My baby is not Skeletor!

So maybe you noticed that Corbett dropped the ball on the whole blog thing. I was telling him I was going to take it over and I think he got scared that I would girl it up too much, so he hurried and posted our baby news before I could get to it. Being a typical boy, he didn't think anyone would want to see naked baby, but the people have spoken! So here's our boy!
We saw a much better view of this, but the tech didn't take a picture at the exact moment. You can see the baby's foot/toes on the left, and the whiter circle on the left is his "turtle", as Dave has begun to say. I'm almost 21 weeks right now, and the baby is due August 8. He was not expected, but he's very welcome! We had given up our seat on "the emotional roller coaster" (as Dave calls it), and it's kind of funny that with all the drama we had last year that this pregnancy would happen so easily. But needless to say, we are EXCITED! I had morning sickness pretty much all day for the first few months, but more than that, I was SO tired. I would literally get home from school at 4:30 and be in bed by 5:00. I started to come back to life a couple of weeks ago, and was surprised to find out that it was already March. I was also surprised to find that my clothes didn't fit anymore! My belly is HUGE, people! At least people at work are figuring out now that it's because I'm pregnant and not because I ate too much ice cream.

But we have no idea what to name this baby! In fact, we are taking suggestions. So send us your best! Don't worry, Lemonjello is already at the top of the list (that's Le-MON-j'lo for those of you that don't know). Dave's vote is for Skeletor (yes, that is a picture of my baby's skull), but I'll only go for that as a middle name.

I'm not going to teach next year, but I am seriously considering starting a preschool. I think it would be very satisfying, so I hope it works out. I am going to miss teaching, but I am very excited to be a stay-at-home mommy and go to the bathroom when I need to instead of having to wait until recess.

Here's the baby's face and hand:

Baby Corbett likes to cross his ankles! How cute!
You can see his profile and chest here. You can even make out his little ears! I'm pretty sure I have the cutest baby EVER!

Lots of hard work

My dad flew down from Colorado during spring break to help me landscape the backyard. I took a whole week off of work, and we got busy. As you can see here, there is a whole lot of brown dirt, and nothing else. On Monday and Tuesday, we took a few trips down to a rock quarry and loaded up 5,000 pounds of boulders to create a rockwall along the back.

Little by little, the rocks turned into, as my dad calls them, "rockeries." We took a lot of breaks, shown above, because those boulders are frickin' heavy, and we are out of shape. We built some planters in the corners and made the rockwall along the back to add some color and texture.

Bailey supervised our work very closely. After 9-11, one cannot be too safe. So she and Little Man were careful to sniff every boulder for bombs. They often made the boulders their own, if you catch my drift.

For the next step on Wednesday, we dug out lines for a sprinkler system, pretended like we new what we were doing when putting the valves in, did a whole lot of measuring, and finally buried the lines where they should be. Believe it or not, the system actually works.

The first dump truck arrived on Thursday. It left 5 cubic yards of topsoil--really just AZ dirt mixed with steer manure. Several hours later, 5 inches of topsoil covered 500 sq. ft. of a lawn bed.

The second dump truck came on Friday. It dumped 5 tons of decorative rock by the side of our house. Friday was spent with shovels and wheelbarrows. The dogs added their own topdressing.

Saturday we rested. In one week's time we dug holes and ditches, placed 15,000 pounds worth of rock, spread a huge mound of topsoil, installed an irrigation system, and even squeezed in a little home teaching. The curbing people come today to make the division between rock and grass. All that's left is to lay the sod, but that isn't coming for another 10 days. I can't wait until it's all done.

Happy Day!

Some have requested baby news. Here it is: On March 16, 2007, we watched the ultrasound aimed straight down the gullet and saw our not-so-modest boy showing off his special parts for mommy and daddy. We had the ultrasound lady print a picture of the sordid view, and Cambrea wanted to post it for all to see, but we'll leave that decision up to our audience. Just post your request on the poll below. You can let us know if you want to see the goods.

Should Cambrea post the obscene picture of our little baby boy?
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