Rhymes with Swirl

We went for our 20 week ultrasound yesterday, and we are having a healthy, beautiful, baby GIRL!!!!!! I am so freaking excited that I can't stand it! When the doctor said that it was a girl, Mr. Slade's parents and my mom cheered so loudly that the people in the waiting room could hear us! Here name is going to be Evelynn, but on this blog I'll call her baby Slade. Toddler Slade was so excited...he keeps saying "I'm going to have a baby sister!" Too cute!

trucking along

I really hate that my blog entries are so sporatic and far between. I wish I had more time to blog, but it seems that Facebook is so much easier to keep connected with people and it doesn't seem to take as much time as writing an entry does. Oh well.

I am almost 5 months pregnant now; we will find out the sex of the baby this coming Thursday! We are so excited we can hardly stand it. EVERYone thinks it is a girl. And this is so bizarre to me because I wonder why...is it because they want me to have a girl, or because I already have a boy, or do I look like I'm carrying a girl. When I ask why they think that, most say that they just "have a feeling." I will be happy either way....just be healthy, my little one!

Here are some pics! Hope to make the next entry not so far away!

Do I hear the pitter patter of...

Baby Slade number 2 is on the way! I am now 9 weeks pregnant, and if I was brave enough I'd post a picture of my belly. But seeing as how I am showing A LOT earlier this time, I don't want to read any of the following comments even though they'd be completely warranted:

OH MY GOSH

What do you mean you're only 9 weeks?

Are you sure you're not having twins?

You must have just eaten a huge lunch.

That's funny, you look just like you did when you were 5 months pregnant with baby Slade #1


We are soooo excited, quite euphoric really. Toddler Slade is already giving me lots of baby belly love. He likes to sing to my tummy and give the baby imaginary presents. It melts my heart.

a beach tale

Recently we went to the beach and we had left our faux tire float by our lounge chairs overnight. Everyone on the beach left their floats and sand buckets on the beach. The next morning, the float was gone. It must have JUST blown away because I could see it fairly close to the shore floating in the water. But by the time I reached the water's edge, it had blown way too far out for me to reach it. I felt horribly guilty because being the hippy that I am, I just knew that I had contributed to the death of many dolphins and their babies.
But Lo! What is that in the distance? A boat? It seems it is headed straight for the float! Perhaps no dolphins must die today! Hooray! The boat is slowing down. It is stopping. A man in the boat is picking up the float out of the water!!! YAY! All is right in the world again! There are actually people who care about the environment. I am jumping up and down with glee, right there on the shore. Wait....what's this I see?? Did he just....no...did he just inspect the float and then toss it back into the ocean? Why are they driving away? I stop jumping. I guess flipper will suffocate today.

Slade is 2!

Baby Slade is no longer a baby! He is now officially toddler Slade. And I have to tell you, he is AMAZING and brilliant. I know that every mom is bias, but seriously, my kid is a freaking genius. He can count to 13. He can say the ABCs and recognizes A, B, S, T, and O. He knows all of his colors. He is speaking in incredibly long sentences full of correct verb tense, articles, and pronouns. He is going to be something in this world; mark my words!

And oh, the love...the love the love the love....never have I felt this kind of love. Surely it can only come from God.

he finally did it

Mr. Slade bought a Wii. I haven't seen a grin like this in a long time.

wish I could write about it

There are so many things going on in my life right now that I wish desperately to blog about, but there are too many people who know me and who read my blog that I can't write about the things that I really want to get out....does that make sense? I have seriously been contemplating starting up a blog where I'm totally anonymous. No one I know will have the address. Have any of you done this? It's not that I'm trying to be mysterious....I'm anything but that. I just need to get some things out, but I don't want anyone I know reading it. What do you think?