Babymoon and the Birds

It's been a while since we updated this, so here will be several all at once.

Back in November we went on a weekend "Babymoon" to Lake Buchanan and later took a ride on the Vanishing Texas River Cruise. This happened to be a "Freedom Flight" where a bird of prey conservancy group released rehabilitated birds into the wild. It was way cool.

A Beautiful sunset outside of our cabins.

A Bald Eagle that isn't able to be released. If I were her, I'd have some glasses on with that beak so close!

A beautiful Owl (I think it was a Great Horned Owl).

I forget what type of Hawk this was; possibly a Cooper's, but I'm not sure and don't have a bird book on me right now.

The Belly is getting bigger!

Here we are on a walk exploring the outer bounds of our "close to a bathroom" requirement. As you can see, Baby G has been growing quite a bit! We had a chance to soak up some vitamin D outside this weekend, so baby's belly is moving from the ghostly white shade of Halloween toward the gentle glow (and shape) of a thanksgiving pumpkin. Quite appropriate for this time of year...

Booooo!

My wife rocks. She threw me a surprise birthday party this year! It was great fun, and I enjoyed getting to see everyone all dressed up for my birthday! Thank you to those that could make it.

Here are the winners of the costume contest (without my aunt, uncle and cousin who also won ribbons and are featuered in the next photo).

Here's a separate shot of the Oz winners:

Shower Pics

I finally put the shower pictures up on Picasa. You can find them by surfing to picasaweb.google.com/FirstLast / and replace "FirstLast" with my name.

Shower Fun

Thank y'all for coming to our shower and making it a great time! We appreciated all of you coming and helping us celebrate. We are blessed to have y'all as friends and family.

At some point I need to figure out how best to share the photos from this weekend, but for now, I'll just post these 2 group shots. Click the image to click through to a medium size for downloading and viewing on your computer.

If you have any special requests you'd like me to email to you, just send an email to my name (FirstLast) at gmail dot com.

It's a BOY!!!

So, we went to the sonographer this morning, and got some great news. First, Doc thinks the slightly echogenic abdomen falls within the normal range, and he didn't see any other indicators that something might be wrong. He thinks it's a healthy baby. Second, it's a BOY! The above picture is looking from the feet up between his legs where there is definately something showing. Like I said in the office, "He likes the ladies..." That explains why he was shy around our normal male OB Dr.

Here's a profile shot where you can see a little nose and forehead. It looks like he was sleeping, but he wasn't! There was lots of wiggling and jumping going on. Plus some stubbornness in rotating for the camera.

"Nature Walks..."

We were debating on the title of this picture. Perhaps "Not Carrot Top, but Carrot Bottom" or something along those lines. CP liked "Nature Walks", which I thought was cute. Then she came up with "Veggie Tails," which takes the carrot!

This carrot from our garden has some serious junk in its trunk. I think CP might use the term "truncal obesity." From the looks of the hairy legs, I'm thinking this is either a Hippie carrot, or possibly French (perhaps both!). Y'all come up with your own description and post in the comments...

Have fun!