Soren, Meet 'Sophie'

This evening my parents, my niece, Soren, and I went to the General Store in Minnetonka to do some holiday shopping. I absolutely LOVE this place, the bottom floor looks like Christmas exploded, and the top floor is all sorts of cool knick-knack gifty stuff. The place is HUGE! Last year we went and I had just found out I was pregnant, and was nauseous most of the time. This year Soren was in his stroller and squealing for most of the 2 hours we were there...he was definitely a fan! One of the neat things they have here are ornaments that you can have personalized for free while you shop. Here's last year's ornament grab:

And this years:

I still want to find a "Baby's 1st Christmas" ornament where I can put his picture in it, I'm gonna do a hunt online since they didn't have one in the store.

I have been eyeing this popular "Sophie" the Giraffe, which is basically a glorified squeaky rubber giraffe. I finally bit the bullet and bought it (at an outrageous price). BUT, after seeing Soren play with Sophie for the first time, I would say it was well worth the money:

For whatever reason, Soren woke up about an hour after I had put him down for bed tonight. While he was sleeping during that hour, Brian and I set up the tree. When he woke up I HAD to come show him our first family Christmas tree all decorated. He was too sleepy though :-(


Just a couple more days before work starts, and I have a to-do list about a mile long. Thanks for all the ideas on the last post, they're all very helpful!

One Year Ago Today

The post below is from one year ago today (transferred from my IF blog):


"So I didn't test this morning...I thought, psshhh it's too early, why waste the money on a (expensive) test? Then I went to sit down to pee about 30 mins. ago and remembered I had some cheapie pregnancy tests. I thought, hey it will be negative, but at least then I can blame it on the cheapie, and I can still keep hope alive. And this is what I saw...



I thought no way, that must have been an OPK, but I looked at the packaging, and it said pregnancy test. Then I was like, no way, I'm just seeing things. Wait, holy shit, maybe I'm not! I still had cup of urine, so I took out one of the good ones. First, nothing showed up, but then, if you look real hard, you see:

It's still early, and it wasn't my first morning's pee, but holy shit ya'll!!!!! I can't even think straight right now!!! Beta on Wednesday!!! Oh- if you know me in real life, please keep your mouth shut until we get our beta confirming. I want some time to think about this and when we will tell people, but I just couldn't hold it in any longer and you guys have been so supportive!!! (Click on picture to make it bigger, tilt laptop screen)"

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I made this scrapbook page detailing that day (Click to enlarge and read):

Our little miracle has been the light of our lives. This would be the 2nd best day of our lives (1st being when he was born). We love you Soren Alan, you truly are our little miracle.