"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..."

Okay, so even though I just wrote all about Thanksgiving - we decieded THIS was THE weekend to put up the Christmas Tree. I had been waiting 7 months for this...b/c once the decorations go up....that means the baby comes out - yay!!! And the house HAS to smell yummy, so I baked some cookies for the decoration night.

Did you hear that baby?.....the tree is up, so now you can officially come out! Come out, we can't wait to see you! Hmmmm....I don't think it's working....



A bit harder to bend over when you got a belly full of boy! This year we also had several of Grandma Rosie's decorations to add to our tree, and will pass these down through our new family when the time comes. We even had a Christmas CD playing in the background - but it was a poor quality burnt CD and kept making strange crackling sounds. After our eardrums couldn't take it anymore, the xmas music was replaced by Simon and Garfunkle...the next closest thing to Chirstmas music?!
James sorting out the lights. Oh! Did I mention that we got our pregnancy photos proofs back? They look AWESOME - I mean, so gorgeous. Now we have to sort out which ones we want to get printed. It's the first time James and I have had professional photos taken with each other - and can't wait to do it again. The photos almost had me in tears - yeah, that sounds super cheesy, and perhaps it's the hormones, but they just look so good. I'm glad that I got them taken a few weeks ago, b/c now that there's only 4 WEEKS LEFT, I'm feeling really big and yucky. I didn't feel like this until I saw some photos James took of me tonight. He keeps saying that it's just baby, and it's normal....but I don't know...I'm looking pretty fat right now (I'm obviously not showing you the FAT photos). So I think I'm going to try and be careful what I eat the next few weeks.
This is called a pahutekawa (spelling?) tree. They call it the 'NZ Christmas tree' b/c it blooms around the holidays and it bright red and green. They actually look quite cool. This week we've got an ultrasound - had to push it back a week, and also a Dr's appointment. Can't wait to see what our son looks like - and hopefully they will be able to tell me how big he is. Don't want that head getting too big now...