Is that you Sebastian?

Yesterday afternoon when Jason took Barty out, there was a random black dog sitting in our fenced-in yard. Poor thing was shivering and so afraid. This little dog was wearing a cardboard tag that Jason was able to get a look at. However, it didn't provide any information not even his name.

As we called shelters and put out an email on our neighborhood listserve, Rowan declared "Maybe it's Bastian." Bastian being Sebastian who is Uncle Scott's dog. The dog was black, had white on his chest, and a bushy tail like Sebastian but he was much smaller than him. I said to Rowan, "Good observations about how he resembles Bastian, but Bastian lives in Pittsburgh and how would he get here?" To which Rowan replied "maybe he walked here." Of course...walking!

The little dog was finally warming up to Jason after he gave him a blanket, some treats, and water. Because he didn't have a name, Rowan started calling him 'Baby Bastian' which was really cute. After no one claimed baby Bastian, the animal shelter came and picked him up last night. They will keep him there until someone claims him or if he goes unclaimed, he'll go up for adoption. He seemed like a sweet dog and will have no trouble finding a good home....right in time for the holidays!

Thanksgiving 2010

With all of us a bit disappointed that we couldn't travel this year, we sure made the most of it here in Maryland. I think Jason was really excited to make his first Thanksgiving meal and it was delicious!! He really did a great job with the turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberries, corn, stuffing, and homemade pumpkin pie!

Most people think of Thanksgiving as a day to count your blessings. I do as well, but I also realize what I have everyday. Things that I'm most grateful for are Jason and Rowan. I couldn't have asked for a better husb

and or father. Did I mention that he is an awesome cook too? Rowan is my universe - my pride and joy. Ms. Rebecca told me a couple weeks ago that she has the cutest picture of me looking at Rowan from the hallway after I dropped him off. I told her she must think I'm a crazy mother, but she said it will change when the new baby comes! I'm In addition to this, I'm grateful for my family, friends and that Jason and I have good jobs that we enjoy, that we are healthy, have a roof over our heads, and much, much more. We are also grateful for the impending arrival of baby Little!

We have a busy weekend ahead of us as we get our Christmas tree today, shop, visit some friends, and I get to enjoy some spa treatments (yes!) courtesy of my hubby. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Feeling lik a pig...

Alot has happened since Friday when I was at the doctor's office and my measurements were not where they should be for this point in my pregnancy. The doctor initially thought that the baby was just tightly curled up, but a sonogram showed that I was losing amniotic fluid. The fluid levels should be over 10 and I was at 7 - 5 is considered dangerously low. She put me on bed rest for the weekend and told me to down the liquids.

I thought it'd be a long weekend, but I realized that I've very good at doing nothing! I watched lots of movies and TV and ate like a pig....thanks to Sara and Jason cooking up some great food. Jason helped so much with Rowan that he now wants his daddy when he wakes up in the morning.

I returned to the doctor's this morning and had another sonogram which showed that I doubled my fluid levels in a matter of 3 days!!! Clearly, I wasn't scaling back on my activity level when I should have been. In addition to the gains in fluid levels, I gained 4lbs on the scale! Hence, I'm feeling like a little pig today - all in a good way! I return next Monday for another sonogram just to make sure all is ok.

Speaking of a pig, Sara and I decided to count the money in Rowan's piggy bank yesterday. We couldn't believe what he had in there - $58 dollars in bills and $80.89 in change for a grand total of $138.89!! This kid is raking in some serious money considering the piggy bank isn't even as old as he is.

So this week is starting off really well for us. Now, if the steelers could just pull it together then I'd really be happy! At least Christmas music started today -yeah!!!

More Halloween and baby update

The top picture is Rowan showing his Halloween treats off to Gramma and Pap, middle one is Jason's creative pumpkin, and the last one is Barty which Rowan took. He loves taking pictures!

Today marks week 32 of this pregnancy. Things are going really well at this point. I was having severe sciatic back pain a few weeks ago but have since switched my workouts to the pool which has helped immensely. I aquajog and swim for about 40 minutes every other day and it feels so good that I don't want to get out! I was at the doctor last week and had a sonogram. All the measurements are right on track and they guesstimated the baby to be weigh about 4lbs! I was happy with my weight gain as well - up 18 lbs so far. We'll see how forgiving the scale will be this week after I've been dipping into Rowan's Halloween candy!

We are still working on boys names as I type this. We have a few in mind but nothing really exciting. We do have a great girl's name that we're almost hoping it's a girl just for that reason!

And so we are enjoying the 'calm before the storm'. We got the nursery pretty much together this weekend and Rowan seems to be very excited about his new sibling. Let's hope it stays that way!

Halloween 2010

What a great night we had! Rowan dressed as Lightning McQueen and I dressed as a burgh' babe - Steeler jersey and all. Rowan got so excited when he saw Maggie, Hayden, and Emerson (top picture) in there costumes and scurried to get his on as well. He has totally been crushing on Maggie lately! Jason and I so enjoyed watching him collect treats and the happiness it brought him. He lasted about 45 minutes before we returned home to help Gramma and Pap hand out candy. Thanks so much to them for sharing in Rowan's fun-filled day!