Gobble, Gobble

The three of us headed west to South Bend for Thanksgiving. Sebastien did pretty well sitting in Dan's lap for the 3 hr flight. Some of the highlights of our trip are pictured below. On Thanksgiving Day, there were 50+ Walsh relatives at Sue & Dave Walsh's house for Thanksgiving.

Below: Olivia and Christopher Lapinski & Sebastien play in the Szakaly's basement.

Grammy had all kinds of neat toys for Sebastien. He especially liked to lug around these little chairs.
Below: Sebastien with Aunt Cristin & Uncle Brian. Sebastien LOVED Aunt Cristin and cried when she left the room. (Monet can be seen too!)

Thanksgiving #2 was held at Tom & Hetty Cohen's on Saturday. Here Hetty helps Isaic and Sebastien on the rocking horse.

Isaic & Sebastien

Kim & Gina: preggos

The Szakaly family

Dan Turns 29!

In a rare turn of events, I am updating my blog mid weekend, which almost never happens. Usually I wait until I get back to work on Monday, but seeing as how I have the next week off (yeah!) and Sebastien slept over at Grandma & Grandpa's in Dracut, this morning was the perfect time. Here are some pictures from recent events. We went to visit the O'Donnell family on Wednesday night so that I could borrow some maternity clothes. (Yes, I am starting to actually need them.) Sebastien & Luke had fun staying up until 9:30 playing. They have a love/hate relationship. One second they are hugging and the next second they are hitting each other. It keeps their parents on their toes!

Below: Daddy snuck these pictures of Mommy & Sebastien playing on the slide yesterday. Sebastien would say "up" when he wanted mommy to put him on the slide.

Below: Last night. The birthday boy at his surprise group dinner.

Group shot from dinner. We went to Cobblestone's in Lowell, MA so Dan could have oysters. Kim surprised herself by eating an entire huge plate of prime rib. I think baby girl likes her red meat.

Definitely a girl

Dan & I had a 3D/4D ultrasound done on Saturday morning and are happy to say that baby #2 is definitely a girl. Kim liked the 3D ultrasounds, but Dan prefers the regular ones. Most 3D ultrasounds only really look good if the baby is well into the 3rd trimester, because otherwise the baby looks a bit skinny and frail, but that's what's normal at this stage (22 weeks) so that didn't bother me.

Here are some 3D pictures:

Below: Side view. The umbilical cord is looped right in front of her face, blocking a good profile shot.

Legs, and arms, and cord...oh my!

Below: face with her right arm lying over her body

Yawn!

Snuggly little girl

Below: foot propped up on knee

Below: 22 week belly

Below: Gwynnie's new hairdo...with bows! The new groomer said she is a challenge to groom though and requests I get a tranquilizer from the vet for next time. Poor Gwyn.

Below: video of the baby from the ultrasound. She moves more toward the end.

Everyday fall life...and a hike with cub scouts

It was another nice weekend here. Saturday was clear and chilly and Sunday was clear and warm. On Saturday Dan built new steps in the basement while Sebastien and I tried to rake some leaves. We didn't get very far before I got tired of raking three times, then chasing Sebastien, raking 3 more times, and geting Sebastien, over and over again. Oh well. I'm hoping to do a lot this week during my lunch breaks. Below is a picture of milk before bedtime. Sebastien has become a fan of making us read the same story over and over again to him. When we get near the end of the book he says "Ah-da! Ah-da!" which means "again! again!" (and it also means "all done" so you can see how confusing that becomes.)

Satruday morning he is bundled up while mommy rakes.
Sebastien headed for the stairs to the back porch. This is one of the reasons I had to keep chasing him. Gwynnie watches in amusement.

Falling asleep mid PB&J.

Sunday morning we went hiking with our friend Rick, his son, and a pack of cub scouts. Rick has a friend from work who invited us along. Below is a picture of how excited Sebastien was to go hiking. All we did was set his backpack carrier on the floor and Sebastien sat on top of it ready to go.

Below: Dan carrying Sebastien & Rick carrying Luke.

Not the best family picture, but the sun was really bright!

Later that night, Sebastien tries to walk Gwynnie. Mostly that means Gwynnie walks around and Sebastien follows holding the leash.

It's a.....GIRL!! (with a bit of uncertainty)

We had our 20 week (halfway) ultrasound today and baby is looking good. When it came down to determining the gender though, the baby's legs were crossed. The ultrasound tech and us could not see any distinct boy parts between the legs so we believe it to be a girl! Yeah! However, the ultrasound tech says we should save our receipts just in case. So my excitement over a girl is a bit surpressed because we can't be entirely sure. It's probably not a smart idea to paint the walls of the baby's room pink or purple, but I will use girly accents and save the packaging in case they need to be returned. The good news is, IF it turns out to be a boy, we have all of Sebastien's old clothes. Check out the pictures below. The first is a profile of the head. The second is the face from the front (although it looks like a scary skeleton head).

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! We decided just to trick-or-treat at our neighbor's houses around us instead of hitting the whole neighborhood. Sebastien loved grabbing into people's candy dishes but did NOT like it when they took them away. He was also more interested in filling his bucket with leaves than candy. We passed out candy afterwards. Again, Sebastien loved seeing the kids come to the door, but whimpered when they'd leave. What a difference between this Halloween and last Halloween when Sebastien was 6 weeks old!

Below: playing around the house

Below: Sebastien usually hates wearing hats but for some reason he loves my pink fleece hat. He wore it around the house yesterday morning for about an hour.