Ooohhh, Baby!

Pressure's on and I am finally releasing the dreaded profile shot. 19.5 weeks...halfway there!

Our ultrasound was today and the verdict is: GIRL! I've wanted a girl from the beginning and haven't been shy about that, but then the last week or so I realized "I don't really care." Then, I heard the doc say "Girl," and it turns out I really was hoping for pink! Brady and I both predicted boy, so apparently we have no intuition about these things.

Mr. Zac wanted a turn with the profile shot:

"Don't mess with my sister."

Zachary is a little kisser these days. He wakes me up every morning with a kiss smack on my lips, and he isn't shy showing affection for our little 11 oz wonder.

The doctor said he had a Halloween surprise waiting for us--the 3D images of baby girl. I guess we are blinded by love, because I'm telling you these pictures almost made me cry. It's a good thing Zac was there doing everything in his power to distract us--pulling on my toes, opening the curtain, and asking everyone to "Look!" at whatever he was doing.

I promise these are the only ultrasound pics we will post, but seriously, we are in love.

Baby Kate:

Huge head:

Thumbs up!

All day long, I've been so excited I can't think about anything else. It's been a long road to this point, and I finally feel that sigh of relief (that won't come fully until she's here!). 20 more weeks doesn't seem bad at all, but ask me again 15 weeks from now.

North Shore Navigation

A couple weeks ago we mentioned to Nic and Heidi that we wanted to kayak the north shore rivers. They kept us from being "all talk" and we went last weekend. It was a beautiful day with plenty of sunshine, which is definitely a plus when you are on the river in the chilly water.

This was Shay and Ty's first kayak trip. The kiddos all started by getting powered up with Gogurts.

The great thing about Brady is he doesn't make me do any prep work for kayak trips. It's kind of a pain to get the thing all set up, strapped in, etc. I just watch and occasionally snap a photo.

Ty kept doing actions, and Shay and Zac would mimic every little thing.
Here's the first river: Kalihiwai. It starts at a gorgeous north shore beach, and supposedly travels up to a waterfall. About one mile in, the river turned into a stream, and we could go no further. We will wait for some rainfalls and try this one again.
The Kalihiwai beach we will definitely go to sometime soon. I guess the surf gets pretty nice here. Brady will love it.

We couldn't go home after only a couple miles of kayaking, so we did the Hanalei river, too (but only after getting the best shave ice we've had here). There were fish jumping all over the place and the backdrop was gorgeous--mountains with water falls (and power lines, but forgive that...Kauai does not hide power lines underground). We actually decided that Hanalei river is the one you should do when you visit.





Zac loved taking a turn with the paddle, but we had to give him a time limit or the current would turn us around (and you know, it just takes forever when the 2 year old paddles). At one point, he got impatient and wanted to grab it back from me. I told him, in my very rational parenting voice, that if he did it again I would put him in the cold water. He did it, and I started picking him up to dip him in. He freaked out, stopped what he was doing, and I was quickly delivered from an empty threat.

If I didn't feel weird about sending out a swimsuit picture, I might use this one at Christmas.
We made it to the bridge and then turned around. I don't know why, but this bridge makes me feel sentimental.
I had to blog this today to make me feel better about our current weekend. Brady worked, and we followed the BYU v. TCU and the OSU v. Wisconsin games last night. Bummer. Best football stat of the day, even beating out Wisconsin's opening (and sadly, scoring) play:

BYU's offensive yards in the first half: 13.

Go Cougs.