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...