Taken for a Ride

Since we have no baby news yet, I figure I'd post something for those who might be checking this thing for updates.

Being that we do not know what we are having, (I speculate that it's a girl) a couple months back I thought I'd give Melissa a sneak peak as to how cute a little Faustino girl would be. Here's what Melissa came home to see. What do you think? Will we have a cute baby girl ;)? It may just be another boy though...who knows. I was fine with not knowing up until, umm about 4 days ago when we were due. Now it just ticks me off.

Needless to say Louis was not happy and when he took this picture. Recently when he saw this picture he said "EWWW, SICKKK...". Two of his new favorite words, used especially when getting his diaper changed. This has consequently led us to buy him a potty because he does not like having a mess in his pants.

Anyway its been a long month of anticipation. With the last pregnancy it was a long nine months of anticipation but having little crazy man Louis around this time has made the time go by a lot quicker. I guess I just grew accustomed to all the craziness that the implications of being pregnant and adding another baby into the mix didn't fully register until recently. I am really excited to meet the new little one and I am sure it will shake our lives up a little more.

Its strange to look back over the years and see how we have grown and what we have become accustomed to. The life of a parent, the pace and culture of New England, the ward and Church out here, and not having family around here (sadly) have been things that we've grown accustomed to. Transportation has also been something that we've recognized that has ideologically transformed for the good within us. Be it through driving our own car, using zip car, hitching a ride with a friend, using the T (train), bus, scooter, bike, or getting around on foot we have grown accustomed to the variety and culture of transportation by living in the Boston Area.

I suppose that Louis has also developed a familiarity to riding on various things as he climbs (or tries to climb) on anything he sees or deems he can ride. The list includes the typical things like toys, balls, slides, carousels, etc, and then there's the not so typical things like smaller babies, any four legged animal (dogs, cats, horses, deer, rabbits, turtles), and as you can see the "Make Way for Duckling" statues in the Boston Common. Regardless of shape, size or velocity all of these "rides" are accompanied with yelps of "WEEEEEE" and "COOOOOOL"!


Here's more of Louis' duck and bird pictures. These pictures might give off the impression that he is a bird man fan (real birds not Chris Andersen of the Nuggets), but he just loves animals.