Welcome, Donovan John!!!

I'll post more details later, I just want to get some pictures up for those in the family who are not Facebookers. :) It's fascinating to me how much a baby's looks change in the first 24 hours of life. They literally get cuter by the minute.

A Better Swimming Video and a 38 Week Belly

Here's another video of swim time with Mason and Justin. You can actually see his face in this one. :)



And here is probably the last pic I will take of this lovely belly. I've grown to 43" and I would guess this baby is about 8.5 lbs right now. He presses against my hip bone with his head while pressing his feet under a couple ribs on the opposite side of my body, so that would put him at about 19 or 20 inches if I'm guessing right. We'll see. Due date next week. Crazy fast.

Honor Guard 4th of July Performance

I watched Justin perform for the first time on the 4th, and it went very well! Here's the video.


This last week, Justin had another performance in Minnesota at an Air Expo (he also performed at the Twins game on Friday), and he came home with this lovely souvenir-This is after healing for three days. Sometimes those blades spin a little too closely...

Come Swimming With Mason!

We have a little ducky. He wants to be in the water, swimming by himself with no momma support. The word "swimming" is coming out of his mouth over and over almost the entire time he is in the water. He kind of reminds me of a little ducky, with total calm above the water, and his legs and feet going crazy underneath. I want to get him into swim lessons as soon as possible so he doesn't develop bad habits with the vest, but our base ones are delayed due to lack of teachers. Until then, he will be my little ducky.
I love swimming with Mason.
I'm kind of sad that these were filmed in the compact format on accident because you can't see the huge grin on his face, but we've got what we've got and that's what I'm giving you. We'll probably make another attempt for better video later on. Hope yall enjoy.

Almost 36 week belly

What woman with a 37"x42"x38" figure wouldn't want to show it off on the internet? If you've got it, flaunt it!

Celebrating Daddy

Here's a pic of Father's Day. Justin's big celebration present was a new iPad2 to have for all his traveling. Mason picked out the card, and it was a Cars movie card, of course. He had a difficult time choosing between that one and a card with bulldozers on the front.
Mason could not have a better man for a daddy. I think he wants to be just like his Daddy, what do you think?

Latest Tricks

Isn't he delicious? This is at our base splash park. Mason really wasn't much of a fan, he didn't like the combination of screaming kids and water spraying in his face. Our visit only lasted about 15 minutes and I ended up soaked (I didn't mind, it was 104 degrees out that day). We'll try again in a week or two. Meanwhile, we're spending our summer days either floating in a pool (Big-bellied Momma's preference) or playing in the sand at the playground.
So here's a video update on cuteness. We tried to get him to sing at the end, but it didn't happen in front of the camera. He's singing to himself all the time when he plays and I LOVE IT! I'll catch him on film one of these days.



We're trying to figure out what he's doing with the thumbs up/wink the eye bit that he does. I can only think of the movie Tangled where the main character is looking at a place to paint. He does it at the perfect time- right when Momma is about to get upset for doing something he's not supposed to; he evades punishment because I can't stop laughing.