Furture All Star????

I am one PROUD MOM!!!!! Noah has come soo far! He has been pitching more and more. The other day Dan and Noah were practicing pitching. Dan had him throw 50 times. 46 of the 50 were strikes. It was great. So at the game on Sat. the 19th, Dan started Noah. He had done this in the past and it did not turn out very good. Anyway 1st batter up... strike 1,2,3, batters out. 2nd batter up strike 1,2,3, batters out. 3rd batter up strike 1,2, ball 1,2,3 and strike 3, batters out. I could not believe it. It was soo BEAUTIFUL!!! It even brought tears to my eyes. It was a moment I will NEVER forget!!!

Move Much??!!??

Let me tell you, this little girl is one active baby!!! I don't ever remember Noah being soo active or active at any certain times.

From 5-9 in the evening she moves NON-STOP!!!! It is the craziest thing. I am also now starting to show enough to where you can see my belly move around.

This past Saturday morning I was in bed sleeping and all was calm. Dan walked in and said in a loud tone, "Loveybumpkins it is time to get up". Next thing I know Josie is kicking, punching and rolling all over.. as if to say, "Mommy, daddy wants you up"!!! It was too funny. I had Dan come over and feel it. It was the 1st time he had gotten to feel her move. It was a great moment for us both. I think it really helped him connect and see that there really is a Josie in there!

20 Weeks

This one is also late. I am now 22.5 weeks. Here are some pictures we took of my ever growing belly at 20 weeks. Note how Noah seems to be showing my belly off. I think the idea of a sister is growing on him, slowly but surly.

July 4th

Ok I know it is now the end of July. So I am a bit late posting this. We went camping with a family from our baseball team. The Farkas family. We had a great time. Where we camped was close to Eric Farkas' moms house. She lives on a lake and has four wheelers and all. So we went there for the 4th. On the way back to camp that night Noah said, "This was the best day of my life". He got to ride and drive a four wheeler and go fishing and swimming in the lake. He caught his 1st fish by himself. That was very exciting. See the pictures of him riding and driving the four wheeler and pitcures of him and his fish.

Noah and Baseball

I know I have been doing a lot of talk about Josie and not much about Noah and this is a FAMILY blog. So here is an update on Noah....



He is semi enjoying his summer. We don't have a lot of money to go do all the things he would like to, but we do what we can!



He is not too thrilled about Josie. He REALLY wanted a brother. He asked if we could take her out and put a boy back in. I said it's not that easy.



He is still playing ball like never before. He just gets better and better. He drives me nuts with this ball that he has.. he is always throwing it in the house. It is a squishy ball so it won't break anything, but every time I turn around he is throwing it at a wall or something. He just loves the game that much!



The Vipers are not doing so well this season. They are 0-9. We still have 3 games left. We are hoping to pull out at least one win! They keep getting better and better, so I am confident that they can do it!



Noah is trying out for a Bantom I team. He would be playing up. If he makes it, he will be on 2 teams next spring.. the Vipers and the Bantom I team (they don't have a name yet). So we are excited about that. Dan is excited since he will get to sit back and watch Noah play for once. He has always coached Noah, if he plays up he will not be a coach for that team.



Enjoy the pictures. One is this years Baseball pic of Noah and the other of the team.



We are getting ready for 3rd grade. I can not believe that MY baby is going to be in 3rd grade. Boy how time flies.



I will keep you posted and let you know if he make the other team.

Josie's Nursery

Here are a few pictures of the furniture and decor for Josie's nursery. We already have the crib. The rest we still need to get!

Her Name...

Well lots of people are asking what we are naming our baby girl and if there is a meaning behind it. YES there is.. My name is Stephanie Michelle. I was named after my father Michael Steven. So that got me to thinking that maybe we could start a family tradition...

So her name is... Josephine Danielle Faith Pingel
We will call her Josie!!! He dads name is Daniel Joseph, so that is where we got Josephine Danielle from. The Faith part is from that fact that Noah has two middle names so she needed two also, and after 27 months of trying it took a lot of FAITH to get her here.

Now you know the story behind her name!!!