Important Day

Well today was important day, for two reasons.

1) This is my 50th post, and apparently in the blog-o-sphere that's supposed to be one of those milestones or something. So.....Yeah 50 posts....moving on......

2) Finally, with 7 1/2 weeks left in this pregnancy, I have pulled out my BeBand and unbuttoned my pants. Yes you read that right. Exciting. Yeah I finally look pregnant-ish. Depressing. Boo having to wear bigger pants.


Okay quit rolling your eyes. Our life really is monotonous and uneventful enough that these two things make it an important day.

This morning........

......we learned that this (ignore the trash please).........

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the top of the fridge no longer being a "safe" place to put the good stuff.

Big Brother

So lately Ben's been going through a lovely phase. You know the phase. It's the phase where at the end of the day you're left not only questioning your sanity about deciding to increase your spawn, but also desperately racking your brain trying to remember where you put the receipt for your first offspring so that bright and early tomorrow morning you can march him right down to the store where your got him and return him. Yup that's the current phase. Of course pregnancy hormones and mood swings aren't helping much. But then....a glimmer of hope, a moment of pure, unadulterated cuteness. Like last night. Emma was being particularity active so I asked Ben if he wanted to feel her saying "hi".

He did.
He felt.
He giggled.
And then.....

He jumped onto the couch arms raised above his head, Rocky style, and started chanting in utter glee "I'm going to be a big brother! I'm going to be a big brother!"

Alright little punk, for that one moment of adorable sweetness all is forgiven.

Name and Pictures

It was sure interesting to see what name everybody thought we'd choose. For awhile there I thought for sure our pick would be left in the dust, but it pulled through in the end. That's right we've decided to name her...

Emma Jane Eucker

or "just Emma" as Ben says. He's not convinced she gets to have more then one name. We're working on that.

There's also been some of you who have been wanting prego pictures. Can't really imagine why. They're not that attractive, but to appease my adoring public here you go.

Hmmm.....one of these things is not like the other........

And the gender goes to.....

So you've waited for awhile, I guess I'll go ahead and spill the beans.

It's a ...........

GIRL!

I think most of you already knew that, but there's your official, go get it notarized, announcement. To say that we're excited is a major understatement. With Ben's approval we've even already chosen a name.*** Want to know what she'll be called? Why don't you guess. I've even narrowed the field for you over in the left hand column.

Cruel and unusual you say for making you wait for information, yet again. What can I say? I like forcing you into becoming repeat readers!

***We reserve the right to change, alter, or discard any and all names at will without prior written or verbal notification. But we don't anticipated a change.***

Arctic Blast

"Arctic Blast". Now there's a term I just know that we're all waiting to hear from our local weather man...er...person. Unless you're from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Canada, or some other really cold place I'm not sure if you've ever truely appreciated what that term REALLY means, I know I didn't...until now. Let's see today we were treated to a lovely temperature of 8. Yup that's right single digits people! We've had single digits for the past week, with the occasional foray up to 10 and if we're lucky 12. Not so bad you say, well then just add in some seriously strong, even colder wind on top of those lovely numbers. Then what do you get? An icicle formerly known as Leah and tumble weed in your stair well. Still not so bad? Well then you're hardier then I am.

PS. Check this out.....
Boy or Girl you ask?
We know.
Do you?

November!!!!

Do you see? Do you see? Look at the title! It says November! Woo Hoo! I'm caught up!

Okay self indulgent moment past, moving on.

November brought what Ben has been looking forward too for quite sometime. His Birthday!!!! Grandma Eucker and Auntie Lyssa came up for the occasion. Unfortunately Grandpa couldn't come, but we skyped him in. The day before Ben's birthday we took him and his cozy coupe down to "cozy coupe road", which is the foot path that runs in between Pullman and Moscow. He had so much fun driving, running and looking for worms that he made himself sick, literally. The next day, Ben's birthday, We took the poor guy up to Spokane to go to Target (his favorite store) and by the time we got there he was running a fever. It was a short trip. After a nap and some "special" applesauce (laced with drugs) he was feeling better though. But, unfortunately for Tyson Ben only took one bit of his brownie "Sodor" cake that Tyson had slaved over the night before. Sigh. Oh well.



November adventures didn't stop after birthday fun. Two days after grandma and auntie left we got snow!! We might be crazy but we like snow in our household. Despite both Ben and I still feeling a little under the weather we just couldn't past up the white goodness. At first Ben wasn't convinced that dressing up like a marshmallow was such a good idea. He got over that pretty darn fast though. There was just enough snow to go sledding! Word to the wise, baking sheets only work so well. A day and a half later the now was gone so we hightailed it to walmart to buy cheap sleds. We're prepared now!

After the snow things were pretty quiet till thanksgiving. We headed up and over the cascades to spend it with my parents. While we were there we got to spend an afternoon with the Howell cousins. This is the only picture I got of them while trying to catch bubbles, but they had a blast. Ben couldn't wait till the school bus dropped off Carver right in front of the house! Those two boys produced wind energy with their enthusiastic waving to each other. As soon as Carver's feet hit the ground he took off at flank speed toward Ben. I would provide pictures of those two playing, but you wouldn't actually be able see them through the blur.

Thanksgiving itself was an adventure. My family and a friends family had volunteered to but on a dinner for the homeless at a local church. We had done this several years in a row a while back, but it's been about six years. A dinner was very lovingly prepared for 75. Five showed up! Apparently the church had discontinued it's regular weekly meals for the homeless so the church was no longer part of the homeless routine. We got a good laugh out of it, enjoyed a good meal, and took home enough left overs for weeks!


Well folks, that's all she wrote....for now. Hope you enjoyed the ride. See you in real time. (Hooray!)

PS. Ben also said good-bye to diapers this month. Finally!