Hotdog or Hamburger?

After much contemplation and peer/self pressure, Bobby and I decided to do a gender ultrasound (which you pay for) before our (free) 20week anatomy ultrasound (because 4 weeks is way too long to wait when you want to know if it's a he or a she). 

I've seen my fair share of ultrasounds and have gotten very, very good at knowing what's what.  So when the tech found the face, I knew "oh there's the face and he/she has his/her hands up by his/her face.  Awwww, so cute". 

The tech started moving her wand around to the legs and before she said it, my brain registered what I was seeing...

You don't have to squint to see it...(thank goodness or Bob would be sad)...

 

It's a BOY!

 

We are beyond excited, nervous, thrilled, elated, joyful, and still in shock.  This is a girl house.  I don't know a thing about boys...

 

We're a having a BOY!

 

Yahoo!!

Easter 2013

We've been gardening A LOT! 

I can't believe how grown up she looks.

Gorgeous Piper in her beautiful Easter dress from G-ma and G-pa.  Pip's favorite thing about Easter was wearing her new sparkly shoes.  She called them her glass slippers. 

I finally got a shot of B wearing her Easter dress from Oma and Opa.  When she sees the camera go up, she immediately scrunches up her face and says "cheese!" I love that scrunchy face.

 

A quick glimpse before she takes off...again

This is a typical shot of B.  Always running away, check out those curls.

We had a fun cook-out with our friends, dyed Easter eggs (Boo eventually took every egg and ate it), and then went on the easiest egg hunt in our flat, un-landscaped backyard.  Each year, the concept of holidays is made more clear, but P still doesn't "get" or care about hunting for eggs.  She's tickled pink with 1 egg.  Now B- she gets egg hunting and found quite a few.  It's funny how different they are.

Color Me Rad Houston (aka my last race before Lil'Bean gets here)

A few months back long before I was pregnant, I signed Ms. L and I up for a fun 5k "Color Me Rad".  I ran it back in September in Colorado and had so much fun I wanted to do it again.  Well, in between signing up and the race day, I found myself pregnant with Lil' Bean.  I already backed out of one race, but Bob and I both felt that this race was easy, fun, and noncompetitive so it wouldn't be too stressful to run it 4months pregnant. Plus, it would be a fun way to exit the world of competitive racing and training. 

We arrived just in time to use the restroom and line up for our wave.  We positioned ourselves fairly close to the front so we could get out of the gate quickly, but it was a madhouse.  We maintained a really good pace and got lots of color sprayed and thrown at us.  I think I ended up looking more rainbow-ish than I did at the first race.  We finished in about 27/28minutes which is pretty darn good for my pregnant body. 

While I'm sad that I won't be "training"  for anything, I'm still running 3 miles roughly 3 times a week.  Some weeks, I do only 2 days of running and the rest of the days I walk 3 miles.  But, I'm out there still moving my feet. 

all clean before the race

and after the race

Since I can't, shouldn't, and won't jump while pregnant I looked a bit silly dancing around throwing powder all over us

Crossing the finish line, together no less.  I think this is the first time Latsamy and I have a crossed together. Grateful that she stuck by me or I would've let my brain tell me to stop

Lil' Bean and Momma.  Wonder if he/she is going to be a runner?

Grateful to have my cheering team at every race!

This little fan, missed her momma

Goodbye, racing season 2013 I have a baby to grow.  See you in 2014...

 

"Finish Running"

Zoo-less Zoo Trip

Over Spring Break a few weeks ago, my friend and I decided to take a road trip to the zoo.  We packed lunches, loaded up the mini van, and drove in record time to downtown.  Everything was going smoothly until the zoo exit.  We waited in stopped traffic for over 30minutes before even seeing the entrance to the zoo.  Guess the entire city had the same idea we had, as everyone and their dog, grandmother, and kitchen sink were going to the zoo.  It was a zoo to get to the zoo.  After missing every opportunity to get into the lane where the parking garages were, we decided that the zoo might not be worth it- the line to get into the zoo was insane and we could only imagine what it looked like inside.  So we drove to one of my favorite parks that we used to come to when we lived in the city and ate lunch.  The kids played for about an hour.  We contemplated whether or not to return to the zoo and decided that we'd drive by it and see if things had calmed down.  NOPE, we were wrong.  We apologized to the kids and drove home for ice cream and playing the sprinklers.

Who needs to go to the zoo to see animals in cages?

It's crazy to think that the last time we played at this park, B was still a baby. 

Yes, she's screaming for me to take her off of the monkey bars.  But wait! Mom has to get a picture first.

Sprinkler fun!  Way better than the zoo anyday.