Sugar and Spice

The verdict is in. We are having a girl. This is actually not a surprise to us at all. We were both pretty confident from day one that this baby was going to be a girl. Although if the ultrasound is a glimpse into the future then we are in trouble for two reasons. First, this is one active child. I have felt movement since week four. I am not exaggerating. About every two weeks I could feel rolling and sometimes actually see my stomach move from the baby moving around. Since week 16 the movement has not stopped. I don't think she sleeps. Second, she is very stubborn. When it was time for the nurse to determine the sex of this baby all she found was two little legs wadded up under the bum. For 10 min the nurse did everything she could to get this baby to uncross her legs. She tried different angles, poking the baby through my belly, wiggling my belly, but this child refused to show us the money shot. So finally I got up, did some squats and bounced around and the Dr came in to give it a whirl. Not only had out little girl decided to move her legs but she had her feet up by her ears as if to say "fine, is this what you wanted to see?"

Staying Busy

We have lived here for almost a year and we are still finding great new places to explore. We finally made it to the Udvar Harvey Museum. It is part of the National Air and Space Museum by the Dulles Airport. In Chris's words "that is where they keep the cool stuff." Even though I'm not a big plane fan it was still pretty amazing and a little crazy to be inside surrounded by full size planes and other aircraft's.


Behind Cordon and Chris is the space shuttle Enterprise. That thing is pretty massive.


It's a bad picture but behind my boys is "Jetfire" from Transformers 2


Last week Cordon and I spent a day at the State Museum. They have a great room for kids crammed full of hands on discovery things. I think his favorite part was the 'garden'. You could plant corn, harvest lettuce and pick apples off of trees.




Cordon driving his newly picked produce to the market. The car doesn't actually move but it sure does make a lot of noise.

Cordon attended his first birthday party. He did pretty much what we thought he would, took off running and ignored the other kids. He is getting better. If he is familiar with a place then he is calm and will actually attempt to socialize. If it's a new place then he has to explore everything so he can try to process this new experience. Usually after about 10 min he starts to relax and slow down but since this party kept changing with new kids showing up and different games coming out, it kept Cordon wound up the whole time. This picture cracks me up because it is a perfect description of Cordon. The pinata burst open and all the kids made a mad dash for the candy, even the other toddlers. Cordon stood back and watched for a minute, trying to process the situation, then took off running to find something else to look at. He couldn't have cared less about the candy.



Now that it's spring we are getting some great rainstorms. This means some days are spent inside. One of Cordons therapist brought over this huge box for us. She found it at her office and figured Cordon would enjoy it. So I cut some windows in it and he has spent the last two days playing in his 'house'