bye-bye Bob

Bob and Nate on Little Boy


Firemen


Love you Bob!


one of the many reasons we decided to have another child is that friends, unfortunately, come and go. they seem to come and go much more often here in Los Alamos than in other places.

G and i met when we were pregnant with Nate and Bob, who are each now 3. (ok, i was near to bursting with Nate at the time.) so they have known each other literally their whole lives. Nate could not possibly love Bob more. and he thinks Michael is a pretty cool kid too, for a little brother. last week Bob and his family officially moved from Los Alamos to unknown parts of Maryland.

personally, i keep looking for G in town. driving or whatever. today Nate has asked for Bob and even Michael 3 times.

how do i keep telling him that they have moved away? i cry just thinking about it. i miss them, too, and they haven't even been gone a week yet!

E, G, Bob and Michael: we love you and miss you terribly. but ultimately, we are very happy for you, too.

Baby Golden #3

it's a girl! that's a definite lack of boy parts right there.


Willow Jane


we had our 18 wk ultrasound appointment with Dr. H (the perinatologist) in Albuquerque on December 31, 2007. everything looks perfect. baby is measuring a week behind. but that could be for any number of reasons, not the least of which is that babies have growth spurts in and out of the belly.

between 16 and 18 weeks i started to get a bit nervous because i hadn't felt her moving, for sure. there were a couple of maybes but nothing definite. i knew that she was still alive and that she was moving around because of the doppler, but i also know that doesn't necessarily tell the whole story. i finally felt definite movement from her at 18 wks 3 days, just one day before our ultrasound appointment. i'm going to say that she just isn't the kind of kicker that her brother is or was in the tummy. i was able to feel Jesper much earlier than 18 wks, too, which is probably why it made me nervous to feel nothing identifiable. but now she moves all the time. more bumping and rolling around than kicking. but that's ok. she is making herself known and that is the important thing.

we found out that Baby Golden #3 (aka, baby doggie), is a girl. her name is Willow Jane. nate was right, once again. right about her coming and right about her being a girl. i can only assume that he is right about her favorite color being yellow, too. i'm currently looking for the perfect yellow outfit to bring her home in or for her first pictures.

currently we're trying to get nate to pick us some lotto numbers. clearly he knows something that we don't.

that's pretty much all the news.