Memorial Weekend

We started the holiday weekend with a trip to the Alpaca Convention at the South Towne Expo Center. We took Asher a few years ago and decided it was time for a return visit.

malcom vs. the alpaca


its a match! (said like the lady on SNL who plays the Target cashier)

On Sunday we had a barbeque at the Morley's and then headed over to the cemetery to visit Nanny Janny's grave. Although it's tradition to look nice when visiting the dead, my children look like mongrels since they'd spent the previous 3 hours romping in Cambry's backyard in the dirt and spilling food on themselves, so pardon our appearances.

malcom on my mom's headstone watching mulan. probably sacrilegious, not to mention a perverse parenting technique, but it was all we could do to keep him from snatching flags, flowers, and balloons from all the other headstones.


posterity. since she's passed, my mother has acquired grandchildren! (4 to be exact)


asher and the balloons. our tradition as of a year ago is to write messages to nanny janny and let the balloons deliver them. however, our balloons were totally dead a mere 10 hours after i got them (i was supposed to request "high float" i guess) so instead we wrote messages and tacked them to the grave site. asher took this very seriously. he drew pictures of things he's learned she liked... camels, babies, cookies, piano, the temple and then wrote the following messages: i luve you. ples cum bac soon. i wont to see you. *sidenote: asher has been praying a lot lately requesting that she be resurrected immediately, so keep your eyes peeled:)


As for today, the actual holiday, we did squat....just hangin around, nothing to do but frown, rainy days and Mondays always get me down. But, for real we ate cookie dough at Cambry's and played Wii.

Baby

sucking its thumb


between the legs (and that's the umbilical cord, not something else)

Yes, I'm pregnant. We spilled the beans on Saturday after Tee Ball. Our big plan to wait until we knew the sex kind of turned out to be awkward. I anticipated it being this great surprise, but mostly people were just confused. Friday night me, Kevin, and the boys took a trip to Fetal Studio. They said its a girl, but I'm not buying it... yet. Asher was so pleased. I had only announced to him that I was pregnant about an hour before we left for the ultrasound. He was so funny. He kept saying things like, "Are you serious? You're really pregnant? Mom are you teasing me? I don't believe it." I told him I thought it was a boy but dad thought it was a girl. He immediately took his dad's side and when the ultrasound tech said it was a girl, there were high 5's all around. My suggestion was to hold off on the excitement because just my luck, they'll find a penis when I go in in 2 weeks for my o.b. scheduled ultrasound. Kevin says I'm in denial, I say I'm being cautious. I'm now 17 weeks (16 1/2 at the time of the ultrasound) and I've heard stories. I have three friends that said they found out at 14, 15, and 16 weeks and it was accurate. We shall see. So there it is, a baby for Halloween, what more could you want?

Tee Ball

Today we attended Asher's last Tee Ball game. This was his first attempt at a real team sport and I'd say it went swimmingly. He was far more competitive than I would have thought, not to mention focused. Check out that ready stance - practically a pro. According to him, The Nationals had a perfect season 10 and 0 (too bad there was no such thing as points and outs).

Asher's Spring Program

Yesterday was Asher's school program. I didn't think that watching my preschooler sing some songs with his classmates would really get to me. I expected to be amused. But the minute they walked in, hand in hand, singing You Are My Sunshine, I about lost it. He was partnered with the love of his life, Kayla, for the dance portion and they were quite the duo. My absolute favorite song was The Red Red Robin. He sang it to me once while we were walking through Target and it was the most tender thing I've ever heard. They closed with The Rainbow Connection coupled with the sign language-- come on folks! I fought with all my might to remain composed. So here we are at the end of the year, and next year I'll have a kindergartener. What the?!

Children's Discovery Museum

Last Thursday we took a trip to the Discovery Museum at Gateway. It was the end of the "Sesame Street Presents The Body" exhibit, and Lindsay and I didn't want to miss out on the fun. The kids loved it. Although the Sesame Street exhibit is over, I highly recommend going back for the rest of the museum. It was soo much fun. Afterward, we headed over to the Dodo for Phoebee's birthday dinner... yum! Here are a few pictures that poorly capture our fabulous outing.