Arrival of Our Third Beautiful Blessing

~ Kallen Samuel Klauser ~
Born March 19, 2012 at 3:42 AM
Weighing 8 lbs, 6 oz and 20.75 inches long

Baby and Mom are doing wonderful. Will post birth story and reason for choosing the name, Kallen later this week or next. As for now, some pictures to enjoy.

Brother and Sister Love

First off as you can tell, no arrival of baby boy yet. He has not even given me a tease of making an appearance. I feel fine and don't even feel over 40 weeks pregnant, but would not mind his arrival sometime soon so he won't get too big.

Anyway, back to the purpose of this post...Nate took out the eighth seat in our van and then rearranged the other ones yesterday. This resulted in Elyse and Caleb being right next to each other. I thought they were going to drive each other crazy, but instead they decided to ride to church holding hands. It was so adorable!!! I apologize the picture is blurry, I quickly captured it with my phone, but you get the idea.

Due Date

Tomorrow marks my official due date and boy is it scary and exciting at the same time.

Scary because...
-giving birth is scary
-nothing is in my control (and if you know me, you know I hate that)
-the pain I plan on experiencing
-of all the unknowns

Exciting because...
-we will soon become a family of five
-we finally get to meet our second son
-everything is done, my mom is already up here, and Nate's job has calmed down dramatically
-the weather is perfect, no chance of a snow storm here :)

Well I have no idea if baby boy is going to arrive tonight, tomorrow, or even be late (which is really funny to me), but until then we are just continuing to pray for a smooth, quick and safe delivery. We also would appreciate prayer from you. We will keep you posted, but hopefully the next blog post will be us introducing our newest little man.

Is It Really March?

This entire week is suppose to be sunny with temperatures in the 60-70's. Therefore, we can't help but go outside and enjoy this amazing weather. Today we decided to join some friends and play for just about two hours at our favorite park in Coon Rapids. The slides were a little wet still from yesterday and last night, but that did not stop the kids from climbing, running and having a wonderful time. So in awe of the weather this year, it's been perfect, just hope it continues!

Apologize for the bad photos, kids were too busy to want to take a good picture, plus I forgot my camera and had to use my cell phone.

A Walk of Faith

So my mom came up again this weekend just in case baby boy decided to make an appearance. We were sad to see her go, but happy to still be a human incubator. Anyway, when she comes up she brings her west highland terrier, Sophie. It's great since the kids are around a dog, but then the dog goes home. Elyse and Sophie have grown up together and really do have a special bond. Elyse loves helping take care of Sophie, especially on walks. Today's walk however is one that needs to be shared, it went something like this...

Elyse is holding the leash, Sophie sees a squirrel and goes after it. Elyse does not let go of the leash, and instead begins slipping on ice. As she is slipping she says out loud, "God save me" while continuing to be pulled across the ice by Sophie. Melts our hearts and makes us laugh at the same time. We sure do love our little princess and her faith in Christ!!!

55 and Sunny

Today hit 55 with sun, and boy was it beautiful. So it's no surprise that after naps and snacks we had to go outside and enjoy it for a little while. Unfortunately there still was snow, so that prevented us from playing in the yard, plus the toys and bikes are still packed away from the fall. Overall, we were able to still enjoy our time playing with an umbrella, mower, bubbles and going for a small walk. Looking forward to more of these days!!!
Caleb wouldn't look up to smile for anything, he was on a mission!

Any Day Now

So today marks 38 weeks and according to my midwife I could seriously go any minute. I am now dilated to a 3, just about 90% effaced and super thin. I know that maybe too much information, but it really does put it into perspective for me that I will be giving birth and we will soon be a family of five.

Side note, Nate has had a lot of stuff going on with work right now, so we are really in no hurry for baby boy's arrival, and if you could take sometime to pray that he would decide to stay in the womb a little longer we would really appreciate it. All we can do now is pray and as always trust on God's perfect timing and plan.

38 week belly shot