One last peek inside...

Feb. 24 Week 30

We went to get a 3D ultrasound last night, got a pretty decent picture. You look like your pouting all squished up in there. We think you may have inherited the nice big nose genes both your dad and me have, at least according to these pictures haha. I hope you were too stunned by the ultra sizzling gel they threw on my stomach without testing the temperature first. I'm sure you sensed my pain haha.

I also had a chat with one of three pediatricians I am looking into this morning. It went well and was really happy with her practice. We'll see how it goes.

Tonight your dad and I are going to go sit in a class on general "what to expect" birth and care class, it should be wonderfully awkward. I hope your dad has to wear a fake belly.

Need a Maternity Photographer

I'm facing an internal conflict, as a photographer, I feel silly but I don't think that I can capture what I'm looking for in a candid maternity session by using my remote control and a timer. It's hard but I think I'll have to relinquish the shutter button to someone else for my own personal session. I have been checking around but I haven't found anything that sparks my fancy yet. I am looking for someone who can capture moments, at the right angles and the right light. I don't want posed hands in the shapes of a heart over my belly or dramatic half naked shots where I'm wrapped in silk. I attached some images I've seen from photo blogs that aren't local and I think are spectacular. Any suggestions.....? Keep in mind I'm looking for something specific here.

Flying Chairs and DIY

Feb. 21 Week 30

Sunday we spent the day doing miscellaneous projects and errands. Most of the morning was spent spray painting household items white for the nursery; a floor lamp, table lamp, shelf, curtain rods. They all came out good and we have them in the nursery now. The cutest would be the floor lamp's shade which I recovered with matching fabric as the table lamp.

After all that was finished we also made a trip to Wally World to get a cute white cubbie shelf and pick up the glider from Babies R Us. About 50 feet onto the high way the chair, inside its huge cardboard box, flew out of the bed of truck when something went screwy with the tie down. Somehow it managed to not hit anyone's car, no one plowed into it and it didn't break. We had to creep in reverse back down to where it was laying in the fast lane, stop traffic on the highway and drag it over to the shoulder. Thankfully, a good Samaritan pulled over to help Mark load it back into the truck because my preggo self couldn't lift it. We got it home without any more flight risks.

Glucose Screening for Gestational Diabetes

Feb. 18 Week 29

It really wasn't as bad as people made it out to be, at least for me. The lab I go to LabCorp Bethlehem has fantastic techs there and its always pretty quick and painless. I was a little worried about the drink, but they had two yummy flavors chilled for me. I got orange, which just tasted like gatorade so it was all good. The worst part was waiting an hour.  Now lets hope that my blod sugar levels come back good so I don't have to take the 3-hour test, i think ym tune will change then! hahahah

I tried video taping you bounce around inside while sitting in the waiting room but people kept walking in and I thought it was little awkward to be video taping my belly in public, plus no cell phone cameras aloud there hahahah.

Woot Woot Hoot!

Feb. 17 Week 29



After about 5 hours total, the vinyl decal mural is up in the nursery. It looks awesome so far. What a puzzle getting this thing up!

After about 2-3 hours I had to take a break and just started shouting directions haha

All done day 2

Cord Blood Banking

A short clip of information regarding cord blood banking and the benefits of private and public donation of some of the most precious life saving materials in medicine today. If you are expecting you should definitely be educated on this!


From Peainthepodcast.com

Baby Kicking Take 1....

Feb. 9 Week 28

Watch at about 7 seconds and 17 seconds to see the little bugger bounce around, he or she was at this for about 15 minutes haha. I was reading with a book on my belly but it kept moving it around too much haha.

Small Solar Update

Finally the snow is off the roof, and the sun is shining. I snagged a quick video of the solar panels in action spinning our electric meter backwards!

Were still not collecting our Alternative Energy Credits though until MetEd comes out and installs a bidirectional meter but at least were using all the power we can generate to lower our bill.

Painting the Room

Auntie Jenn & Dad starting the paint trim on the nursery and sharing with me via video chat while Jess is working haha.

Feb. 4 Week 27

So this weekend we painted the nursery, I hope you like crazy punk rock lime green, because were not going to let you repaint it until you move out!  haha  just kidding.. holy crap I hope you don't put duct tape on your room walls like I did, my poor parents.

Some family members helped with the painting, so it went pretty fast, about 2 hours per coat, including cutting in.  The paint tape was not so good... left a few green marks on the wood trim, so I will have to fix that sometime soon.  I also put up the insulation in the attic that butts up against Jess's (Mom's)  photo studio, so you wont be cold when getting your first 1,000,000 pictures taken.  

Next up is to move the Crib and Changing Table/Dresser into position, and I believe we're getting the glider chair next week, along with the wall sticker we ordered.  Its going to start coming together in the next few weeks!  Feels good to be preparing, as much as we can at least.

-Mark

Third Trimester...you are just about here.

Feb. 4 Week 27

Had another check up today. You and I are measuring perfectly and your heartbeat is perfect as well. I think we are going to schedule another 3-d ultrasound to see what your looking like in there and if your beefing up haha. 

We can feel, what we think, are your little limbs when your up against the top of my belly. It freaks us out, in fact I had to assure your dad that we weren't going to break you by pressing down to feel. I'm sure once we get passed the initial strangeness, we'll think it's pretty neat hahaha. For now carry on with your daily routine, whatever it is you do in there. Xoxo

This weekend Mark should be getting the first coat of paint on your walls, excited to start putting your room together.  I'm also making a sweet outfit for you to go home in fro the hospital, I THINK.