Holiday Part Three!

Here is a picture of my (first) plate of Thanksgiving food. In Virginia, the stars of the meal are really the vegetables. We had so many I had to have a second plate just for them. Pictured above is my starch plate. :)

I am not going to say much about Thanksgiving. It was really exhausting and stressful and I don't want to be a Debbie Downer. Instead, I would just like to say thank you to all of my family and friends. It is a pleasure having you in my life. It is good to know that no matter how far, I have a great group of folks I can count on and talk to- no matter what.

I love you all and I hope you had an amazing Thanksgiving that had both a starch plate and a vegetable plate. xoxo.

Holiday Part Two!

We have been having some fun in Virginia! Check our flickr for more pictures! www.flickr.com/henryherbert

We have gone to the park (see above). The park was pretty fun! The morning we went it wasn't crowded so we could run around and be crazy. There was an attached dog park that we got to go look at too. Henry was upset though because the dogs would hop the fence and chase him. :)

The past few days it has been wet and rainy. We played at the mall playground one morning. Henry peed a ton after we played. Like five minutes later I was doing some shopping and he told me he had to pee again. I didn't believe him since he had just peed so darn much. About 5 minutes later he tells me there is pee on the floor. Sure enough he had peed so much that pee leaked out of his pull up and somehow managed to get onto the floor of Gymboree. I will never doubt you again henry. Talk about a bad mommy moment.

In other news, we have been going from store to store to get stuff for Thanksgiving. Today we finally got the last of the ingredients at my favorite Richmond grocery store, Elwood Thompsons. I don't know why I even bothered to go to any of the other stores (4 others). Elwood's had everything I needed and more. Being there made me miss living in Richmond. I love the fan district so much. People tell me I am crazy and that it is dirty and I respond (in my head only) with an ABBA lyric from the song Summer Night City: "Some folks only see the litter. We don't miss them when they're gone."



Here is another fun picture from this past weekend. Henry and Toni rode the train at the outdoor mall. Too cute. I am glad Toni secured Henry the best seat on the train!

In Zelda news, I am 32 weeks and she has gotten very active. I have a midwife apointment on Monday. I am there every two weeks now! Crazy!

Holiday Part One

Henry and I started out our trip to Virginia with a trip to Houston. Our flight was out of Houston instead of Austin because Austin has no direct flights to anywhere in Virginia. We drove up Friday evening, had some pizza, watched some Japanese Iron Chef, and went to bed. Saturday we went to Billy and Stephenie's house for a visit. Above you will see a picture of henry with his cousin Will. We had to hold him upside down to get him in the picture. :)

After our visit we had a lovely lunch at Pepper Tree and headed back to Mike's folk's house.

Sunday morning it was off to the airport. Mike and henry had some last minute bonding time before our tearful goodbye.
En route to Virginia, Henry totally zoned out. He did great on the plane. We watched some Yo Gabba Gabba. Chatted about Winnie the Pooh. Good times. The airport was exhausting but the plane ride itself was just cramped and boring.
Now in Virginia, we have had a good time playing with baby Luca, Becky, and Toni. I am exhausted without Mikey here to help. He is the best daddy. It is going to be a fun filled and long two weeks!

midwife appointment

The visit went well! I am measuring 31 weeks, which is fine. Pulse, blood pressure, pee stick all fine. Zelda is HEAD DOWN! Yay! All is well in baby land!

I leave on Sunday for Virginia! I can not wait to see my family and friends!

30 weeks!

Henry has taken to sweeping. Not only does he enjoy sweeping he enjoys seeing other people sweep. He also really enjoys the teeeeeeeeeny broom that fell off of George Michael's Halloween toy.
In other news, I am 30 weeks today. 7-10 weeks to go! My midwife appointment is on Friday, so I will have pregnancy updates then.

To celebrate, Henry and I went to Dr. Cox's office to get our h1n1 vaccines. I wasn't going to get it because I hate the idea of getting a vaccine while pregnant. AND despite having a toddler I am not really at risk for getting it since he has minimal contact with other kids and we are really good about handwashing, etc. BUT we are flying to Virginia and airplanes are a breeding ground for yuck. Thank goodness the vaccine came in before we were due to leave. Hopefully our bodies will build up enough resistance by the time we leave!

Happy Early Anniversary!

Mike and I went out last night to celebrate our 4 year wedding anniversary. It isn't for another 11 days, but I will be in Virginia and he will be in Texas on the actual day. Matt and Lauren were nice enough to do an overnight babysitting stint. We started out with a trip to the movies. We saw "Gentleman Broncos". It was ok. The movie had so much potential, but it just fell short.

After the movie we went and checked into our super fancy hotel the At&T Conference Center on UT's campus (check out flickr for funny pictures). We got a great deal on Priceline. More than half off the normal cost of a room. Score!

After some hotel fun we went to dinner at the Melting Pot. As I have mentioned before, my friend Jess works there and lets me bring vegan foods to fondue.
Here I am enjoying the cheese course- vegan montarey jack with spinach and artichoke.
Mike is having fun with the Kale garnish in our main course. I love the MOJO broth!
Here is Mike enjoying our dessert course of vegan chocolate, oreos, and fruit.

Yay for Us Mikey! We stuck it to all the people who thought we were crazy for getting engaged after dating for six months! And we stuck it to all the people who thought we were having a shotgun wedding! I love us. To quote Jim's dad, "Four more years! Four more years!"

Henry's Firt Haircut

Henry got his first haircut yesterday on November 7, 2009. I was really hard on all of us. We hated to cut his hair, because his curls are just so beautiful. It was getting out of control though. As you can see from the picture above, Henry was terrified and hated it. He cried the whole time. BUT afterwards he was really happy about it. He keeps touching his head and saying "haircut" in a lovey sort of voice. I think he will do really good next time. The lollipop helped. :)