Another month almost gone...

So much has happened this past month! We have been so busy I haven't had time to sit down and devote a little time to blogging. I am hoping to be better about that, but we will see! ;) First and foremost, for anyone who has yet to hear the news, I am pregnant. I will be 16 weeks this Saturday. Next week we are having a big ultrasound done with an amnio. The doctors want to be thorough in screening based on our history with Alistair. It is rare for healthy parents (heart-wise anyway) to have 2 children with heart defects, but it can happen. So far everything looks good.

Here is our little peanut at almost 13 weeks. At the time we thought I was almost 12 weeks. When they got done with the measurements, they discovered I was a week further along! (: My due date is April 18th.

Since it is fall time, we of course have thrown in a couple of activities that pertain to the season. Alistair and I joined our neighbors from down the street, Shelli and Cole, for a trip to the farm. We went to Fairbank Farm in Edmonds. We got a little tour of the farm including stops to look at all kinds of animals, to walk through the garden and to pick out a sugar pumpkin to take home.

As a family we went out to The Farm in Snohomish and did the pumpkin thing. It was pretty overwhelming with all the activities they had going on and things you could do, so we decided to bag any of that due to Alistair's reluctance to get down and just go pick out pumpkins. There were no wheelbarrows left, so we tried to pick pumpkins that were not back breakers to carry. But unfortunately for Alistair that meant he couldn't be carried and he was fairly perturbed about that! (: When we paid, luckily there was a free wheelbarrow to tow the pumpkins, and Alistair, to the car.

This week we have had a couple of Halloween events. We went to the YMCA on Sunday evening for their carnival. It was actually more of an excuse to get out of our cold house (no furnace, it got replaced the next day) and warm-up and for Alistair to make good use of his dinosaur/lizard costume my mom made for him! (: They had photos with the YMCA scarecrow for $1, so we thought what the heck! Then today in his gym class they had a costume party. We managed to get all the kids to sit/stand in one place long enough to get a few photos taken! We are getting miles out of his costume, that is for sure!