel in Wisconsin Dells

-Emma now knows her uppercase letters A-Z, how to sing the alphabet and various other songs, numbers 1-10 (but she can count to 15), counting items to the amount of 3, where she lives, and is putting together 5-6 word utterances/sentences. My 2 favorite Emma utterances: "Let's watch Monsters Inc. together!" and "How many peoples?" (then she proceeds to try and count the people in the room).

Here are some pictures of our sweet girl:

Pumpkin Patch!

Leaving milk and cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer

Wearing GiGi's glasses and necklace

Fun at the Wilderness in Wisconsin Dells

Enjoying the beautiful March weather in our backyard

Almost 6 months have passed...Eeek! 1 year old and growing.....

Wow, I can't believe how time seems to move so quickly. Emma turned 1 year old on May 7th, 2010. My once 6 lb. 5.5 ounce peanut is now a full-fledged toddler weighing in at 21 lbs at her 1 year check-up and 30 inches long (2 months later, she is 23 lbs and 30 3/4 inches tall). Her 1st birthday party was great and she has such a blast. She was dainty about her cake, but loved the frosting. Many people showed up to help us celebrate, the theme was Cupcakes! She has grown to be such a smartie. As of now, she has about 15 words and she gets into everything! Emma crawls everywhere, loves to eat almost everything, follows one-step directions, reads books non-stop, loves playing with her toy kitchen and pretend food, pulls herself up on anything she can grab, and loves sticking her face in the water. She is not walking independently yet, but we are in no huge rush for that! She will walk along anything she holds onto and will walk while holding one of our hands. I am sure the walking will come any day now; for now, we will relish in the fact that our daughter isn't running away from us yet!

Here are some of our faves from the past 6 months...I promise I will be better about blogging from now on!

Surprise! I can get into the laundry basket and tip it back up by myself!

Kiss me, I'm a wee bit Irish! :)

Soooo Big! Look at my cute pigtails, courtesy of Auntie Joy!

Easter Egg hunt at Grandpa and Grandma's house!

I'm 1 year old!

(photo courtesy of Zorophoto - Anna Zoromski-Linde)

Cute Photographs.

I love to photograph Emma. Capturing her various faces on the camera is such an easy thing to do, because she is such a ham. She now realizes what the camera is and will smile for when I point it at her. Here are a couple of my recent faves:

Being brave and letting go from holding on the couch

Sitting pretty.

Huh?!? Whatcha talking about mama?

Emma is growing up so fast. She is already 9 months old...less than 3 months until she is 1. That is crazy!

Christmas, 7 and 8 months, and much more!

Emma's new cozy coupe car!

Christmas morning

Christmas Craziness

Going to see Santa in jammies :)

7 Months old!

8 months old!