Smells are Everywhere!

In response to the difficulty viewing our precious pre-baby baby pictures we decided, with the help of technology, to create some post-baby baby pictures. We found a website online that merges your faces to give you potential babies. So through the digital merging of our pictures we are happy to give you a computer rendering of several versions of our baby. Nicole thinks they are adorable. Clayton thinks they have potential.Clayton had several late nights this week and Nicole had several rough days. She learned that if she eats something hourly it helps with the nausea. Clayton signed up for the Alternative Dispute Resolution Competition. He will be competing in a few weeks.

Nicole has a particular tough time with smells. Nicole went on a walk one day and when she came back our landlord saw her plugging her nose. He was like "why are you doing that? it doesn't smell bad out here. It just smells like outside." Nicole explained that being pregnant gives you super human olfactory factories; she can smell everything and everything is potent! Clayton suggested that she use her respirator. It has worked fairly well. It is super funny though.

We want to give a big congratulations to McKell and Tanner (aka T-dog) on their engagement.

On Thursday Clayton got to meet the senior legal council of Apple. He was a really cool guy. He graduated from GW Law in 86. He told us about his experiences with the company and his experiences at Intel, he worked there as senior council as well. Unfortunately, for all you liberal mac users out there, he prefaced his remarks by saying he would NOT be discussing any future products. (Nicole resents that comment)

Friday, we switched doctors. We met our new doctor. He is Haitian. He speaks with a thick accent but he is still easy to understand. He is very friendly and informative. He helped us understand more about the whole process of having a baby. For example, it is possible that Nicole's vision will change. We got to hear the heartbeat and Nicole thinks it is the most beautiful sound she has ever heard. Clayton thinks it sounds a lot like a helicopter, which is pretty cool. He told us that it is an absolute miracle Nicole is pregnant. Statistically, she beat all the odds. This just helped confirm Clayton's suspicion that she is one in six billion.

We went to a sculpture garden on Saturday. It was a little weird because it was all around the sculptor's house. So we just walked around his yard looking at his sculptures. Nicole thinks they are very good. He had a lot of them. Clayton took a few pictures. Nicole is teaching Clayton how to use Photoshop. He likes the unlimited and ultimate power it gives him. ( Clayton's favorite photo that he has edited so far, he calls "Buffalo Tyler," inspired by Tyler's dream to own a pygmy buffalo ranch. )

Nicole got a calling today in church. We will let you know what it is in a few weeks. The Bishop wants to wait to make it official. Clayton was told he would not get a calling for a while. The first councilor, who is an attorney, thinks that Clayton has enough on his plate with law school for right now.

That's all we have for the week.