A trip to Planet Child!

This outing to "Planet Child" back in August was a lot of fun. It is a children's

discovery play place where they can pretend to be shopping at Whole Foods

or a pirate sailing a ship. Ayden loved dressing up like a pirate!

First photos of Baby #2!

Last Friday, Sept. 7th, Pancho and I went to the first ultrasound for this baby. It was just as amazing seeing a little human move around on that screen as I remembered it with Ayden. Even at only about an couple of inches in length, this baby was moving around, waving its fingers and looking right at us (it seemed!) We got to hear the fast and strong heartbeat, which is always reassuring and could make out all of the body parts. When it was over, the ultrasound tech said, "now wave bye to Mom and Dad for now." The baby actually had his/her hand up and looked like his/her fingers were waving! It was quite a coincidence! We also found out that as she took measurements of the baby, it is measuring at 11 weeks along instead of 8 weeks like we thought. So, I am nearly out of the first trimester and things are great so far, except for all this morning, noon and night sickness! :)

The Big News!!

A few weeks ago we found out that we are going to have a little brother or sister for Ayden next year!! That week Ayden had been asking to have a cake because he loves birthday celebrations mainly because you get to eat cake and also because you can sing the Happy Birthday song. He loves it so much lately that he has been making birthday cakes with candles out of his bristle blocks. :) So, we decided when we knew I was pregnant, we would make Ayden's cake a baby celebration cake!

Ayden's love of trash!

Of course Ayden has been in love with the trash truck since we can remember, watching it drive down the road and pick up the trash from the dumpster outside the Stanford apartment. He is still enthralled with anything trash! These shots were taken in mid August when we had accumulated a lot of recycling. Our Cary apartment didn't have recycling pick up and so we drove down the road and Ayden was excited to help Momma put all the recycling in the correct dumpsters!