An Unfortunate Event

Today, while frolicing at the pool Grace slipped and recieved her first ever goose egg- right on her forehead. Grace, being a trooper, cried for a second and then was on to other things. I did not even realize a goose egg was forming until I was loading her into the car. To try to brighten her mood from the blow we went to MacDonald's for lunch. Which leads me to my next bit of news. I fear Grace may have been switched at birth. I came to this conclusion when Grace favored apple slices over fries. She also cried yesterday when Neil tried to feed her some ice cream and she will NOT eat chocolate chip cookies, EVER. While I am all for healthy eating this makes me wonder from whence came this child? And will there be no late night bonding over brownies when she is a teen? I shudder.

Craving

A deliciously good read. Something like Pushing Daisies but in written form. Any suggestions?

gurgle gurgle glup glup

Yesterday I had another doctors appointment. When my Dr grabbed the doppler to find the baby's heartbeat she had to do some intense looking. For some reason all of my babies (well all two) hate to have any pressure on them and swim like crazy to get away. Well, all of the sudden I heard the heartbeat and a weird gurgle gurgle glup glup noise. The Dr informed me that the baby was literally doing summer salts right as we were talking! It is funny to think of a two inch long baby doing acrobats.

Grace under Pressure

Earlier this afternoon Grace and I rolled back into town. We have spent the last 10 days in Chicago having fun with my family. Our second night there my younger brother and sister were participating in a dance festival at our church. Their group had been assigned to dance Latin style. I was amazed at how great they were. The girls all got flipped around and my favorite part was when Troy and Ashton were dancing on a box- I had no idea they were so good at shakin' it! I tried to take pictures of the dancing but it was too dark. Here is one of Grace in the bleachers.
Well during the show Grace got a bit fussy so my dad took her out into the hall. Once there she screamed her first totally legit sentence, "I WANT MY MOMMA!" It seems stress brought out her language capabilities. The rest of the trip she was jabbering away. When she dropped a gold fish she exclaimed "Where did it go?" and my personal favorite occurred when my cousin Kirsten was blocking Grace's path. Grace turned to me and said, " Help, oh, help." One day of the family reunion my dad volunteered to watch Grace so my mom, Ashton, and I headed to the city. We met up with some of my cousins for lunch and then went on a shopping spree, (thanks again Mom and Dad:) We met another cousin and an aunt and uncle and went to the Grand Lux for dinner. And my favorite part was the show that night. We saw Fiddler on the Roof starring Topol, the original main character from the movie. It was great, and I am a really picky critic about shows! Another day we went down to Navy Pier and rode on the giant carousel. Here you see Grandpa, Aunt Ashton and Grace.
Next the entire family headed out on a boat tour around the lake. Here is my Dad, Grandma and Aunt Lisa cruising.
Here is a candid of my brother Troy, a teen. Doesn't he look like he could join the cast of Twilight?
Grace enjoyed the boat ride here she is just chillin'.
And one of Grace and her Grandma snuggling.
It was also fun to spend time with a bunch of my younger cousins who I had never really hung out with before, they were wild and crazy fun :) So I must say the reunion was a smashing success. After the reunion ended Grace and I had fun at my parents house. Before my Aunt Judy. Uncle George and cousin Riki left town they came by for lunch. We had put together fruit plates, like so-
As I was setting the plates on the table downstairs Grace grabbed one of the watermelon garnishes and by the time I turned around this was all the was left
Here she is with the evidence in hand
Thanks Mom and Dad for a great trip!
When Grace and I got home today I felt like it was Mother's Day instead of Father's day. Neil had cleaned our entire house, worked on the yard, done the laundry, and bought us a new mattress while we were gone. He even had a frozen lasagna waiting for us (I think he missed us a bit). So happy Father's Day to all- I will probably wax eloquent on that subject tomorrow :)

Drum roll please.....

Introducing Little Baby Larson #2.
As you can see from the close up this baby is hot stuff with an attitude. I know he/she has an attitude because my doctor had to give me some serious nausea meds- the same kind chemo patients take.
PS The blob sticking out the top is an arm and hand

Just so you know

all I have wanted to eat lately has been rice krispies or frosted shredded mini wheats or nothing. nausea nausea go away come again another day.

Weekend Get-a-way

Neil took me to San Antonio this past weekend for a Mother's Day gift. We dropped Grace off at my in-laws and took off to party. On Thursday we drove to San Antonio, went swimming, ate delicious Mexican food and went to go see Angels and Demons (just a so so movie). The queso at the restaurant was so tasty I tried to drink it.
Neil thought it would be a bit less messy to use a spoon.
Then we got our entrees and started to dig in.

The next day we went to Guenther House. Guenther House is a museum/ store/ restaurant attached to pioneer flour mills. Here are Neil and I in the historic house part (yes, I know I already look pregnantishy)
We then had a great outdoor breakfast. If you ever go to Guenther House you have to get the pancakes- they are so good! Next we strolled through the historic part of the city.



Then we hit up the Alamo. It was crazy and filled with field trip kids!
We had some people take a picture of us but my hair looks crazy and we are totally "glowing" from our death walk across the city. The next day we headed to the outlets for some shopping, hit the pool again and went to see the movie Up. It was really good, much to my surprise. And we ate at Golden corral!! We tried to find the resturant Neil picked out but it was closed for another hour, and my pregnant self just could not take the wait. I have to say the mashed potatoes rocked my world. Towards the end of the trip I sort of stopped taking pictures. We had lunch on the river walk yesterday and then headed home. Neil did a great job planning our trip and the restaurants were all zagat rated (except the G. C. of course) so we didn't hit one stinker. It was a great trip but we were excited to get back to our baby.

Grace got a little confused about this definition

And here she is modeling her cowgirl inspired outfit.