Visiting the Amanas

Today we all traveled to Iowa City to visit the hospital (the only good reason to visit Iowa City for a family of die hard Cyclones). We met Clark's Aunt Dee there and they went to play while Alan and I went to our 7 week ultrasound appointment. There was one little sac with one tiny little life -- there was a very strong heart beat and seeing the little flutters brought smiles to our faces and tears to our eyes. We are now released from Iowa City's care and can start visits to our Ob/Gyn here in Ames.

As a treat to celebrate we went over to the Amana Colonies and ate lunch with Aunt Dee. Later we walked around. A visit is never complete without a stop at the chocolate store. Clark's treat was a chocolate cat on a stick. He liked it very much - however, he is squinting in all the photos we took due to the sun (so it looks like he doesn't enjoy it). We also visited the Christmas shop -- Clark liked all the lights and shimmering ornaments. Hard to believe that time of year is not far off. Finally we stopped at the toy store -- we found a cow puppet that Clark really enjoyed.

Yesterday when we were outside Clark found a little frog sitting in our grass. It was so tiny it can sit on a single blade.