It's Baby Time!

On Saturday, my sweet, sweet friends threw me a baby shower at Marmalade Cafe. It was so much fun to be there with all my lovely ladies chewing the fat and chewing the chow. (ha ha, that sounds wierd.) I had a super yummy egg fritatta with tons of crunchy veggies and potatoes. Delish! Sophie came along and even bought a gift for the baby with her very own money. She really wanted to be a part of things. Doug's mama came in town for a quick visit this weekend so she got to come along, too!

Anyway, everyone was so generous and wonderful, i just felt very loved. And now I am armed with everything i need for this baby to come. So exciting! Thanks, everyone!!

p.s. Jen gave the kids these adorable shirts and both of them wore them all day Saturday and I think Sophie wore hers to school this morning. They love them!

Moped Rally

Even though I have ventured out on the Puch's for lunch with Doug,I thought it best to sit out last Saturday's 100 mile moped rally.



Too bad. It looks like I would have fit in quite nicely.

Owen Art

Owen's version of our family. Note my pregnant belly and his friend Luke that has shown up in most of his family drawings lately. I think he really wants a brother.

treasures!

My grandma turns 80 this April and for the big birthday we are all meeting in Utah, having lunch and giving her a really cool photo book that i'm putting together. (She just very recently got an answering machine and has no access to the internet so I think it's safe to assume that posting this won't be a huge spoiler.)

Anyway, my uncle sent over a package with pics from the early 50's. I have never seen them or any others like it so when i opened them up i felt like I had disovered a treasure box of history. My mom and her brother are 11 months apart...oh, they are so cute!

WARNING: Bare Flesh Ahead!

yeah, so there's the 9 month belly. I told Doug i'd never post that so he'd have to figure out how to do it himself. crap. I didn't think he'd bother trying to get it up there. I also promised him i wouldn't delete it. Sorry, mom. (She's going to cringe when she sees that big ole fleshy belly.)

PREGO!

Never fear...Owen and Grandma are Here!

A few weeks ago, Doug shot the pilot to a kids show called "Aquabats." It's a pretty funny show that involves a band, a giant radioactive tortilla destroying a village in Mexico (or something to that effect) and 5 super-heroes called the Aquabats. .

Here are two of the five...




Can't you just see these two fighting for the freedom of ninos everywhere?

funny bits from this past week.

Story #1

Sunday, just as we were coming in the door after church:

Owen: Mama, how did the baby get in your tummy?

Sophie: Ooooh.. ya mom, how did the baby get there? (big ole snicker...)

Mom: Hey, that is a great question, Owen. And i know dad has a great answer for you.

Dad: Well, son...(then he ran away and hid in his bedroom closet.)

Mom: Owen, Mom's have eggs and Daddy's have sperm. And when an egg and a sperm get together, it makes a baby.

Soph: But Mom, how do they get together? How does the sperm meet the egg? Huh? HUH? ha, ha, ha.

Mom and dad at the same time: Sophie! (Of course, she's known everything from about age 7.)

Dad: Milk before meat, Soph.

I went back into their room and found a book i remember from my childhood, "You Were Smaller Than a Dot." I love this book. Its so 70's and so very simple and wonderful. I put it on the table and said, read this. I'll be back in just a few minutes and we can talk about it.



I went and changed out of my church clothes and by the time i came back he was nearly done. He just sat there reading about how babies are made. I got a little snack and sat down next to him and we got everything all sorted out...on a 5 year old, Owen level. Sorry, Soph. I know you'd love to be the spoiler, but I'm sure we'll get to that really big question someday.

p.s. Doug did not actually run away and hide in his closet. I just thought it sounded funnier that way.

Story #2

Doug booked a low budget commercial this week for some new contacts. He hates doing this kind of thing because he has to pull a bunch of favors on camera and crew and it usually turns into a big headache. However, he didn't have anything else going on this week and since we do have a baby on the way, some money is better than nothing, so he went for it. The product is for Wrigley Gum on the Fox Sports Network.

Well, he met the director (a pompous guy who's done some mediochre work) and the producer who seemed like a total knob. Appparently, he was pretty clueless and was making some really dumb / rookie type decisions. All red flags, of course, but Doug stayed with it. I have no idea what the concept is or the tag line or anything, but they wanted a bunch of urban people hanging out outside a liquor store.

They went on the location scout, found their liquor store and whatever else. The next day he gets a call from the producer who said the job was cancelled. Not totally out of the ordinary but if an agency books and then cancels the shoot, they have to pay everyone anyway. So most people don't like to do it very often.

Well, apparently Wrigley found the casting call online that went something like this:

"Hoochie Mamas needed for a Wrigley/Fox Sports Network commercial spot."

Are you kidding me? Hoochie mamas? He really published that? Ha ha. that's funny!

Apparenly, Wrigley didn't like that and fired him... and the director. Tough lesson,guys.

And let that be a lesson for doug, too. If they look and smell like a disaster, they probably are.