Prenatal Visit

I went to the Medical Center to see Dr. Mastrobattista today, for my first prenatal visit in her office. I have kind of had mixed feelings about transferring to the specialist so soon. Obviously, my pregnancy is high-risk and that's the right thing to do, but I was kind of dreading driving to the Med Center so often. After going in today, though, I am really glad that we went ahead and switched now. Nurse Laura is wonderfully on top of things, and I always feel like I'm in good hands with Dr. Mastro. We had a lot of things to go over today, but I was in and out of there very quickly. I had another ultrasound today, and everything is fine (and I got a new picture!) I go back in four weeks.

Rodeo

We went to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo on Saturday. The rodeo in Houston is a huge event! There are lots of great activities for kids as well as adults, and we had a fabulous time. The pictures are out of order, but you can see some of the fun we had.

This is during the Trace Adkins concert after the rodeo. Lily enjoyed the rodeo and concert, pointing at animals and clapping her hands with the music.

We made the mistake of riding the Dizzy Dragon carnival ride. The ride itself would have been fine, but we got our dragon spinning a little too fast. Lily loved it, but Mommy and Daddy didn't care for it! Lily's serious face is her curious look while she watched the other kids who were in the dragon with us. Lily can have some very serious expressions that seem to intimidate people who don't know her - they think she's angry or upset, but she's really just checking things out.

Of course there's no shortage of smiles like these! Lily is such a daddy's girl.

Lily really liked riding in the elephant with Daddy.

The goats stole the food from us as soon as we walked into the petting zoo! Literally, they jumped up on me and stole it right out of my hands before Lily could feed it to them.

Couldn't fool Lily in the milking shed... There was water in the cow, obviously meant to represent milk, but Lily wouldn't hear of it. She said, "no, it's water!" Hard to argue with her there.

Lily planted a tomato seed in the garden.

Brazos Bend

We went on a MOMS Club field trip to Brazos Bend State Park today. We had a really nice time hanging out with our friends, and we saw an alligator on our walk around one of the small lakes at the park. Brazos Bend is known for its alligators, but we didn't see any the last time we visited. It was fun to see one today, from a safe distance of course! The alligator didn't move at all the entire time our group was watching him. After our little hike, we visited the nature center where we got to touch a baby alligator and a snake. Lily was very interested in touching them both, but she was also very serious about it because I was constantly saying, "gentle, gentle, gentle!" She wanted to grab them instead of touch nicely. We would have stayed at the park longer, but I hadn't packed a lunch (I didn't think we were going to make it to the field trip because of another appointment earlier in the morning).

Big News!

We're having a baby!

My due date is October 18th. I am currently 7 1/2 weeks along... I saw my doctor last week, and I'm transferring to my specialist now. I'll have my first visit with her on Monday, and we'll go from there. Just wanted to share our happy news with you all!

Spaghetti

She does know how to use a spoon and fork. Really, she does. You just can't tell because she prefers to use her fingers.

Rodeo Sunday

Our church always celebrates the kick-off of the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo by having "Rodeo Sunday." My favorite part of Rodeo Sunday is the petting zoo! Last year Lily was a little scared of the animals, but this year she ran around all over the place, petting almost all of the animals. She especially liked the chickens.

Back by popular demand...

Just in case anyone was in danger of forgetting what Lily looks like, I've posted some new pictures today!

This is Lily's first ponytail ever!

It only lasted long enough for me to take these pictures.