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Gestation, Reservations, & Renovation

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

So if being ‘with child’ weren’t hectic enough, Bmommy and I will add more stress to our lives in the coming weeks. After our trip to Maine and New Hampshire, my work travel schedule has picked up. Detroit last week, Los Angeles this week, and Las Vegas two weeks from now. I feel like a celebrity or an NBA player, except with out all the fame, fortune, and rehab.

We are also starting a kitchen renovation project tomorrow morning that will last the next 3 weeks at least. Our things are scattered about (kind of like our brains at this point) and we are hoping things go as planned. Unlike a kitchen project, at least a fetus is pretty predictable. Imagine if a doctor told you that the baby was due in January and it finally arrived in late March. Not that we expect problems with the renovation, but these things rarely go as smoothly as you’d like.

Have included a picture we took recently when we were hoping to have a baby. Ah, the power of positive thinking.

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A January Baby

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

A few weeks ago, my wife and I found out we are having our first child. We are about 8 weeks right now and are due in late January.

My wife, hereafter referred to as Bmommy, has begun to feel the effects of pregnancy. She is waking early in the morning for a snack. She has developed a mild case of narcolepsy in which she falls asleep suddenly, usually at the first sound of a sports announcer’s voice. Bmommy is also a stickler for the rules, meaning that she will not be lifting anything for the remainder of the term. I don’t mind the extra work-out.

Coincidentally, Bmommy and I took a pre-scheduled trip to the East Coast recently, which was a good chance to relax and talk about the baby. We are very excited, and have taken to giving the baby joke names based on its relative size. For example, when it was the size of a grain of rice, we called it Riceton (boy) and Grainsley (girl). The blueberry version was Violet (think Willie Wonka) and the peanut size was Shelly. It gives us a way to avoid thinking of real baby names.