Pregnancy is...

...going to the bathroom then, while washing your hands, realizing you have to go again. :)

Playing Catch Up...8 Months and 2,000+ Pictures (Part 4)

October:

Took our first ferry ride out to San Juan Island for the weekend. FUN!

I have got to capture this on film better. Cab makes a little bulldog face and sniffs really loudly. It's hilarious. Then again, so is E's.

The ferry was a little on the long side, so some of us fell asleep.

Behind us in that bright sunshine is water and islands...not sure where they went to.

Here we are at Friday Harbor waiting for our ferry ride back to Anacortes (or Ana Cortez...).

And back home, just having some tum-tum-time.

There, we're up-to-date. Peace out.

playing Catch Up...8 Months and 2,000+ Pictures (Part 3)

September:

We took our first airplane ride up to AK to visit family. Here are 3 generations...if my dad had been around at the time, we could have made it 4. :)

Cab with Great-Grandma P.

With my bestest bud of nearly 20 years! and her number 4 of 5, Keegs (funny kid).

Keegan was great at making Cab laugh!

We went for a walk with Uncle Barry (who took the picture). :)

And we met 2 uncles, and aunt and 3 cousins. Whew, busy trip!

When we got home we had a visit from Grandma and Grandpa South Dakota!

This was a first meeting for Grandpa. I think they like each other.

And finally we'll end with some pure cuteness. She's so beautiful, it takes my breath away. I'm so lucky I get to be her mommy.

Playing Catch Up...8 Months and 2,000+ Pictures (Part 2)

August:

Seriously, how cute is this kid?!

Slobberific!

She knows how to stop the "papa"razzi. :)

Bath time is the best time. Cab LOVES her bath...and splashing mommy and daddy. I have no idea who gave us this adorable little lounge lizard robe...but it's really cute. :) Thanks, if you know who you are!

We saw a bumper crop of blueberries in the area, so we went out to see what we could get. We only ended up getting about a pound in 2 hours. That's what happens when you go with a 6-month-old and a pregnant lady. :) It was still fun and nice to get outside.

Cab slept for about 40 minutes of our picking experience, I think she was a little confused when she finally woke up. But she was good-natured, as always.

We spotted this guy hanging out on one of the bushes. He was about as big as my hand (his wingspan anyway).

We went on our first road/camping trip! We upgraded our tent from a fairly roomy 2-man to a huge, 2-room, 6-man tent. It was perfect...as you can see in the next picture.

Gone are the days of light packing...okay we were never really light packers, but it was never like this! You can see our (nearly) queen sized air mat, Cab's pack & play, the baby gym and a bed for Mel. Yep, we roughed it.

We also borrowed a 2-burner propane stove for the occasion. So long Whisper Light! That was luxury compared to the tiny little burner we usually have to use. Thanks, Rod!

Cab did very well on the trip. We were a bit concerned with the heat during the day and the cold of the night. But she did better than either of us anticipated. :)

And we got to visit some great friends who we don't see nearly enough! Thanks for the Cunningham hospitality!

Playing with the look...

I want to give the blog a warmer feel...but I'm not so good with the blogger layouts...or html...or knowing how to tweak the layouts that you can find online. So, bear with me as I fiddle with everything. Hopefully I'll get it figured out.

Big picture update on Cababy coming soon.

xoxo!

Playing Catch Up...8 Months and 2,000+ Pictures (Part 1)

It's been a while since I've gotten a good baby post up and put any Cababy photos on this site. As most of you know, there is a site dedicated to our sweet girl (that has also been neglected in recent months). But, in going through pictures, there were some that didn't make the cut for the other site...but I wanted to put them up so people could see them anyway. I'll try to put these in some semblance of order, but due to the number, I'm not touching up or cropping them. And, thanks to my super cool hubby I was able to get them all sized down for web using an "action" (a macro for MS users). So, let the fun begin!

June and July:

It took a while for the summer weather to hit us here in the PNW. This was taken early in June. She's so tolerant when we put things on her. She still doesn't complain or try to pull off her sunglasses. What a good girl!

When the heat did hit us, it hit hard. We saw 90s and 100+, which is hard with no A/C and a small house. So we went to Uncle Steve and Aunt Kerry's basement for a whole week! Thanks again for saving our bacon. :) We lounged around wearing little but onesies and sitting in front of the fan.

Sometimes even a onesie was too much.

We tried more rice cereal. Still not getting the whole concept of swallowing once you take a bite.

We had to improvise since we were away from home during the heat wave. Say hello to our impromptu baby bath! A little cramped, but it did the job. :)

Cutest baby EVER!

She keeps us so amused. I'll be sad if we don't get some of her babbling on video...she's so funny.

We hung out with "God-sibling" Michael. (His parents are Cab's Godparents and we are his)

Mikey is 3 months younger than Cab, but he was already almost the same length in these pictures!

boy oh boy...

That's what we've been thinking around her for the past week. We found out on Thursday that we'll be welcoming a bouncing baby boy in January, Peter Augustine. (That's "uh-GUS-tin" not "aw-gus-TEEN"). No update on the ultrasound picture...the one that they gave us wasn't as good as the last one (Group Health radiology vs. Washington Imaging...makes a difference). That's all, just a little update!