31 days: splish splash

coleman did not have much exposure to the beach or pool prior to our beach trip this year (i mean, other than the prior year's beach trip). the vacation began with a natural level of tentativeness. he liked the idea of the water, but just wasn't quite comfortable with all that water (and that it comes towards him). it didn't take him long (less than two days, actually) to completely change his tune.

we went from a tepid water watcher to an aggressive wave jumper! as a result, he loved any opportunity to swim after that. these two videos were taken at matt's brother's house on the fourth of july...just a few days after returning from our vacation.

you will notice the "thing" he's wearing (i have NO idea what it's called). this was recommended by one of matt's coworkers. i bought it but was 100% convinced that coleman would pitch a fit the first time we tried to put it on him. BOY, was i wrong. it was perfect. though it looks incredibly uncomfortable, it allows a great level of freedom (aka - flotation) and movement in the water. much better than the old school swimmies. 

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this post is part of  a thirty-one day series.

my goal is to get my story telling groove back.

photos + words = chronicles

find links to all the chronicles here

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video {coleman...our piano man}

during this lapse of *real* blog posts...here is something to keep you entertained...
taken during our stint at a hotel, coleman doing an interpretive dance (and occasional singing) to billy joel's piano man. i'm a bit biased, but i think this is hilarious.

video {coleman's sneaky walk}

 a couple of weeks ago, coleman started doing this weird walk. he looks like he's trying to be sneaky. he kept going around the coffee table doing it over and over again, so finally i tried to capture it on video (pardon the loud TV in the background).



if you have trouble viewing the video here, you can see it on the flickr site.

video {coleman and his odd noises}

this is the same meal as the video in the previous post...but a few minutes later. the screeching turned into this really odd thing. strange boy!

video {coleman screeching}

i took this video a few weeks ago while coleman was eating his supper. i have no idea what possessed him to do all of this screeching, but it was pretty humorous (or at least i thought so). be careful that the volume on your computer isn't up too high :)

video {Coleman's got a story to tell}

Just uploaded a cute video of Coleman ... took it just a short bit ago
click here to view

photos {the big reveal}

Today was our first ultrasound, and ultimately…The Big Reveal! We picked Spencer up from school and headed to our 3:00 appointment. The ultrasound was first and it was just awesome to see the baby in there, moving around. There was a lot of activity (possibly due to the Dr. Pepper I intentionally drank before hand). The ultrasound nurse was really great and showed us so much. She pointed out everything they look for and measure. She printed a ton of pictures and recorded a DVD. We told her we wanted her to seal the gender in an envelope for us. Here is our baby:

Next we met with Dr. Garcia and he took us through all of the important ultrasound photos as well. He was wonderful at explaining even more about them – what signs they look for when it comes to certain issues, and reassuring us that our baby seemed quite healthy. Even though the computer had measured me at only 17 weeks and 3 days, Dr. Garcia decided not to change my due date.

After a couple of very long hours, we met Chip, Sherry, Bo & Teddy for dinner at Red Bowl. With Teddy on video duty, we had Spencer open the envelope for the big reveal. It took him a minute to figure out where it was written on there, but he finally found it. And then he announced to all of us (with Michelle on speaker phone) that IT’S A BOY!!! You can see the video of the reveal here or it should show up at the bottom of this post. Here is the photo that *supposedly* proves we're having a boy.

Later we took our first official family photo. We made tons of phone calls that evening sharing our news with friends and family!!

Here is the video of "The Big Reveal"