My Hat

What do you call a sweatshirt that mom gets stuck on your head while trying to take it off? Well Gman calls it "My Hat". This particular hat got to stay on for 20 minutes until nap time. Silly kid.

Walk like frog

The other day Gman was walking around our house on all fours and this is the conversation I heard:
Dad: Are you walking around like a bear?
Gman: No, I walk like frog
Dad: Really, is that how a frog walks?
Gman: Yes, and this is frog jumping (as he jumps to his two feet and hops around) but I walk like frog (back on all fours)

Yup, it's a girl!

I know lots of you know already, but some don't, we found out that we are having a girl! My doctor thought it was a boy, but his bad. When I was 12 weeks I had to get an ultrasound because they couldn't hear the heart beat. Well, the ultrasound showed everything was fine and it was also a clear bum shot. What the doc thought was a prominent manhood ended up being an umbilical cord sticking out.

Fast forward five weeks later and I was telling the ultrasound tech that the Doc thought it was a boy. This tech knows my doc well since he sends all of his patients to this particular clinic. She simply started to laugh, told us it was a girl and that my doctor is never right. She thinks that he needs to use his ultrasound machine to determine if there is a baby and nothing else. :)

The Man still isn't too sure about the determination. An ultrasound technician and a doctor (who actually knows how to use the machine) both verified the gender multiple times but I am still not supposed to buy anything before Christmas and I must save all receipts. (This way the 90 day receipt expiration will not have lapsed before the baby is born.) He's just worried it's going to end up being a boy with a pink room. :)

All is still going well. When the belly is a little bigger we will take pics and post them. Hope all is great in your neck of the woods!

Birthday Celebrations

Many of you know that Gman turned 2 many moons ago, August 14 to be exact. While we celebrated in real life, we forgot to include the blogger life. The day was great with the three of us actually spending the entire day together. No church or work engagements to tear us apart.
We started the morning off eating some seriously delectable dounts. This is a tradition that my family did when I was growing up but i am now thinking of putting the kabosh on it. My tummy hurt well past lunch time for dumping that much sugar in it before "real food" was ever consumed.
Following breakfast we opened presents! I do not know how families wait until that evening or a later birthday party to open presents. Even when it's not my birthday I love watching the presents getting opened. This is the loot.
Present included puzzles, cars, a racetrack for the cars and a dinosaur that he can sit on that he kept calling "dog"
Gman put "dog" on the couch so that they could watch Super Why together. The show is great but better when shared with a friend. (and yup, the dinosaur really is that big compared to him)

We spent the afternoon playing and shopping (a necessity every Saturday, even birthdays) and attending a party thrown by my work. We were able to play with other little kids and take a paddle boat ride. I forgot the camera but I was going to use the party as proof that I had a celebration on his birthday. :) My bad parenting plan was foiled by my forgetfulness. To top off a great day we got some delicious pizza which happens to be the kids favorite food. All in all it was a pretty fantastic day.

Guess Who's Preggers?

Yup, it's official. Baby #2 is on the way. I am 15 weeks today. Sorry, it's a little late I know. Due date is March 2 but thanks to the lovely state of Oklahoma I will probably have a scheduled c-section sometime in the end of February. I am doing great. Didn't really get sick. I only got a little nauteous (sp?) if I let my tummy get empty, so I just never let my tummy get empty. :)Problem solved. Other than that the doc says that the baby and I are doing great.
The first pic was at 8 weeks, the second one was twelve weeks. This baby did a lot of growing in a month. In 3-4 weeks we'll find out for sure if we are having another hilarious boy or a sweet little girl. With a little insider knowledge, we are betting on the boy...

Mexico, Ay, Ay, Ay!

While a few of you know, and many of you don't, we just spent a glorious 8 days in Isla Mujeres (a little island off of Cancun). The trip started off rough with a 3 day fever and general yuckiness for GMan. Mom was a meanie and still made him get in the water simply to cool him off. Look at how sad and depressed he looks.

Luckily he did recover after many many doses of Motrin, Tylenol and time. Once he recovered he was able to discover just how much fun the sand and ocean can be.

We were able to travel with some friends from our ward. Sean and Becky brought their two kids Simon and Hannah. Gman and Hannah became dear sweet friends who had to spend every waking moment in each others presence.

While we were there we went to a turtle farm and saw some pretty cool things. There was a tank filled with TONS of tiny turtles. That was Gmans favorite one to look in. The picture of the single turtle is actually a giant turtle that was bigger than both of the babies. We could have ridden the thing if they would have let us.

The island was so awesome! The water was the most beautiful shade of clear blue, the people were so friendly, and the food was AMAZING! We ate the best fish tacos and guacamole that we have ever tasted. It was so nice to be able to get comfortable on a tiny peaceful island. So relaxing and very fun to get to spend some time with good friends.

ps - Sorry Sean and Becky, we never got a photo of the two of you, but it was awesome to be there in person with you!

We're not dead yet

Though you might have thought we were. :) Real blogging to come, I hope.