I return..

Adrianne has stepped up to the plate for the last few entries and has left me feeling like I could be pulling my blogging weight a little more faithfully - so here goes.

We are just coming through the week of 35+ degree weather that has undoubtedly dominated the conversations of every soul in the lower mainland. It was quite the week. Our house sat at around the same balmy temperature as outside, and needless to say, Adrianne had a blast managing trying to sleep through the night. Our daily ritual consisted of the following:

- up at 5:30, have the first of 3-4 showers of the day
- breakfast (usually a cold smoothie)
- Take Age to work, stopping for an iced S.bucks to maintain the cooler body temp.
- Pick up Age for an Air Conditioned lunch break (as her work is more of a sauna than our house :)
- Home from work, shower
- Age off to AC (Starbucks or the Library)
- Out for dinner / AC.
- Stay out as long as possible.
- Home as late as possible and then another shower
- Age to bed with the following: fan cranking full tilt 2 feet from bed//3 ice packs wedged in between pillows//2 cold, wet towels acting as a blanket :)
- Then up the next morning @ 5:30.

That my friends, was our week. With all of the heat records recently shattered, it looks like the days ahead will be a few degrees closer to normal, so we may not cave on the Air Conditioner just yet..

Gordie

Picture Update

Baby bassinet I just bought on craigslist (don't worry, every fabric part comes off and will be properly sanitized).

This is the outfit I bought to bring home baby in, hopefully the baby's not too chunky because this kimono is pretty tiny.

Golden Ears picnic with Brody & Jodie... My first attempt with the maternity bathing suit. I thought I would float in the lake because of my belly, but I am definitely still a sinker.

Granville Island - 6.5 weeks to go...

Belly Shot

I know we are not that great at updating the blog, but there isn't really much to post except that I am getting huge.... Posting pictures of this is only something I can bring myself to do every month or so. So here is an updated belly shot, as well as a picture of the beginnings of a baby room (which is more of a guest room right now). I promise to update more when there's a cute baby to post pictures of.

Just wanted to give everyone a visual of the little furnace living in my tummy. I get pictures emailed to me weekly from a baby site and this one is supposed to be at 26 weeks. I've been feeling lots of kicks and Gordie's even been able to feel a few. As of today, we are 95 days away from our due date.... Crazy!

It's been really hot here for the last week and I am definitely feeling it. Gordie bought a fan last night which seems to help a little but still... I've been daydreaming about air conditioning. Today I went for my gestational diabetes screen so hopefully I won't be getting a call back. I actually enjoyed waiting for the hour between drinking the orange potion and getting my blood drawn, mainly because the building was air conditioned.

Tummy and baby room pictures to come soon! We promise...

Photoshoot

So, the star of this blog had a bit of a significant day a week back.. It was time to say hello to the camera for mommy & daddy... Apparently, this idea wasn't high on the priority list for our little monkey. When Age went with the ultrasound tech, I sat and waited... and waited... and waited. 

Adrianne came out with the update that apparently little monkey didn't feel like moving his/her head for a picture. Arms and legs were flailing, but our monkey just wanted to stay laying face down. The ultrasound tech told us we needed to put some food in Age's stomach, go for a walk, and jump around a little (Age, not me) to help prod some movement in the tummy.

Thankfully, this did the trick and we got the photos to prove it...

Say hello to our little monkey.

A Quick Update

I've decided to attempt a post even though this is mainly Gordie's thing. So until he posts our ultrasound pictures (which I won't even bother trying to do) here are some pictures. 

My parents got us a sweet stroller (thanks!) and I'm pretty excited about it. Being excited about a stroller makes me feel old, but it's seriously amazing. Maybe someday I'll post a video of its quick fold mechanism... 

Here we go...

Welcome to the blog. We have decided to join the many others who ambitiously set out to start a blog and then do updates every 6 months saying "sorry it's been so long since I have updated..." except for the fact that we hope not to be one of the many. We have a baby to blog about and are pretty confident that the process of having a baby will be that which has us dedicated to the cause..

To start things off, we have the 'tummy' shot of Adrianne as well as a shot of the first gift that awaits our little family addition. Age found this at a Kid's swap meet last weekend for $2. Bam. Daddy's happy...

Until next time (in the not so distant future...)