More baby pictures

Here are some more pictures of the little one.   This little, 7.3 cm creator inside me is what has been making me feel so queasy and tired lately. (Or as my coworker put it, no wonder I've looked so peaked lately.)  Not to mention, huge!  Everyone keeps telling me it will get better now that I'm going into the second trimester, I hope their right!  I'm ready to get some energy back so I can start making things!

Here for your viewing pleasure, are some more pictures:
I like this one because you can see the face better--check out that little nose.  I hope s/he gets Juan's nose!

And here s/he is facing forward.  You can see the hands and feet.  It was amazing, during the sonogram we could see the fingers move!

This one is the hardest to make out, but baby is facing down here.  You can see the spine along the back and the size of the head compare to the rest of the body.  Isn't it so incredible?  It's all there, just really really small.

Thanks for all of the congratulations!  We're so excited and we'll keep posting updates as they come.  

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After a long, and sometimes painful, wait, we have some very exciting news to share.  

Here is a photo of our little one at 13 weeks, taken this morning.  I will post the rest tomorrow. 

The sight of a new heart beating filled me with the unexpected feeling of certainty.  For many years, the right time seemed so distant tainted by the anticipation of the demands a new life would bring.  But when the time came, all fears dissipated.  What seemed a prerequisite (job security, a college fund, and the like) soon took the backstage, surpassed by a stronger, primal imperative:  l’élan vital. 

How to become a guitar hero

1.  Buy a guitar, or borrow one for the occasion

2.  Strum a short sequence of chords resembling a children's song

3.  Wait for your nephew to follow with the adoration...

Produce

It seems to be the height of the summer produce season.  Here's a few picture of a few of the goods coming out of our garden.
  Radishes from earlier in the year.

Here are the beans.  Seriously, that was the total of the green beans.  The purple beans weren't ready to pick yet, so there are a few more still on the plants. That was the first of the zucchini, there have been a few more since then.  I think that will be the most productive of our plants. 

These are the beets.  Good thing we like beet greens, because the beets themselves were kinda small.  

Next year, better soil. 

Our Bloomin' Garden

My goal this year was to have squash blossoms from my garden, it looks like we'll have some of those and a few more.

These squash blossoms really got my imagination going.   No, I wasn't thinking about stuffing them and frying them.  I thought these first two looked like two ballet dancers, backstage.

And this one, the long fingers of an old lady in a monster movie.

California Dreamin': Baby steps

And visit with the babes...

Natanael, running,

Aiden, learning to walk,

Tatum, eating cheerios,

and Vayda.  Sleeping in my sweatshirt,

chewing on Uncle Cereal's ear,

playing with Oma and mama, 

and helping me blog.

California Dreamin': In between celebrations

I got to...


see Sam off to prom (so pretty),

See the Padres play the Diamondbacks,

in the dugout,

with cake... (good thing it wasn't the 17 inning game that followed a few nights later),

Visit Glen Ivy (no photos please),

See Patches, again (always a treat),

Play, Rock Band, Scrabble, Bowling, wii Bowling...

and

Spend time with my sweet family.