Ho Ho Ho

Happy Holidays! We had a fantastic Christmas this year. Jason's parents came to visit and meet Wyatt last week. We spent a day in San Francisco and had an early Christmas with them. We had a great Christmas morning. Oakley is in the thick of Christmas magic. We left Santa cookies and milk and a key to come in our door since we don't have a chimney. Then Santa made a surprise visit to my parents' house later in the afternoon. I thought Oakley might faint when he walked through the door. She was speechless which is quite something for Oakley. Wyatt slept through all the excitement.

Wyatt is no longer "Quiet Wyatt". He is so much more alert and has given us a couple of true smiles. He weighs over 8 pounds already.

Have a Happy New Year!

Redbud Christmas Performance

Ho Ho Ho

A Day in San Francisco

It's Good to Be Home

Wyatt and Lori got to come home on Wednesday. Oakley has assumed the role of Big Sister with flying colors. She loves watching him make faces and wiggle. Lori is thrilled to be out of the hospital and is looking forward to a couple of "relaxing" days at home with our new family.

Our Baby Boy!

It's a boy!! Wyatt Rhys Pastoor Price was born November 10, 2007 at 11:40 pm. He weighed 5 lbs., 8oz. Lori and Wyatt are doing great. Lori developed HELLP Syndrom again and she had to have a C-section. Unfortunately she had to have a general anesthetic; she was out of it and I was not allowed to be in the operating room. Lucky for us, though, one of Lori's friends did the surgery. Dr. Darwish even picked up Lori's mom on the way to the hospital.

Long Live the Belly!

No baby this weekend. This is good news even though I had mentally prepared myself for a very eventful weekend. The baby made good growth gains this week and we are both healthy and happy. So here's to another week of incubating and another chance to go into labor naturally!

Dorothy and Big Mama

We had a great Halloween. Oakley was in a parade, a preschool party, and trick-or-treating in downtown Davis. She loved being Dorothy all day. We ended the day by having dinner with Neanners.

A few weeks ago Oakley was going to have a sleep-over with Neanners and Opa so Jason and I could have an evening to celebrate my birthday. A few minutes after we finished dinner the cell phone rang. Oakley had a high fever. The evening ended with me covered in throw up and Neanners and Opa borrowing our carpet cleaner. The sleep-over was rescheduled for this weekend so Jason and I could celebrate our 5th anniversary. Late in the afternoon Opa came home from the doctor with bad news - the flu. Once again the sleep-over was postponed. I think our "alone" time will have to wait until the hospital. This might happen sooner than later. My doctor is talking about inducing labor as soon as this weekend!

More Dorothy

OK...We promise maybe only one more Wizard of Oz related post after this one.


Lately, I am very busy counting down: Two more weeks of work; Four weeks until the baby's due date; Two days until Halloween; Three weeks until Thanksgiving festivities; Five days until our 5th anniversary; Three more weeks of classes before finals for Jason -then we have him all to ourselves for a month! It is a very exciting month!


Happy Halloween. Enjoy the excitement of the Trick-or-Treaters in your lives.

Oakley Is Dorothy!

Oakley has been fascinated with the Wizard of Oz story for a couple of months now. It started one evening when Jason told her the story of Dorothy and friends before bed. It has all the elements of a perfect story...good witches, bad witches, natural disasters, flying monkeys, and a cute dog. We played Wizard of Oz every day for weeks. Jason put the music on our Ipods and Opa printed pictures. Finally last week we rented the movie. It was everything Oakley could have hoped for and more. Today her Dorothy Halloween costume arrived. It was difficult to get the dress off of her for bed tonight!


More and more people are coming forward with predictions as to whether our baby is a girl or boy and when I will have it. Today Oakley and I were downtown with Neanners and Opa. A woman claimed she could definitively tell me whether it was a boy or girl. I took her up on the offer. She dangled a needle by a thread over the inside of my wrist. Supposedly the needle begins to move in circles if it is a girl and straight lines if it is a boy. My needle very clearly moved in a large circle. This woman claims she has been wrong only twice out of 70 or so predictions. We'll see! Only 5 more weeks to go.

The Skippy Dance

Oakley's cousin Anna sent her a Halloween card that plays the Addam's Family theme song. We've listened to it quite a few times. Oakley likes to dance her "skippy dance" to it.

Yesterday Neanners, Opa, Oakley and I went to the Full Belly Farm Hoes Down Festival near Guinda, CA in the Capay valley. It was a beautiful fall day. My parents get a produce delivery every week from this farm and we benefit because it is a lot of produce for 2 people. It was fun to see the fields that have grown our fruits and vegetables. This was a weekend festival to promote and celebrate organic, sustainable agricultural practices. It drew quite the Berkeley crowd. Oakley painted a prayer flag and a gourd. She also thoroughly enjoyed the hay bale house and puppet shows.

Have a great week.

New School Year

All three of us are now on school schedules. We are about 3 weeks into the new school year and are finally settling into a nice routine after a relaxing summer. It is always difficult to leave summer behind, but by this point in the school year I am thankful for a job I love. I think all of us benefit from the structure it gives us. The weather's change to autumn coincided perfectly with our new schedules.


Oakley started preschool at Redbud Montessori and we braced for a rough adjustment period, but she loved it from day 1! She loves her new friends, teachers (especially Mr. NoWay Jose), and the whole Montessori routine. The picture is Oakley at Redbud's playground.

My position changed somewhat this school year; I am now the district's "Augmentative Communication Specialist." This is a new position for the district and I am enjoying the challenge of defining my new role.

Jason started his final year of law school; how time flies! He is very busy with 5 classes and work in a legal services clinic. He is supervising other students and helping to establish an Elder Law Clinic on campus.

First Post

Given how much we enjoy reading our family and friend's blogs, we thought it was time to give ours' another try. Baby #2's approaching due date is another big motivation. I am 29 weeks along. The fact that a baby will soon be joining our family is just now feeling real. I am getting urges to make lists and get things organized (very un-Lori). This blog is part of that growing sensation of impending change. While lying wide awake at 3am recently, I was actually fretting over how we would let everyone know that the new baby had entered the world. And so, here we are.