Jonah's Weekly Pictures

It all started before Shayna was born when my friends, Erica & Laura, gave me a shower gift that included a bear along with cards numbers 1-52. It was then that the weekly pictures began. Each week for the first 52 of Shayna's life we took pictures with Mr. Bear and the weekly number to document her growth and changes.

Of course just because we're on #2 doesn't mean the pictures stop!! That just wouldn't be very nice to Jonah. So we've begun the process again. Hopefully we won't be too forgetful and remember to take them weekly :) I'm sure Shayna will be appearing in a few here and there as well.

Because we've gone through this process once before we have a better idea of the type and need of pictures necessary to make the final product (a picture book). So of course there won't be nearly as many pictures as there were for Shayna's weekly shoots...but rest assured there will definitely be weekly pics of our newest little boy!!

You can view the weekly pics at the picture link on the right side -- we're just going to be adding each week to the same album.

Enjoy!!

Welcome Jonah Harper 2/3/06

Well who would have thought that when mommy said i want to meet Jonah on 2/3 (b/c it's a cool date and Shayna is 8/9..) that it actually would have happened!!

We are so happy and lucky to have a very healthy baby boy on our hands. Jonah was born on Sunday Feb 3rd at 7:33am. He was 7lbs 7 oz and 20 in long. He is just precious!!

He started to let us know late Saturday night that he might be ready to join us. This was after a very busy day of Charlotte at Play in the morning with Shayna, spicy Thai food with our friends Alexis, David and Natalie for lunch, selling a couch in the afternoon from craigs list -- i love it!-- and going for a walk/to the park!! wow -- makes me tired just writing it all down :)

so i started to write the whole story of how the rest of the night went and just got bored and tired...so if you haven't already heard it, Evan loves to tell it and would be glad to share. Bottom line is it was a very fast and pretty easy delivery and we have a wonderful healthy baby boy.

Shayna is starting to become intrigued by Jonah and watching his every move. She's not a big fan of daddy playing with him, but hopefully over time that will pass!!

We have posted pics of the little man and some of shayna of course too so feel free to check them out.

Shayna's Snow Day 2008

Today we woke up to a "wintery mix". Known in Charlotte, NC as a snow day!!! Although they seemed better prepared it is still quite fun to watch the news and see everyone acting like its the end of the world.

Of course because there was "snow" (icy mix of wet rain) we just HAD to get Shayna all bundled up and take her outside for some cold fun. It only lasted but a few short minutes (probably less than 5) but we'd like to think she had a blast during that time!!

Now it's just yucky rain and cold..Hope you're all staying warm.

xoxo

Shower Weekend Jan 2008

This past weekend my friends had a very nice baby shower for me. It was so much fun and made it that much more exciting and real that baby #2 is on his way!! It's hard to believe how quickly the time has flown by.

It was so nice of all of our friends to join us and help celebrate at the shower. We really appreciate every one's kindness and all of the wonderful new gifts for our little boy.

Both Nana and Grama were able to make it in for the shower which was so great. We had a really great time, especially Shayna. She loved having Grama and Nana here to play with her!!

Thanks again to everyone for all of your kindness. We look forward to meeting our new bundle of joy and sharing the good news in just a few more weeks -- if you don't already know I'm determined to hold out for Feb :) silly silly Debby.

Cheers to another great year

Hard to believe 2007 is over, where does the time go. 2007 has been another great year for us and we feel so lucky. Shayna has been such a joy and it has been amazing to watch her grow and change -- sometimes over night!!! She is such a happy and independent little girl, a bit crazy (man I can't imagine where she comes from :)) She has really added to the already amazing life Evan and I have.


This year has also been very exciting for Daddy. We are so proud of him, he took a big leap and started his own company, Weiss Custom Homes. He is doing such a great job and really enjoys it. We know he's going to continue to do great things and build amazingly, wonderful homes.

And of course we have the wonderful joy/anticipation of a 2nd (well 3rd if you count Chloe!) new member to our family in just a few short weeks....wow the time flew by!!

I've finally added some new photos to picasa so enjoy. Once #2 makes his arrival you can begin to enjoy the weekly photo shoots...jewish guilt makes me feel the need to have to do this for all of our kids ... otherwise it just wouldn't be right ---

Wishing you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year. Happy 2008.

Baby #2

Mommy was lucky enough to get another ultrasound this week. They just to make sure everything was okay, which it is. And the technician was so nice she took some 3-D pics look what we saw:

(click on picture to enlarge and get full effect)

We are very excited to meet our "big" little man (i.e. picture #3) hehe in just a few months!

Shayna visits the Brevard Zoo -- click here to see pics!

This weekend we drove down to Florida to visit our family for Thanksgiving. Although Mommy and Daddy thought leaving at night meant Shayna would sleep the whole way -- boy were they wrong -- going strong at 10:30pm and then upon arrival at 1am...no rest for Shayna.

On Sunday we sent to the Brevard Zoo with Grandma, Tapa, Aunt Tracy, Uncle Damon and my cousins Noah and Jared. We had a great time. We took lots of pictures of animals that we don't know and got a few of Shayna feeding a Giraffe!!

Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving!!