A Great Magazine

I just posted some stuff about a great magazine - Brain, Child - on my other blog. If you don't have the link you can click over to the post here.

Alison's boyfriend

This is Banks. And we love him.

Pregnancy Update

Someone asked in a comment to update everyone on my pregnancy. I had a doctor's appointment today and everything seems to be going well. I am 22 weeks along and feeling pretty good. Except for being tired. Because of what happened last time (the eclampsia and blood clot) they are watching my blood pressure and all the other signs of pre-eclampsia. My BP has been around 100/60 every appointment. I am taking a baby aspirin every day as it is shown to reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia significantly.

The little guy is a busy body and I'm getting kicks big enough to see from the outside, not just feeling them from the inside! I'm trying to wrap my mind around having a little guy around here - since Alison is all I'm used to. But I think it will be fun - plus all the clothes are my favorite color! Baby blue!!

With Nick being gone for work all month I'm going to CA to see him and then on to Utah to see my family again. After the Utah - Oregon - back to UT - and home again flights last month and then this trip, I think it's fair to say that I've filled my travelling quota for a year or so. Going alone with AK makes it even more decisive that I won't be going anywhere for a while. That, and the doctors have told me not to travel after November. (Sorry Sam and Laura).

So there's my little update. Any suggestions for boy names?

She's beading!

So I bought her some pony beads and pipe cleaners to string them on. My friend Carla suggested it (Thanks!) Every time she'd slide a bead down to the end she exclaim "Yay!" She has such a serious look of concentration though! She really was enjoying herself.

Some new photos

She's still doing yoga! Cobra (above) Down dog (Below)

Somebody loves bananas!!

This was taken on one of her many flights last month. We're up for 3 more this month and then I'm DONE travelling with an almost 2 year old for a while. One, because I'll be getting too close to my due date and Two, it's too exhausting to do it by myself.She can't seem to stay out of our stuff. The minute she sees the bedroom door open she bolts in there to check out our nightstand drawers. I came in to see her with one of Daddy's earplugs in (so I had to help her get the other one in so I could take a picture). She is thinking "What? I can't hear you!! Did you say, No?"
Her favorite outdoor pasttime,

Next to picking leaves off the plants in my pathetic little garden. She loves to "garden". Maybe next year I'll actually do a better job. We did get a few strawberries, that mostly the birds ate. Here she is sampling the fresh basil - which she apparently loves.