A blob only a mother could love

 Congratulations to me!  I'm due July 4th.  Having recently exited my first trimester, I'm feeling great.  Now.

You may need some help deciphering what's going on. In the left photo, baby is laying on his back, and his legs are at the top left.  In the video I saw them kicking... it was so cute!  In the photo on the right, he's laying on his side with his bum facing us.

His?  Who knows.  In fact, I'm tossing around the idea of NOT FINDING OUT!  I don't know how you do that... does the sonographer just tell you to close your eyes at a certain moment?  Anyway, imagine how much more epic it will be at the birth.  Or, it may not be worth it.  Come July 4th, I'll let you know.

Baby's Second Haircut

Before

After

Add the electric razor to the list of things Heidi's afraid of.  She kept crying and turning to look at it, which made cutting it a smidgeon difficult. 

Photos

I don't know how old these are.  Sorry. 

Ready for anything.

Snuggled up, ready for a walk.

Daddy is apparently quite funny.

Two ladies, all dressed up for church.

Conked out in Sunday School. 

 

Maybe next winter?

Best friend Graham

Begging

Huh?

Crawl away!

Already borrowing from Mom's wallet.

Cultured baby.

Where's my Cheerio?

Light reading... Plato's republic.

Playing is hard work, sometimes.

Helping mommy babysit

Christmas Break

Bryan, Heidi, little Peanut, and I spent this Christmas at the Brison home in Littleton, Colorado.  Everyone was there!  For the first time.

Before I go any further, take a look at my talented baby. 

I met my sister's daughter, Paige, for the first time.  (We played puzzles and read a book and blew bubbles.)  And my sister Heidi met my daughter, Heidi, for the first time.  Baby Heidi had been kind of grumpy and unfriendly to everyone else, but her Aunt Heidi and Uncle Jake got her to smile when they first met.  

Aunt Heidi is a good hairdresser. 

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Here she is again, helping Dad to play the piano. 

It sounded much better with Heidi's help.

And here she's helping him play video games.

Grandpa taught Heidi how to slurp noodles (but she won't do it for Mom)

While Grandma was watching Heidi, Heidi stole three of Grandma's crackers and stuffed them all in her mouth.

She's good at gobbling all kinds of things... except that she stuffs too much in her mouth at once.  

Heidi slept in our room, so this is what we woke up to every morning.

We had a delightful break.  Bryan won a bitter battle with his website.  And me?  I sat on my can, ate junk food, and played Spyro and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2.  (Which I'm pro at, by the way.)  I also got hooked on White Collar.  You're lucky that my Netflix trial expired last month, or I would be watching it during nap time instead of blogging.  

Thanksgiving

I started off the holiday by running a 5k.  Known as the Turkey Trot, it's the largest somethin somethin in the state of Utah... whatever.  Anyway, it was awesome.  I was worried about dragging my newly pregnant bum for three miles, but I did it!  I felt really good at the end, too.  I started off extremely slowly... everyone passed me.  Possibly even the walkers passed me.  But I kept my pace the whole time, so by the middle I was passing the people who started so enthusiastically but couldn't keep the pace.  So there.

Anyway, for a pregnant girl  with a 9 month old baby, 39 minutes seemed like an okay time.

Then Bryan, Heidi, Jeff Braun and I hopped in the car and headed to Boise, where we met Bryan's family for a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner.

That evening, the family was looking through Brenda's scrapbooks (which I asked her to bring for inspiration for my scrapbooking hobby) I found the perfect moment to announce my pregnancy.  Heh heh.  Aunt Lisa was sitting in a chair, with all her girls piled on her.  Aunt Audra was reading a book on the couch, Valerie was looking at a scrapbook next to me, and some people were in the kitchen.  Lisa points at a photo and says, "Oh, right now I'm pregnant."  I pipe up with, "So am I."

Zero reaction.  Nobody looks up from their books or leftovers in the kitchen.

Halloween 2011

Desperate attempt to catch up #1.

October 31, 2011 marked Bryan's and my fourth Halloween together.  First, we hiked the Y.  When we got to the top, we rolled oranges down.  A remarkably fun thing to do, they pick up so much momentum that they bounce on the rocks until they explode.  Our apologies to the couple farther down.

Then, as was custom, we found a Halloween dance on campus to crash.  We got some treats and danced to a few songs.   Unfortunately, I knew some people there.  ("Aren't you married?")

To follow it all up, we watched a very scary movie: An Inconvenient Truth, by Al Gore.  Perhaps I'll post later about my new-found green-ness... until then, go see the movie.