Now Stop Bothering Me! :)

This Weekend ...

We had a great time in McMinnville "introducing" everyone to David Lee Bouldin, III. Oh boy! We've got to get some blue clothes! We're so excited about Our Boy and now when I tell Julia that she's squishing her little brother when she tries to climb on Mommy, I'm not just guessing!!!
It was pretty funny because we let people see the ultrasound pictures first because the top picture has an arrow pointing to boy parts and says "BOY!" Without fail, everybody said, "I can't tell anything from these things" and we had to show them what they had missed :)
There were several cameras capturing the weekend, including ours.

Cutie Pies!

Cindy is 35 weeks pregnant with twins (a boy and a girl).
Her baby belly puts mine to shame! :)

Bouldin Happenings

1. Joanna has her computer back! Yea! (I was apparently the talk of the Apple store employees with my Mystery Science Theater 3000 decal on my iMac. When the guy brought my computer out, the other employees standing around said, "Oh, YOU'RE the one with the MST3K computer everyone's been talking about!" Cool points for me! It must have been a slow week there.)

2. Grandma Steele came through twice in one week. She took a trip with a church group up to the Northeast and they stopped in Knoxville for the night both coming and going. It was great to see her and she enjoyed seeing Julia :) She brought Julia a cute dress with a big "J" embroidered on the front that all the nursery ladies just loved when Julia wore it to church. No pictures because I forgot to get my camera.

3. Julia tried on her new shoes. We get the feeling she's not too crazy about them.

I don't like them!

These are the problem, Mom. Fix it!

4. We went to the Oakes Farm Corn Maze, Pumpkin Patch and Hayride with our friends, the Herrings. The corn maze was rather puny due to lack of rain and we weren't sure the strollers would make it through anyway so we just did the hayride to the pumpkin patch where the girls could pick out a pumpkin. It was very dusty and extremely crowded since we accidentally went on "Family Fun Day," but the girls were troopers even during the long wait in line to go on the hayride.

Riding on Dad at the Pumpkin Patch

Julia was more interested in the pumpkins than the camera

What do you think of this pumpkin?

Mekenzie almost smiled for the camera ... Julia didn't

Yummy overalls

Not interested in driving a tractor, either.

Our family

5. Julia has been working on her balance. She will turn with her back to the couch and stand with her rear end barely touching the couch. So far, nothing has been able to convince her that it would be fun to try walking a few steps. She's still willing to just drop to all fours and crawl.

TV Remote or Chew Toy?

6. Julia prefers to drink from a cup with a straw rather than a sippy cup. After weeks of trying to help her figure out the sippy cup, I realized that she could drink from a straw just fine. It sometimes takes Mom a bit to catch on, but we've bought her some spill-proof cups with straws and she enjoys using them.

Hmmmm ... what do I think?

I love it!

7. We keep talking about how big Julia is, but then she goes and starts to play with my tennis shoe and we notice that she's still pretty little :)

Hi, Mom!

8. My baby belly is still pretty little as well, but we took a picture for the scrapbook.

Week 18

9. I'll let you know when I get all the pictures up on Flickr. We've taken over 200 since my computer was in the shop so there's a lot to sort through. Meanwhile, Laura has some of their pictures up from the visit to Oakes Farm. Click here to check them out!

Happy Thanksgiving!

and welcome to Week 34 ...
Echo is already jumping for joy at the idea of a new playmate!(The batteries in my camera are dying so the pictures look a little strange, but you can see that we're making progress on the Great Nursery Project 2006! Hee. And on the Great Peanut Project as well!)

Wiped

This weekend was crazy. With the excitement of having family in town for my baby shower, I missed all my naps! I'll probably spend today recuperating. More about the shower tomorrow. Plus pictures of the finished kitchen! Oh, boy! And pictures of the nursery! That's right, it'll be a photo extravaganza! In the meantime, with extra photographers around, we were finally able to get pictures of both Dave and I during the pregnancy.

The Baby Belly at 30 weeks (hard to see since I'm not sideways!)

Our Family :)

Week 25

I don't really notice much difference on the outside. She's definitely getting bigger on the inside, though! Echo's getting jealous because Dave spends so much time with his hands on my belly. Saturday, she jumped up into bed and laid down right between us. Then she looked at David as if to say "Hey! I'm the one who's supposed to be petted!"

20 weeks OR Halfway there

There hasn't been much change since the last time we posted pictures of the belly (although I thought the maternity pants were a nice addition), but this being a "milestone" week we went ahead and took pics. Of course, why waste perfectly nice pictures of my growing abdomen?





This is the official 20 week photo.













I include this lovely gem showing off the maternity pants. Just so you don't get bored. Horrible posture, I know.










In our on-going efforts to make Echo love our baby, we periodically let her sniff the belly. Then we explain, "Sometimes when a man and a woman love each other ... " HA! We're practicing for when The Peanut asks, "Where did I come from?"









Dave calls this a "Jo's eye view."





And just so everyone remembers, we still have the cutest. pup. ever. (Dave and I have decided that if we're as lucky picking out kids as we were picking out a puppy then we've got it made!)

Echo's such a photo hog

Here is the Week 18 baby belly update. Hardly any of my pants fit so I'm wearing Dave's shorts around the house. :) Maybe I'll start wearing his jeans when we go places!

Week 15: Yes, Virginia, there is a baby in there

Being the obedient type (Mom, Dad, Dave, quit laughing!), I bring you our newest blog addition: Baby Belly Update. Of course, right now there's not much to see as The Peanut only weighs about 1 1/2 ounces. However, the youngun' has definitely moved up and is taking advantage of the protective layer of fat I've been developing. If you were to come up and push on my belly, you could definitely feel a hard little ball. Dave and I spend a lot of time preparing our child for the annoyance of having us as parents by poking at it fairly regularly.




Here's the Baby Belly at Week 15. There's not much to see even though I can no longer fit into my pants or jeans, but it seemed like a good place to start.










It had just rained and was still sprinkling when we took the picture so Echo had to stay inside and watch from behind the door. Her life is rough.






We will be headed to Bristol, VA this afternoon for my cousin's wedding. We were going to try to drive up Saturday morning, go to the wedding and reception and drive back that evening, but since we have cancelled all vacation plans for the year to save Dave's personal time at work for when The Peanut arrives, we decided to make a weekend of it. We'll be back Sunday evening and will try to remember to take the cell phone and charger with us. :)