Kolbe's time with Daddy and Pinkie

Things continue to change at the Asmussen Household. With Kolbe Man, it's a daily thing! His newest skills include dancing, growling, and dumping out his entire bucket of toys. The dancing is the cutest, the growling funniest, and the toy dumping most annoying! But other changes abound as well. Mark was very happy to get two weeks off from PA School and decided to keep Kolbe home from his sitter's house. They spent two soild weeks of Daddy and Kolbe time! I think when all was said and done, Mark truly loved it but decided that being a stay at home dad was certainly not his dream occupation. Guess he has a little more respect for us mama's now! Carying for these little ones certainly is a full time job!

Daddy makes a good horsey! He even lets me take my hammer along for the ride!

Mark and Kolbe both LOVE the "catfish" pose. In general, Kolbe likes to be upside down, but when Daddy does it, it makes it even more fun! You can tell Daddy loves it too!

Mark had to head back to Midland this Monday to begin the fall semester, but with his leaving, we received two new arrivals. Uncle Dave moved in to our spare bedroom last weekend. He began his freshman year at Tech on Monday. Dave will be living with us this year. I know this is going to be a HUGE help to me as I try to get through this pregnancy with Mark going back and forth! (Maybe we can help him a bit as well!) Dave is such an awesome "kid!" Hopefully all of you who don't know him will get a chance to meet him. He's calm and put-together like Andy, looks a lot like Mike, is creative like me, and is nothing like Pat! (just kidding! Love you, Pat!)

Kolbe's sitter's daughter recently had a baby so Debbie is out of town helping her out for a few weeks. That being said, my mom has also been staying with us and watching Kolbe. Bless her heart, she's been roughing it on an air mattress! She's also been quoted several times saying, "I just don't see how you do it! He's a total wild man! None of you 5 Hefferly kids were EVER this active! He just goes, goes, goes!" Kolbe has absolutely fallen in love with her and will probably be devestated when she has to head back to The Woodlands. Grandpa will be coming in this weekend too for a couple of days. So needless to say, the Asmussen Household has been packed lately! I'm sure in a week or two everything will be back to normal!

As for Baby Two, we have another sonogram on Wednesday and Uncle Pat will be accompanying me since Daddy is in Midland. I'll be sure to post pictures some time next week. The first trimester is done!

Just one more picture of little K-Man. He continues to be the most adorable, flirty, friendly, lively boy around! He truly defines living life to the fullest! This guy "leaves it all on the field" so to say, playing his heart out and trying to discover the world!

Little Bubble Head says: "I'm not supposed to be touching the faucet...wonder if she'll notice or be mesmerized by my precious face!?!"

Kolbe's first "shiner" and Baby Two's first picture!

Things have been CRAZY (as usual!) at the Asmussen house! Daddy Asmussen (Mark) has been stuck in Midland for the past two weeks studying for finals for the first semester of PA school. After successfully making it though as I knew he would, (he still has one more tomorrow!) he will be coming home tomorrow for two whole weeks! Kolbe and I can't wait! We are soooooo proud of Daddy!


With Mark being gone, Kolbe and I have been roughing it through the middle of the first trimester. Can't wait till that's over! Zombie mode is no fun! Although, I must admit that I have been more than blessed not to have to mess with morning sickness. Thank God He hasn't bestowed such and evil thing on me! I think I've got about all I can take right now!

Kolbe, Kolbe, Kolbe...what can I say for the little guy!?! Mr. Action officially got his first "shiner" (black eye) last week. From some unknown source, he frequently summons up the courage to let go of one stationary object and dive for the other before actually holding on to it. Brave, but not so sensible. Needless to say, he missed last week and caught the edge of his little Leap Frog music player. Of course, being the "tough guy" he is, I recall him fussing for roughly 12 seconds before getting immediately distracted by something far more important...his dancing chicken. The tiny little bruise didn't show up until the next morning and you can just barely see it under his right eye in the picture below.

"I'm a real boy now!"

I had my first sonogram on Tuesday of this week and got our first peak at Baby Two. Sonograms are just the coolest things ever for a pregnant lady! In the pic below the baby is about 9 1/2 weeks along and growing well. Despite the 3D picture, he or she still looks pretty much like a gummy bear! After having a baby with birth defects, having HELLP syndrome, still having lupus, and still having a family member with Downs Syndrome, I'm now like super-duper high risk with this pregnancy so I get to have sonograms every 4 weeks! Enough to make you paranoid, (like they're almost expecting something to go wrong...) but exciting at the same time because I'll get to see the little one progress every single month. Still, after looking at the pictures the paranoid factor did end up setting in just a little bit. One of my co-workers commented: "Man, it's amazing how huge their heads are at this stage! It's like a little alien!" Of course I started thinking, wait a minute! Is it supposed to be that big? Are you sure? She's right! It's is HUGE! So I had to do a little internet searching a came up with a medical sketch of 9 weeks gestation. Laughing at myself, I realized that Asmussen Two looks almost identical to the sketch! Facing the same direction, cord in the same place, yolk sac in the same place...it's like he or she posed for the artist's rendition! Silly Mama! Don't be such a worry wart! Here's a link to the sketch if you'd like to compare too! http://www.babycenter.com/fetal-development-images-9-weeks

"Hello everyone! Can't wait to meet all of you!"