I finally caught Small Fry in action this week. Here’s his first home video, starring Small Fry as “Alien”. Hopefully the extra large, flesh colored planet that the video was filmed on doesn’t scar anyone for life.
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I finally caught Small Fry in action this week. Here’s his first home video, starring Small Fry as “Alien”. Hopefully the extra large, flesh colored planet that the video was filmed on doesn’t scar anyone for life.
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Small Fry’s room is officially finished so he can now arrive any time he wants (and for the sake of my back and my ribs, the sooner the better now that we’re full term at 37 weeks). This little boy is going to love elephants. Check out the cute elephant pictures Shannon made for him above the glider. Sorry grandma, no donkeys, but we’ll make sure he gets his enough liberal influence to counteract the effect of all of those elephants.
Shannon and mom threw me a fabulous baby shower last weekend. Shannon went above and beyond with the elephant theme decorations and tasty food! It was wonderful to get together with such a great group of women to celebrate Small Fry. Thanks to all of you for coming and sharing the day with us! I was especially glad that Arlene and my mom were both able to be there, despite last minute illnesses…it wouldn’t have been the same without either of you. Thanks to everyone for making it such a special day.
One of the perks of being 7 months pregnant…you always have a table no matter where you are!
If anyone ever meets the person who invented the babymoon, please let me know because I’d like to buy her a boat drink. We just got back from an amazing trip to Kauai to celebrate Small Fry’s passage into the third trimester (pictures here). Kauai is beautiful and we’d highly recommend a trip there if you get the chance. The island isn’t as commercialized as the other Hawaiian islands we’ve been to and it wasn’t too hard to avoid masses of tourists. We did run into some tourist traps (ie. Queen’s Bath), but these were definitely the minority. Our top 10 favorite things about our trip:
The only problem with the babymoon that nobody warned me about was the difficulty of making complicated travel plans with baby brain. Usually I can claim that I inherited my dad’s Master Trip Planner abilities. This time, the rental car reservation I thought I had made never went through, I scheduled our return interisland flight for the wrong day and I forgot to cancel our first hotel reservation so we got charged for a night there. Yikes! We managed to fix all of my little boo boos, but I don’t think I’ll be putting myself in charge of making travel plans for a long time.
Hugo is enjoying his last few months of being our fuzzy baby. Pretty soon he’ll just be the animal that we feed…I don’t think he knows what’s coming. Maybe he’ll start being nicer to the neighbors and their pets once he stops getting so spoiled at home.
PS – thanks mom and dad for the awesome stroller!!
We had a great visit from Thad this weekend. The boys had lots of quality guy time shooting shot guns and watching UFC, but we managed to squeeze in some family fun too. Luckily, the weather cooperated so we could have a Sunday afternoon BBQ and test out Sam’s fancy new camera – more photos here.
Next time hopefully Sara and Jack will come too!
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Welcome to samandcara.com. We’ve created this website to share news from our growing family with all of our favorite people, near and far. As you probably already know, we’re expecing a baby boy this Thanksgiving. I’m sure this site will get much more exciting once he arrives. Until then, we’ll practice our blogging skills so we’re ready to go on day 1. Hope you enjoy!