Oh are we in for it!

So I don't know if this will be interesting to any of you but I wanted to be able to say to my daughter one day when she is a bratty teenager 'See even in the womb you were difficult and stubborn!' :o)

We have now had four incidents where cooperation with this new child is necessary and all four have gone bust! I am already blaming her dad for her stubbornness! Back in the early stages of pregnancy we did the test they do for Down Syndrome. It is just a standard test they do here in New York so we thought why not. It requires a blood test and a ultrasound to measure the size of the baby's head (this is at 12 weeks pregnant if anyone cares). So I show up to the hospital with their high tech ultrasound machine and the baby is hiding it's face so the measurement couldn't be taken. After about an hour of prodding and poking to get it to move nothing. It would just push against the pokes and resume chewing on it's hand. UGH!!!

So last week we got to go have an Anatomic Scan. This is so we could find out what 'it' was (so thankful we can stop calling it that). She was in perfect position to determine it was a girl. So that was good news. But they also get photos of all the major organs and body parts to confirm she is developing correctly. Oh guess what Missy miss I am too good to be helpful turns herself to face my back and we could not get a scan of her heart, cord, or face. So I had to take yet another day off work to go back yesterday to get those vital parts of her body checked. I showed up yesterday confident that she will behave with a firm lecture ready for her if she tried anything funny! Ok it was 'pretty pretty please just move!'.... Well as you can guess she was not helpful at all. She was curled up in a ball with her knees tight to her chest fast asleep. Again after lots of prodding, poking, coughing we all just gave up. I can thankfully report that she is perfect and healthy but that a photo could not be produced. But I am left thinking.... OH my what are we in for!! :o)

It's a..........

It's a GIRL!!!!
Due June 26th. WAHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

The Year of the Ox

It's been awhile since I have posted anything. Time flies by huh! We have just been busy working and living life. It has been the coldest January I think I have ever seen. Only once has it reached a temperature above 30 degrees. New York is New York. Busy and crazy as usual. Oh and there was this plane crash not sure if anyone heard about that..... haha..


Saturday night the Stake did a celebration for Chinese New Year. We have a large Chinese branch on Canal Street. They had Chinese food and a Chinese program with the dancing lion. I am not sure if what it does is called dancing but it was interesting to see.



They also had these two little kids asking questions about The Chinese New Year. I wish I could have got a video of this little Chinese boy that should have his own game show. He would ask the question and then point at someone and yell 'COOOORRRRECT!' He had to be about five or six. Hilarious.....

Happy Hanukka!!!

Happy Holiday's to all. It is interesting to live in a city where Christianity is not the major religion. We now have a large Menorah outside our building. Also everyone is so politically correct by saying 'Happy Holidays' instead of Merry Christmas. Even the Consul General at my work wasn't sure if Mormon's celebrated Christmas so I got a 'Happy Holidays.... whatever you my celebrate!' Awkward...
We hope every one has a merry Christmas. And don't worry none of you were snubbed on Christmas cards this year. We just didn't bother with them! Rocky did not co-operate :o)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

Surprise Parental Visit

My mom sent me an email Thursday night last week to tell me that her and my dad would be coming into town on Monday. WOW! That is some short notice. They were only going to be here until Wednesday morning. Quick trip. My mom had a conference to attend on Tuesday so I took the day off to entertain my old man. I took him downtown to Wall Street. As he likes to say....... he wanted to visit to watch his 401K drop. Then I took him to the Sports Museum of America. It was pretty cool to see the Heisman Trophy and actual Olympic Metals. Afterward I took him to a great New York hot spot for lunch..... Subway. Yeah I am a bad tour guide.
Later that night once my mom was out of her conference we went to Times Square, Bryant Park, and then to see the play Spam-A-Lot. It was a funny show that starred Clay Aiken. I was pretty impressed with his acting. I wasn't expecting much but he is pretty good in it.

It was a fun but very quick visit. Thanks for coming Parents!

Happy Thanksgving....

I had the bright idea to go and see the balloons inflate for the Macy's Thanksgiving day Parade. You can go the night before and watch them fill them up and sand bag them down. They do it on 81st and Broadway where the parade starts. That is pretty close to where we live. Just a few blocks walk. So I got home from work got the camera and went off. This is what I found....

Thousands and thousands of people crammed into police rails. I don't know if anyone knows this but there are two things I hate the most about this city. Crowds and Tourists. So a crowd of tourists is my worst nightmare!! I swear there was about 5 kids for every adult and for each of those kids a stroller. UGH!! But they make it so once you get in you can't get out until you get to the very end. So I pushed my way through like any good New Yorker! Here are some of the balloons that were up when I arrived...

I also finally found a dog that is bigger then Rocky....

I think that maybe Horton drew the short stick because he had to spend the whole night with his trunk here......That can not be nice with all those onion Shrek eats! The whole thing was almost like going to a Zoo for cartoon animals... Anyway it was a nice Thanksgiving and we hope it was nice for everyone else! I can't wait for Christmas now.... :0)

Solitary Man

One fun thing about living in Manhattan is that we get to see movie filming's all over the place. We have had two shooting in front of our building in the past week. Yesterday Adam got some photos of the one going on. I guess the movie is called 'Solitary Man' and stars Danny Devito, Michael Douglas, Mary Louise-Parker, and Susan Sarandon. Although he didn't get to see any celebs himself it is still fun to watch the set up of the production. It is amazing what they go through to get a 2 minute shot for a movie. The other movie that was there we were told was a Scarlett Johansson movie. It is always fun to see those movies and get to see our apartment building so that will be exciting.