Happy Thanksgiving

Turkey is in the oven, despite the slow start this morning. We woke up late, 7:45am - very late for Xavi, and then he had to play with his favorite new toy: Play-Doh! He can spend so much time playing with it - it's great. We'll have to get him molds and other accessories soon. Right now he uses his own. Like his butt to flatten the play-doh...ok, he did see me do it once. But I put it under a book first.
Or his feet as a mold.

This is rare, to just sit there and stare at it, but when he asks me to make him something - like this kitty in "cutie position", he just looks at it for a while ...before squashing it!


It's been hard to post because we've been so busy. Xavi's daycare is closing soon and to avoid too many changes/disruptions close to his sister's birth we're starting him at the new school on Monday. And compared to his daycare, this feels like a real school. There will be about 12 kids in the class of 2-3 year olds and will be in a fantastic looking classroom. We're excited, but a little worried about the transition. Not to worry Sarai will be joining him a little later - in early January.

More Halloween Fun

Here's how the night began. Lots of screaming and crying. More screaming.

At this point I realized I never put the battery back in the camera! I was trying to be super organized and not forget anything for this night.
Once we got out into the streets it got better. Though he didn't really understand what was going on at first. Once Xavi realized people were dropping candy in his bucket he was VERY happy!

Things only got better from there. Notice how absorbed the kids are in their candy!

Halloween

Xavi has been sick all week so the beginning of the night didn't start off so well - lots of protests and crying. He finally agreed to stay in the monkey costume because Sarai was wearing hers. They were both monkeys and thank god for that! I really doubt he would have stayed in it if he hadn't seen her in one also. He loved being a monkey so much that he had to wear it again this morning. He chased his tail a bit, finally caught it and pulled himself by his tail.What a tumultuous relationship these two have!

Here's a short video. It's a little blairwitch because it was dark and I didn't realize I kept recording, but it gives you a sense of how much these two loved halloween. By the way they dind't say trick or treat. They yelled HALLOWEEN when they wanted candy. Then they sang it as they walked down the street. In this video you can hear them both a bit, but I may be too loud because the camera was around my neck!

It's a GIRL!

The top one is her profile in the type of ultrasound picture I'm used to seeing. The one below is 3D...the right hand side of the picture is her face with her fist by her cheek. This was taken while she was burying her face in the placenta like it was a pillow (we saw that in 3D!) - she seemed to be trying to get comfortable and go to sleep. Sure enough after this she turned her back to the technician and couldn't be woken up to turn back around. The technician was trying to get pictures of her heart from the top down - so there would be no shadow from the ribcage or spine. Oh well, they had to go with what they had.