Noah Andrew Bretz

Noah Andrew arrived on August 29th at 9:07am! We are adjusting to life as a family of four. Katelyn is such a good big sister to Noah. Here are some photos  over the past week!

Bookworm

Katelyn LOVES books. She has always loved books. I find her more and more just sitting and reading books. A lot of them she has memorized from Matt and I reading them to her, but  I think it is so cute watching her "reading" the books!

Katelyn's New Room

I just LOVE Katelyn's room. We have switched her over to the old guest room and moved her out of the nursery. This has been a project in the making for the last couple of months. There were a lot of people that helped make her room so ADORABLE. It all started with some paint. My dad painted all the walls, the ceiling, and the doors. We re-used a bunch of my old furniture. Barb sanded, stained, and repainted all the furniture. My mom helped buy decorations and decorate her room. My aunt did SO much for Katelyn's room. She made her a doll house, the tutu table, and the flowers around the mirror. This room was put together with a lot of love and I am so thankful for all their help!

The tutu table that my aunt made!

Katelyn's bed

This was my old dresser that Barb repainted 

Those doors use to be an ugly brown color, my Dad painted them and my aunt added cute flowers around the mirror

Walking into Katelyn's room

Her bookshelf and some decorations! 

Most of the room

This was an old entertainment system that my aunt made into a doll house...we are still working on putting that together

There are a few more things we need to add to the walls but other than that, it is finished!!!

The Children's Museum

Katelyn and I headed to the Children's Museum to spend the morning there. I have a ton of free adult passes to the museum from my aunt, so I do not think twice about heading there for a few hours. We got there right when it opened and Katelyn was the only one for awhile. She loved running around and exploring. Her favorite, by far, is always the water table!

Bike ride

Most Sundays, Matt takes Katelyn on a bike ride and they go to the park too! It is a nice break for me, to get something done around the house all by myself.

The Zoo

I know most people do not like this cool weather in July, but I LOVE it, since I am 37 weeks pregnant. On Saturday, we decided to head to the Brookfield Zoo in the afternoon. It was so nice to walk around and not sweat like a pig. My mom, two cousins, Kates and I had a nice afternoon at the zoo. We were only there for three hours, but with having the free hook up, it was worth it. The animals that we saw, were extremely active! The pictures I took are not the best, because they are from my phone, but I wanted to capture  our afternoon at the zoo!

The lion was looking right at us through the viewing window......This was AMAZING!!!

In line for the carousal....its hard to get everyone to look at the camera

On the camel with Grammie

Looking at the baby giraffe

Kates and Elizabeth watching the tiger run around

Big girl bed

Katelyn is moving into a new bedroom and we have been slowly working on it this summer.  We got her a new twin size bed last week, and she started to take naps in it. The first couple of days, she was not too sure  about it. She napped in it, but needed a little TLC to get to sleep. Today, Matt and I decided to have her sleep in it at night. She went down right away and fell asleep with no problems! Let's hope she sleeps through the night! Either way, she was super easy to transition to a different room and different bed! I am sure the next one won't be this flexible.