Announcement!

I can finally post this on our blog: I'm pregnant! 14 weeks along today, the baby is due February 7th. We'll find out the gender around the end of September. I have been feeling pretty amazing for being pregnant. I get nauseated occasionally, usually when I eat too much or go too long without eating, and I definitely am more tired. I'm also more prone to motion sickness than I used to be. The only time I've thrown up is when we were driving on really windy roads in New Mexico. That's really good compared to when I was pregnant with Cora; I threw up once a day for two weeks, and several times a week before and after that period. I'm now in my second trimester, and feeling great!

We were either on vacation or had visitors for the entire month of July, so that's why I'm way behind on posting. I will hopefully post more soon! But this next week is extremely busy, so it might be a little while.

Toodles!

Videos and pictures

Cutie on the potty! Almost every diaper change, she asks to use the potty. It's pretty cute! She loves sitting on it and gets very excited when she does a peepee. She knows when she's going, too. I haven't started officially potty training her yet--trying to get her to go only in the potty--but I'll start soon. Considering how much she likes the potty, I'm hoping it won't be too difficult.

Here's Cora enjoying our first harvest! I planted beans, squash, peppers, basil, chives, and parsley back in early April, and one bean finally matured enough to pick! We also have a squash that's close to being ready. We've kind of had some bad luck. All the parsley plants died when I transplanted them. I replanted a month ago, and none of them have come up. A caterpillar completely demolished two of my pepper plants and almost destroyed a third, but there were enough of the leaves left for it to keep growing. The squash said to plant five seeds, then thin to the three strongest, which we did. A few weeks later I decided to pluck out one more of them, because while we do like squash, we wouldn't eat THAT much. And then the next day one of the other plants inexplicably died, leaving only one. But that one is flourishing. It's been really fun to watch the plants grow. Cora loves to "wa pants" every morning.

Here are some new videos to watch! Enjoy! Now it's time for me to make dinner.

Singing "Teach Me to Walk in the Light"

"Reading"

Favorite Songs

If you like to hear Cora laugh