Monday, September 22, 2008

What I would name my pregnancy book, if I were to write one:

The Bitter Waddler

What to Expect When You're Wearing Maternity Underwear

Your New All-Time High Weight: A Month by Month Journey

Maternity Pants: Satan's Little "Congratulations!"

Girlfriends Guide to Heartburn

Missing You Desperately: 9 Months Without Wine

The Cankle Diaries

For All This, This Kid Better Grow Up to be President.

Eyes on Your Epidural

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Thursday, September 11, 2008

This is his brain on nesting...

Conversation with Mr. A this morning:

Me: "I had a horrible dream last night."

Him: "Me too!"

Me: "Really? What was yours?"

Him: "I couldn't get to the hospital. You had the baby and I wasn't there."

Me: "Oh no! Was everything OK? Was the baby OK? Was I OK?"

Him: "Uh huh. Yep. Then we went a robbed a hardware store."

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Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Just starting 27 weeks

Compare this to my 19 week pic, and wow.

And here's one for Beth...


(Also notice how nice the new stain looks on the wood door!)

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Monday, September 01, 2008

Nesting (male version)

So you may recall we're in the last mile of our year-long construction project on the house. On this fine Labor day, I thought it would be appropriate to pay a tribute to my superhuman husband, who is, dare-I-say maniacally laboring on the house in order to get as much done as possible before the baby comes.

There's way too much to post here today, but here are a few highlights of his recent work:

1. Insulating inside the upstairs walls

2. Assembling my awesome new closet

3. New faucet

4. Staining the new back windows and door in the kitchen
Before:

After:

Plus a whole lotta other stuff:

The fireplace staining is by far his pièce de résistance:
Before:

After:

After all that, assembling a crib is so easy he only needs one hand:

Whew! Can you see why I got knocked up? Gotta keep this guy around!

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