Bluebonnet family pic!

An impromptu walk through some lovely bluebonnets and a kind stranger walking his dog provided one a the handful of family pictures we manage to capture each year. Incredibly enough, there is actually one with all of is looking!

Bluebonnets

Star of Texas fair and rodeo

Office coming out day

So as I saw people today in the office, I was generally greeted with wide eyes, huge grins (or wide mouths) and comments such as "holy sh!t," "what happened to you!?!" "Is it twins?!" or "uh, I just have to say that *this* (motion circling the belly), is progressing REALLY FAST"

So I guess there isn't much concealing the belly now at 22 weeks today. She's popped out for all to see and is not messing around. The funny thing is, other parts have popped out quite generously, too. But even relative to my frontwards-facing growth... The belly is a force to be reckoned with!

Lauren has referenced a picture of me with a post-it note on a profile view of my belly from Jackson. I'm thinking I could easily recreate that shot but not sure if I'll remember in two weeks, so might need to do that sooner rather than later.

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Interesting article

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This girl can talk backwards

http://www.viddler.com/v/256bc6dd

This is crazy. Totally puts my backwards cursive to shame!!

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It's a Girl!

Our Christmas surprise was finding out that our little addition is a little lady.  We are delighted and I am a bit relieved because I can't imagine trying to explain to the shorty that he was getting a baby boy instead of a baby girl.  Maybe it's just that he somehow knew and he was trying to tell us instead of making a request... but either way, it worked out.

In other news, at a mere 18 weeks, we can now see the little lady bump-thumping against my belly and others can feel her.  She's rather wiggly, like her big brother was, and that's fine by me because it is my most favorite part of being pregnant!

What's a recipe to you?

I keep re-learning of this great site and forgetting.  Only to be lucky enough to learn of it again...

http://www.recipage.com/


And now if only I can return to a stage of life where I can actual cook (and maybe *gasp* enjoy it!) again.

 

Light tree

We had a magic little time at the Zilker Park tree tonight. Shorty ran and ran, we spun and laughed while chasing him and putting back some hot cocoa and nachos for the mister and myself, respectively.

We might have gotten some family snaps on the big camera (possibly the first of the year!) but let's be honest: it may be months before we actually see those. Hooray for speedy phone pics and posts.

'Merry merry' as the shorty would say.

Round 2!!

So did I mention that I'm growing another human? Yep. Due early June. Super excited to meet this little.

It has been fairly rough so far, to put it very mildly. But I'm doing much better now. I'll have an okay day followed by a tired day-- but certainly a drastic improvement from the two solid months of all day long 'severe hangover with seasickness and a stomach virus' symptoms. So high five for that one.

Any guesses on gender for this one? Our doctor tells the gender fairly early so with any luck, we'll find out for Christmas!! Hmmmmm.... What's is gonna be?