Ultrasound Numero Duo

Well, we had our 2nd ultarsound and everything continues to appear to be A-OK! Little Yostie wasn't quite so active but was (duh!) bigger than before. We got four pics this time of the child, and his/her legs were crossed the entire time so no sex guessing was possible! We saw the heart beating away, and could see all four chambers.

The pictures this time are of Little Yostie's upper body, his/her crossed legs, the feet and a profile. Cara thinks that Little Yostie is smiling and is aghast because s/he has her nose!

BTW if anyone wants, I scanned the images at a higher resolution than here and printed them using Black's, and if you want I can do that for you too. Email me for info.

Happy Birthday...

To Rowdy. He is 1 year old today, which officially means he is no longer a puppy :(

All he got was a new collar, as his old one was broken. We took him to Bruce Park again last night and he was fetching the ball thrown in the river with abandon. Man, can that dog ever swim! Here's a couple pictures of Rowdy for those who care...

The first picture was taken when I was painting the ceilings. It was a very cute picture, but Rowdy is not allowed on our couch! The second one was taken at Bruce Park, and Rowdy is in the Assiniboine River with a few dogs. The young Golden is Taco,l who was four months when the picture was taken

In other news... Ultrasound #2 is on Tuesday morning!

Movement...

Well last night I took Rowdy to the dog park and let Cara rest at home because she was incredibly tired, which has been more the norm lately.  We had a great time at the park.  Rowdy was fetching and swimming with abandon.

When I got home, Cara had some neat-o news.  It turns out that while she was feeling Little Yostie hoofiing away on her insides, she felt it from the outside.  Little Yostie loves milk and is always active within a few minutes of ingestion of the cow juice, so she saved a half glass for when I got home.  Cara drank it and he was active as expected.  After a few minutes I was able to feel the kicking!  It felt a whole lot like a pulse, but Cara confirmed the candence was that of the hoofing!

So neat...  A shout out to Jackie on moving day.  My big sister is all grown up now with her own house! Just a reminder of what happened with us less than a year after buying a house :)

Home Again, Home Again...

Well we made it! After a nice trip we finally burnt out in Grand Forks and just wanted to be home so we cut our Target experience short. Unfortunately, the border took us 2 hours! I don't know exactly what was happening, but the US guard was screening cars heading towards the Emerson station for something. A Mitsubishi Eclipse with a lone Asian male was one of the cars that was screened so obviously we weren't it. When we finally got to the border, they never even asked how much we spent, rather just alcohol and tobacco. So we were 100% honest, no booze but we had spent our limit plus a bit more!

We ended up buying from Sears a Pooh bedsheet set, a changing table from IKEA along with a dresser for me. Little Yostie inherits my old one. Cara got maternity clothes and Alison went insane (in a good way I assure you, especially if Alison is reading this!) and bought us some really nice baby clothes and what Little Yostie is coming home in... A Tigger hat and booties! I ended up getting a new swimsuit and boxers.

All in all it was a nice weekend. We went out for dinner with Alison, Daisen & Yas at a neat-o and ultra-chic place called Chino Latino. That night Cara and Yas watched (and mocked) the Sniper series of movies on Spike, while I laughed at random websites Yas pointed me to. Check out brunching.com and engrish.com for some good laughs!

Also on Sunday I had a near death experience! Not really, but Daisen & I were at Valleyfair and early in the day it was dead. We got onto every ride we wanted to within one load of having lined up. We went on Wild Thing and Steel Venom a few times and then tried the new Extreme Swing which was cromulent! It was a lot of fun... All in all we rode it about 6-8 times. Around noon lines began to form, but we still only really had to wait long for High Roller (which I never had to wait for before) and the Power Tower. It was a huge amount of fun! I learned something because I rode the rides so many times. Thrill rides suck with your eyes closed, which is the opposite of what I expected. But back to my near death experience. We took our last Wild Thing ride around 3:30, and then did Steel Venom for one last time. At 4:15 we left. At 4:30, Wild Thing lost a car and 18 people were 'injured' (read had soreness), it really wasn't that bad. Stories by Kare 11 (w/ video) & WCCO (w/ pics). Either way, I had fun and will go back. Daisen is officially a teenager, his moodiness makes a pregnant Cara look stable!

In other news... The garlic store at the Mall of America is closed, PBloco isn't what it's cracked up to be, IHOP is a nice Perkins, but not terribly international and Caribou Coffee kicks Starbucks butt, especially in the Chai department!

Cara wants me to point that Little Yostie is moving, moving, moving! We are awaiting Rowdy's arrival from Kenora any minute now too so have a good night everyone!