Ten Thousand Holes

I'm actually surprised that no one else has ever asked about the title of my blog... I'm sure I've told some of you in person, but Allie asked what it means giving me the perfect opportunity to explain if anyone has ever wondered. It's a Beatles refrence... well, a distorted Beatles refrence. I use to have every Beatles song ever recorded (as far as I know), but since we don't use cassett tapes anymore my i-pod is trying to catch up. Anyway, in a song that John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote it refrences four thousand holes:

I read the news today oh boy

Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire

And though the holes were rather small

They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall

John's contributions to the song were based on what he had seen in the newspaper that day, while the rest of the song talks about getting up, getting out of bed... daily stuff. Anyone know the name of the song? Yep, A Day In The Life. So to me Ten Thousand Holes is a refrence to a day in my life, it seems like there are always ten thousand little things going on in my life, and maybe by the end of this blog I will have posted ten thousand pictures to document it.

Just a side note my first few posts were titled after Beatle songs but I wasn't clever enough to continue it.

Here's the song if you want to hear it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/ram/aditl_beatles_ra.ram

Family Pictures

We had our family pictures taken this week here's the link if you want to see a few of them:

Simply You Photography & Design: S'more Christmas Session Goodness:

Kim took them for us, she did a great job, she spent a lot of time with us. Ayla fell asleep right before we got to the location and she was so tired... infact Kim has some pictures of her just laying on us! So we didn't get much personality from the little one unless we were doing acrobatics with her! She loved the star though!

Imagination

I just love this stage! Most of all I LOVE her imagination! The other day in the bathtub she was playing with her toys and they were talking to eachother saying "mommy," and "daddy" and other random words... I didn't know what exactly they were suposed to be doing in her head but I could tell she was make believing something!

Playing with We-wah

I've told you how much Ayla loves Rita, when she came out of her house yesterday Ayla went running to meet her "We-wah! We-wah!" So fun that she has a little neighbor friend! They had so much fun spinning in circles, rolling all over the yard, blowing dandylions, and playing with their stuffed animals!

Bupo

This is Bupo... Ayla's word for Buffalo. He does everything with Ayla. When she's eating lunch she sets him on the table on a hotpad- so funny! The hotpad was on the table one day so that's where she sat him, well the next day it was on the counter so it took me a minute but I finally figured out that she wanted Bupo to sit on the hotpad on the table while she ate! Guess she wants him to be comfortable. When she goes to bed she asks for Bupo, she shares her food and drinks with Bupo, she reads him books, he even helps her pick things up! At the doctor's office the other day it was so funny one of the nurses was putting up Halloween decorations and she dropped a few small pumpkins on the floor so Ayla went to help her pick them up and so did Bupo, she used Bupo's arms to pick them up and then Bupo handed them to the nurse! Bupo gets a lot of praise for the things he does she's always saying "yeay Bupo!" or showing me what Bupo did. But the best thing about Bupo is that if Ayla doesn't want to do something Bupo always does: 'Ayla do you want to go potty?' 'no' 'Does Bupo want to go potty?' 'YEAH!!!' Then they both go. She found this orange lid outside and thought it would make a good hat for Bupo and then she wanted his picture taken with it (can't upload the picture keeps giving me an error). While she was playing outside he rode bikes with her, and got to go for a ride on a spinning bike tire- that was fun, and then she carefully placed him on the sidewalk facing her so she could keep playing. That Bupo is a good sport!

Healthy and Happy!

We had our big ultrasound today. Ayla was so excited about it last night, I told her we were going to see the baby in mommy's tummy on the tv and she lifted up my shirt to see my belly and pointed to it and kept saying "baby." Then when she was ready to go to sleep she laid her head on my tummy and said "n-night baby" and wanted to sleep there. She was excited again this morning and kept pointing to the screen and saying baby while we were watching the ultrasound, so I think she might understand some what. We would ask her if she was having a brother or a sister and she would repeat the words "brother" and "sister" surprisingly well!

Everything looked good, the baby is healthy and happy, LOTS of grins it was so cute to see! It's so amazing, it's like watching a real baby... probably because it is a real baby! These 3D shots are kind of funky (and creepy) cause it goes in and out of the different layers so they look weird and really distorted, so don't be scared of my baby because of these pictures, Ayla's looked funky like this too and she turned out adorable! No surprises here they said she's a girl just like the doctor thought before. We're so excited for another little girl! It will be so fun for Ayla to have a sister... and we're excited that she can wear all of Ayla's clothes and use all of her blankets! How handy!!!

We probably will name her

So Fun Snow!

I don't know if you can tell how excited this little girl was when we walked outside on Saturday and it was snowing! She had watched it from the window and thought it was cool, but to be walking in it she was amazed! She turned back to me and yelled "mommy rain! mommy rain!" to make sure I saw it too! Then she ran all over looking at it and playing in it! She was so excited!