Putu's Shower

I was blessed with 2 showers this pregnancy. One was with my church- one of my favorite things that my wonderful AVPC does. The women of the church get together at someone's home and eat and pray for the mom, family and new little life. It is really one of the things that drew me to Altadena Valley Pres 5 1/2 year ago.

The second one was a similarly small shower that 2 of my mom's best friends threw. I invited a few friends and close family and my mom invited a few friends. It was a lot of diapers (thank you!) and some sweet gifts. Here is the documentation- thanks to Hagen!
This says Baby Putu... LOVE it!!!
The Stegall sisters!
The Stegall women!

Putu's Nursery

Is the word out? Do you all know that we're having a baby on Tuesday the 13th at 7:45 am? Unless she chooses to come early, which Stegall babies don't seem to do these days. We're excited, if not still a little shocked. I realize that we had nine months to prepare. The movement in my belly, 2 car seats in my car and nursery in the spare room should have us feeling like its real, but we just don't. While we had over two years to wish and hope and imagine our first born, this one has come much more quickly (the normal 9 month time-frame) and has included chasing a boisterous 2-yr-old. We keep looking at each other and saying "really?" I believe I MAY be a weepy basket case when they hand me the beautiful bundle that is our daughter in 2 days.

Do you remember what Putu's nursery started out looking like? Here it is. It was a catch-all basically. Plus, Peter's closet. All of his clothes were in there. Everywhere. Not to mention a few drawers full of things we hadn't looked at since we got married. With a little help from Ooba, my handyman/boyfriend and Peter :) we got it all together. All we lack now is the beautiful white curtains. Here are the "after" pics.

AND a little treat... the initials.




And here's a little pic of what I looked like at week 38- for the sake of posterity.

Pierce, Trains, and lots of Photos

Today I had a photo shoot with some friends out at Ross Bridge. Peter and Pierce came along to play and hang out. She started out pretty clean and left FILTHY, with a few bloody places, and happy as could be. Here are a LOT of photos because I couldn't choose.
She loves to assume the racer position and say, "On your marks, get set, GO!"
We had been telling her there was a train... here is the excitement when we finally saw it.
She loved climbing on the little wooden train set. This one is such a typical Pierce face right now.

Looking at fish with Daddy.
Next we headed up to the train tracks. We hadn't been exploring/shooting for long, when we heard a train a'comin.
She LOVED it.

She also loved this bagpipe player. She was quite distressed when she "couldn't see him very well" when we got in the car. And at bed time she said several times "I wish I could give the bagpiper a hug and a kiss."

As we left the area she declared, "I want to be a conductor AND a bagpiper." Pierce, you may be whatever you wish.

Putu Has a Name...

But you still don't get to know it. Aren't we mean and horrible?

Peter and I, after much pressure and pleading from some family members, decided that we would tell our families her name. Since I have c-sections, I don't get to see their reaction when Peter takes the baby out to meet them.

I put together a simple game where they each got 2 cards with 2 letters of her name, both 1st and middle. They had to work together as a team to figure out what the letters spelled. Ooba made sure she understood the rules. Everyone got excited. Hagen claimed the job of team leader (in action, not in word.) Here is the reaction when they figured it out... I think they like it :)

Brilliance

I had some suspicions that Pierce was brilliant. But this is what I caught her doing at my mom's house the other day.

There IS more to our life...

Than beach trips. But they're not nearly as fun to blog about :) I didn't actually take a single beach pic this time. But got some pretty adorable ones of little miss priss.

This is her newest dance move. We call it "tricky." She kinda hops and wiggles around with this hip out. Hilarious!


She has recently gotten hooked on computer games. She's quite adept at the mouse. At one point, she reached out and pushed one button on the keyboard. Instantly, iTunes was launched and we were jammin'.