Museum Day!

So today was Museum Day 2009 - apparently, supported/hosted by Smithsonian Institute, once a year they have a Museum Day where all museums (and some other participating venues) let you in for free if you print out the pass from the Smithsonian Mag website. So fun! So Matthew & I packed in the car, picked up Gina & Taylor and spent the afternoon at the Birch Aquarium!
It was a little crowded - ok, a lot crowded. Didn't think many people would know about Museum day - and if they did, I thought they'd go down to Balboa Park or something, but the aquarium was pretty popular. It was still fun, and I got a few cute pics of Matthew & Taylor together - little kids holding hands is the cutest!!

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Here are a few pics unrelated to the aquarium - they are from the Kickoff last weekend at church - just a few fun shots :)

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Silly @ Nigh-Night Time :)

I just love his little laugh, and he gets so silly at bed time!

So every time we ask Matthew if he wants a baby boy or baby girl, he says girl. Every time. Doesn't matter how we phrase the question, say boy, girl, brother or sister - the answer is always girl. . . .we'll see. . . .Countdown till the world knows the gender of Baby Williams #2: 3 weeks!

A Few Pics. . .

He's got his whole wide crib, but he prefers to scrunch into a corner.  We love finding him like this :)

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My growing belly, at 15 (almost 16) weeks preggo :)

Fun, fun, fun!

My bro, Matthew's Uncle Greg, just visited from Oregon for a week - we had so much fun visiting with him! He took some great pics - in fact, I have so many pics I'd like to share, I'm just going to let the pictures (and a few captions) do the talking.

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The middle pic is my fave - GREAT shot of Matthew & Grandpa. Love the affects Greg used - and in one photo, you can see a little of my baby belly :)

My parents just celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary!! To celebrate, we went to The Beachhouse in Encinitas - afterwards Greg took a few beach/sunset shots. Matthew is holding both mine & Uncle Greg's hand in the middle shot. The later shots are of Greg & Matthew having fun in our "pool" :)

Matthew making a mess with wipes. . .chillin' with Dad &Grandpa watching a video, eating his first popsicle (loved it!)& enjoying the spa, as always! His new favorite thing is to go underwater - fun, but a little scary!

Heather & the boys came over recently and we finger painted for the first time! Matthew & the boys enjoyed the gooey stuff on their hands, and even managed to get some on paper! I absolutely love the last photo, Jake & Drew are such good buds to Matthew :)
That's all for now!!

Like music to our ears. . .

So we got to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time today, at 12 wks preggo - so awesome, it just melts my heart :) We actually got it on film, so here it is!

So here's a pic to show my growing belly, be it ever so slowly at this point :)

10 wks - 12 wk pic should be up soon!

And finally, a video of Matthew, he's so much fun. He's starting to get more into pretend play, and it's just so cute! Like, not pictured in this video, he loves to pick up a phone, say hello, talk jibberish, say bye bye and put it down. I'm sure most kids do this, but it's just so darn cute every time! Until next time :)