Easter 2009

Happy Easter!
What a wonderful day to celebrate. We had a fantastic day going to church and celebrating Jesus rising from the dead! It was a great service! Doug was in a drama, and Danika was so excited to see him on stage. And then we got to sit together and sing and worship...it was fantastic.

Then we went out to Doug's Uncle Brad's house for Easter dinner with family. It was great to see everyone and we had a wonderful time. Uncle Brad hid some eggs for Danika to find...and she was excited to hunt for them. It was her first Easter Egg hunt and she did pretty good. :) However, she had JUST woke up from a nap, so her mood was a little fragile, as you will see in a minute.

Here she is searching and finding some eggs:

Here's our little family....I'm hiding my enormous belly under my coat and Danika. :)


And here is an example of Danika's mood. Danika LOVES her Papa...she adores him and being with him. But she was DONE with pictures...so when we kept trying to get a "good one", she had about enough and started to scream. :) Sorry Papa!




Anyway...that was our day. Hope your family had a wonderful celebration as well!

Love - The Bierer's (Doug, Andrea, Danika & Baby #2)

It's a BAD BOO-BOO

So...we had a mishap yesterday.

Danika has been refusing to wear her mittens, so lately I have been telling her that when she doesn't wear her mittens or gloves, she has to put her hands in her pockets. She is pretty willing to do this, and it seemed like a happy compromise for both of us. That is, until yesterday morning.

We had the mitten fight on the way to daycare, I settled for my usual compromise, and we got out of the van to walk into the building. We got about half-way there, and my precious little girl tripped and fell flat on her face. It was like I could see it happening in slow motion, but I just couldn't reach her in time. And...since her hands were in her pockets, she couldn't catch herself. She hit the cement face first. I knew it wasn't going to be pretty, but when I scooped her up, her mouth was full of blood and she was terrified.

Long story short, while initially it looked like she put her teeth all the way through the upper lip, after we got the bleeding stopped, we realized she didn't. She put a deep gash on the inside, and she got several cuts on the outside from the cement. Mommy had to take the day off work to comfort and cuddle the little bug, but it all turned out all right. She got to eat a lot of popsicles and jello and she liked that. :)

By late afternoon, she was even pretty good natured about it. I asked her to show me her boo-boo and she puckered her lips right up and pointed inside. I asked if I could take some pictures and she said, "Yep." So...I did.

Here is Danika "Bruiser" Bierer as she looked yesterday afternoon.

The Purple Dress Meltdown.

Okay....this is just for humor.

I put Danika in the cutest purple dress last Sunday for church. So...naturally, I wanted to take her picture. But...that was NOT what she wanted to do. Check out the progression of pics.

I started out sitting on the floor with the camera trying to get a good shot....she wasn't happy. Doug tried to help her stand up...that was what started the crying fit. Then she just started stomping towards me while crying...she kept coming until she got to me and flopped in my lap as if her life is so hard! :) Doug grabbed the camera and snapped a few more. As you can see...she is such a drama queen. The tears instantly dried up and she started to laugh and smile.

Wow...I'm going to have my hands full with this one. :)