Pushy Little Baby

            We learned this week a little trick that our sweet baby Jude will do.  If you push lightly on S’s stomach, if Jude is awake, he will kick/push you back!  It is so crazy that he is now aware enough to respond to something like that.  And his baby kicks keep getting stronger and stronger.  I can pretty much always feel him know if he is up and at it, and I just love it.  I can’t wait to meet this little baby!

            Our Tulsa baby shower is next week and I’m getting excited.  I’m hoping that the turn out will be alright, we haven’t gotten very many RSVPs back yet.  And we are a little less than 5 weeks away from our Austin baby shower, which is going to be even better than the Tulsa baby shower.  So much to look forward to, I’m feeling very blessed.

            We are having a Halloween costume party tomorrow night and I have LOTS that I need to get done tonight and tomorrow before it happens.  It’s weird to think that this will be the last big party we have for quite a while.  We normally every year throw at least a Halloween and New Year’s party but this year New Year’s Eve will be so very close to Jude’s due date that it would be just craziness to try to have a party.  It’s even possible that he will be born by then or close to then (He would only have to be about 2 ½-3 weeks early for that to happen).  I’m hoping he will be a little bit early, but not that early, more like a week early, just because I’m so excited to meet him.  I’ll post pictures from our Halloween party on Sunday or Monday.

            Have a happy weekend!

                        Liz

In Progress (and Belly Shots!)

            Right now, everything seems to be in progress.  S is now more than half way through this pregnancy, so our baby is defiantly “in progress”.  Everyday our little boy gets bigger and stronger, I’ve felt him kick and move around probably 3-4 times now, but only one really big kick so far.  And everyday my beautiful wife’s belly gets rounder and rounder.  Here is her 22 weeks belly shot.  And guess what?  S is going to be showing her cute little face around here now!  Yay!

            The nursery is constantly in progress, though a lot of good progress has been made.  I’m working on a really cute “Hey Jude” painting to hang over his crib.  It’s getting close to done and hopefully I will finish it up this week.  Here it is so far, with the lovely S posing with it. 

            I’m also mostly done redoing the dresser that will go in the room.  I cannot wait to finish it, move it into the nursery, and mostly, show it off to you guys!  The dresser was an old one that I’ve always disliked that S had as a little girl.  It was cream/off white colored with green and blue accents and little blue and green 3D flowers on it.  All I have left to do on it is attach the new knobs and put at one last coat of polyurethane and it will be all done!  Again, I hope to have it done today or tomorrow, so you can expect a post later this week about the whole process, including before and after pictures!

-Liz

Back from the Coast

We got back yesterday from our mini vacation to the coast.  It was really nice and we had a lot of fun.  We went with my BFF Brandon for his 30th birthday.  We went to Corpus Christi which is right on the gulf in Texas.  Corpus doesn’t have the prettiest beaches, but hey, a beach is still a good thing in my book.  Brandon has only been to the beach once when he was a kid, so I think it was a fun experience for him, despite the less than sparkling water.

We did run into a bit of danger while we were there though.  The first night I went outside our hotel to a little grassy area to sit with Brandon while he smoked (don’t worry, S was in bed) and I accidentally sat in a fire ant hill!  Holy Jesus the pain.  I ended up having to strip down and shower to get them all off of me.  I have about 20 bites on my right foot, 7 ish on my left foot, and 6 on my right hand, including one really annoying one in the center of my palm.  I’m feeling better now, but my poor feet arn’t looking so good.  The next day we were trying to find a particular beach and we were using my iphone to navigate and I ended up taking us to a military base.  It was very incognito and we didn’t realize right away what it was.  S couldn’t see the guy at the guard booth at first and there wasn’t an actual gate or bar, so she almost just zipped right in!  I can just picture the military police going crazy coming after us.  Luckily she stopped and the guards were just as confused as we were.  There was a sign asking for id, so S asked, “Do I need to show you my id?”  And the guard just looked at her, clearly waiting for her to state our business.  After an awkward silence, he said, “Ma’am, this is a military base.”  Oooooh.  “We are just looking for the beach!”  He gave us complicated directions on how to get to a beach, which none of us could really follow, and we high tailed it out of there.  Close one!

Once we did get to the beach, we got in the water and were having a great time until something bumped S’s hand, making her shriek.  She thought it was a fish at first, but then we saw that it was the top of a jelly fish.  And it wasn’t alone.  We took that as a sign that it was time to get out of the water.  Luckily, S did not get stung.  That would have been horrible.

In other news, I felt baby Jude kick last night!  For the past two or three days I’ve been feeling little flutters that I thought were him and then last night he kicked really hard and I could feel it!  It made me laugh with joy, it was such a cool feeling.  I haven’t been able to feel it since, but I’m hoping that I will again soon.

Today S and I both had off work and we went and registered for baby stuff at Babies R Us.  It was really fun, but a bit overwhelming.  I think that we did a good job of not being silly and just registering for everything we saw.  We also started looking into birthing classes at our hospital and are also considering taking a Bradley method class for natural child birth.  It looks interesting, but it’s 12 weeks long so we need to pretty much start this month or at the beginning of October, so we need to decide pretty soon here.  Anyone taken a Bradley Method class?  Any feedback would be appreciated.  Wow, it makes the next 19 weeks seem so short when you think about not being able to finish a 12 week class with enough time to be sure you will get through it all before the baby.  S is now more than half way to the finish line and has more time under her belt than she has left!  Crazy town!
-Liz