2 Weeks

We took Lucian out for his first walk in the stroller. He has a cute little hat to protect his face from the sun.

He really doesnt like baths yet. Poor guy. But he is getting better.

If you notice they are laying in the same position. Too cute for words.

This convinced us that we had a binki baby.

The Babe is Here & One Week Older

Here is the little dragon himself! Just look at that cute face and Dark hair, yeah!

Cousin Hallie came over for a visit and got to hold him.

Here is Papa and the little dude in his very first picture. This is probably my favorite one. Brett is always so carful and gentle when holding Lucian. It is fun to catch them alone and see Brett content to just look at him.

Well it has been a week since the delivery and the momma is starting to fell less sore. Let me tell you labor is hard. Very, very, very hard. And oh so worth it when they suddenly put this little babe in your arms. There is something called hypnobirthing where you train your mind to go somewhere else or something and in the last bits of labor I apparently started doing that without realizing it. I like to play Text Twist where you make as many words as you can using six letters. So while holding my oxygen mask I remember suddenly scrambling words and mumbling them out loud. I could have swore that I saw Brett laughing at me but he couldnt hear what I was saying.

Lucian is such a cutie. He'll squint his little eyes at you like he's sizing you up. Or he'll just slightly open one eye and look at you long enough to think 'Oh you're holding me now' and then close again. Such eye character!

It' about time I post a prego picture! Here I am 34 weeks along. 6 weeks left to go!

I keep hearing that first time mom's usually go over their due date but I feel that I am going to be early. Is it just wishful thinking? Maybe. But I'd like to think that there is some motherly instinct at play.

Isnt this swing-a-majig awesome? We got it from my mom. I remember first seeing one like it and really wanting it for when Brett and I had a baby but knowing that we would most likely end up with one from the D.I.... Surprise to us!

First Edited Video

I am going to start off by telling you that you don't have to watch this video. I am putting it here because youtube will probably take it off of its' site but I still want a place where I can direct people to if they want to watch it.

It has to do with the fanfiction that I am writing that is linked in the right side bar. I have had a lot of fun making it on windows movie maker today. Tip for anyone else that wants to try this... work from the beginning. Yeah, it sounds like a 'duh' but I put filler footage in the beginning b/c I didnt know what was going to go there. After the video was finished I went back to change the footage and had a not as fun time trying to fill up the right amount of time and get all of my already set footage back in sync with the music. sigh. I have hopefully learned my lesson.

Half way through February and I'm finally hitting that "I'm getting so big it's hard to bend over" stage in the pregnancy. But since the first stage was "I'm so sick I can't move," I'm not as worried about this part, though I understand it's going to be uncomfortable.

The past few days our cousins (the McKeens) have been around and we have had fun playing with them. Though Brett has been sick he was finally able to get out of the house and go tubing with them this afternoon. They had a lot of fun going around turns and over jumps. The video below shows one of their jumps.

Brett enjoyed himself but got a nice bruise on his hand from the ropes. He is putting ice on it but it has already swollen. Oh well. The next video is when they went over the jump but Brett bumped his head. If you watch carefully you can see him hit his head on Kimberly's arm. Problem? That arm is casted. Ouch.

Christmas Time is Here

This Christmas we were able to spend the entire time with Brett's family in Iona by Idaho Falls. We had a lot of fun. Their schedule is different than the one I had growing up. We weren't allowed to wake my parents up until 8 or 9 am, we would have a Christmas breakfast of homemade egg mcmuffins, read the scriptures of Christ's birth, then get to presents around 10 am and not get finished until around 1 pm.

At the Petersen's we read the Christmas story the night before from a wonderfully put together book with pictures and scriptures in it. The next morning we got up with the most enthusiastic child, which was our nephew Collin.

He loves playing with Brett and I just knew that he was going to find us in the morning and get us up. Sure enough, while looking for his parents he found our room around 7 am. He's got footy pajamas with sculls on them, they are awesome! The door opened, bringing light into the room, and then silence followed. Unsure, I rolled in Brett's direction and found Collin standing next to the bed staring at us. I was ready to kick Brett out of bed to get some more sleep until I was informed that we were going to open presents now. You can bet I had a nice long nap later on.

After visiting with our friends Rhett and Jessie we came back and did something I have always wanted to do. We made gingerbread houses from scratch. Apparently almost no one there had ever done it before either so we had a fun time. I had made the dough the night before then we divided into 3 groups and designed our houses then cut and baked the dough.

This is me holding the house together b/c powdered suger and milk icing doesnt work as well as one might think in holding together gingerbread. The other groups desided it would be wise to use hot glue and ended up with very stable, pretty houses. I wanted to be able to eat our house so we traded stability for an innocent look. Innocent meaning it looks like a child made it but we loved the way it turned out.

What's that on roof, you ask? Why that is our daredevil santa coming off the ramp.

We hope everyone else had a Happy Christmas as well!

We now know that the Tummy Dragon is a BOY! Off to the right is our countdown to the birth. His name is to be Lucian Douglas Petersen. Lucian the Dragon. I like the sound of that.

When we went to our appoitment to find out, he just wouldnt stay still and gave the nurse a hard time completeing all the pictures she needed to take to make sure that he was developing properly. When it came time to find out what he was he just strutted his stuff and practically yelled, "I'm a BOY!" It was funny.

Before the appointment I couldnt feel the baby. Everyone kept saying that I should feel "bubbles" or at least him moving. Thank you for making me worry about my baby! Aparently there was nothing wrong, the position of the placenta just makes it hard to feel as much. I have been definatly feeling him now! The other night I was laying in bed with my hand on my stomach and he kicked me! If Brett had his hand there he would have felt it. It was so neat! Now and then I can feel him doing barrel rolls back and forth. It will definately be intresting when he gets bigger.