Not a whole lot to report from me, Chris seems to cover most of it. I'm not vomiting, which is great. Chris and I both thought I'd be a huge puker. I do get nausea, so Cheerios has become my go to food. That is when Chris isn't overseeing my leafy green intake.
Sleep seems to be my issue. I get exhausted and crash into bed, then wake up in the middle of the night and toss and turn. In turn, I'm tired all day and become increasingly irritable at students. So I'm trying to be patient and remind myself that I'm tired and hormonal and the student does not need his head bitten off and will likely do worse if it is.
I did go to Joann's Etc yesterday for knitting supplies and ended up looking for ideas for our flier we'll send out. I bought stock paper and a paper punch that cuts out pacifiers. But it was on sale! I behaved myself, really!
Second ultrasound tomorrow!
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Sunday, February 25, 2007
We told 1 person!
We did it, we told 1 person in our network of family and close friends. We told Sergey and it was funny telling him. He promised he would be a good sport about it and keep it a secret for the next 2 weeks until we mail our announcements out and tell everybody. I was dying to tell somebody, and so was Hugs. But it didn't sate my appetite for telling people. I want to tell everybody still!! I'm trapped!
I guess I was dying because we spent part of the afternoon looking at family cars. On a whim we ended up test driving the Malibu Maxx around. The in-laws had a Malibu for years and it seemed really reliable and plus this one has a station wagon like rear end. And most importantly Hugs like driving it and she felt comfortable in it. But we are going to keep looking.
So anyway, now we need to take off and meet our realtor to go look at some more houses. There are 5 of them today and they all looked great on the internet, we'll see how good they are in real life. The 3 yesterday were a bust. Gross. Oh well.
C
I guess I was dying because we spent part of the afternoon looking at family cars. On a whim we ended up test driving the Malibu Maxx around. The in-laws had a Malibu for years and it seemed really reliable and plus this one has a station wagon like rear end. And most importantly Hugs like driving it and she felt comfortable in it. But we are going to keep looking.
So anyway, now we need to take off and meet our realtor to go look at some more houses. There are 5 of them today and they all looked great on the internet, we'll see how good they are in real life. The 3 yesterday were a bust. Gross. Oh well.
C
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Miss Moodswing has arrived
Miss Moodswing has arrived to join us on our adventures in household multiplication. (Un)Fortunately she'll be here for (only) 30 more weeks.
Once we get this next ultrasound done I think the plan is to make up some silly little flyer and mail it out to everyone announcing our news. I'm dying to tell someone. I don't think I'm good at keeping secrets. There has been about 4 times this past week where I could have said something. For example:
1. Playing pool with Sergey. He says, "when are you and Hugs going to have kids so I can pick on them and be mean to them?" I wanted to respond, "Oh, in about 7 months." But I couldn't.
2. I'm talking to my boss and a program manager about buying a house and my boss says to me "When ya gonna knock the old lady up and fill up this house you are going to buy with some kids?" I wanted to say, "It's a done deal, hoser." But instead I said "It's on the agenda." (I couldn't think of anything better to say!!)
3. Today on the way to pick up lunch a coworker he was commenting to me (indirectly) about Hugs and I starting a family now that we are looking for houses.
I swear, everyday there is something. There is at least one more, but I probably shouldn't mention it here (a little too crass).
Anyhow, I'm dying to tell someone. I feel like a little kid who has been caught doing something bad, and I'm going to get in a little bit of trouble, but not alot. For me, it's comparable to the high school nervousness of asking a chick out on a date.
So anyway, we are going to make up this mailer/flyer thing and send it out to people on the weekend of March 10. And I think we are going to tell Hugs's parents then. *nervous laughter* I don't know what my problem is, but I just keep laughing about it. Oh, and by then we'll make this blog PUBLIC!
So other than that, Miss Moodswing has arrived, still waiting on the 2nd ultrasound and I'm dying to tell somebody about this.
Oh, and just a little FYI: everyone is forbidden to say the phrase "knocked up" in Hugs's presence. I just wouldn't want anybody to get hurt now that Miss Moodswing is now with us.
Bye,
C
Once we get this next ultrasound done I think the plan is to make up some silly little flyer and mail it out to everyone announcing our news. I'm dying to tell someone. I don't think I'm good at keeping secrets. There has been about 4 times this past week where I could have said something. For example:
1. Playing pool with Sergey. He says, "when are you and Hugs going to have kids so I can pick on them and be mean to them?" I wanted to respond, "Oh, in about 7 months." But I couldn't.
2. I'm talking to my boss and a program manager about buying a house and my boss says to me "When ya gonna knock the old lady up and fill up this house you are going to buy with some kids?" I wanted to say, "It's a done deal, hoser." But instead I said "It's on the agenda." (I couldn't think of anything better to say!!)
3. Today on the way to pick up lunch a coworker he was commenting to me (indirectly) about Hugs and I starting a family now that we are looking for houses.
I swear, everyday there is something. There is at least one more, but I probably shouldn't mention it here (a little too crass).
Anyhow, I'm dying to tell someone. I feel like a little kid who has been caught doing something bad, and I'm going to get in a little bit of trouble, but not alot. For me, it's comparable to the high school nervousness of asking a chick out on a date.
So anyway, we are going to make up this mailer/flyer thing and send it out to people on the weekend of March 10. And I think we are going to tell Hugs's parents then. *nervous laughter* I don't know what my problem is, but I just keep laughing about it. Oh, and by then we'll make this blog PUBLIC!
So other than that, Miss Moodswing has arrived, still waiting on the 2nd ultrasound and I'm dying to tell somebody about this.
Oh, and just a little FYI: everyone is forbidden to say the phrase "knocked up" in Hugs's presence. I just wouldn't want anybody to get hurt now that Miss Moodswing is now with us.
Bye,
C
Sunday, February 18, 2007
almost blew our cover
So this week Hugs is 7 weeks pregnant. Her friend Sarah B comes to town yesterday and today we got together with Mandy, Asa, Sarah and Lori for a late breakfast. Well, somehow between the 6 of us the topic of kids and having kids and birthing and crap came up as a topic of conversation. Darn it, you know it really is hard to force a blank expression on your face? Well, it's hard for me at least. Gosh darn it.
Apparently I had a goofy look on my face that Hugs alleges that almost caused us to blow our cover. I say she's full of crap. Although, there were various points in the conversation where I just wanted to blurt it out and tell everyone. I mean, hey, this is exciting stuff! I couldn't help it!
Got to run, funny videos is on tv.
C
Apparently I had a goofy look on my face that Hugs alleges that almost caused us to blow our cover. I say she's full of crap. Although, there were various points in the conversation where I just wanted to blurt it out and tell everyone. I mean, hey, this is exciting stuff! I couldn't help it!
Got to run, funny videos is on tv.
C
Thursday, February 15, 2007
C here:
We had our second dr's visit yesterday. Everything is okay and we had our first ultrasound. They changed the due date back to 10/07/07 so that makes the baby 6.5 weeks old. The picture turned out really crappy after being scanned, but it (the kid) is more or less the size of a grain of rice. The dr. also said that it has a heartbeat and everything because it was fluttering. I didn't see any fluttering, but I'm not the dr.
I circled the little grain of rice that is our kid. We go back in 2 weeks and at that time the dr. said to expect to see arm and leg buds. Whoa boy!
Bye,
C
We had our second dr's visit yesterday. Everything is okay and we had our first ultrasound. They changed the due date back to 10/07/07 so that makes the baby 6.5 weeks old. The picture turned out really crappy after being scanned, but it (the kid) is more or less the size of a grain of rice. The dr. also said that it has a heartbeat and everything because it was fluttering. I didn't see any fluttering, but I'm not the dr.
I circled the little grain of rice that is our kid. We go back in 2 weeks and at that time the dr. said to expect to see arm and leg buds. Whoa boy!
Bye,
C
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Chris here:
Hugs has been in the habit of announcing after a meal "baby likes/dislikes" whatever we just ate. So tonight I made some chili and steamed veggies for dinner. Our post dinner conversation went something like this:
H: Baby likes chili.
C: Oh yea, how do you know?
H: I don't feel like I want to vomit.
Nice, huh?
C
Hugs has been in the habit of announcing after a meal "baby likes/dislikes" whatever we just ate. So tonight I made some chili and steamed veggies for dinner. Our post dinner conversation went something like this:
H: Baby likes chili.
C: Oh yea, how do you know?
H: I don't feel like I want to vomit.
Nice, huh?
C
dr.'s visit
Chris here:
So we had our first dr's visit on wednesday. I didn't know what to expect. Anyway, we showed up and met with a nurse practitioner. First impression: she's a little weird. Basically she just went over some basic stuff with us, don't smoke, don't drink, eat good meals, don't take anything with aspirin and so on. She also gave us a bunch of paperwork to read over as well.
Hugs was being cute when we were there during the visit. The NP would ask her a question and she would look at me after answering it and smile with a look that said "Look at me I'm a grown up and I'm answering the NP's questions, aren't I a good wifey!!" I kept thinking, "dude, calm down and pay attention to her!"
That was followed up by some blood and urine tests. They told us that if they don't call us everything is fine. So I guess we are still preggers and everything is fine. The next visit is wednesday at 2pm and they will do an ultrasound to verify some stuff in addition to the due date. So, our initial due date is September 19. How do you like that?
So why did we think the NP was a little weird? Well, for me it was the (what I think are) fake boobs; for Hugs it was the fake tan. I just don't get that...people who are in health care but don't know how to take care of themselves.
So then on friday we get our first baby gift. The guy who was the first to know sent us a piggy bank! How nice! It has 4 compartments so the kid can choose how to invest their money. I guess I should just come right out and say it. The first person to know (and the donor of this gift) was our financial adviser. I guess because it's about money I just didn't want to post it. Anyhow, here's the picture of it. Ours is green.
Money Savvy Generation
And I'm actually having success in browbeating Hugs into eating good. I can get her to eat vegetables now without using my plumbers helper, funnel and a vice.
So that's all for now.
Chris
So we had our first dr's visit on wednesday. I didn't know what to expect. Anyway, we showed up and met with a nurse practitioner. First impression: she's a little weird. Basically she just went over some basic stuff with us, don't smoke, don't drink, eat good meals, don't take anything with aspirin and so on. She also gave us a bunch of paperwork to read over as well.
Hugs was being cute when we were there during the visit. The NP would ask her a question and she would look at me after answering it and smile with a look that said "Look at me I'm a grown up and I'm answering the NP's questions, aren't I a good wifey!!" I kept thinking, "dude, calm down and pay attention to her!"
That was followed up by some blood and urine tests. They told us that if they don't call us everything is fine. So I guess we are still preggers and everything is fine. The next visit is wednesday at 2pm and they will do an ultrasound to verify some stuff in addition to the due date. So, our initial due date is September 19. How do you like that?
So why did we think the NP was a little weird? Well, for me it was the (what I think are) fake boobs; for Hugs it was the fake tan. I just don't get that...people who are in health care but don't know how to take care of themselves.
So then on friday we get our first baby gift. The guy who was the first to know sent us a piggy bank! How nice! It has 4 compartments so the kid can choose how to invest their money. I guess I should just come right out and say it. The first person to know (and the donor of this gift) was our financial adviser. I guess because it's about money I just didn't want to post it. Anyhow, here's the picture of it. Ours is green.
Money Savvy Generation
And I'm actually having success in browbeating Hugs into eating good. I can get her to eat vegetables now without using my plumbers helper, funnel and a vice.
So that's all for now.
Chris
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
The secret is out!
Chris here:
We've told 1 person about our news. It was only by professional association that made us divulge our secret. In 5 years this is going to be absolutely of zero importance that we told him first, but right now it's exciting. So for those of you who demanded to be the first to know (Trisha, Lori), sorry it just didn't work out that way.
Our first Dr's appointment is tomorrow. I wonder what is going to happen....
C
We've told 1 person about our news. It was only by professional association that made us divulge our secret. In 5 years this is going to be absolutely of zero importance that we told him first, but right now it's exciting. So for those of you who demanded to be the first to know (Trisha, Lori), sorry it just didn't work out that way.
Our first Dr's appointment is tomorrow. I wonder what is going to happen....
C
Saturday, February 3, 2007
God is having fun with me
So I kept hearing 'With Open Arms'. Now I turn on tv and 'Look Who's Talking' is on.
Chris and I, being geeky nerd types, are turning to the books. So far from the library I have gotten:
What to Expect When You're Expecting
Pregnancy Myths
Your Week-By-Week Pregnancy
The Baby Name Wizard
The Expectant Father
These will definitely count towards the "Read more non-fiction" part of my New Year's resolutions. At some point I'll post about the good ones so that some day, down the road people can look at the list and know which books to read (kind of like what Julie did in her first month on And Katie Makes Three).
So far not much sickness. The hardest part is just that I am getting a few more migraines and I can't take my medicine. I'm eating better and drinking tons of water. I'm working on the exercising thing, but that has always been a struggle for me to stick to. I have to remember, it's not just for me!
Chris and I, being geeky nerd types, are turning to the books. So far from the library I have gotten:
What to Expect When You're Expecting
Pregnancy Myths
Your Week-By-Week Pregnancy
The Baby Name Wizard
The Expectant Father
These will definitely count towards the "Read more non-fiction" part of my New Year's resolutions. At some point I'll post about the good ones so that some day, down the road people can look at the list and know which books to read (kind of like what Julie did in her first month on And Katie Makes Three).
So far not much sickness. The hardest part is just that I am getting a few more migraines and I can't take my medicine. I'm eating better and drinking tons of water. I'm working on the exercising thing, but that has always been a struggle for me to stick to. I have to remember, it's not just for me!
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