photo day...

ahhh, ear infections -- poor lad! and dustin has been sickly the past couple of days as well... our house is ill. but there's always time for a few photos.

oskar and daddy.

so serious.

lovely socks from kara!

sleepy monkey.

oskar and his uncle chris.

friday oskar will get his very first round of immunizations... we'll see how THAT goes.

crap.

no going to minot after all -- the wee oskar has the beginning of an ear infection, so traveling isn't the best idea for him. or us. or anyone on that plane.

so, so tired. will have to write more later when i'm not ready to pass out.

a momont to breathe ...

sitting on the bed, the boy has fallen asleep while leaning against me post bath.
let me explain the past 20 minutes...

1. boy spits up a HUGE amount of liquid.
2. i clean boy up. he then makes a HUGE diaper situation, most of which -- b/c of how he was sitting in my lap -- squirts out the back.
3. i clean the boy up.
4. boy screams, indicating that, yes, i DID forget to put the butt-cream on his diaper rash, and his urine hurts it,
5. i remove diaper and while squeezing nearly-empty tube onto my funger..
6. boy pees all over his legs and my foot.
7. i put water in his lil' tubby -- but too much, b/c once i put boy into tub, water comes out by the corners (note: get better baby tub) of the damn thing.
8. i take boy out of tub and do-over tub process.
9. i clean boy up.

now he is snoozing.


am done with work for the week -- actually going back to ND this weekend for a couple o' days... anyone have ant tips for flying with an infant?

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karilarson.blogspot.com

props to meg...

for sending me this photo of the obama rally!

my lovely friend bec has a video!

picture day!

thanks, aaron!

props to MB for this...

awww .....

a not-to-be-missed post...

... from Dustin... give it a look-see!

my beautiful, awesome girl.

terry loving the oskar...

baby legs and monkey feet...

he's a MANIAC, MANIAC on the floor...

a moment to catch my breath....

the boy is asleep on the couch, i've just eaten a bagel with cream cheese and i'm in the midst of folding laundry... time to blog, i say!

and now of course he's beginning to stir, so this blog post may be short-lived. but can i just say that i'm fast losing patience for our pets? seriously. NO PATIENCE. i've never thought dogs to be super-intelligent, but my dog actually NEEDS me to point to her food and say, "Eat, Dixie." and our cats? ugh. obsessed with sitting in oskar's swing, in oskar's car seat, in oskar's co-sleeper, on oskar's changing table...

and the boy is up! mom time is now.

*false alarm*
i have returned -- as is the feeling in my left hand after a good two months of numbness from carpal tunnel fun. my next goal in motherhood is to buy some printer paper that can be ironed onto clothing -- must make some NIN shirts for the boy, and maybe some Obama shirts to boot.

since i've already accomplished most of what i set out to do in an entire day, i feel completely justified in sitting around, playing word games on facebook and watching marathon episodes of Ghosthunters. it'll be a nice lil' thursday 'round here.

today's pics...

(he's all blissed out in a nursing coma...)

a little video fun...

pic time!

awwww..........

today's photos:

thanks for the goodies, shannon and david!

sibling love.

a few photos of the wee Oskar Bram Hansen...

here's a nifty little slideshow that dustin put together.

holy funny!

saturday night...

... it begins!

i love ebay.

so tomorrow...

... we meet with the uber-midwife to find out an induction date!
yay! why am i glad?

• excited to meet the boy
• excited for abbey to meet her bruddah
• excited to not be in extreme discomfort when sitting
• excited to not be in extreme discomfort when rising from sitting position
• excited to sleep on stomach again
• excited to feel as though i've NOT been horseback riding for hours
• excited for new baby smell
• excited for my carpal tunnel to lessen and be able to feel my fingertips again

notice i'm not focused on getting back into smaller clothes -- that will come with time and i'm pretty proud that i'm not thinking only about that. of course it's entered my mind -- after all, i'm down to two skirts and two pairs of pants at this moment... but that's not my main motivation for being done.

we're pretty much solid on the name Oskar. we were doing with the C spelling of Oscar for a while, but Oskar looks a little more bad ass, if you ask me.

so our appt. is tomorrow at 9:30, which means by 10 a.m., we'll know Oskar's probable birthday! i have a gut feeling for april 27, but we'll see what happens... more to come.

open letter to the not-yet-born boy.

dear oskar bram:
please come soon. and if we do induce you like i plan on, please come willingly. and please don't have a HUGE head.
love,
mom

tummy updates

it appears i have several babies in my stomach at this point.

that dustin ... always trying to one-up me.

six months.

and it's still not believable. it's just not. miss you, brammy.

good stuff.

these guys will be here in town on may 13 -- i'll be busy breastfeeding, but hopefully some you all can catch it.

and THESE guys will be here april 26 ...


this i love:

yay!

the wee lad has his head down, so he's not breech! woot! here's a profile shot of the boy -- below his face he's holding out his little fist, so you decide: is he sticking it to the man, or reaching out with respect knuckles?

at long last... a blog post!

i'm at 36 weeks today and the word from the midwife is that we'll induce at 39 for a variety of reasons. which i'm totally fine with, as you would be if you felt what i was feeling in my, um, bathing suit areas. there is some question as to whether or not the little scamp is breech, so we'll do an ultrasound this tuesday to see where he's positioned... baby pictures to come!

other than that, i'm slowly preparing myself for babydom -- we've washed the new clothes and this coming week hope to sort of assemble his room. next weekend we'll pick up the last few things that we need for him.... then it's just waiting time.

THREE WEEKS! dude. it's crazy.