Boys vs. Girls

So in case you were wondering why I have been looking like I went to Las Palapas too many times, I am pregnant. Yesterday we had our ultrasound to check up on the baby and of course find out what color of clothes to buy. I told Jacob and Merry that I would bring balloons to school to tell them if it was a girl baby or boy baby. Blue for boy and pink for girl. They both seemed pretty excited about the balloons.
On Tuesdays I pick up Jacob first, so I tied the balloons to Grace and we walked over to meet him. All Jacob said was, "What are the balloons for Mom?" He totally didn't remember our conversation from that morning. It is like I am talking to mini Brian.
Any way we then went to Merry's preschool. Merry saw me coming from across the playground and started running in circles saying, "We're having a boy baby, we're having a boy baby." Then she ran and told all the teachers. All I can say is thank goodness I have little girls to get excited with me (not that we don't love boys at our house).
So we are having a little boy sometime in March, hopefully after spring break.

Halloween

Jacob went as Robin Hood.
It only took going to 7 stores to find his bow and arrow.

Gracie was a bat.

This is how fairies style their hair according to Merry.

This is the box we decorated for Merry's preschool party. I have no idea whose legs are in the picture but she will be immortalized on my blog forever.

All about Grace at 18 months

Disclaimer notice- please excuse the slightly blurry images. I had this grand plan to take Gracie's pictures in the yellow flowers but when we finally got around to actually taking them they were in the process of mowing them all down. So we had to drive around to find another place with yellow flowers by that time it was nice and dark and since I have an aversion to the flash and my camera does not do well with high ISOs all my images are slightly blurry. Maybe we will have to try again before all the yellow flowers are gone.

Grace collected flower's in her little flower pot.

Grace loves dress-up shoes, playing outside, coloring (mostly with pen or marker on herself)
and reading books. She is definitely a daddy's girl and like him to rock-a-bye her.
Her vocabulary includes important words like shoes and sucker.
It is hard to believe she has grown so big.
To see Grace in her flower pot as a baby click below
http://genho-stott.blogspot.com/2008/05/which-birth-announcement.html

FHE gone awry

What started out as painting pumpkins,

some how ended in painting Grace

No babies were harmed during the activity,

but some small children were flicked on the head.

Halloween preview part 1

I found a little fairy in my garden.
She is sort of a bossy fairy who said she did not want to wear a big flower in her hair on Halloween. She told me fairies have hair that goes straight up into a spike. I have never seen that before maybe we will try it on Halloween

I still can't decide

Hmm, I don't know if I am a regular old color gal or a texture, vintage wash gal. Decisions, decisions. I guess it really does not matter as the pictures will sit on my hard drive and probably never be printed.

Pumpkin Patch

We briefly visited the pumpkin patch to get pumpkins for the the urns on my front porch. I could not find 2 matching pumpkins so now I have 1 full urn and 1 empty urn, I guess I will have to carry my 25lb pumpkin to another pumpkin patch to match it.Grace liked the pumpkins but she loved the scarecrows. She kept telling them hello every time we walked passed one.

My what big warts you have.

I really don't know why Jacob wanted to wear a cowboy hat, backwards of course.