It's a BOY!!
apparently I'm further along than they thought. 20wks now. We are very excited. Name suggestions welcome!

Not every girl likes princesses :) jennifer I hope you are satisfied.


at this point i do feel it incumbent on myself to add that while these live princesses completely terrified and enraged Jane she is rather fond of cartoon versions of Cinderella. Although this may have more to do with her Daddy singing the "Cinderelly" song the mice sing WORD FOR WORD and in character.

Okay I'm far too lazy to turn these pics the right direction. I'm sure you guys will be able to figure something out though. Things are going well. We're moving to portland at the end of june. We're sad to be leaving here but excited too.

Also I'm pregnant. I'm about 16 weeks along. (and i'm sure everyone would love to be around to watch me attempt to handle this :) It's been good so far. Dan told Jane my belly button was a microphone to talk to the baby so she shouts "hellwwwooo" into it constantly. Good times. Hope everyone is doing well.




She climbed in herself just in case you were wondering

Something you'd never expect in the midwest
---So I was awoken early in the morning by a loud cracking noise and the bed shaking back and forth. Then a sound of crashing pans from upstairs. I woke dan up and told him but he murmured that it was fine and went back to sleep. At which point I of course thought I was crazy. BUT I come to find out this morning that i have experienced my first earthquake. A 5.2. Awesome.

This post is entitled... "What Happened here really?"

The video is painful -- truly truly painful -- but worth the watch. Although you may regret the 5 minutes of your life that you will never get back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPnGPIMUnus

I think maybe I'm going to learn this dance in the privacy of my own home and video tape myself - hoping someone will find it and post it all over the internet. Hey I could join the wonderful and unique breed of YouTube celebrities. Only think...



"Delusions of Grandeur" ---
Also did I mention that Jane's Nursery leader said that she throws better than everyone in the nursery. Awesome. No no i'm not beaming with competitive pride at all. Not at all. no visions of future glory either ;)

Happy Easter! We had a great day. Jane hunted for easter eggs. She loved it. Held them up as trophies in the air whenever she found one. She even had a little pastel pink and white striped Easter dress (jen you would love it) Her basket was a nylon collapsable soccer ball basket (SHE chose it). So pink dress and soccer ball -- apparently well rounded :)

Anyway she was adorable and had a great time. Kids make the holidays so much more fun.

So here are the long awaited pictures (unfortunately we did not get a picture of the easter dress. We'll get one another day though)

So we're back. Sort of. I do have some pictures.. really I do. They aren't on the blog but we have them. Aren't you so happy? They'll be up eventually.

We are doing really well. Jane is growing so fast and talking all the time. We just got her a little scooter. the razor scuttle bug (like a trike with no pedals). She loves it. It's so cute seeing her scooting all over.

She loves saying hi and bye to all of her toys (and her tiger sleeping bag) "Hi tita hi tita" Adorable.


In other news -- Mccain? oh yeah GREAT option there (hopefully the dripping sarcasm is coming across here) Heaven help us. Has anyone ever lived in Canada?

So i've decided that as a former political science major it would be a good idea for me to, say, pay attention to the election. I know.... astounding.

So in my endeavor to do this (and i insert here that I do not lean towards any candidate just yet) I watched part of a Fox debate on Youtube and came across the following statement made by John McCain (I'm not sure this was aired on tv as it was during the Ron Paul segment which was cut by fox news. Nice) anyway Ron Paul was talking about allowing Arab nations to broker peace by themselves. John McCain interrupts only to state the following

"I'm not interested in trading with Al-Qaeda. All they want to trade is Burkhas. I don't want to travel with them they like one-way tickets"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqxXzkaEAGo&feature=related
around 8 minutes

Really? Out loud --not to mention on the air? That statement alone lost the possibility of my vote. Not the person I would want representing my country thank you.

Jane 'reading' Paradise Lost.
Our would be "Frank Ellis" style Christmas card picture (sorry only the Ryan and Mary Englunds will get that)


Our very own Naked Cowgirl



"Tiny Turtle" (though we did have someone say that "he is a very cute frog")
and special mention to the continued usefulness of the Tacos Felix. The only bad experience this bag has brought on was the guy at La Hacienda who asked me where I got it and I said "Yeah it's from Mexico. My friend went on a trip to, well, somewhere in Mexico"

The depth of my geographical knowledge is astounding.
Nevertheless without further ado...






Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny. Won't it be sad when Jane is older and she turns to me and says "who's elmer fudd?". I would like to point out the homemade bugs costume - decided on less than 3 hours before the event. thank you... thank you.
Dan is The Office's Dwight K. Shrute. He was magnificent.










One of those inspirational posters "determination"

oh the socks :)




Jane carries the bag around all day pointing inside and saying 'what's this? ohhhhhhh'

"demulletization" She's losing her "fangs" (i.e. the longer sections of hair on the sides of the back of her head. She was tring to set a trend but it wasn't catching on like we'd thought

Jane's first trip to the beach (before her birthday actually. I struggle with timelines :)
She scattered (and ate) a lot of sand and was - in the words of her uncle john - a bundle of trouble.

and also her hair is suffering from post pigtail syndrome :)

Jane's Birthday. We had cupcakes at the pool -- and yes they were real cupcakes (no tofuti or anything :)

We share a room with a cricket. We awake to it's chirping in the mornings. This has not improved my opinion of crickets.

I have grappled with myself over what to call this post. I have decided on

"It's the same shirt as last time and the last time she wore (or will wear) that shirt"

I recognize somewhere deep down inside of me that it couldn't possibly be the shirt. What shirt would make a person do that. None... it's ridiculous. But there is a part somewhere even deeper inside of me (the same part that forces me to wait inside of public restrooms for someone outside to open the door) -- a much stronger part of me I might add -- that doesn't care if it couldn't possibly be the shirt. It was, as the title said, the same shirt as last time and that's enough for me. It's pink (devil of a color) and terry cloth.

She wasn't wearing shorts to sleep (yes there is another part of me that recognizes that could be a big part of the problem) it's hot in our house so sometimes she's just in a t-shirt. I, once again, was napping nicely when I heard Jane make a noise in the other room. I, once again, went back to sleep for who knows how long until I heard her again. Eventually I woke up and went into her room and endured a real life flashback of the last time she took her diaper off and spread it on herself, the crib, the air... I'm breathing it in... Fecal Matter in my lungs... fecal matter everywhere... once again.

So below are some of the pics from our trip and an update below that.

	a very 'jane' expression'
	i like corn on the cob
	huh? also a jane expression :) (jane and 1 of cousins, wes.)