What You've Been Waiting For...

Last week I posted several pictures from our routine 20-week ultrasound. Everything looked great. The baby is about 1 pound and loves curling its toes. As many of you know, I really dislike calling our baby an "it," so I like to find out the baby's gender if at all possible. And it was possible.

While you will not find our baby wearing this:

...you also won't find her wearing this:

She's a girl!

PS. If you are different than I am and find the flower headband adorable, you can find it at Pink Bowtique.com, where I found the above picture.

Balloon!

I love technology.

Congratulations!

Congratulations, Engineer of the Year!

You're always the Man of the Year around here.

Dear Grandpa

Dear Grandpa,

Thank you for visiting me last weekend.

I really miss you.

When are you coming again?

Love,

Caleb

When Caleb was younger, Luke and I would push him around on his truck using the mop handle because Caleb's legs weren't long enough or strong enough to push himself. Well now they are long enough and strong enough, so we make him push himself. But this past weekend, Caleb got a treat when Grandpa visited...a free truck ride! This week, I heard Caleb calling out for help, turned the corner, and found the above picture. Caleb had gotten out the mop, climbed on his truck, and was waiting for a ride. He was disappointed to find out that instead of giving him a ride, I just laughed.

Leaves!

What We've Been Doing Lately

We've been learning to say "no."

This picture is rather blurry, but it's also the one where you can read Caleb's lips. He's learning about "no hitting," "no standing on chairs," "no drawing on walls," "no playing with pencils" for that matter, "no jumping on Mommy," "no taking all Mommy and Daddy's books off the bookshelf," and a myriad of other "no's." At the same time, Caleb gets lots of encouragement as he cleans up his toys, uses his spoon or fork to feed himself, puts his milk away after a meal, tries to put his socks on, etc.

We've been learning to enjoy (or at least tolerate) the colder weather.

Several weeks ago we visited an apple orchard, which ended up not being a lot of fun for Caleb, but at least we have apples, apple pie, and apple crisp to make up for it. Caleb is enjoying playing in the leaves and swinging in our backyard--even when it's a bit chilly. I'm not looking forward to being cooped up this winter. Snow pants here we come!

I've also been sewing some fall/winter clothes for Caleb.

I hesitate to post about this because some of you will think that I actually know what I'm doing and others of you will easily recognize that I don't. But either way, Caleb needs clothes that fit, and I can either search stores for hours trying to find long, skinny pants or I can be creative, learn something, save some money, and get clothes that fit. What a deal.

I've also been feeling Baby 2 jumping and jiving! This pregnancy is going normally so far. I have my energy back which was exhaustingly absent during the first trimester. (Consequently I've been able to rake leaves, hike, pick apples, and sew.) Caleb and I have heard Baby 2's heartbeat. (Caleb stopped what he was doing, but he had no idea what was going on.) And I'm trying to guess the number of days I have left to slouch and to wear normal clothes. We'll see.

How's that for a little bit of everything?