week 25 and we are melting!!!!

thar she blows! yup thats the belly
took this picture this morning before work
my daily morning routine has shifted slightly because it now takes me almost twenty minutes to put on a pair of tights, but i do like wearing tights (holds the belly up) and about ten minutes to tie my shoes, not to mention the thirty five layers one must wear in order to survive the minus degree temperatures........
and since bec finds the weather almost more interesting than the pregnancy lets just say yesterday it was 45 degrees...which means the cat still won't go out unless you provide her with a canoe and those four feet of snow are melting into smaller versions of lake erie........
now that i have gotten my fascination with the weather out of the way
THE BABY:
well she is kickin' alot which means i am down to a few hours of sleep a night and alot of tossing and turning because of course she likes to kick when mom's sleeping. i went out for mexican food the other day with my friend moe which was lots of fun but i have learned that eating spicy food gives her hiccups....aaron found this amusing as my belly jumped from one place to the next.
aaron has taken to talking to her lots which gets her kickin' and doing somersaults......
did you know that in the star fish family the males have the babies?

little baby girl is doing well we are still thinkin' up names but have narrowed them down to:
sloan : lena
i am sure tomorrow we will have five new ones picked out but we have time so there is no rush
there is a rush on the house though as we only have three more months to go and bec can't bend over very well anymore so this is were we are at:
going to start building the bookshelves in the living room this weekend - which means all the books and that is A LOT of books can be moved downstairs - which means the computer can be moved into aaron's studio - which means the nursery can be painted!
see there is a plan for all this madness
the dining room is coming along still sanding the walls but should be done this weekend so its a matter of paint
started priming the dresser/changing table
ordered the nursery glider (which is yellow corduroy) will get a picture when it comes in takes 6 to 8 weeks to order!
we start our birthing classes next sunday and get a tour of the hospital
it is amazing to think in four months we will have a little baby girl!
aaron has been busy staring at the sky picturing his life as a daddy
he put together her first little radio flyer over the weekend!




i think that's it for this week once again mark your calender
MAY 19, 2007 3pm-8pm BABY BBQ SHOWER AND PICNIC!!!!!

Week 24 - winter of our content !

lets see......we did not write anything for week 23 of baby development but...all is good she is kickin' and punchin' and she is growing. she is about a foot long and is getting chubby! so is momma as you can see tying shoes is becoming a task and bec keeps walking into walls because she can not figure out how big she is, which is amusing to everyone but bec.

lots of things have happened the past two weeks so lets begin the stories.
papa aaron played in his country band on saturday night which was lots of fun we stayed out until 3:00 am which for bec is way way past her bed but as soon as aaron got up on stage and starting playing little baby girl starting kickin' to the beat of the songs, so she has rhythm! that sunday we went to IKEA and bought the cutest little night light but mostly we bought things to help organize our little house. speaking of our little house.......we got covered in SNOW!

it started snowing yesterday (tuesday) and finally stopped snowing but not until 4 feet of snow covered us! which was okay because aaron and bec both had snow days....

which means aaron became a snow bunny trying to find our cars and bec sanded the walls in the dining room, and started priming the walls! soon we will have a house with actual rooms!
SAVE THE DATE:
May 19 SHOWER!
this will not be a typical baby shower think bbq chicken, bocce ball, and a keg . this shower is co-ed and everyone is invited to help us celebrate our little baby girl before our life is completely altered and you will never see us again unless we have a diaper or drool on shoulder.

aaron is reading a new book : the baby owner's manual
bec is reading: Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom

the nursery: still working on the nursery have some new ideas to bring to the old ideas. instead of painting a tree with leaves what about cut out pieces of wallpaper for leaves? so if anyone has any good, bad or ugly wallpaper send it our way

think that is all for the moment just working on the house, working at our jobs.....enjoy the winter wonder land pictures.

lake erie!

FREEEEZZZZEEEE WEEEK!

okay this has nothing to do with baby this has to do with the fact that we live in cleveland and it is super cold out.

story of the week:
our thermocouple died on sunday when the wind chill was say -25 degrees
so our house was 41 degrees and the cat....well she was a popsicat
we started a fire in the fire place turned the heat up to 70 degrees pressed the red button on our thermocouple and and waited......
finally went to bed the house was at a warm 51 degrees!
woke up the next morning to the cat wrapped around aaron's face and another 41 degrees
coffee i think is over rated if you really want to wake up quickly wake up to house you can see your breath in
all is good today aaron ignored the warning signs of electrocution and twisted two wires together until the boiler guy could come out and replace our thermocouple now we sit in a warm 61 degree house
ah winter in cleveland wish we were in hawaii with the family