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20-weeks and counting..fingers, toes, heart chambers, etc., etc.

We got to play our first game of peek-a-boo yesterday with Baby. We went in for our 20-week ultrasound. It's the one where you can find out the sex if you want to - WE DID NOT!! he he.

Surprisingly, we also got to see a 3D image of the baby's face.....

Well, we would have had Baby not had arms in front of face, as seen above. After a few jiggles with the ultrasound probe, the technician got him/her to move the arms out of the way.....

Introducing Baby Borrok - I hope it's not creepy to anyone. I think it's adorable, but of course I'm supposed to, right :) Still has an arm up there blocking the side of the face, but this was as good as it got.

Here's a new profile shot - much like the other one, but now we're bigger. 12 ounces. You can see the hand above the forehead. We also got to see opening and closing of the mouth. They checked for opening and closing the hand, checked all brain anatomy, spinal cord, heart anatomy and function (baby got its first echocardiogram!), liver, bladder, kidneys. It was really amazing how detailed they could get on all this. And here's the little foot print!! Awwww

20 more weeks!! Seems like forever - I can't believe I'm only half way there.

Care Packages

We got two care packages on the same day today!!
We were so excited to see all the cute tiny tiny baby clothes! Roxanne's mom sent us a cute onesie with booties!

Flipper slippers! How cute is that?

Peggy, Dave and the kids sent a box that looked like someone at the post office sat on... fortunately the contents were alright! Here is Louie modeling some cute overalls.

Here I am trying on the tiniest hat in the world!!
Here are some MO oriented clothes. ("show me" the cuteness)


Frog oriented clothes...
Here is Roxanne testing out the boppy pillow with Bunny.
Priscilla did not like being swaddled... I hope the baby does.
David Jr. and Bella wrote on the box for us. Here is Sooky falling down the stairs!! Oh no!!

Thanks a lot for the goodies, we really appreciate it!

No explanation needed.... (also I am lazy)

The stars at night... are big and bright...

When anybody visits Austin, some mandatory Texas worshipping is inevitable. For the first time we decided to go see the Texas Capitol building.

We had fun, evidently it is the best Capitol building in the US... dare I say the world! The Texas Capitol is about 7 feet higher than the National Capitol. It is the tallest capitol in the United States today, rising 309 feet 8 inches from the basement floor to the top of the Goddess of Liberty statue.

Texas was once part of France, Spain, Mexico, The Republic of Texas, the Confederate states of America, and currently the United States of America. People should know that when you enter Texas, you are entering all the other countries Texas has been with. Texas is basically part of the US until something better comes along.

Decorating the hallowed floor of the Texas capitol are these interesting marble patterns. Other than this one being off centered (good job Texas artisan).. it maybe, just maybe might bear a similarity so something other than a column with an upside down heart on top... What do you think?

I will give you a hint... This guy bears the same similarity.

Here is the dome... Here is the floor right beneath the dome...I love Texas...

Weekend fun

Now that the bailout passed and Dow leaped back to 12000 and all America's problems are solved, I can get back to blogging about fun times... such as the ones had this weekend when Emily and Casey visited. Here we are carving pumpkins. We got some nice ones from a local farm family

Here is how they turned out. This year we used templates form a kit. Rx made Mr. Meowkins, I made the full frontal bat, Emily did the spider and Casey made the flying bat.

After carvin pumpkins, we enjoyed a little smore/fire pit action in the backyard. After the fire, we played a little Cataan. Prissy enjoyed almost breaking the box with her fattness.

More of the weekends activity will be posted soon

last one...

Andrew Jackson on Banks...
"Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves."

I wish we had more guys like that today... Anyway more apolitical fun posts to come soon... I promise!!