From Seed to Snack in < 4 months

The broccoli is here, but the baby hasn't appeared yet. 36 weeks and counting for Baby G.

As for the garden, it looks like this Broccoli seed was planted Oct 4, 2008, and we ate our first snack Jan 25, 2009. That's quite a bit improvement over the spindly yellow flowers from last year's crop!
Here's CP last weekend on a walk to feed the ducks.

Painting is a chore!

...but, I finally got the shelves done and hung them up tonight. Making the shelves and installing the shelves combined took much less time than painting, drying, steel wool-ing, and second-coating! I can't wait for the letters that will decorate the other wall... ;-)

Ok, enough complaining. I think they look good. They help unify the walls by bringing the blue color over to that wall. Plus, they are quite functional and give us more storage space in the room.
Have a look:

Baby G's Room

Back in October my parents and I painted the room while Cookie Pockets had a play day out of the house. I'm working on building and painting some shelves for the left hand wall that you can't see, and I think CP wants to put is name in letters above the crib. Now, if only we had a name picked out for him...

Here are a few pictures of his future home taken back in October. I hope he'll like it!

Cookie Pockets - Rounding out 2008!

Here are a few shots of CP over the past few weeks.

Here's a clever and cute belly shot from Nov 23, 2008.

CP taking the infamous walk that simultaneously helped her breath more easily and put her in bed for several days due to back pain. This was over Thanksgiving, and luckily things have been back to "normal" for a while now.

Here's the belly dressed up like a silver Christmas ornament ball taken Dec 5, 2008.

Christmas in Spring.

Baby G's clever costume for Jeff's Christmas Party.

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: