Waving In Action

Click the below link for a short clip of Lizzie waving:

Waving.wmv (1.4mb)

Life's never boring

Took Steph to the ER last night (due to extreme abdominal pain) and she spent the night in observation. Long story short, she has gall stones. Come the second trimester of the pregnancy, she's probably gonna have surgery to take out the gall bladder altogether. Apparently she's got all sorts of gall stones in there. And they can't blast 'em like kidney stones. Whole 'nother ball game.

She's sleeping now. Super tired, didn't get much sleep at all. She's feeling okay in terms of the pain and everything. We just have to avoid spicy, fatty, hydrogenated foods for the next 8-10 weeks til her surgery. Weight Watchers is gonna go into high gear.

One upside to all of this: they did an ultrasound of Steph's tummy to scope out the gall bladder, etc. and since they were there, they also did an ultrasound of her womb. We saw Little One, all 1.3ish centimeters of him/her. Puts Steph somewhere around 6 weeks. Two cool things: 1) the tech let us hear the heartbeat. Man, that never gets old. Makes ya cry every time. 2) the tech printed us a picture, even though she wasn't supposed to. Coolest tech ever.

Cheerio

It took her a bit to figure out how to use those little white sharp things in her mouth, but Elizabeth is now a very big fan of the wonderful Os.

Waving

Even in the midst of Munchkin having a sinus infection, she is still able to pull off being the cutest ever. Yesterday, she displayed, for the first time, her ability to wave. With not too much wrist movement, her wave consists of opening and closing her hand into and out of a fist. Cutest ever.

Hopefully we'll be able to capture it on film soon.

You remember that time

About a year and a half ago when I announced that Steph was pregnant?

Well, I'm announcing it again. :-)

Late November, early December, the Hutchison clan becomes four (Lord willing).

Newest Phase

Elizabeth has been working her way thru new phases. At least one a week if not more. First it was click noises, then pig noises. Her latest is pictured here. :-)

Johari Windows

Recently we had a friend blog about the Johari window. Before you think that we are into some weird and crazy stuff, it is a simple personality thing. You pick 5 or 6 adjectives to describe yourself, and then friends and family pick 4 or 5 to describe you (all using the same basic list). Then this calculator puts into the bottom left square all the adjectives that you picked, but no one else did. In the upper right it places all the adjectives that others picked for you, but you didn't pick for yourself, and in the upper left all the adjectives that both you and others picked for you. Finally, in the bottom right square is all the unused adjectives that apparently don't describe you!
I did one for myself that you can check out and/or contribute to here.
I did one for Lizzie that you can check out and/or contribute to here. (Obviously hers is tough since I had to do it for her, but I thought it would be fun for a chuckle).
Hope you enjoy!

p.s. Okay, now Allen is in on the Johari fun.

Crawling vs Walking

We have often wondered if Lizzie is going to walk before she ever crawls. These pictures point to a possible answer.

Pulling out yer hair

Elizabeth has taken up a strange behavior. Sometimes when she gets upset, she grabs some of her hair and starts yanking. Steph and I are trying to get her to stop, but it's not easy. Anybody else go thru this?

Baby Blues

This Baby Blues comicstrip from February 5th confirms a truth I have known for years! Just click on the comic to go to the website and see an enlarge version.