Yes, we are still here!

The Parrish Family is still alive and well. We have just been ridiculously busy as the arrival of our new littlest Parrish gets closer and closer!

All is going well with the pregnancy, and today we are just about a month away from little Emma's arrival. She has been super active over the past few weeks bumping and flipping and doing general calisthenics to keep her Mommy on her toes. It's actually quite cool to experience.

We are JUST getting over the men of the house's sicknesses. That's right, both Robin & Evan were quite sick for over a week. Both are still getting over the last of the yuckiness, but overall, I'd say they are both better. Thank heavens I didn't get what they had. And no, they did not have H1N1, although the morning I called the Dr. for Robin, the lady that answered the phone to give a message to the Doctor said, "That sounds like that swine flu!" Crazy lady. Luckily, it turns out she was completely wrong and hopefully she got fired for making a poor pregnant woman freak out about her family getting the swine flu.

The wonderful folks at my place of employment were sweet enough to have a 'mini-shower' for me for Baby Emma. It was not 'officially' a shower, because this is the second baby, but they were very generous in giving the family an awesome gift card for Babies R Us. We can definitely use that. Woo hoo!

As for the goings on in Evan's little ever-changing life, his vocabulary is the most fun new thing we are experiencing. It's growing it seems like every day. We, as parents can tell what he's saying more than others, of course, and Grandma Lu can swear she hears him say stuff that I can't quite make out. Some of the more amusing words he's come up with are, 'poopy,' whether he actually has done a poopy or not,'crap,' which we try to ignore, even though it's super funny, and any word with a -y at the end always has the accent on the second syllable. So, it's not really POOP-y, but poop-EEE! Just try to imagine it... it's really cute. He of course, also says, Mommy and Daddy and a plethora of other things, like, truck (which sounds like 'cruk!'), duck, ball, cute (as in, I'm cute!), pookie (which is something I've called him since he was born), and other things, too. It's SO great hearing little words come out of that little mouth!

So, the adventures continue in the Parrish household as we prepare for Emma's arrival. We're PRETTY sure that Evan has a small idea of what's coming, but we are also certain little Emma will rock his world when she arrives.

Please pray for our family in the coming weeks! We're so excited, but we're all in for SUCH a change when we've expanded to FOUR!