little girls really ARE cute

can we talk about how obsessed i am with this precious gap commercial?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNabu9daJUc

almost 4 1/2 months

we have decided to stop slacking and get better about taking pictures of The Belly, so please enjoy the joyful exploitation of our unborn child...

i apologize, folks... i struggle to take a serious picture. therefore this turned out to be the longest Belly photo shoot ever.

the sweet shot

of course hurley wanted to see what all the fuss was all about...

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

shame on you, my dear target

soooo...
last night, the hubs and i were doing a little christmas shopping (can you tell who we were shopping for by the aisle we were in? if your name is hannah and your uncle's name is gt and your aunt's name is lala... look away!) at my own little personal heaven, target, when we stumbled across something quite interesting...

yes, my friends, barbie now enjoys martinis while playing with kids.
now, i grew up loving my barbie dolls (so i am not hating on barbie here) and was a little shocked that they now include a fancy blue martini glass in clothing and accessory sets.
are they teaching kids that early on that drinking is super cool?
and if they are playing with alcohol as early as 3 (barbies are for 3+ fyi) when are they going to expect to partake or share with mom & dad? REALLY?!
i mean if barbie does it...
too soon, mattel. way too soon.
all i could think as we walked away was "i am SO blogging about this."
thoughts??

what geoff bought at the nike outlet

we have long struggled with the christmas tree topper situation.
over the last few years, we have searched high and low but never found the one that was meant to be on the team us tree.
eventually we settled on and purchased one last year, but as we got out all of our christmas decorations last night we could not find it anywhere.

luckily we had an alternative for our tree topper...

Foreshadowing?

I kid you not, as Wifey & I are driving to our 4 month baby appointment, I stop at a red light and have my future staring me in the face. I am convinced that I must begin training now to prepare my gag reflex for our future child's early contibutions to the world. Although Wifey finds my "gagflex" endearing now, I know it will quickly lose it's charm when she ends up with 2 messes to clean up rather than just one. To begin with, I think I'll start with a few reps of standing near dumpsters for 1 min. increments and work up to extended times in public porta potties. Stage 2 will consist of simulations (i.e. handling "gooey substances" like chili and potato salad while blindfolded in a freshly fertilized stable as Wifey blasts me in the face with spray from a water hose...or something like that). Stage 3...Game On! My mantra during this workout..."I will not spew on our baby".

now for the gender hostiles

alrighty friends, you are seemingly just as anxious as the baby daddy and i are.

we find out the gender of the baby on january 12. i know, i know. it seems like forever, but sadly those medical people won't do another ultrasound until then.

BUT we do have our next appointment tomorrow for our 4 week checkup - any ideas out there on how we can con them into doing one so we can find out the sex before christmas?? i know you are all dying to shower us wirth loads of gender-specific gifts for the holiday...

for all the hostiles out there...

now i won't name names, but some of you are getting pretty hostile (mom/MAHM) because i have not posted any photos of me/my belly in some time. and with good reason - we've been slackers. so i went and took some (rather terrible ones) myself just to appease for the time being. in the meantime, i promise i will get my baby daddy to take some better ones. but for now (shhh, shhh, it's ok)...any one know when i will start to show? is there really a baby in there? i mean come on...
i guess i will have many moons to look large, so i won't complain.
(you may be asking yourself, "how does she look so smooth and held-in to those jeans?" that would be thanks to my sweet friend, leah, who sent me the BE band - the best gift so far! i am still able to wear all of my jeans, unbuttoned, with my BE band holding me in... and holding my pants up because they aren't even zipped. now everyone will know my secrets...)

thanksgiving 2009

so, thanksgiving in colorado was great. we celebrated my birthday on the first day we got there (geoff even took me out late night to get me a chocolate cake from the supermarket, when p.f. chang's got all of our to-go dessert orders right but mine. i swear i'll never eat there again as long as i live... ) we also went to the art museum in downtown denver (which was designed by a very famous architect, so for a design nerd like me that was a completed-mecca trip!) and we got to see our two-and-a-half year old niece hannah get on skis for the first time. there were some pretty proud peeps on the mountain that day... and a lot of paparazzi.

this week in lindsay's uterus

this week, the wee one is the size of an apple!
he or she is about 4 inches long and weighs about 3 ounces.

movin' on up from the small lime...

straight no chaser

and now a fantastic video (courtesy the glorious youtube) to get us all in the christmas spirit...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kYEK-pxs_A

attention: all who have registered

so we are in the process of registering, and would love some wisdom from those of y'all who have already done it.

are there things that you wish you had registered for and didn't?
what were some of your favorite gifts you received?
were there things that you received but did not register for that you now cannot not live without?

these 2 almost-new-parents need to know! email me or comment and help us out...

to touch or not to touch...

so yesterday, i had my first random, unwarranted belly touch. it was lovingly performed by our neighbor who is super sweet and probably just as excited as our parents are about me being pregnant (seriously, when i told her she cried).
it was a little weird, i must say. i have always thought it would be no big deal when someone felt the need to touch my pregnant belly... but at the stage i am now (i just feel like i have developed a gut) it was a little awkward.
and this stage is odd. a stranger would not look at me and think, "oh, she's pregnant". belly has not grown that much yet. they would just decide i had packed on a few pounds around the middle, or really hated doing sit-ups & crunches.
so instead of being the woman that says, "ooooh, why dontcha keep that hand to yourself, crazy lady?" or take said stranger's hand off my belly and place it on their own, i have decided to grin and bear it. people are apparently going to do it anyways, so i might as well enjoy the attention... while it is still all about me.

you have to take nerdy pics while waiting for the doc

go on, tell me how gorgeous this gown makes me look...
i know. amazing.

now introducing our lovely & amazing OB

theresa, our nurse on the left (who said to keep this photo a secret, because she told other patients she does not take pictures) and the wonderful dr. kristy mccall on the right.
please ignore the stirrups, folks.

gt at 12 weeks

Wifey felt like I was making her pose too much so I told her if she'd do it than I would too. It was only fair that people could see what I look like at 12 weeks as well. A deal is a deal. This kind of has the same result as that pregnancy test I took (but that's a different story)

into the second trimester official pics...

geoff: "now lindsay, stop hamming it up and get in the car! can't be late for our first appointment..."

there's actually a baby in there!

lots of people said that once you hear the baby's heartbeat, it's all over for your heart from there.
not so! once we saw our baby's face, little body, legs and arms and HANDS! - that's when it was over for us. new life is truly amazing.

gt's 12 week blog post

the wee one is now the size of a lime. can you believe it?

a new season

so it's probably about time we updated our blog. i mean, we could wait until it had been an entire year, but what the heck?

team us is having a baby (well, i am the one who will be doing the having) which means we have to keep family, friends and the rest of the world in-the-know with what's going on with us.

as of today, november 9, i am 12 weeks and 2 days. geoff informed me this morning that our little junior is the size of a lime. that's huge! we went from a fig to a lime in barely 1.5 weeks! oh what an overachieving little fruit...

tomorrow at 10 am we have our first doctor's appointment (yes, i said first) with the hopefully-lovely-and-amazing dr. kristy mccall. we'll get our first ultrasound/sonogram (what's the difference anyways?) and get to hear junior's heartbeat!

and now all you lucky (and courteous) readers of the team us blog get to see wifey's bare belly at 9 weeks (our 12 week pic coming soon). and yes, moms, we will be posting these every month so you can keep track of how fat i'll be getting.

malibu

california 08

gt on jimmy kimmel (LA, january08)

marc broussard & sara bareilles concert, october in st. louis

christmas in denver 2008