World, I would like you to meet...

Melody Valentine.




This one is not quite as cute, but you can totally see her mouth.




Right in the middle, that's a little foot.



I know I know, blurry images but really this is the picture with her heartbeat under it. You can also see her heart, but it's hard to see in the still shot.



Two reasons this one is wonderful... The first is it's in the new 3D imaging (which needs a little work but is quite cool) and the second would be little Melly holding up her hand as if to say "No more pictures"

It offical...

I'm having a baby girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The ultrasound was on Wednesday and it was lots of fun. I couldn't sleep I was so worried/excited about it. I kept having this dream about being lost in a mall and being late to the appointment. (You were in it Wendi) But dreaming aside, Mr. C and I were there in plenty of time. We sat in the waiting room until I had to really pee and then Mr. C sat alone until I got back. After that is was a quick trip to the ultrasound room where a very nice lady squirted very warm gel on my belly and we got to have a look at little Melody for the first time. Let me tell you, she was rockin out. I truly believe that she was having some kind of dance party in there... (Just like her mommy) The technician said that it was definitely a girl (and we have the picture to prove it) and that we were right on track for our delivery date of Nov 19th.

Wait a second here...

Nov 19th? Does anyone else remember me being given the due date of Dec 3rd?

Anyway, I will be posting pictures as soon as I can (hopefully on Saturday) and then everyone can see the true beauty that is my little hairless wookie.

You wanted more pictures?

This is second day, first weekend... Doing our best to look truly confused for the crowds.


I wanted fancy pretty hair... This was the beginning of two hours. (Ok so part of it was me laying on the floor trying not to faint)


This is Ann and I at Valhalla first weekend. (We had a few extras but really it's just us) Aren't we cute sitting under the trees?

What baby...

So I managed to 'borrow' this picture of us crazy kids in Valhalla (Tahoe). I think m favorite part of it is how I have completely hidden my belly from the camera. This was not me trying to do it either...

The Bear Story

As most of you know I was up in Tahoe for two weekends recently. One of the most exciting parts of the trip was all the talk of bears. The bears just wanted your food or food smelling soaps, the bears are getting more dangerous every year, the bears are mating so stay away... Well shoot. What am I supposed to do about bears?

I pitched my tent in quiet camp (all that sleep that my little alien needs me to get) and was very happily going along in my little world of believing that there really weren't bears they were all a figment of my imagination until the second weekend on Friday night... I woke up to flashlights flickering across the walls of my tent and lots of running feet. My still groggy mind hears "We have sited the bears" And then "Don't worry, I'm armed" Armed? As in with guns? Ok now I am freaking out. The walkie-talkies are going off the people are shouting... the bears are attacking!!! And what am I freaking out about? Oh my god, they are going to shoot my air mattress!!!

Then I hear "everyone stay in your tents" as if I would have even thought about getting out. Then they would have had a clear shot at my air mattress!

After most of the excitement has calmed down a friend of mine walks up to my tent and announces himself. He comes in and calmly shows me the gun he is carrying!!! What?!?!?!

What have we learned from all this? Don't bring your favorite air mattress to campgrounds with bears.

Tah.

Best toy ever!

So I got this blood pressure monitor at home. It's portable and quite possibly the coolest toy ever!!! I have been watching as my blood pressure swings up and down through my weeks of pregnancy. The highs: 137/87 The lows:well, I don't actually know as I keep getting error messages this morning and suspect that it is too low for the monitor to find... but other that the low has been 99/77 yah, that is really low. And actually more worrying than the higher one for me as high I know what happens when it's high (headaches and such) but the low makes me dizzy and possibly fall down to get hurt. So I'm a little concerned about that. However there was a complete connection to the low blood pressure and this awful cold that I am suffering through. I hate colds on a normal day but now the only thing I can do to feel better it take Tylenol and sudifed... no NyQuil, not DayQuil, none of that. It blows and I just need to get better so I can move on and stop coughing. Stupid cold. However it makes taking my blood pressure fun and exciting!

What else is going on? Well Valhalla faire was totally fun! Four days of singing, sleeping under trees, and getting in people's way. I am exhausted but had so much fun that I can't wait until the next faire...next month so that I have a whole month to recover from this cold. Ah, life is good.

This is how we roll.

Skeeter eater

So I am standing next to my tent at Tahoe and changing out of my faire garb into street clothes... I have managed to get a tank top on and a bra (go me) and was getting another shirt to put over it when a skeeter-eater comes flying right at me... And then it dive bombed my boobs!!! It went straight down my cleavage! I then did the panic dance of trying to get it out and pulling my shirt up and sweeping my hand down. After a few seconds the little bug flys out the bottom. I swear it was smiling. I have never been felt up by a bug before.