O.V.

Mia, Bucca, Aunt Haley, Aunt Quinny, Uncle Dave and Kennedy came to visit us in Texas -decided we looked like we needed some R. and R.- and took us O.V.- On Vacation, that is.

So, without much argument, south we headed to Port Aransas, TX.

We went incognito and tried our best to not get too involved in keeping up with work...I, in particular, did a good job, but I caught even mommy and daddy without their cell phones once or twice and maybe, just maybe, even napping on the beach!

We had lots of fun for a long weekend and got the chance to discover a neat little hippy beach town just a few hours south of where we've been for the last five years and spend some quality time together!

Hooray, hooray, today is my day!

I'm 2, let me through...I'm off and away!

Momma and Dadda golf-carted me over to Kemah to celebrate the beginning of the terrible twos! We had lots of fun- we played in the dancing water, we rode the cho-cho, the carousel...

(which did not have 'cows' and that was seriously disappointing...)

watched the sting rays (no way in hell was I gonna stick my hands in there like Momma and Dadda thought I would) I was quite content to be behind the glass...had dinner 'out' followed by some classic 'birthday cake' ice-cream

and came home and opened presents! I had lots of wonderful things to open from mommy and daddy as well as Zara, Tia, Grammy and Grandmimi! Thank you so much for all the wonderful gifts!

What a great day to be two!

Happy Birthday to ME!!!!

Can you believe they closed the city offices for my birthday!?! I am that important!

While I have Mommy busy downloading all the pictures from my numerous birthday parties, I wanted to be sure she at least put up something indicating that I am in fact 2 now- terrible and all!

Momma's Day at the Beach

Daddy took Momma, the portuguese and I to the beach for Mother's Day!

It was the perfect way to spend the day! We got some quality time together in the sand...some of us deeper than others...

We somehow neglected to take a snap-shot of mommy and me, but we got lots of me anyway...I offered to share the blog for the next few months, not outright give it to her ;-)

A big sister?!? Oh boy!

We are very excited to announce that Blayne will be a big sister...to a little brother!

These are a few sneak peaks at our little boy as he cooks. We went for an 18 week ultrasound on May 12th where we, of course, also learned the sex of our little critter. Everything looks good and in line with a projected due date of mid-October...somewhere between the 9th and the 14th, depending on who you ask. Momma predicts he will come a little early (don't we always?) and Daddy remembers waiting an excruciating 12 days with a very pregnant, very anxious mother to be...so we'll have to wait and see.

Here is the man-proof, for any doubters (...nothing like having your naked pictures plastered on the internet before you're even born ;-) Poor kid, but I suppose he'll have to get used to it...

Ms. Blayne will most likely have to start sharing her blog with mommy for the next few months as we watch her expanding belly, to be followed shortly with the challenge of sharing EVERYTHING else.

We are also excited to announce that we have in fact chosen a name for our second bundle of joy:

Caden James

We figured since we wanted to know the sex, we might as well get him named and start aclimating ourselves and Ms. Blayne to his presence!