Meet The Peanut

Today we had our 18-week ultrasound, and once again, we were able to resist finding out the gender! Nobody looked, not even the tech (or so she said). So we'll have to wait til June to know if Gunnar will have a football buddy or if we need to send him to karate classes to learn to keep the boys away from Daddy's little girl. I am still having vivid dreams that I have a girl kicking around in my belly, and so it has become natural to me to refer to Peanut as a she.

Here's a picture of Peanut when we first learned of her existence...

From Peanut ultrasound

And here are some photos of how she's grown!

From Peanut ultrasound

From Peanut ultrasound

From Peanut ultrasound

We even got a 3D photo. Looks like she's trying to suck her thumb.

From Peanut ultrasound

Some may think she looks a bit alien-like at this stage, but of course, her mom and dad only see perfection. (and how in the world did we achieve perfection twice?!!) :)

Merry Christmas!

We hope everyone had a marvelous Christmas! Gunnar started to figure out who Santa is, and we took him to school to have breakfast with the jolly fellow. Gunnar wasn't too fond of sitting in Santa's lap...

From Breakfast with Santa

...but he did give the guy a high-5,

From Breakfast with Santa

and even blew him a kiss goodbye!

From Breakfast with Santa

Gunnar also made Christmas cookies for Santa and friends - this year we tried oreo balls, which were a bit hit!

From Breakfast with Santa

And all of that was good enough to get Gunnar exactly what he wished for... to stay in NC near his friends and family! You see, Santa not only delivered lots of cool toys to our good little boy, but he also took something we've been wanting to get rid of for a long time - that ugly sign in our yard! Yippee!

Gunnar loves lollypops!

Also known as "pop-pops..."

Lollypop

Other things Gunnar is loving right now:

bubbles, apples, dancing with The Wiggles, Baby Einstein, making animal sounds, "cooking" in the kitchen, playing with Ava at school, sweeping the floor, calling Daddy "Mama"

Gunnar's Preparation for June 14, 2010

We hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!

Pictures on The Lawn!

Here they are... the long awaited family pictures! (long story short - been trying to get these done for months, the 1st round was a bust, so this was our 2nd - and very successful - attempt)

Mary Bias did a fabulous job! She was so good with Gunnar, and the pictures speak for themselves. For anyone who's going to be spending time in the Charlottesville area, please check out Mary's website - http://www.marybphototgraphy.com - we highly recommend her!!

Fall Festivities

Fall is in the air, and we've been celebrating by playing in the leaves and picking out pumpkins. This past weekend, we went to Charlottesville to see Grams and Grandpa and to get family pictures, version 2, taken on the Lawn. (Family pictures, version 1, happened at the beach in August, but we smiled so hard that we broke the camera!!) A preview of our photo shoot can be seen at http://pixieperfectcreations.blogspot.com. Mary Bias, a wonderfully talented artist and mom of a 2-year-old, did an amazing job, and I highly recommend her to anyone in the area! I'll post more photos when we get them.

Grams dug out some old pictures of Little Erik. Hmmm, I think I see some resemblance here...

From Little Erik

From Little Erik

Earlier this month, the Matlocks came to visit. We got to welcome Mark home from Iraq and welcome Baby Walker to our crazy world! Trevyor's an awesome big brother, and Stacey certainly makes the mom thing look easy. We all took a trip to the pumpkin patch and had to hide in the corn maze to stay warm.

Despite all the talk these days of hard economic times, we've been having a blast!

Though we have taken precautions and shown Gunnar where we could end up if we aren't careful...

From Cardboard box

From Cardboard box