3 car seats in the back seat

Meet Mia Jane Stoker

Born 11/21/08 at 1:37 PM

5 pounds exactly

19 1/4 inches long

R is for...

Nathan (hands me my contact case): What is 'R' for?

Shan: It's for Right eye

Nathan: No, I think it's for "Arrrgh matey"

F is for...

Shan: I think over the last week or so my face has started looking fat

Brig: You aren't retaining water are you?

Shan: No, and my blood pressure is still low

Brig: So you are just retaining fat?

34 weeks and counting

A belly shot...this is so you can imagine the following pictures inside my rapidly growing belly.

To get the full effect, imagine this as an action shot with her kicking and wiggling like crazy. At my last ultrasound (on Friday) I told the ultrasonographer that she didn't didn't have to tell me where everything was, because I could tell: feet in my right hip, bottom wiggling around the left side of my belly, head down, with an occasional hand sweeping around.  I was right. The ultrasonographer told me she seemed feisty.  I agree.
I guess she has some hair already, too.

Current stats: weight 4 lbs 10 oz (17 percentile).  They are guessing she'll be about 6 1/2 pounds or so at birth.  I still outweigh Brig.

On the 3rd day of Halloween....October 31st

This morning when I asked Nathan if he knew what day it was, he said, "what?" I told him it was Halloween and he laughed and excitedly asked, "Again?"  Yes, we've done a lot of Halloween activities in the last little while, but today is OFFICIALLY the last day of Halloween at the Stoker house.

Ready
Set

Go!!!

Nathan held Scarlett's hand almost the whole time......

......until we got to a house.  Then Nathan wanted to stay back by Mom and Dad and Scarlett wanted to run up to the door and knock, and knock, and knock until someone answered
We ran into our good friends Makayla and Declan while we were out
Then it was off to a Halloween Party for all of us!

On the 2nd Day of Halloween...October 30th

Carving pumpkins

....eating pumpkins

....posing punkins. If you look closely you might be able to tell that Nathan's is a "pumpkin pumpkin" and Scarlett's is a "kitty pumpkin"
....and the astronaut and "tat tat meow" trunk-or-treating at the ward carnival

Just the beginning of Halloween

The skeletons in their PJs. You might be able to tell that I had to wake Scarlett for this photo
Halloween isn't complete without baking and decorating sugar cookies...
Scarlett was definitely into the cookie making
After I made the frosting I divided it into three bowls: one for orange, one for green, and one for yellow colored icing.  Nathan said, "OK. I want the blue bowl." Not meaning that he wanted some blue frosting, meaning that he thought I was dividing the frosting to eat out of bowls like a bowl of cereal....
My sister drove down from Philadelphia with her 3 girls (the youngest only 5 weeks old!)...we had lots of fun at the pumpkin patch
Scarlett giggled the whole time she fed the goats. Nathan refused to even try. I'm pretty sure I saw Scarlett pick up some corn from the mud-trampled ground and eat it herself. It probably fell out of the goat's mouth.