Rock-a-bye sweet baby Jane

Hooray! Jane is here! This is her first photo with her daddy. The hat was one that they had at the hospital. It looks so uncomfortable
Jane weighed 7 pounds and 14 ounces she was just 20 inches long. Not the linebacker we were planning on. But I was relieved.....


I think she's hungry...

Some Killer Pregnancy Photos

So, I'm putting these up so all of my relations/friends can comment things like, "Oh my goodness, you're so much cuter than Mary." Or my personal favorite, "You don't even look pregnant! You can't be very far along" that is such a blatant lie. Either people think I'm naturally 25 lbs overweight, or they've decided I have a huge hernia in my gut. Either way it's incredibly offensive. Just kidding. No one has ever said I don't look pregnant. Please no comments on the yucky hair cut. PS does joe look irritated when I kiss him or what?

In which Amelia conquers the potty

This has been a LOOOOOONG time coming. For those of you (assuming there are multitudes of people reading this) that know me personally, you can probably guess that my 'go with the flow' parenting style is not conducive to immediate potty results. So, after months and months of day on, day off type of work, I can say that Amelia is about 68% there. Why use the word, "conquer"you ask- If she hasn't yet mastered the skill? Well, the cup is half full.......

1. I still haven't figure out how to switch this to a vertical setting
2. I caved and put this up only because marv has delighted in calling me a whimp. Too vain/proud was more like it.
3. That smug little look on my face was because I just finished doing some denise austin. something about that eccentric texas trainer makes me feel so great

Bubbles through the ages

Little Amelia occasionally gets to choose a toy from the dollar toys at walmart. her latest were these bubbles. I found those other pics of her almost a year ago doing the same thing. It made me think of that U2 song, "little girl with spanish eyes/(anglo saxon).......my, my, how you've grown".

this is our little mino. She had the unfortunate experience of having me cut her bangs way too short. I was trying to teach her humility. I was going to post a pic of my pregnant tummy, but after a good 15 shots with little to no success, I decided women aren't meant to model when they're uterus is abnormally large. Anyway, I'm 29 weeks, really wishing I was 39. My dr said that I'm measuring in between 31 and 32 weeks, not that I'll deliver early, but that I'll probably be having a huge line-backer baby. Too bad she's a girl. Mino was only 8 lb 6 oz, but this one feels like an easy two to three times mino's size. Thank goodness for epidurals. (Sp?)

absolutely no rhyme or reason

I had to put that traditional, good looking pic of our family first so that it softens the blow of the alarming following pics. You can see where Joe gets his facial expressions from.