Lois the singer

Lois has always had a propensity for music. She loves it, even from freshly born.

I remember holding her in the hospital, not a day old. Oh, tangent. Lois had her eyes open as soon as she was born. She was looking around, and not with a dazed newborn sort of look. She would look you in the eye. She's still really observant. So I'm holding her in the hospital, not a day old, and I start singing to her. She looks at me watching and gets these big, wide eyes. I felt like she had recognition on her face. Like she and I had sung together, that she loved music before she was born and that's part of why she was born into our family - to have music.

So Lois loves music.

Well, recently at nap time or when we're putting her down for the night, Lois has started to sing along with us. She'll sing the last word or two to a phrase then the rhyming word of the next phrase. It's so fun when she sings along. And so cute. She first did it with "punzel song". That's the song "When will my life begin" from Tangled. Tonight she did it with the hymn "Love at Home." It's so sweet and so cute. And you know what's even cooler? She sings the right notes. Awesome. I'm very proud.

I love my little lady. Oh, and she's also been really affectionate to me recently. "I wuv you, Daddy," she'll say. Sometimes just out of the blue, even. So cute. "I wuv you, too, Wois," I'll tell her. :) I love my little girl.

Baby William

My best friend, Shellie, is taking a photography class and asked to practice on William, so of course I said yes! This was back when he was a little over a week old. This first one is my favorite...

A couple classic William faces:

And Lois, happy to be "Yum Yum's" big sister:

Georgia, a house, and a BABY!

August 7th??!? Really? We haven't posted since August 7th? Wo... that's a long time.

Well, here's an update. It will likely be brief.

First and foremost, we had a baby! :) On February 1, 2012 at 11:37am, weighing 7 lbs 3 oz at 19.5 inches, William David Krueger was born. He's got red hair, (which his daddy loves :) and he loves to be held.

There is so much I could say about William being born, the labor and delivery, the extended stay in the hospital in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), how Karen didn't take any medication during labor except for some mild thing. I will say more later, but I have to at least say now that I love William. I'm so glad he's in our family. Lois is such a loving big sister to him. We try to help Lois feel ownership of the baby, by referring to William as "her baby". We'll say, "Lois, you're baby is crying." or "Lois, where's your baby? Should we feed your baby?" that sort of thing.

Karen is also doing well. We had a little scare with her fainting in the shower 8 days after William was born. She spent three days in the hospital to find out she they didn't know what was wrong and just have her some antibiotics. She's fine and healthy now. - I love her so much and am so grateful for what she does to take care of all of us. She's awesome and amazing.

Next, (working in reverse order), We bought a house on October 20, 2011! Our first house. It's awesome. We

love it and got a GREAT deal on it. Will talk more on it later. The address is 1818 Beckett Ct, Lawrenceville, GA, 30044.

And, last July, we moved to Georgia! Crazy, I know. I never thought we'd be living here. But here we are.

Obviously, this short post doesn't do justice to any one of the great things that have happened in our lives. I just wanted to get something updatd on the blog.