Awaiting...

Ceili is sooooo excited for her baby brother to arrive soon! She talks about him all the time - loves kissing my belly, singing "Twinkle. Twinkle Little Star" to him, and telling us what she is going to do with him once he is born. She says that she is going to "hold him and love him and play with him and change his diaper!" The nursery is done and she is so excited to show every person that walks through our front door!! I was wanting to show some pictures of his nursery...and what better way than to let his Big Sister show it off?!!? We chose to do his room in a Jungle theme...had to do something fun since Ceili's room is an Ocean theme! Justin really did a great job with all of the painting...we've got an elephant, a giraffe, a lion, a zebra, and even a monkey hanging from a tree!! It looks great and I can't wait to watch him enjoy it as he grows!!
The trunk Ceili is sitting on is very special to us! As most of you probably know, Justin (along with his 2 cousins) is in the first generation in the von Buchler family to be born here in the U.S. His grandparents, along with his father, uncle and aunt, moved to Columbus, IN from Germany in 1955 to join some other members of their family that had made the move earlier. This trunk is one of the trunks that was handmade to ship their belongings over here. We found them in Justin's grandparent's basement while we were cleaning it out a few years ago and just knew they were WAY too neat to get rid of. The top of the trunks has their name and address in the U.S. painted on it along with their flight number and information. The original tags are still hanging on them and they are just really neat pieces of work!! This is the smaller of the two trunks, and we thought it would go great in Keaton's room to use for his blankets and other keepsakes. I sure hope our kids think these trunks are as special as we think they are!!
Already trying to climb into the crib on her own, she thought she was hot stuff when I put her in there to try it out!!
The below picture shows just how excited she is for her baby brother to arrive - with her arms up in the air and her feet out, she was screaming "Baby Keaton" as loud as she could!! I cannot wait to see how great of a big sister she makes to Keaton - she is the most caring little girl I have ever known! I just know that she will love him to pieces and protect him like all big siblings should! We are scheduled to be induced on February 18th...so we've got just about 2 weeks until we meet our little boy and we couldn't be more excited!!