Preggo Pics! and a few others too!

I love my sister! We are at the zoo and it was just too much fun!



Okay, I love my brother too!



I stole this pic from a friend...Bryan at the Turkey Bowl during Thanksgiving. Gotta love it!



Week 20


Week 23


Week 24

I am definitely getting bigger! Grow baby Grow!!!

Clothing update

I did it! It was got ugly at times, but I managed to wear everything in my line of clothes. The only flaw was that I didn't wear them in the exact order I thought. And 1 shirt didn't get worn at all. I think horizontal stripes on a pregnant girl was a bad idea.

Toxic Gas and Bananas

My parents came out for Halloween. It was so much fun to have them here. Peter absolutely loved it! He was spoiled rotten the whole time. We went trick-or-treating at the Dental School. (Hence the picture of Peter in his Banana Costume with my mom) He hated his costume and cried every time we put it on him. This was the only picture of him in it. My dad was awesome and helped us save ourselves from our own ignorance. He was trying to help us fix our hot water heater and discovered that it was leaking carbon monoxide... oops! We had no idea. I am glad we are all still alive.

Giggles

The little things

Bryan and I went on a date. You heard me right. A date. Meaning, no child. This was the first time we have done this since July. Wow. It was awesome. He took me to the Pitt basketball game. I was awesome and I realized how easy it is to go places with just the two of us.
1. We parked about a mile away because it was a nice night for a walk. (Not to mention free parking) Strange to just exit the vehicle and push 'lock' and walk away.
2. He held my hand while we were walking. This is nearly impossible to do because usually one of us is pushing a stroller.
3. We walked up hill and were still holding hands. Wow. Usually we are dying because its so dang steep we are bent over halfway trying to push the dang stroller.
4. My purse size shrank noticeably. I really miss cute purses. Small purses. Changing what handbag I carry like I change my clothes. This is also near impossible when you go out with a child. There is just too much crap to carry.
Thanks Bryan for a great night!

Books

Peter has 2 loves in life. Trucks and books. We read for at least an hour every moring. He gets done with one book and just brings me another, and another, and another. Today we read 17 books. Not even joking.

Trucks

and his other love, Trucks. He really loves
"BIG trucks"
So I was at Sam's club and just couldn't resist. We can just say Christmas came early at the Hays' this year!
Note: I might regret this present in a couple of weeks. The steering wheel has buttons to mimick construction sounds...

The Zoo

Pittsburgh has a pretty cool zoo and the weather was WONDERFUL a coulple of weeks ago so we took advantage of a 75 degree October day and went to the zoo. It was Jess's birthday too! This was Peter's first zoo trip!

Amber, Jessica and Jamie

Did he like the Giraffe's?

Sortof. He was enthralled with the nasty pond in the front of the exhibit because there were a couple goldfish. He could have stayed there all day!

Another example of Steeler's madness. Note the ONLY human's name on the pole explaining how tall an elephant is...

Gage, Payton, Peter, and Xo


One of Peter's favorites!

I wish I could have gotten his face from the front while he was checking out the elephants. Classic.

The Lion Den. This guy was a vocal one. He roared the whole time! Peter stood on his tippy toes to get a better view!

There is a really neat aquarium inside as well with Polar Bears and Penguins. Peter LOVED the penguins. He was jumping up and down and pointing at them while speaking what I like to call "Peter Chinese"

Peter Peter, Pumpkin Eater

Peter, October 2008

Peter, October 2009

Its a.....Girl????!!!

yup. That is right people. A girl. A dramatic, indecisive, sweet, adorable, lovable, little girl. Looks like the ranks will be tied in the Hays' house! 2 to 2! She is due March 22 or 26...the doctors keep changing their minds. I am going with the 26 so if she decides to come sooner I will feel REALLY excited!

18 Weeks and counting....

(I hate preggo pics but I took them with Peter so I figure its only fair to do it will all my kids!)

Our House

The view from the back deck. Houses here have some tiny windows!

Note the wine rack... Bryan has transformed it into his Gatorade storage!

The kitchen is my favorite thing about the house. For Pittsburgh, it is really big. They put in new tile for us and carpet throughout the house. Love it!
Oh yes, the green curtains! They left those up because they thought we would like them and I think they are so hideous. I had to leave them up long enough to get pictures.

Ta da! More posts to follow when I get around to taking pictures of the upstairs and the "Man Cave"

Ah, clothes

I have a clothing fetish. I LOVE clothes, and yet it seems like I am always finding myself wearing the SAME 4 or 5 things. It drives me CRAZY! I am also slightly obsessive compulsive. My closet is color coded. Rainbow-style. Red, Pink, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Brown, Black, White, then stripes and patterns. And the Short sleeves go before the long sleeves in each color.
Part of my thinking was then I would know where everything was and I could easily find things. It worked great in AZ when closets were normal sized, but I still drove myself crazy because I didn't wear everything in my closet... (does anyone else do this???) Here my closet is a door, with the bar extending 3 feet back into a dark abyss and I can't see ANYTHING back there!
Here is my new plan.
I switched out my winter and summer clothes today and organized 31 shirts in order, even planning on my Sunday Dress. (The sad part is, I have way more than 31 winter tops. I will organize the rest if I can actually pull of my 'plan') I now have NO OPTION but to wear the next item in line. NO MATTER WHAT. If it rains, I will put on a coat, etc etc. I am going to wear EVERY item in my closet this winter. Wish me luck!

Blog Thief!

Nicole G. already knows it, but she is my blog thief. Except she always beats me to the post so my blog will now look like hers! I think from now on any post I want to do should just be linked to her blog! We both seem to think that Pittsburgh is an interesting place.

Here are some things make NO sense:

*a 3 way stop sign on a 4 way intersection. WHY????!!!!


*Giant Eagle. That is the main grocery store here. And just like most businesses in Pittsburgh, the employees are mean or non-existent. I was at the store loading up on groceries. This was a HUGE trip. We had nothing in our house. I went to check out and there was 1 lane open. There are about 20 checkout lanes in this store. Its HUGE! There was about 17 people in front of me. What is Giant Eagle's solution? Open ALL the SELF-Checkout lanes. Fabulous. Now I have a cart overflowing with groceries, an 18 month old who is ready for a nap, and I get to scan and BAG my own groceries. I think my items purchased was somewhere around 72. My story gets better from here! The scanner is really touchy and if you don't bag you items quick enough after it goes down the belt you get a huge flashing red light and it shuts down until an attendant can come restart the system. This happens no less than 4 times while I am checking out. Now I am done scanning and am running down to the end of the belt to bag the remaining items... The poor guy behind me is very anxious to check out and starts scanning his items before mine are done. Now I have all of his groceries mixed up with mine and we both can't separate them fast enough so the flashing red light goes off again and the attendant has to come save me. AGAIN. After all of that I didn't even make it home with one bag! I think the dude behind me got some dinner rolls, Gerber graduate granola bars and my pork chops.


Sorry, that was a long one. Moving on...



*This poor, poor tree!





*This house I saw on a walk was decked out for Halloween, but of course had to have its own little Steelers Shrine

*The Blessing of the Beast. Yes, you heard me right. That is what they were calling it. We were on a walk and the pastor of some church was blessing dogs in the front yard. Like 12 dogs. Weird. I regret that I did not take a picture... They might have sent the dogs after me.



* I got yelled at by an 80 year old man in a parking lot earlier in the week for "parking in the spot next to him". He told me I was "SO STUPID!"

Which brings me to my next point of interest:

*It is not required to take drivers education before applying for you drivers license in the State of Pennsylvania. No wonder people drive like idiots here.

* They also have their own rules for a 4 way stop.

example: Person A: waves on person B, who clearly doesn't have the right-of-way.
Person C pulls up at the intersection: Waves on Person A and Person B, who OBVIOUSLY have the right to go before them.
Person A and B then both join in on waving on Person C and by this time there are 60 cars behind them and NOBODY seems to mind that they make their own rules up!

Except me.

*I still have Arizona plates. Therefore I am entitled to go by Arizona laws which include
-Making a Right on Red. (This is totally against the law in Pitt)
- Taking the appropriate turn at the stop sign
-Cutting people off when I miss the non-existent turn lane.

*This brings me to my final gripe about Pittsburgh Driving, for now anyway... They have 2 lanes, a stoplight in each lane, but for some bizarre reason, when you go through the intersection, its down to 1 lane and the previous left lane had this phantom unwritten marker to turn left. Wow. I am soooo glad I have Arizona plates.

I am suprised I haven't seen something like this yet!

Strong Bad

I know I am supposed to be a "grown up", but some things I just can't give up. Like this website... If you want to be entertained by extremely pointless, stupid, crap and you have about 2 extra minutes, click here: Dragon Email
If you like that and want another laugh, click here: The English Paper
I just can't resist and every time I start watching I get addicted and end up hanging out with Strong Bad and his emails for WAY to long!

Picky Eater

I used to think I was the luckiest parent because my kid would eat ANYTHING! He ate shrimp, and salmon and asparagus and sandwiches and spaghetti and the list could go on forever... I am not so lucky now. He so picky. He eats fruit and bread and certain brands of string cheese and that's about it. Today for lunch I attempted to make a grilled cheese sandwich for him. Cheese, bread, together. Ya. Sounds like a hit right? Nope. Not even close. He screamed the whole time it was in front of him. Wouldn't even try it. Then, I finally gave up. So he ate a piece of bread and a string cheese for lunch. Ludicrous.

Family Home Evening part II

So last week I posted about FHE and made the comment that next week was Bryan's turn to plan it...

This is gonna be good. Can't you feel it????

Real good.

We fed the missionaries tonight. I made fettichini alfredo, chicken parmigiana, salad and we even had a pumpkin roll for dessert. (Okay- being fair- Bryan made the sauce) We all ate. They gave us a spiritual thought. Headed out the door.

Later Bryan says to me "See, that was a great FHE wasn't it? We ate, had a spiritual thought, good times right???"

This is what happens when the guy "plans".

Ha.

Peter! Peter! Peter! and a little Bryan...

This post is for family back home that is bugging me for pictures of Petey. I apologize if you are not one of them and are being subjected to way too many pictures of my child. Feel free to skip this post if you like!

Peter Walking

Abbi (aka my mom- this is her word for grandma) Gave Pete this really cool ladybug nightlight that projects stars onto the ceiling. He LOVES it!

Nana (Bryan's mom) gave Pete the ambulance. It was a gag gift for Grandpa (Bryan's dad) when he ended up in the hopsital last year, and was since passed on to Pete. (who I must say has gotten WAY more use out of it than his grandpa) He carries it around everywhere and says "Truck". I really need to teach him to say AM-Buuh- Lance....

Pooba (aka-my dad-this is our word for grandpa because he wouldn't give us a name) gave Pete these awesome converse that he wears everywhere. He LOVES them! He brings them to me and says "SHHHOOOEs.."

This is at the Science Center at the "Earthquake Cafe". We could sit in the booth and experience different levels of earthquakes. How funny- it was Peter's FAVORITE place in the center!

I thought it was kind of rough!

This one is for Kim and Talan, The BIGGEST water table you have ever seen!

See?! It just keeps going!

And going....

Another floor of the center was all about fish

Peter's new friends- Gage and Payton... I think Pete really needs to grow...

The biggest model train I have ever seen. This place had rivers, and mines, and even an amusement park and all the mini-people were motorized and moved!

The latest toy is anything that he can un-attach from the vacuum cleaner!

Yes, he is almost 18 months old and STILL in a rear facing car seat... Does that make me a bad parent?!

The ONE picture I got from Bryan's "white coat ceremony". Sorry honey, it sucks I know, but I was chasing your child up and down the stairs the whole time and we almost missed it!

Another of his favorite things... driving "Trucks"

Bryan is the designated toothbrusher. Pete hates it.