Well...

Yesterday we got to see our little one via an ultrasound. There is no question about its gender:

This week in the Thomson House

We've had a long week of all being sick with colds. James started showing signs of being sick last week before Tracy returned home from Vancouver and then shortly after his return both he and I ended up sick. It made our weekend was pretty uneventful. Hopefully we can all recover soon and have some Halloween fun this week. The only good thing about being sick is James has been sleeping in till after 9 which means we have as well.

Before we all got sick, we did enjoy a Halloween BBQ at our complex. I won a bike lock from the raffle.

Saturday we ventured out for a little while and I made a final decision on what bike I want.

Isn't it a beauty?

 And Tracy's bike has spent a few days at the doctor getting tuned up and a couple of things fixed on it.
Then mostly we've just been trying to have fun at home.

Watching a movie and not feeling good.

I was taking a nap and then someone decided to come lay on my head.

I've been enjoying some real maple syrup Tracy brought me from Canada.
I'm the only one who likes pancakes.

This started out as a nice rail system, but then destruction hit.

James painting. He said he was painting a bad, bad bush and
the turkeys were hiding behind it. Maybe he'll be the next Bob Ross.
Only he need to start calling his bush a happy little bush.

I'm hoping we'll all be well enough for the rest of the week's activities. Tomorrow we have our ward's Trunk or Treat. Thursday, we have my ultrasound and then we'll find out which outfit we should get:

And then for the rest of the Halloween fun on Friday. It will be fun to take James around, even though he doesn't want to wear a costume.

It's Friday, well, Sunday

I started this post Friday, but never got it finished. It has been a tiring week.

We did have a great Saturday last week. We decided to head to San Francisco, which traffic wise turned into a bit of a mistake. Apparently, there was an air show that day in the city. After fighting to get around and find parking. We kind of gave up trying to get to the piers and went to the beach on the other side of the city instead. We enjoyed our sandwiches and the sights of the ocean.

Love these two!

We did eventually make it to Fisherman's Warf and enjoyed dinner at Boudin's. Then made the drive home. The day wasn't too bad. We got to see a lot of the cool San Francisco houses. We also happened upon the bad part of the city. Wow, what a sudden change. Now we know where not to go.

Sunday, I made a mistake and inflicted much pain to James. Lesson learned: Don't try to move the cat from one side of James to the other near his back.

It's does look worse than it really is, but the scratch that broke the skin is almost 1/2 a foot long.
 We learned that James has the same reaction as I do to cat scratches.
The wound swells, turns read and itches horribly.  

Monday, after a few week of getting insurance worked out, I had a doctor's appointment. It wasn't what I expected. Turns out every new prenatal patient at the clinic has to go through a counseling appointment. It's 2 hours of questions about your home, relationships and nutrition and go over all the dos and don'ts of pregnancy. Pretty much they are checking to see if you are being abused, have enough food to eat and a safe place to live. Ugh, I felt it was a waste of time and glad James wasn't with me. He would have hated it, but then again maybe he would have made the appointment shorter. I have to do another one in the third trimester. Probably will be about different things. Just glad I started near my half way point, so I only have to do it twice instead of three times.

Wednesday, I had my real doctor's appointment. The clinic uses mid-wives, unless you're high risk or have complications during birth. It is a different experience. My mid-wife was really great. She let James help her hold the doppler to listen to the baby's heart beat. He loved it. I also got my ultrasound scheduled for October 30th. Can't wait to find out if we're having a boy or a girl.

I'm still around the weight I was before getting pregnant. I had gained some weight before my morning sickness really kicked in and then lost it all between my first and second doctor's appointments in Riverside. Since moving I haven't gained anything, so I have to now gain at least a pound a week the rest of my pregnancy. It seemed like a daunting task because up till now I just haven't enjoyed eating. I can't eat more than toast and some fruit for breakfast, But the past couple of days I have been hungry almost all the time. Maybe it won't be so hard after all. And, maybe food is starting to be good again. Yay!

Even though my appointment went great I started missing my doctor in Riverside. I don't know maybe I'm weird, but I prefer male doctors. I'll just keep seeing how the mid-wife goes. I can always ask to see another one. It is just weird not completely loving a doctor right off. I've never had that happen before.

I also started getting home side for Riverside as the week has progressed. I didn't miss Salt Lake nearly as much as I am missing Riverside. Maybe it is because of hormones. Moving, getting settled and making new friends is rough.

Wednesday evening, we went to dinner with Tracy and his new school mates. Dinner was great and nice to meet some of the people Tracy will be going to school with.

It's a blurry picture, but James is cute as always.

Thursday, we met Tracy for lunch at a place called Roo's Cafe. This cafe has an indoor playground. Awesome! James played and played and we got a nice lunch in peace. Don't worry he did eat too. We also enjoyed some Frozen Yogurt. Discovered Yogurtland had closed. :( I also didn't take any pictures of our outing. :(

Friday, Tracy had an early flight. He was off to a conference.  So, 5 am we all piled into the car and dropped him off at the airport. An hour later James and I arrived back home. I gave him the options of getting in bed with me or going back to his bed. He chose his bed and slept till 9:30 and so did I.
I don't know if we ever got our full energy for the day. Later that afternoon we were still pretty tired and James just laid on the couch for a bit.

Saturday, we hung out, grocery shopped, cleaned and played. I love spending time with my cute little guy.

A clean table must mean it is ok to be climbed on and played on....
for spinning.
(I got video of the spinning, but it is on my phone.)

James also painted. I bought him a pumpkin and told him he could paint it if he wanted.
His exact words, "My pumpkin is orange, so I have to paint it orange."
(Haha, got to love his OCD.)

We talked to Tracy on the phone today. James loves talking to daddy on the phone. He always pretends to talk to him on his play phone. As we were saying our goodbyes James kissed my phone to give daddy a kiss. It was incredibly cute. He said I had to give daddy a kiss too, so I did.

Well, it is past bed time. Morning will come fast and I get to go to the dentist tomorrow. yay.....:(

School has Started

School officially for Tracy on Monday. Saturday, we headed for the beach to enjoy one last day before school began.

We forgot the camera, so we had to make due with our phone cameras.

James loves playing in the sand.

And he eventually headed to play in the water.

 After playing at the beach, Tracy decided we needed some chocolate, so we made our way to SF.

We got stuck in SF traffic, saw lots of hippies at the Golden Gate Park and got a bunch of yummy chocolate from Ghirardelli.

Tracy has been debating all week on whether to head back to SF or to Lake Tahoe this weekend. It will be fun to see where we end up tomorrow.

I've been trying to get more into a routine. Decided Mondays were a good day to go to the park. James really loves the park, so I'm thinking of going at least 2 or 3 times a week. We went Monday and we went today. He had a blast as always.

Monday, I also took him on a lunch date. It had been a while since we've done one of our lunch dates. It was fun. We went to the exotic Target for lunch and did some shopping. I got some good deals on a few maternity clothes and James got a new pair of pants and a couple new toys. I had left my list at home, so we ended up back at Target yesterday doing more shopping. James had actually begged me both Tuesday and Wednesday to go back, so he was pretty happy that I actually took him back. He loves to play in the toy section. LOL! I have spent way too much money this week at Target, so we probably won't be going back anytime soon.

He told me that he really wanted this toy. 

Tracy has been contemplating what to do for his Ph.D project. He now has a pretty good idea what he'll be working on. Just now have to work on some of the logistics of it. It sounds like a pretty good project and I'm kind of excited to see it all come together in the next few years and what he'll discover.
He's been pretty busy on other stuff too. Last week he submitted another paper to a publisher, so we'll see if they accept it and publish it in their journal. He has another one in the beginning process, so soon he could have 2 papers waiting to be published. Next weekend he'll be heading to the Geological Society of American Annual Meeting where he'll do a presentation on his Master's Thesis. And Wednesday, he scheduled to do a presentation March 18th for the Southern Chapter of the Utah Friends of Paleontology. I had a good laugh when he told me about that one. Apparently it didn't cross his mind that my due date is March 12th. We'll be playing that by ear. He may not be able to do it.

That's what we've been up to this past week. Hope you all have had a great week.

My Little Artist

James has started showing a huge interest in painting recently. Just about every day he is begging me to let him paint.

He used up all his water colors in about 3 days.

I found this sun catcher at the dollar store Tuesday and I managed to get him to wait till Wednesday to paint it.

Today we were downtown looking at bikes and came across an art supply store. Tracy immediately said we had to go in it and get James some painting supplies.

He had a great time painting this evening with his new supplies.

And we can't forget the masterpiece he did while being babysat in August.

Hopefully we can keep feeding this interest. Maybe James will be the next Picasso or Monet.