peekaboo fun

so we can't figure out how to turn this video so that it isn't sideways, but trust me....it's worth it. here's greta playing peekaboo with me. so turn your head and watch!! you won't be sorry. i particular love how she is "peeking" out at me the whole time.....this went on for about 20 minutes. enjoy....

fat pants

so yesterday i had an observation at Xavier. a few times each semester, i have to get dressed up in decent looking clothes, put a little makeup on, and go out to observe Montessori interns do their student teaching and give feedback. so...yesterday. i'm up early. i'm showered. i get dressed in the last remaining pair of "regular" pants that still fit. i had a button extender (awesome!), but it broke. anyway, so i'm in my nice pants (and other clothes, of course) fixing greta oatmeal for breakfast....can you see where this is going??!!
the oatmeal is a little hot so i go to stick the bowl in the freezer for a minute and whoops. i miss the freezer shelf, down falls the bowl of oatmeal. the bowl lands on the floor and the oatmeal lands all down the front of my pants. MY LAST PAIR OF DRESS PANTS THAT FIT. awesome.
now....you are probably thinking, "quit your whining. slap on some maternity pants and off you go". that would be easy to do, if i HAD any maternity dress pants. but seriously, i'm a stay at home mom. and because my last pregnancy was mainly in the spring and summer, i own 2 pair of maternity jeans, 1 pair of maternity cargo pants, and a whole bunch of sweats.
so sweatpants it was. luckily, being pregnant affords many niceties.....like people see your belly and "ooh" and "aah" and don't notice that you have your lounge pants on in public. but it was either that or smell like maple brown sugar all day.....

ponytails are all the rage

It's a..........................Boy

We had our ultrasound today for baby #2.  And after official review, it is in fact a boy!  See picture of the little guy below.  First pic is the confirmation, and the second is the profile view with his fist in the air.

    

trim the tree

today was the day....we got our christmas tree! and although this was greta's second christmas, she was definitely more involved in the process than last year. she kept saying, "tree, tree" while we were picking it out. she thought it was pretty funny that we had a tree in the car and she kept pointing and laughing while joe carried the tree in. we were curious how it was going to go to have a one year old under foot while setting the tree up, but she sort of just went about her regular business at first. she would come over occasionally to feel the branches or point at the lights. and she was very interested in the bin of ornaments. i'm curious how she'll be with the tree tomorrow. before she went to bed tonight, she tried to chew on both an ornament and a branch. but we'll chalk that up to teething.


here's greta, helping her papa get the tree all set up.










then greta decided that mommy and papa could do all the hard work while she read a few christmas books to get in the holiday spirit.











here's greta, hanging her first ornament on the tree. well...we hung it together and then she got mad and i took it back off so that she could carry it around the house.

speaking of hats

here is greta, giving some love to her babydoll. notice her moving in for a kiss in the second photo. greta is also playing in her new favorite spot....on top of the heating vent. she seems to think it's funny when it gets "windy" and the warm air blows her hair. on second thought, maybe her love of wearing hats around the house and obsession with sitting on the vent is her way of trying to tell us something.

hats on

greta likes to wear her hats around inside the house. she can even put her bunny hat on by herself. but seriously....i mean, i know it's cold in this drafty old house. but geez...