Bare Knuckled

Ryan thought he would death march the baby out of me by making me go to the zoo in the 95° heat. It didn't work. But with Wilson being incredibly whiny these days I thought it would be a good outing for him.




Hogle Zoo has a special "exhibit" that has dinosaurs placed throughout the park that move and make noise. Wilson did not like them. He would cling to Ryan for dear life any time we got close to one.

He liked the orangutans. We got the added show of one throwing up and eating it. Twice. We even splurged and rode the the little train around the park, hence Wilson's adorable happy face right before it started.



So I'm still pregnant and I never thought I'd still be. I'm getting anxious. Get her the heck out of me!




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Countdown

Little Beta* will be coming in about four weeks.... How exciting. I really can't wait for her to get here, and when I see other babies I get a little giddy. This pregnancy has been pretty uneventful. I never got sick, I just want to sleep all the time. It's definitely gone by much faster than the first pregnancy, probably because I have Wilson here to occupy my time. (man that kid is cute)

Beta moves around a LOT. I'm not positive if it's more than Wilson did, but it sure seems like it. I'm getting so anxious to see her little face and cuddle with her, touch her tiny hands and feet, sleep with her on me, and wear her around everywhere. I sure hope wilson is nice to her.

And now I think I'll share a pregnancy photo with you.



Hot, huh?

* Beta is just a nickname we gave her before we knew what we were having. We have not decided on a real name yet.

Our life through Instagram

More pictures of Wilson. Because he's all our life is about right now... 5ish more weeks until our life is all about another little girl. 

 Wilson really likes carrying around Courtney's purse. It's the only one he goes after, I don't know why it's special. So that paired with his girly stroller leads to a good picture!

 Ryan taught him to drink the milk out of his cereal bowl in the mornings...

 The Bountiful Parade... he was very skeptical. He mostly enjoyed the marching bands.

 Wilson enjoying a snack with his hipster uncle Mason. (I promise those aren't really dog treats.)

 He didn't take to miniature golfing like we thought he would. He got frustrated and started using his hand.

Ryan spent a good amount of time trying to win the iPad in this machine... he didn't succeed.

Oh Bother?

Most people who know Ryan from high school know him as the kid who wore the Winnie the Pooh shirts... It's one of those embarrassing pasts that you can't avoid, but really only for me. Ryan seems to be proud of it.

Not having grown up with anything Winnie the Pooh related myself, (my family was just not that into it) I've been resistant to Wilson having anything Pooh related since he was born. But friends have certainly threatened... Oh they most certainly have.

Well, Ryan and his family wanted to go see the new Pooh movie today with Wilson. Which is totally fine, he's only been to the theater once before to see Despicable Me when he was six months and he did great then. Plus this movie was only an hour long and had lots of songs in it to keep Wilson engaged. I didn't know anything about the characters before so realizing that Pooh was a bumbling idiot was a surprise. It was funny though, and he loved it. He might have loved the popcorn more.... And he enjoyed turning around and saying hi to the kids behind him.


Here is a picture of most of the movie going clan. Grandma was the only other person he allowed to hold him besides his dad.

Unwelcome Comparisons

My summer fun came to a crashing end yesterday when my little family went out to dinner in Layton. I get a lot of comments about Wilson's hair being awesome, which I already knew. But when a woman (I use the term loosely) who looks a lot like this.....


.... Says "Hey! He could be my kid with that hair!!" and proceeds to grab on to her pulled back ponytail and wave exuberantly. I knew it was time. So we immediately went home and shaved the kids hair.



Goodbye awesome Mohawk. Perhaps you'll be back next summer. I miss you already.

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Regression

I'm on my first vacation at the moment without the Boy. Some girls from work and I decided to come down to St. George for a nice "relaxing" weekend that included my first massage ever. More on that later.

While out getting ice cream, Maria and I started reminiscing about the game MASH that we used to play in Jr. High. Amy had no idea what we were talking about so naturally we HAD to show her.

Well, in MASH world Amy has it pretty good. She lives in an apartment with 6 kids, but it's with Brad Pitt. She sells used cars, but makes an amazing living with 6 million a year. Plus she drives a Range Rover and has a Koala bear as a pet (not the giraffe that we picked).

Maria? Well she lives with Robert Downey Jr. in a mansion as a garbage picker.

And you can just call me Lacee Hamm, an my husband John an I live in Boston with our six kids and wood paneled station wagon. That is the life.



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I Wasn't Lying

The minute I found out we were having a boy in August of 2009, I knew that one day I would shave a mohawk into his hair. Then Wilson was born and it was blonde. The vision I had in my head didn't include blonde hair.... Ryan and I both have dark hair, how did this happen? Anyway, with Wilson's hair being light I didn't give the haircut much more thought... until I got bored this last week and decided it was time. 

Man I have one cool lookin' kid. He's getting a lot of stares and a lot of compliments. He sure does look like an adorable punk. I can't wait for him to be older and be get mad at me for using him as my human doll. I originally thought I would only keep it a couple of days, maybe a week... but this might be his new summer look.