Quintessential Boy

I know it has been a while since my last post, were you chomping at the bit? I know, it's better than TMZ...anyway, here are some updates:

First is a photo of our little bean. The doctor pointed on the ultrasound to a very specific body part and asked "what do you think that is?" to which I replied "I think it's a boy!" and he answered "well, if it's a girl, she's sure funny looking!" so, for those of you on the late train, it seems I am destined (at least for now) to have the most estrogen in my family, and, to tell the truth, that suits me just fine!!! This, of course, is not a photo of his, you know. Rather, it's a side view of him just chillin.

This week we have gotten two of the cutest, most special gifts, I had to put them up on the blog. The first was sent with Luke and Renda (who are here visiting) by Tim's mom. She loves country and wanted to be the first to give our boy these:

look at the tread on those bad boys! He's going to be the hippest little cowpoke in the...the...well at least in the living room.

And this was given to us by the wonderful czech couple who does our home improvement for us, they didn't even know we were having a boy but they knew we'd love it, and they were right!

Mommy and daddy are both doing well aside from the fact that we are soooo not ready to have another human move in yet! More posts to come!

Getting ready for baby b: a day of ups and downs

Today we spent yet more time getting ready for the baby's arrival. The two major things done today were the painting of the kitchen and hall and, on a much more somber note, taking our 10 year old "kitten" figero to the spca to be put down. It was very emotional for me. Dad took me while Tim stayed home (he was too torn up to go) so that softened the blow. When I got home, Tim and I talked about how we felt. It was hard because Tim got kitten for me for Valentines day the year we got married so he was really our first baby. We think he had feline schizophrenia though, he was a little bastard, may he rest in peace. Ok, now that's out of my system, i can continue with the crux of the story...Tim finished painting and asked me to help clean up. Everything was going swimmingly until he asked me to hold the garbage bag while he took the roller off of the holder and this is what happened next...

please notice the DISGUSTED look on my face. What's classic is tim absolutley hates these pants and, although you can't see it in the photo, i have a beatles shirt on (tim also hates the beatles...i know right?) We both laughed and laughed and i told him, "of course it had to be this outfit, huh?". It was a good outlet for the day!

The 50 Yard Line

This coming Wednesday, I will be officially 20 weeks...halfway through this pregnancy thing! It feels like it's gone so fast and now I feel like I'm really behind on things (even though Tim assures me that I'm definitely not). I went to buy onsies today and he made me put them back, in his defense though, they did have firetrucks on them and they said "hero". I told him that if we found out we were having a girl I would just return them. He said "the baby has to earn that title anyway". We find out what we're having on the 22nd of this month and every day seems to go by slower than the last. It's not like I want a total girl motif or a total boy one but it's difficult to not buy at least some things that are gender specific! Anyway, as for me, I feel loopy and, frankly, a bit stupid lately (case in point, I just misspelled stupid as stoopid, luckily I caught it before spell check or I would have been mortified!). I'm getting all of the classic symptoms, general fatigue, dizziness and lower back pain are the most irritating. But it's all totally worth it! I want to thank everyone who continues to give me awesome "hand me downs", gifts, books and words of encouragement, you all ROCK! Advice is always welcome, as opposed to the comment I received last week: "by the time that baby is ready to come, you'll look like you ate yourself!"...what?