Mother Nature

Last night was Angela's baby shower...Thanks go to everyone who helped with the food, invites, decorating ect...and to my Husband and son for being understanding about my need to have everything clean and tidy. Teancum was great at keeping things under control during the day. If only mother nature had been as cooperative.

My original plan was to have some sign outside advertise our party's location since our apartment is a little out of the way of the main road. When it was raining cats and dogs at noon I knew the cardboard was out of the question. Then came a Martha Stewert moment (I never thought I would have one of those) and I made cute little balloon decorations on the top of mason jars filled with water...Those of you who saw them, don't laugh, I know they would never end up on Martha Stewert. Of course mother nature had her say and blew half the balloons away, so back to the drawing board, my creations ended up with streamers and more balloons. Poor Ryan kept having to run out in the rain and the wind setting them out then bringing them back for the streamers balloons and setting them out again.

Then Ryan informs me that it's supposed to snow, and he wants to bring his tomato plants inside. How can I say no after his willingness to face the rain and the cold and knowing how much he likes to garden and baby his plants. So we put them under the table..the table cloth will hide them I think...ooops I forgot to iron the table cloth and there's no time. Tomato plants under the table...oh well.

By this time the rain water is seeping in under our doors in the living room, so a towel goes on the floor to keep people dry. No such luck, it gets moved and Robyn gets wet...sorry!

All in all the party was a success.

I made up for my obsessive cleaning today by spending quality time with Teancum, and this time mother nature cooperates. We get snow, a first since our move here in june..and it's march now. After a breakfast of cake and veggies (leftover from the party), we run around and make snow angels. Teancum was amazed at the waterfall coming off our roof from the melted snow. After the snow fun, we have hot chocolate complete with marshmellows. Teancum of course had to have his in one of his sippy cups making it impossible to eat his marshmellows. So he stole mine. I hope everyone had as much fun as we did in the snow.

little baby ryan

Here are some pics that I think look a LOT like Ryan's baby pictures...I just need to scan some pictures of Ryan to add to these.

Bath Time

So, Jacob's favorite person these days is Teancum...and his favorite time is bathtime. Checkout these cute pictures of our favorite time of the day.

Baby Blessing

Jacob was given a name and a blessing at the end of December. It was a beautiful reminder to me of how special he is. He was blessed that he would be a mediator/peacemaker and that he would have patience. How true these blessing already have become. The other day Ryan and I were running low on the patience and were soon bitter and having raised voices (yup, it happens to the best of us). I had to go change Jacob and just seeing how innocent he is reminded me of the big picture, within minutes harmony was restored. Check out how cute he is in his blessing outfit...thanks mom.


Our little angel... Doesn't he look precious. I love his little profile
Proud Parents

Welcome Baby Jacob!

Sunday was an exciting day for us. Mom woke up at 2:00 in the morning thinking...we need to go to the hospital. After waiting an hour and having four contractions that progressively got harder she woke dad up, they took Teancim to Leslie and Ned Prusse's and arrived at the hospital at 4:00am and we pulling into the ER parking lot when mom said, "I think my water just broke." Sure enough when she got out of the car water started going down her leg. (She was grateful to know she hadn't lost control and peed her pants.)
So while mom rode a wheelchair up to labor and delivery, Dad moved the car. I must say that the hospital could have been a little more tactful when dad made it to labor and delivery and told him that. All they said was that he couldn't go in my room yet. They could have said that I was admitted and was had to answer a few questions first and then he could go right in. Well he made it just fine and I got my epidural about the time that the pain was getting too much for me...(The nurse that put in my IV and tore up my hand forget to tell the head nurse that I was beginning to feel nautious, so after they had the epidural set up they had to wait for me to throwup and for the anti nausia medicine to kick in before they gave me the painkiller.
Anyways, six hours later Jacob was born..and here are the pictures to prove it

Baby Shower Fun

Thursday was a big day for me. A doctors appointment in the morning (i'm a 2 and 50%) and then baking pies and trying to finish up a novel for book club at 7:00 that evening...or so I thought.
I showed up to book club a couple minutes (2-3) early and there were already a lot of cars there...I think I counted 8 or 9. Great I thought, it probably started at 6:30 and I'm showing up half an hour late. So I walk up to the door mentally picturing how embarassed I would be interupting the discussion as I walk through late with two sour cream and raisin pies.
The sign on the door says come on in...I guess Leslie figured that some people would be late and didn't want to bother inturupting discussion with answering the door...even more embarassing.
I walk in and there are quite a few people there talking...but no discussion yet, maybe I'm not late, maybe everyone else is early.
I glance around...I know everybody there, but didn't know that half of them were in book club. Hey there's Nicole Williams, I'm glad someone thought of inviting her to book club. I'd been meaning to but never got around to it. I mention how great it is that someone invited her...then I realize that most people are looking at me.
Do you know what this is? someone asks...at least I think that was the question...my mind was a little slow because I was trying to figure out why I'm suddenly the center of attention. I see some baby items on the table behind Nicole and gifts under it."
"It's my baby shower" I reply, not entirely sure that it's the right answer...I had helped set a date for the following tuesday as my baby shower...I had a copy of the invitation at home to prove it.
I think I expected someone to laugh at me and tell me something else was going and I wasn't supposed to be there, at least I felt like I wasn't supposed to be there. I know now that it was because nobody expected me to walk right in, the sign on the door was for everyone coming to surprize me and was supposed to be gone by the time I arrived.
Needless to say my tension faded quickly (although I was embarassed that I had brought pies to my own baby shower...nobody had wanted to disuade me from baking them because they thought it would give the shower away) and the rest of the evening was filled with fun games and lots of girl talk...and who would trade that for a book club meeting? Not even me.

We had our second ultrasound today and the baby is doing fine. It was neat to see the baby in 4D. most of the time he was sucking his thumb or his fist, he did flash his muscles once, and in one picture we got he you can see his tongue sticking out a little. The scanned pictures are a little grainy, but you can kinda make it out.

Grandma's visit

Grandma Black came to texas last week to help out with baby Benjamin. We had teh chance to go and visit for a day, and boy was it fun. See the video above and the slideshow below for a glimpse of what we did. Teancum is still talking about Grandma and Ashlee and how he wants more.