November Recap

Jacob's soccer is finally over so I am finally posting some pictures.
I don't know where he learned to throw elbows.

Check out the yoga pose in front of the goal.

Nice port-o-potty shot

We went to Kingsville to visit the Cabasmellios (Caballeros) and to attend the King Ranch Ranch hand breakfast.

Here are the cousins checking out the longhorns.

Racing with the cousins.

Gracie, boogers and all.

Merry loved the donkeys and kept asking if she could get in the pen and hug and kiss them.
I am pretty sure she would have had an asthma attack.

Merry's new best friend.

The Cabasmellios in downtown Kingsville.

Unfortunately I never take pictures at Thanksgiving. Brother Dan came to cook. So all I had to do was set the table and mash the potatoes. Sister Emilie and fam came to eat Dan's good cooking too. Then the Cabasmellios came to visit for the weekend. We had a smashing good time. We played Ticket to Ride and Tangos and ate lots and lots. Dan brought his P90X workout, which is definately not for fat, out of shape pregnant ladies.

Us 9 years later

After 9 years and 3.5 kids later

Boys vs. Girls

So in case you were wondering why I have been looking like I went to Las Palapas too many times, I am pregnant. Yesterday we had our ultrasound to check up on the baby and of course find out what color of clothes to buy. I told Jacob and Merry that I would bring balloons to school to tell them if it was a girl baby or boy baby. Blue for boy and pink for girl. They both seemed pretty excited about the balloons.
On Tuesdays I pick up Jacob first, so I tied the balloons to Grace and we walked over to meet him. All Jacob said was, "What are the balloons for Mom?" He totally didn't remember our conversation from that morning. It is like I am talking to mini Brian.
Any way we then went to Merry's preschool. Merry saw me coming from across the playground and started running in circles saying, "We're having a boy baby, we're having a boy baby." Then she ran and told all the teachers. All I can say is thank goodness I have little girls to get excited with me (not that we don't love boys at our house).
So we are having a little boy sometime in March, hopefully after spring break.

Halloween

Jacob went as Robin Hood.
It only took going to 7 stores to find his bow and arrow.

Gracie was a bat.

This is how fairies style their hair according to Merry.

This is the box we decorated for Merry's preschool party. I have no idea whose legs are in the picture but she will be immortalized on my blog forever.

All about Grace at 18 months

Disclaimer notice- please excuse the slightly blurry images. I had this grand plan to take Gracie's pictures in the yellow flowers but when we finally got around to actually taking them they were in the process of mowing them all down. So we had to drive around to find another place with yellow flowers by that time it was nice and dark and since I have an aversion to the flash and my camera does not do well with high ISOs all my images are slightly blurry. Maybe we will have to try again before all the yellow flowers are gone.

Grace collected flower's in her little flower pot.

Grace loves dress-up shoes, playing outside, coloring (mostly with pen or marker on herself)
and reading books. She is definitely a daddy's girl and like him to rock-a-bye her.
Her vocabulary includes important words like shoes and sucker.
It is hard to believe she has grown so big.
To see Grace in her flower pot as a baby click below
http://genho-stott.blogspot.com/2008/05/which-birth-announcement.html