Catching up

We had Bertie's second birthday.  Just a small affair with family, pizza and cake.  Bertie had a good time, and got some nice gifts.

My mom was here for 2 blissful weeks.  I love having her here, and Bertie does too.  We always have fun together.  We went to the aquarium on day with my dad.  Bertie loved it!  It's fun to see my parents together again too.  Like we get to play the happy family, which we actual are now.  Funny, how divorce can make things better for everyone.  And, unlike make divorced couples, they can actual hang out, and be friends.
(Sometimes I feel guilty that I'm the stay at home parent.  Some days Bertie and I have so much fun.  I know I'd be jealous if the situation was reversed).

I ordered my bridesmaid dress today.  Well, skirt.  I'm pretty excited, because I'll actually be able to wear it again.  But it's going to take til mid April to get here.  :-/

I've been keeping up with my exercise.  I've only missed one day so far this year.  I want to concentrate more on running.  But I've been really tired lately, which makes 6am running hard.  I tried a beginning plyometrics workout today.

 But, I've been eating like crap lately.  Lots of sugar, lots of diet coke.  And I've been more flexitarian than vegetarian.

My friend Brianon had her baby yesterday.  She had a lot similarities to Bertie's birth.  Emergency c-section, babies in NICU.  I wish I could be there to help out and meet baby Henry.

We finally got some rain today.  It's supposed to continue for a while.

Thanksgiving

We had a nice holiday weekend.  Brianon and Thomas came by to visit on Wednesday.  It was really great to see them, since it had been a year or so.
On Thursday we slept in.  And spent the morning bumming around.  Aaron did some raking.  At 2:45 we walked down to the in-law's house.  At the moment we walked into the kitchen, I remembered I didn't make the corn casserole!  So we ran back home and made it, it took about 45 minutes.  We walked back, my dad was already there. (We were a small group this year: Aaron, me, Bertie, Janet, Dennis, dad, grandma, and Aaron's aunt Judy.  Sophie and Ken had issues with his folks, Lewis and Sarah were with her family, and I'm not sure what the Guetschow girls were up to).  We were almost ready to eat when Janet realized she hadn't cooked the dressing.  Dinner was good.  We let Bertie feed himself.  He liked the sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes.  He had a little bit of turkey and some bread.  He had a good time.  (He was 9 months old that day too). It was also the first time Bertie laughed without being tickled.  Something about Judy was
making him laugh.  It was adorable.

After we finished eating, we took pictures.

Four generations

Three generations

Two generations

We had decided that we weren't going to go Grey Thursday, or Black Friday shopping.  But we woke up at 9 on Friday and changed our minds.  Actually Aaron changed his, but I'm always up for a shopping trip.  We went to Oakridge and got a spot right in front of Sears.  Aaron wanted to go to Old Navy, specifically.  We found some good deals.  As we were ready to leave, Bertram fell asleep, so we walked around more, so he could get a nap.

 Shopping companion

Different outfit (stripes on strips), he wet through the overalls from the previous picture

Later in the day we drove to Redwood City to see Trish and Rob(Aaron's bio-mom and her hubby), since they were in town visiting family.  They brought gifts for baby.  We opened two gifts, a nice new outfit, a singing puppy where you press his hands, or ears or tummy, etc. And a couple other little toys, a ball, and a Gumby and Pokey.

Saturday we slept in a little bit.  I woke up to this:

I didn't even remember that Bertie was in bed with me, and usually if he is, he's attached to the teat.  He was next to me, and Yoie was next to him.  It was really cute.

Then we spent the day cleaning the house, since my mom and stepdad will be here on Tuesday!

Bertie helped.

Today we went to church with Janet and that side of the family.  Baby Michael was baptized.  In the afternoon we went to lunch at the Boiling Crab with Trish and Rob.

It was a really good weekend, but my depression was still hitting me really hard.