florida vacay

so little guy had lost of “firsts” this past week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

first time on an airplane.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

first time on the beach, which didn’t work out too well. (fat sweaty baby + sand and salt water = not so awesome) harry didn’t care so much, it was mostly his mama that cared. but doesn’t he look super cute in his fedora and plaid swim trunks??

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

first time on a really long road trip. you can tell how well that went by the look on my face. yeah it was going awesome.

 

yep we went to fort walton beach, FL with the Fabrizio fam and my little sissy Sarah. it was really fun and the beach was gorg. Sarah helped so much with little guy in the car and took some beautiful pics:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

see? beautiful right?

it was a great week and it was really fun to hang out with my sissies and those other yahoos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

see what i mean?? yahoos.

seriously every cute picture that us girlies tried to take, there was a monster in the background always trying to mess it up. we did manage to get some cute ones though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

aww, we love eachother. if you look closely at the one of sarah and i, you can see that i had to photoshop donny’s stinkin’ head out of the picture. here:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

there is (or should i say “are”? i am never sure)… there is/are a lot more pictures and a lot more stories to tell. but i’m sure grandparent’s heads are about to explode from all the picture-y goodness in this post. i will let you digest this one and i’ll be back with more later.

mini road trip

it’s official. Harry hates being in his car seat. I’ll let the videos explain.

mini road-trip take one from Mary McAllister on Vimeo.

mini road-trip take two from Mary McAllister on Vimeo.

on our way home he started freaking out so I sat in the back with him. we thought maybe some soothing music would calm him down. nope. only made him more frantic. we decided to give a fast song a try. so james and i whipped out our a cappella version of “bohemian rhapsody”. yes, you can only imagine. he loved it. we spared him from hearing more a cappella songs from his crazies (james and i) and just turned on my ipod. we played such songs as “how bizarre” “dancing queen” “good vibrations” “jesse’s girl” “where do you go my lovely”. (yes, i admit to having all of these gems stashed on my ipod). he loved all of them. here’s “how bizarre” as it was playing. you can tell that i really know the lyrics well. good thing Harry doesn’t mind.

mini road-trip take three from Mary McAllister on Vimeo.

and did you notice that Harry is wearing a different outfit on the way home? yeah, he spit up and it went all the way down to his feet and came out of the bottom of his pants. poor little guy! don’t worry, we gave him a bath as soon as we got home.

ah adventures.

party on.

it stinks that these pictures are blurry, but i’m still in love with them.

holy crap this makes me laugh (obviously)

cutest trick ever! from Mary McAllister on Vimeo.

i’ve been told its time.

i know i haven’t updated in over a month a long time . i don’t even feel a little bit bad about it either. my time (and energy) have been being spent on a much more important duty. my beautiful baby boy. and boy is he beautiful.

he is 13 weeks old and weighs 14 pounds. yeah… he loves to eat. he loves to play with his daddy and kick his legs in the bath. he likes to go on walks and he loves being outside. he is so strong. we swaddle him at night and every time i go to get him, he has his arms out. sometimes he even manages to get the blanket completely off his body. i don’t know how he does it because we wrap him up tight.he loves to snuggle with us. especially his daddy.  

He was given his baby blessing on March 6, 2011 by James and it was beautiful. 

He loves to kick it no-pants style.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

he thinks he’s got it rough as a baby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yeah, i work him pretty hard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and here’s one last one. i just think it’s freakin awesome.

Happy Valentines day

life-consuming

here’s a quick picture summary (with a few comments) of what has been consuming our lives for the past few months:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Giants win the world series!! James has been a fan forever. He turned me into a die-hard fan. I even watched a game by myself while he was working. I know! Fear the Beard!

And my face and the rest of my body continues to balloon out in all directions. (See following pictures… and previous picture.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was reading a blog that said stripes are great camouflage for a pregnant belly. I don’t think my striped shirt was hiding anything.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What do you think? And some of my favorite little girlies came up with the perfect hiding spot for their little toys in my cowl neck shirt. They called it a swing. I love them.

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And finally… the nursery. There are a few more things that I’d like to add, but at least the little buster is going to have a gorgeous place to rest his head at night. Yeah, I’m totally bragging. So what? I made the bedding, thankyouverymuch. It was frustrating, tedious work but so worth it in the end. You like?

(ps- I don’t know who I’m referring to when I ask “you” questions in my posts)

 

10 more weeks.

i’ve made it to 30 weeks. this pregnancy has really thrown me for a loop.  i’ve pretty much had anything and everything in the sickness department. people from church have thought we’ve moved because we haven’t been in so long. no we haven’t moved. not for at least another year. little buster is doing just fine. he is growing and taking whatever he needs from me. i am more than happy to give him whatever he desires. as long as he is doing awesome, i can deal with anything. and he is doing awesome.

i have had some major fun in the past few months too. james and i went to hawaii and it was the trip of a lifetime. it was the perfect last hurrah before our worlds are turned upside down and change forever. i also snuck in a quick trip to houston to see my sissy and her beautiful family. james has officially quarantined (is that a word?) me to west texas. i guess i’m to the point where i really shouldn’t be traveling.

little buster loves to move. i think his favorite past-time will be dancing (inside joke). i have a super awesome waddle. i get weird looks all the time from old ladies. why is it always the old ladies? i think they still think i’m 15. oh well.

quick thought

i know i haven’t updated in forever, but i just had a quick funny. ya know what’s super fun? having to go to the grocery store, by yourself, while being huge and pregnant, and having to buy an enema. just picture that.

will it never end??

today i went to the bookstore. i got to the check-out counter and the cashier asked me if “my family” had a membership card. maybe it was due to the fact that my shoulders are barely higher than the counter, or that i still have a pizza face. but people are constantly mistaking me for a teenager. i wanted to say something like, “you mean do my mommy or my daddy have a membership card?” instead, i made sure that my ring was in plain sight when i swiped my card and that i added a little extra pregnancy waddle to my walk when i left the store.

i guarantee the cashier was thinking “where on earth are her parents?”

it’s another sunday evening all by myself. at least now i have a little companion who enjoys doing acrobatics in my tummy. especially at night. what’s the deal with that? i can’t complain though, i absolutely love it.

i am 22 weeks along now. feelin’ pretty awesome. steadily expanding. the shirt i am wearing in these pics used to be really long on me. now it is practically a belly shirt. sweet.

i love how diplomatic my doctor is when he tells me i’ve gained (maybe a little more than is  truly necessary) weight. just tell me i’m chubby and i’ll tell you i’m growing a human and then neither one of us will feel uncomfortable. maybe you will actually, just a little.

i love being pregnant now that i’m not sick anymore. i just have to keep this little guy fed and we are both happy campers.

as promised.

there ya have it, my ever-expanding body. james is obsessed with feeling my belly. i think he’s excited or something. my dad likes to ask me which side is pregnant, like my belly or my butt. he gets a big kick out of telling me that my butt is getting pregnant too. such a gentleman.

despite my silly remarks about getting fatter, i have been feeling really good. i am now 20 weeks along and i think me and the little buster have figured out how to keep each other comfortable. or at least comfortable enough to keep food down (for the most part).

so if you haven’t heard, we are having a baby boy. i don’t know how you couldn’t have heard about it, what with james practically screaming it from the rooftops. we went in for an ultrasound before i left for utah and our little man was definitely not being shy. he seemed determined to show us that he was indeed a boy. james was on cloud nine.

oh yeah, my trip to utah. it was so much fun. i had such a good time just hangin’ out with my family. we talked, and laughed, and ate good food, and went swimming, and shopping, and to late night movies, and took long naps, and didn’t take any pictures. i know, i know, i’m usually such a good picture taker. i was too busy this trip with family stuff.

how i long for the days that i can drop by unannounced at my parent’s house. where i can sit right in the grass and not have to worry about getting eaten alive by creepy crawlies. this brings me to my next update.

back in may, james applied for an air traffic control position in salt lake. we have been waiting (and waiting) to hear anything. finally a few weeks ago, james got a phone interview. it was more like a quiz, with no personal questions at all. we were both worried. we pray every night to have the opportunity to live by our families and raise our children by their grandparents. yesterday james received a phone call. he was (tentatively) offered a position in salt lake starting september 2011. so if everything goes according to plan, it looks like we will be moving home next year. of course this is bittersweet for us both. we have loved living in midland and the lifelong friends that we’ve made here. at least we still have a whole year to live it up down here in west texas.

i am completely aware that i have been M.I.A. for almost a month now. i have been sick. then the sickness (mostly) stopped in time for my trip to utah. i have many updates to share i.e. my ever-expanding body, pictures of delicious babies, and our current "limbo" status might be changing for good. stay tuned...

decisions

when sneezing, i can choose to:

a) pee a little,

b) hold the pee in which usually results in a sharp-shooting round ligament cramp, or

c) try to hold in the pee, unsuccessfully, and still get a round ligament cramp

either outcome produces the same response from me: “aw crap!”