And, better yet, here's the little guy (sure looked like a guy!) himself at about 18 weeks!
Lately he likes to wake up right as I'm falling asleep and move around for a bit - I figure he might get into boxing or Irish dancing when he's older... :-)
On the subject of pregnancy: I've noticed that people tend to follow a script when greeting you prenatally. First they ask "How are you feeling?" and then continue with "You look great!" Oddly enough, I've found I get more annoyed with the first line and, even though I know the second always follows no matter how you really appear and I should really feel patronized and lied to, I tend to appreciate it every time (funny what pregnancy will do to your mind!). In answer to the first question, however, at present I feel great and am back up to hour-long stints on the elliptical (or skiing when it's not so flipping cold!) after being too sick during the first trimester for much activity beyond walking and hiking, so that generally keeps me in a good mood and helps both baby and I to sleep soundly! :-)
Getting back to the weather, there's really not much to do at -40, so two weekends ago Dan and some guys from church decided to build a luge run in our backyard. (Well, from the top of the monument, through our backyard, finishing off with a drop by the mailboxes and shooting accross the road - fortunately it's been too cold for any of the neighborhood kids to be out to try it because we really can't afford any lawsuits at present...) I was a bit of a party pooper and decided my personal shoveling efforts would be better spent banking up snow around our drafty (but still beloved!) little house. We then had a bunch more people over to try out our hill and had cider inside on the stove and sausages outside on the barbeque!
Ski-joring at -35 with the "whole family."
