First Birthday

It's so hard to believe that my baby turned one already!!  Daddy & Mommy both took the day off work to celebrate.  We had a wonderful photo shoot at JC Pennys' (SUCH great pics - note to self:  must scan an post...).  During the session he had a little smash cake that lived up to it's name.  He is definitely an icing-holic, and loved the cupcake that Grandma made him to celebrate.  He opened a few presents from Mommy & Daddy, Grandma & Grandpa, and Aunt Ellen & Uncle Nate.  We saved the rest for the big party over the weekend. 

 Aunt Ellen & Uncle Nate send the coolest books!  This one is about Leppos (i.e. tractors).

 What can I say - he's a reader like Grandma & Mommy!



Big Movement in Week 30

Week 30 has been pretty exciting and we're only two days in! Peanut is more and more active every day, and his movements are so visible and so cool to feel. He'll kick or punch back now if you put just a little pressure on where he's moving around. You can actually feel little heels now. It's pretty amazing!!! Being so short-torsoed it's getting kind of uncomfortable, but he seems to find a lot of room to move around in!

It's hard to believe that he could be here in less than 10 weeks! I'll feel better when his furniture gets in and we've registered at the hospital!

Christmas pics 2009

We finally got around to taking our Christmas pictures and will send out our cards just (barely) before Christmas this year. These are our two favorites.

This is our card this year. There is a little Peanut belly, and although Sonya did not cooperate (we used the timer on the camera so there was no one to call her to look), we liked our smiles the best.







This one has a lot more Peanut belly, but didn't feel as genuine. We're definitely pleased with our new camera's performance!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Vist from Grandma Kath & 28 week appointment

Kathy came to visit us for a few days since I can't get home for the holidays. We had a wonderful visit - we did some shopping, baked cookies and went to Peanut's 28 week appointment. While we didn't get an ultrasound like we had hoped for for her visit, she did get to hear his heartbeat. That was pretty exciting! :)

She & John were so wonderful and got us our Peanut rocker. Joe took a morning to put it together - his first "Daddy" assembly. He did a mighty good job!

Of course Sonya was a huge help in the process!

And they really enjoyed the fruits of their labor! In all honesty, Sonya has decided she is not a big fan of the rocking!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around the Palmer house. I love decorating for Christmas. Although we got rid of most of our decorations when we moved out here, my parents were nice enough to loan us their small tree and give me all of my ornaments from my childhood (we had a tradition of getting an ornament each year. I have all of them from 1978 through 1996, and then 2003 - 2008). We need to get our ornament for this year and we'll be official.

Joe got some Peanut Christmas pics too. He's definitely starting to run out of room in there! :)

Thanksgiving 2009

Due to my fibroid, we were unable to attend the normal Palmer Thanksgiving / Christmas / anniversary weekend this year. It ended up that Ryan, Anna & Caroline couldn't go this weekend either, so the family (minus me) will celebrate the week between Christmas and New Year's instead. We got a new computer with webcam so hopefully we can figure out how to Skype me in for the festivities.

Instead of Indy, we spent a great Thanksgiving with my parents here in Colorado. Joe practiced his camera skills more and was amazed at the pics he could get of the flowers we brought over. We were going to get Doug the normal "inside the turkey" picture but the stuffing was in and the bird was cooking when we got to my parents'. Sorry Doug! :)



Miss Sonya enjoyed being with her grandpa again. He had been traveling so she'd been neglected for a while. Check out her happy smile!!

Of course she played so hard that she needed a little cat nap. Notice her bottle of "paw-lish".

Week 24 Update

I can't believe we're already to week 24! We had another appointment with Dr. Bozeman today. No ultrasound, but we did get to hear his heartbeat. It's so exciting to hear!!! Dr. Bozeman said I'm measuring just right and everything was looking good. I had lost a lot of weight in the first few weeks, but finally had a gain this time. I'm still down about a half pound from where I started, but I'm definitely showing now and Peanut is doing well. We got to talk a little more about the friboid. Chances of pre-term labor are low, but scary if it happens. The only other side effect we really discussed was what he called "excruciating" pain. He explained that both Peanut and the fibroid will continue to grow, and I will eventually run out of room. That's not something I'm looking forward to, but he did say that it won't hurt Peanut and that's really what matters!!! We're hoping for a new ultrasound picture at the next appointment in December. :)