...but the pictures aren't scanned yet! You'll just have to wait a little while. :)
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Triathlon baby [20w1d]
I swear this kid is trying to keep up with its daddy in training sometimes. Exercising the leg muscles for biking, doing some practice for swimming in general (probably butterfly), and definitely working on his/her running form. I'm hoping that he/she won't be too active for us to see much on the ultrasound this Thursday. I want to know what type of genitalia we have growing in there! :) Speaking of which, I am pretty much counting down the seconds until Thursday at 4:20 p.m. EST. Not so much looking forward to downing 32 oz of water beforehand, but you know.
Unfortunately, as I wrote about in our grown up blog, while I looked darn good for Hayley's wedding this weekend, we didn't end up taking any pictures of me that included my belly. The only one I have shows the very beginning of my belly against the white of Hayley's wedding dress!
In other news, we got another present today! It's snowpea's first stuffed animal! Right as I got home from work, a delivery person from a local florist shop rang the doorbell and handed me this cute little ball of fluff. It also has five balloons in varying colors of green and purple, but I couldn't manage to get them into the same picture frame. Oops. Oh yeah, and the giver! Duh! It's from the employees at CBE. (That's Chequamegon Bay Engineering for those of you not cool enough to know. ;) Brian worked for them for the past 2 or 3 summers now and is doing some additional work this summer while he doesn't have classes to worry about). Here's a picture!
Unfortunately, as I wrote about in our grown up blog, while I looked darn good for Hayley's wedding this weekend, we didn't end up taking any pictures of me that included my belly. The only one I have shows the very beginning of my belly against the white of Hayley's wedding dress!
In other news, we got another present today! It's snowpea's first stuffed animal! Right as I got home from work, a delivery person from a local florist shop rang the doorbell and handed me this cute little ball of fluff. It also has five balloons in varying colors of green and purple, but I couldn't manage to get them into the same picture frame. Oops. Oh yeah, and the giver! Duh! It's from the employees at CBE. (That's Chequamegon Bay Engineering for those of you not cool enough to know. ;) Brian worked for them for the past 2 or 3 summers now and is doing some additional work this summer while he doesn't have classes to worry about). Here's a picture!
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Present rave! [19w2d]
I just need to take a moment and rave a bit about the present snowpea (and it's really for him/her this time....kind of!) got in the mail today! Our lovely friends, Britt and Sam, got us a boppy pillow! If you don't know what it is, allow me to explain its awesomeness. It's a crescent-shaped pillow (see picture numero uno) 
that has myriad uses! It can be used for feeding baby by putting it around your waist (see the second picture), which keeps the strain off mommy (or daddy!)'s arms, neck, and back by supporting baby's weight. 
It can also be used to prop baby up so he/she can look around and still chill on something soft. You can also flip that little puppy around (the baby, not the boppy) and allow for some tummy time without baby's cute little face getting smushed on the floor.
And as an added bonus, being the artsy person she is, Britt (I'm assuming Sam didn't pick too much about the gift :), right?) picked out a wonderful patterned slipcover on the boppy! The colors didn't show up that great in these pictures, but it is green, blue, yellow, orange, and white stripes. (Gender neutral of course!) Definitely a pattern I would have picked out myself!
So, thanks Britt and Sam! This whole getting presents thing is awesome! If you feel so inclined to check out my baby stuff interests, I do have a registry set up on amazon. You go to amazon.com/babyregistry and search under our name. We're planning to make a babies r us and target registries later this month (after we hopefully know the finer anatomical points of this snowpea!).
Thanks everyone for the kind messages, cards, gifts, and calls! It really means a lot!
that has myriad uses! It can be used for feeding baby by putting it around your waist (see the second picture), which keeps the strain off mommy (or daddy!)'s arms, neck, and back by supporting baby's weight. 
It can also be used to prop baby up so he/she can look around and still chill on something soft. You can also flip that little puppy around (the baby, not the boppy) and allow for some tummy time without baby's cute little face getting smushed on the floor.
And as an added bonus, being the artsy person she is, Britt (I'm assuming Sam didn't pick too much about the gift :), right?) picked out a wonderful patterned slipcover on the boppy! The colors didn't show up that great in these pictures, but it is green, blue, yellow, orange, and white stripes. (Gender neutral of course!) Definitely a pattern I would have picked out myself!
So, thanks Britt and Sam! This whole getting presents thing is awesome! If you feel so inclined to check out my baby stuff interests, I do have a registry set up on amazon. You go to amazon.com/babyregistry and search under our name. We're planning to make a babies r us and target registries later this month (after we hopefully know the finer anatomical points of this snowpea!).
Thanks everyone for the kind messages, cards, gifts, and calls! It really means a lot!
Monday, July 7, 2008
I forget a lot [19w1d]
There's baby brain for you. I totally forgot to write about something kind of big that happened! On the 4th of July, no less, I finally felt snowpea moving around! It was pretty cool. It surprised me a bit because I was just laying down on the blanket while we were watching the concert and there were two little jabs low on my left side. It was different from the kind of "flutters" that I had been feeling but couldn't positively identify and I couldn't think of anything else it might have been. Now, I keep feeling them every now and then. Pretty neat to think that he/she is in there flipping around and punching me. :) That is all.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Presents! [19w0d]
I have gotten some baby-related presents (that are really more for me, but that's okay!) in the mail recently. First, I got a 4 year, yes, a 4 year subscription to Parents magazine from my dear ol' Melonious!
It's got some very interesting articles that I am enjoying, and Brian is rolling his eyes at. :) Probably more applicable reading than Cosmo or Redbook too.
The second present was the reason our darn mailbox was stuck last week! Well, it and a free playtex drop-in bottle that I signed up for. Heehee. We know have an 8 oz from the free Motherhood Maternity give-away bag and a 5 oz from playtex. Yay! Anyway! I got a present from my amazon registry (which is by far, my fav place to make registries.) As some of you may know, I have a very tiny collection of Willow Tree figurines that I am a little more than in love with. I have the two married couple figurines, and now I also have this one! It's named "cherish" and I love love love it! Thanks mom!
And of course, here is an updated belly pic. It's kind of funny because in a picture from Friday, I look like I'm not pregnant at all, then one on Saturday, it looks like I might be, then today, boom! (The outfit I was wearing helped - a skirt that sits on my hips, non-maternity!, and a tank that is starting to ride up in the front.)
Brian's shot of my with a head was not satisfactory, so I attempted to do it myself with the bathroom mirror. I guess it kind of works. :)
It's got some very interesting articles that I am enjoying, and Brian is rolling his eyes at. :) Probably more applicable reading than Cosmo or Redbook too. The second present was the reason our darn mailbox was stuck last week! Well, it and a free playtex drop-in bottle that I signed up for. Heehee. We know have an 8 oz from the free Motherhood Maternity give-away bag and a 5 oz from playtex. Yay! Anyway! I got a present from my amazon registry (which is by far, my fav place to make registries.) As some of you may know, I have a very tiny collection of Willow Tree figurines that I am a little more than in love with. I have the two married couple figurines, and now I also have this one! It's named "cherish" and I love love love it! Thanks mom!
And of course, here is an updated belly pic. It's kind of funny because in a picture from Friday, I look like I'm not pregnant at all, then one on Saturday, it looks like I might be, then today, boom! (The outfit I was wearing helped - a skirt that sits on my hips, non-maternity!, and a tank that is starting to ride up in the front.)
Brian's shot of my with a head was not satisfactory, so I attempted to do it myself with the bathroom mirror. I guess it kind of works. :)
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