December's 1st Haircut!

One of December's last pictures with all of her baby hair!

Here's the length of December's hair right before I gave it a trim last night!

I decided to cut December's hair in the bathtub, because that's how my friend Naomi cuts little Noah's hair and it seems to work out well for them! It did work out great. December just played with toys while I trimmed away.

Our little Statue of Liberty. She's all finished her haircut and is holding up the comb I was using. She looks pretty excited about it!

While I was holding the scissors, working on the back of her head, December would turn around and say, "Mommy? You cutting my hair??" I hadn't even told her what I was doing, so she put that all together by herself. I love how December is learning more and more words and putting together longer sentences.

This is about how much I cut off her hair. It'll be her little lock of hair that goes in the baby book. Putting hair in a baby book still kind of weirds me out, but when she grows up I want to show her that she had blonde hair when she was little! (Since I'm almost completely certain her hair is going to darken at some point.)

Here's the "after" shot! Her hair is now about shoulder-length...and nearly all of it is the same length, which is something she's never had before! Just her bangs are a different length now, which we're growing out.

Swimming Pool

A few days ago, it was nice and warm here, so December got to go swimming! She loves playing in the water.

Filling up the swimming pool...

And then December made Grammie do about five hundred trips in and out of the house to get warm water! "Too cold, too cold!" she'd say. Grammie sure must love December to lug all of that water out of the house!

Finally it was the right temperature for December to get in.

She looks a little lonely in there, doesn't she?! She apparently thought the same thing too, so I changed into my bathing suit and "swam" with her.

Calgary Stampede

We went to the Calgary Stampede about a week ago. We had a blast! We rode the C-train (the transit train) in, and December absolutely loved that. The first thing we did when we arrived on the Stampede grounds was go to see the Superdogs -- a show where the dogs run, jump, do tricks, race against each other, etc. Here's December with Daddy, absolutely enthralled.

After that, we went to the Kids' Midway and got some ride tickets. We let December choose which rides she wanted to go on! Her first choice (which she was quite adament about) was this little train ride that just went around in a circle.

She was thrilled about this little train!

December and Brad were at the front of the line, so they got to get into the first car, a pink one, which suited December just fine! Pink is her current favorite color.

Next December chose to go on the swings. She liked this at first, but then started crying as the swing rose higher and higher.

Then she chose to go on the "a-go-ga-ter ride"(alligator ride), which is basically the teacups. Again, she was happy at first, but then I started to hear screams whirl past me from a certain alligator that held Brad and December. But each time she got off a ride, she was excited and chose a different one to try!

The last ride was the carousel. She liked this one so much she went on it twice! First with Brad...

...and then with me.

After the rides tuckered us out, we went and saw a Clydesdale horse show. December LOVED this! They hooked up 8 Clydesdales to a wagon and then made them thunder around the arena.

After that was the magician show -- which was possibly December's favorite event. Brad had really wanted to see a magician, and I was certain December would be bored, but she was COMPLETELY into it!

She sat just like this and stared. She'd get highly concerned when the "mommy" went into the box and disappeared. "Where'd the mommy go?" she'd ask. December was very relieved when the mommy appeared again. She was also concerned when the magician hooked himself into handcuffs and couldn't get out ("He stuck! Oh no! He need help!" she said.)

The last thing we did before we came home was look at some of the farm animals. December liked this, too, but we pushed her stroller right up to a sheep kennel, and the sheep shouted "BAAAA!" right in front of her face and scared the daylights out of her. So then she cried.

The Stampede was great fun, though! We all had a good time, and I was sad to leave. There's so much to do there, and there was something for each one of us!

Ultrasound of the New Baby

If you click on these pictures, they get nice and big -- and clearer!

Today was the ultrasound for the new baby...here are some pictures! It was pretty incredible. This picture doesn't show it, but the baby DOES have legs, too!

The baby had hiccups during the sonogram, which was pretty cute to watch. He/she was moving ALL over the place, the ultrasound tech said. We're having another active baby like December! I had guessed as much, though, because of all of the many squirms and kicks I feel.

Here's the little tiny face. The baby is only about 6 inches long right now. We could have found out the gender today, but we decided not to! I asked the tech if she knew what the gender was, and she said, "Oh, yes. I know exactly what you're having." She's the only privileged one to know -- the rest of us won't find out for four and a half more months!

Here's the baby waving hello.

I love this picture -- you can see the hand SO clearly! And you can see his/her head on the right side of the picture, and the curled-up legs on the left side of the picture.

This ultrasound put the baby at 20 weeks today -- but according to my due date (Dec. 1), the baby would be turning 20 weeks on Monday. So that means the baby measured to be a bit older than what we had thought. The ultrasound guessed his/her due date to be November 27 (which is Thanksgiving Day). But these things aren't always accurate, and for now the due date of December 1 still stands -- but I won't be surprised if the baby tries to come before then!