Happy Easter!

A friend of ours brought up the topic of family traditions for holidays, like whether you dye real eggs, hide plastic ones, make an easter basket with candy or toys, and so on.

Hmm... we are going to have to start figuring this out. About a five-second conversation revealed that Alex and I have different ideas of what kind of Easter things you should do with kids. Well, I guess we have all the way until next year (and the year after that, really) before we really have to figure it out. And I like the idea of getting to mix our family traditions together and come up with our own brand. :)

Happy Spring :)

Today is the first day of spring! Not that you could tell it--the wind chill factor is "glacial" in my estimation.

This post is really a message to everyone who thinks they know what I need to hear about impending motherhood.

Please, please, PLEASE --when you see a child doing something annoying or naughty, stop telling me "hahaha that's what you're in for in a few years, hahaha".

1) That's not funny. That's mean-spirited.
2) It's not necessarily true--and if it IS, why do you think I want to hear about it?

baby again

Here is the best picture of ultrasound session #2 (which was done on Feb 25):



You can see Behbeh Bowling lounging without a care in the world. :) Since (for now, anyway) we have decided not to find out the gender beforehand, we may now be entirely done with ultrasounds!

ultrasound #2

The tiniest Bowling has doubled in size in the last ten days, now coming in at an impressive four centimeters and change! Of course, the measurement varies depending on the angle of the view and the position of the baby (napping today, for most of the ultrasound) but we are assured that the baby is at just the right size for the timetable.

We're out and about right now, but will post today's pictures when we get home. In one of them, you can see that Bowling Jr. is stretched out very luxuriously, enjoying the comfort while it's still roomy in there!

baby, baby, baby

We did the first ultrasound today.... The baby was dancing around, waving arms and legs very excitedly, so we got a really good look instead of the vague peanut shape we were expecting. They gave us a couple of pictures to take home with us. Here is the better one (which really doesn't do justice to how much it actually looks like a BABY already!) The doctor didn't get a picture of the dancing, wiggly poses because she was too busy being surprised at how much wiggling and dancing there was. So anyway, here he/she is:

Dr. appointment on Friday

It probably bears mentioning that we are going on Friday to get our first ultrasound done! We might post pictures (depending on if we get a take-home print out) so stay tuned!

Tennessee trip

We thought it might be good to mention that we're on a Mon-Thurs trip to Tennessee to see Grandpa Jack and enjoy the fine weather. (We haven't seen 70 degree days in months!)