Feeling pregnant today

So here's my first baby bump picture. Not the prettiest and I sure don't look big, but I was feeling it today. Some days I barely remember that I'm pregnant. Some days it's blatantly obvious. I started prenatal yoga last week and that helped with the hip issues a lot-- at least for that night. I can feel lots of kicking already. Got a long way to go...
We had a nice weekend of a visit to the aquarium, dinner with family and another 4 yr. old birthday party! Eric was plying the fishing trade again this weekend, and working damn hard at at.

Mommy Mica weekend

Eric went to his first Fishing Convention with Buelah this weekend, and although I only got to see him for about 4 sleeping hours last night, it sounds like it went really well. How could it go bad--he got to talk fishing for 4 days straight?!
Mica and I had a great weekend to ourselves (mostly). We swam, walked and visited with friends and cousins. We have been struggling a bit with clingy-ness, especially when I'm trying to cook dinner, and then subsequently refusing to eat. She just talks so much! I know it's a good thing that she's so verbal, but being home alone with her it's pretty exhausting. I'm not sure if I should worry or get worked up over her not eating -- as with most of these child rearing issues, probably not.
Pregnancy is going well. I've got a solid belly going on now and the hip pain as started to kick in.I'm starting prenatal yoga this week and I've started swimming twice a week, so hopefully those will help.

More skiing video!!

These are courtesy of Michelle Reed and taken at Sunday River this past weekend. In the first one Mica is the littlest grommet in the back of the line of 4, swinging her left arm to keep her going.

Oh, and a fun short video from Costa Rica

Pictures from Costa Rica

Since I can only post 5 photos at a time I chosen my 5 favorite photos from the trip. I also strongly recommend going to Eric's website for some really gorgeous photos of the wedding we attended: www.ericreedphotography.com.

Martin Luther King Day Weekend

This weekend we made our second annual trek up to Sunday River to stay with Michelle and Rhodes. Rhodes' family has a beautiful house up there and Sunday River has been my favorite east coast mountain since high school. Mica spent a half day in Ski School. I think we didn't prep her quite well enough for the fact that we were not going to be there while she skied. Apparently she spent much of the time looking for us and when we did come back (an hour before the class was supposed to be over) she didn't appear to be having much fun. But when we ask her if she had fun she says yes, so who knows. I'm taking her to hopefully buy some skis of her own (used) today so we don't have to keep shelling out money for rentals. These should last her a few years. Eric, Rhodes and I had a great time riding the mountain too. No powder unfortunately, but lots of fast groomers. Baby liked all the bouncing :)

Holiday Fun

It's been an exciting few weeks here in Reed-ville. I'll have to keep this post short, though, because our office where I sit and write this is about 40 degrees and I can only just barely feel my toes. In short we: 1) went out to western Mass for x-mas and Mica's birthday and had a present-licious good time, 2) flew down to Costa Rica for 10 days for our dear friends David and Julie's wedding and lots of romping in the surf and pool, 3) came back and got Mica on skis for the first time!
The visuals are going to be a bit backward since the first thing I've got ready is the video of her skiing. So here it is. She loved skiing-- almost as much as we loved watching her ski! She especially loved the hot chocolate at break time and the magic carpet ride up each run.

Mica's First Time Skiing from Sarah Reed on Vimeo.

I will write in more detail and post Costa Rica pictures when I get somewhere warmer!