The stuff comedy routines are made of...

Getting one pregnant woman and one toddler inside a small bathroom stall to try and take mommy's urine sample...these are definitely the things comedy routines are made of! I had a pre-natal check up last week and had to bring Josiah with me to the lab where I had to give the usual urine sample. I was hoping, of course, that the big handicapped stall would be available, but alas...it wasn't. Josiah was upset right from the outset that he didn't also get a little cup from the nurse, so he was insisting that he should get mommy's. I tried to maneuver onto the toilet, balance the diaper bag and all our winter gear on the back of the toilet or on the door hook, and fend off the hands of a 2 year old trying to steal my pee cup! Eventually, when he realized I wasn't giving it up, he decided to leave, which was fine with me. I let him loose and he ran up and down the small aisle in the bathroom, but of course, insisted on coming back in- twice. Fortunately, modesty escapes a mother and leaves survival in its place... Once I finally captured the sample, the next job was dealing with Josiah's insistence that it was juice..."No honey, this is definitely not juice." So, then I'm once again trying to maneuver off the toilet, gather the diaper bag and all our winter gear, and still keep the hands of a 2 year old off my pee cup! Stories like this aren't normally public information, but man was it a funny scene! I had to share it with you, our dear family. =)

Lonely

Jen and Josiah are currently in Calgary visiting family and friends. So it is pretty quiet here. It is nice but I miss the familiarity of their noises. I even miss Josiah's screeching! I miss not having anyone to say goodbye to in the morning and goodnight to at night. It is funny, one of the things that reminds me the most that they are not here is that I have to pack my own lunch. No, Jen doesn't pack my lunch, Joisah does. It is part of his morning routine. He gets my lunch bag and first he puts in the apple, then the drink and then the sandwich.

It is nice to have a little more down time but I wouldn't want it this way forever. Come home soon I mis you!

Excitement at our house

As our first post, I thought we'd start with some excitng news. Jen is at twenty-one weeks and had a scheduled ultra-sound today. We have been pretty excited the last few days in anticipation of seeing the newest Hansen. As we were heading to the hospital, we were both a little nervous, just hoping that the baby is healthy. When we got to the hospital, we told the technician that we were going to have a little gender-revealing celebration tonight and asked if she could write done the sex of the baby on a piece of paper and put it in an envelope.

It was exciting to see the baby and all its little parts. We could clearly see its head, face, arms, legs, fingers and toes. It was also very cool to see its bones and organs. It had its back facing to us so you could easily see its spine. The baby was being pretty modest as it wouldn't face us and it had its legs squeezed tightly together. It was difficult for her to see what the gender was but she said she'd make a guess, she was only about 70% sure that she knew the gender. So we went out for dinner and opened our envelope and it said....

















So we are excited around here!!! It seems Josiah was right after all. It still is a little hard to start thinking that this is going to be a girl as we aren't totally sure about the gender. So don't go out and buy too much girl stuff just yet! More importantly the baby seems to be healthy. It has all its organs, fingers, limbs and chambers in its heart. We are pretty relieved about that.

Hope you will enjoy our latest way of keeping you in touch with our lives. We'll try to put up new post and pictures regularly.