awwww!

(cole's eyes really pop out here!)

we got a printer on monday, so now we can FINALLY print off cole's monthly photos! if i remember correctly,the last ones that actually got printed were his 5-month ones. so... i have been busy catching up! i took his 9-month pictures yesterday... i wanted to use bubbles in it because he loves bubbles and usually gets giggly when he sees them, but not yesterday. so, we ended up with a bubble-less photo, but oh well. i didn't post it because i AM going to send them out. why spoil it? :)

(this one just makes me laugh...)

anyway, i hope everyone had a good memorial day! this will remind mom and dad of their trip out here: on monday, we all hemmed and hawed around and finally decided to go see the tabletop wilderness. great idea... in theory! we drove around, looked left and right, and didn't find this thing. no signs, no nothing. but we did see some pretty country! we also made sure that dan and ruby got to see shamrock dairy. they have 10,000 cows, and they milk them 24/7. i've never seen so many cows in one spot! as it turns out, everything happens for a reason, and it was a good thing we decided to do what we did, because after we left shamrock on our way to see the non-existant tabletop wilderness, we met an suv on the road. the suv was ON FIRE!!!! there was a big ball of fire underneath it with flames flying out as he drove along... we made a pretty quick u-turn and by the time we caught up with him, he had just pulled over onto the shoulder. kelvin had a fire extinguisher in the truck, so we quickly unstrapped cole's carseat and pulled it out from under the seat. someone else from the trailer park across the road came running with another one about the same time, but it was empty, so it was really lucky that we had ours! from what kelvin and dan could gather, they guessed that the gas line had worn through. or something like that. the sad thing about the whole situation was that while kelvin, dan and the driver were all gathered around the suv, extinguisher going and smoke pouring from under the vehicle, a cop drove by. never stopped, didn't even slow down. nice. not long after, though, a different cop pulled up. he was really young, probably fresh from academy so he still had common courtesy... anyway, nobody got hurt, so that was good.

as for my pregnancy, everything is still going well. i have started feeling a bit icky at night... that's how it was with cole. at least i can sleep through most of it. unless cole gets up, like he did last night (he caught a cold from grandma ruby), then i REALLY feel it. at least my tummy stays where it's supposed to. it's just a little uncomfortable, nothing major. seems i get lucky with all that! my energy levels are amazingly high, which is good... with cole on the move now i don't really have a choice! anyway, i did some looking online at motherhood maternity... $5 shipping for all orders, some good sales, i think i may have to do some ordering soon!