Monday, April 28, 2008
It's like velvet...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Belly Button
Total Randomness
3. Baby ducks are really cute and they amuse me all during the day because I can watch them from the window at my desk. :-)
You have to look in this first picture to see baby just to the right of Mama duck.
Baby ducks motoring around the pond... check out the wake of the renegade guy at the top of the screen!
4. Tomorrow is my Level 2 Sonogram. My mom came down to Austin so she could come to the appointment with Greg and I. She's never seen an ultrasound, so it should be fun. I'll be 25 weeks to the day tomorrow. Since we don't want to know the flavor (so to speak) the doctor will have to be careful what baby parts he shows us on the screen! :-) Granted, I don't think I could tell even if I wanted to... but you never know.
5. A big Mazel Tov to Kevin and Mahra Pailet on the birth of Lyle Ellis Pailet yesterday afternoon. I'll miss Ellis's bris, but I hope to meet him when I'm in Dallas in a couple of weeks.
6. For the record, there is nothing wrong with Kerbey Queso and a pancake for dinner. Even Greg's classmate Michael joined me last night by dining on queso and pancakes for dinner!
7. Just for fun... here's an old picture of Kristy and I covered in chocolate frosting.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Baby Ducks!
Alas... the ducks are really cute and I hope to get some better pictures of them soon. I'll try to walk down to the pond during the week and catch them at play.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Knitting
If I get the second bootie done tomorrow, I'll take a picture of the pair. I am pretty pleased with myself....
Decisions Made
And, we picked a paint color. If you go to Sherwin Williams do a search for "Lacewing". It's a pale minty green that we hope will be nice calming and baby friendly color. Granted, we haven't even begun to think about bedding -- but I figure we'll either end up with a green/pink theme or green/blue theme. I've seen lots of bedding that's caught my eye - but Greg and I haven't even talked about it yet.
We also oh so briefly looked at strollers while we were placing the order for the furniture. I had to laugh because the stroller that Greg liked the look of most was the Quinny Buzz. :-) We have expensive tastes!! Oy. Greg was making fun of the Bob Revolution that I had liked - saying the front wheel was a big beak sticking out. Who knows. That's another expensive decision that will have to wait until after finals for some more thought. Have I mentioned how glad I am that I got an unexpected bonus check at work -- and that we're actually getting some money back on our taxes? Oh... we also found out today that Greg's summer internship position at Haynes Boone requires a jacket and tie (preferably a full suit) everyday. Ummmm... looks like the 4 suits he owns isn't going to cut it for 6 weeks of work!
Don't mind my stream of conscious writing style - my pregnancy brain is a bit all over the map lately! I did get a new picture this morning of my growing belly, but it's still trapped on the camera at the moment. Perhaps tomorrow... There's always tomorrow...
Thursday, April 17, 2008
As Butters Would Say.... Ahhhhh, The Pressure!
But back to the public acknowledgement of the Outstanding Award for Legal Research (?)... Greg went to the reception earlier this week. 5 people from each 100 section group were selected for the awards. So -that makes a grand total of 20 "winners". Of those 20... 3 were in Greg's small 25 person section (pretty cool) and he said that a few of our friends from the Old People Starting Law School won too. Yay to new dad Jason Leach and to Wyatt. Greg said he also recognized a few other of those recognized from the "older" crowd. Wonder what that tells you? That a few extra years of work before law school paid off? :-)
A small group from the small section is heading out to Happy Hour this afternoon once the paper gets turned in. Hopefully, I'll be able to finish work by 5 and head out to join the gang. I think after a couple beers, Greg may come home and sleep straight through until Saturday!
In knitting news... I'm attempting to make some baby booties! Granted, the pattern isn't that difficult, but I've started the things about half a dozen times. Oy. But, I think they're going well now. I've made it through the first paragraph and so far I have the correct number of stitches and they look way better than my first attempt! Guess I shouldn't have stopped knitting for so long -- you do start to forget stuff. Thank goodness for the nice people that post videos on http://www.knittinghelp.com/! I'm not sure if you have to register --but here's the link to the T-Strap Baby Booty Pattern. They will hopefully look like this once finished:
Aren't they just too freaking cute? Hee hee. I have also pulled out from the dark recess of my closet the baby poncho that got stuck in it's WIP state. That's Work In Progress.... it never made it to FO (Finished Object). But... I hope to have it completed soon as well so that it can be a birthday gift for little Miss Zoe Myers this summer. That's the plan.
This weekend, Greg and I are going to pick out the paint color for the nursery and order the nursery furniture! Woo hoo. I'll be sure to post a picture of the color we choose for the room and of course what crib we FINALLY choose! :-) That will be a relief to get that ordered!!
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Hiccups & Other News
In other news, I'm FINALLY feeling better. That stupid cold lasted for just over two freaking weeks. So, first I was afraid I was going to cough up our unborn child. Then, I was afraid that the cough medicine would knock out the baby... but now, I'm sure that baby is just fine. Hiccuping like there's no tomorrow.
And, in other other news.... Greg received another award in school. He wasn't thrilled that it was announced in front of the entire 100 person section, but -- still, another pretty cool honor. There were 5 people out of each of the four 100 person sections that were called out for Best/Outstanding Memo. We're also gearing up for next semester. I think it's going to be a busy one for Greg. He's applied to be a "TQ" for Legal Research and Writing (kind of like a teacher's aide). He's also now a part of the IP Law Society and I don't know what it's called... but some other organization through school that prepares Memos and does research for local attorneys. All of that in addition to his classes. Oh, and a new baby. Should be interesting, huh? We'll find out this week if he got a TQ position, and if he did.... then he'll have to rearrange his school schedule a bit. The TQ position is a 2 hour credit -- which with a full class schedule would be too much. So, if he gets the position, he'll have to drop something else. Decisions, decisions... but it's a good rock/hard place to be stuck between! (Did I mention that the TQ position comes with a small pay and tuition reimbursement!!)
I've also started a registry for Baby Baden at www.babiesrus.com. I started a little one at www.babycenter.com but I don't know if I'll make that one public. We're crib and furniture shopping at the moment. It's a tough decision. Do we go for the simple nursery furniture that can be "offloaded" when we move after law school? Or, do we go for the more furniture furniture stuff that we'd move, but should last us through a few kids and then some? The first instinct is the latter. We're looking at www.munirefurniture.com. But, there are so many other options. You start to over think everything after a while. I know that Baby Baden doesn't care one way or the other!! If we do want to order Munire however, we have to do it soon, because I hear it can take up to 3 months to get the furniture in! Yikes.
OK, well -- some cookies are calling my name. Cookies and fruit... I suppose there are worse things to crave!
Now that I'm feeling better, there should be more updates forthcoming!