Thursday, December 11, 2008
Our child will be so proud of his/her father's fashion sense! If it is a girl, I think I might just wear this any time a boyfriend comes around...
From the looks of this hazy picture, I think Srini enjoyed those brownies too much. Hey, I only say they were really good...I didn't say what they were baked with...
The hostesses with the mostesses, Kay Keane (right) and Erika Small (left). They did an amazing job planning everything. Thank you so much!
Looks like those Italian Meatballs were starting to settle in...
psst. PSST! Honey! She isn't THAT big. Shorter! You're going toget me in trouble!
No, your roots look beautiful!
We've heard this rumor before, but we aren't sure who they are. Have them email me if you find out, will you?
Barb had her Baby Shower on Sunday, December 7th and it went great! We had far more friends show up than I would have imagined. Due to Barb now being on bed rest, we had to move the shower from its original location (Wild Wing Plantation's clubhouse) to our home which actually proved to be far more intimate and appreciable.
Everyone was beyond generous with their gifts to us. In fact, the baby will now have a humidifier for every room in the house! (We received three of them). Onesies, bottle warmers, socks, booties, caps, rockers, bouncers -- you name it, someone gave it to us. We can't thank everyone enough for what they did.
The food was outstanding. Darla Domke-Damonte made some amazing pull pork with Sticky Fingers sauces, some Italian meatballs, brownies capped with icing, cole slaw and several other items that slip my mind right now. Basically -- the food was damn good!
My mother was a tremendous help all weekend long, cleaning like crazy on Saturday and Sunday and then spending time with Barb and taking her to the doctor's on Monday. We can't thank her enough for everything she did. I'm not sure any of it would have been possible without her help.
Finally, Kay and Erika were wonderful hostesses. They planned everything out perfectly. They made cute little treats, picked out a great invitation card...they simply did everything as perfect as it could ever possibly have been done.
I'll post pictures of the shower in a little while!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Well, the mommy-to-be is out of the hospital, thankfully. After being admitted on Thursday morning and having a Thanksgiving dinner that consisted of beef broth soup (nothing solid), three helpings of lemon jello and a special high-protein, high-calorie apple juice, Barb was kept on bed rest in her hospital suite (and it really was -- it has to have been close to 700 sq.ft.!).
When you spend a week in the hospital, you quickly realize just how unhealthy a hospital is. Barb's choice for breakfast in the morning consisted of whether she wanted a plate full of bacon or a plate full of sausage to go with her eggs (real eggs, not even low-cholesterol eggs!). For lunch -- how about a cheeseburger or deep fried chicken fingers? And dinner -- let's go with pizza or...pizza. But there was ALWAYS jello (and a brownie, and poundcake, and anything else deemed unhealthy). It blew our minds that a place you are supposed to "get well" at could harm you so much with such a menu. And all they offered the baby was steroids (two doses, in fact)!
Anyway -- the hospital was kind enough to give us its largest room so that I could stay each evening with Barb, which was comforting to both of us (significantly more comforting than the concrete beds we had to sleep on).
Barb had been scheduled to have an amniocentesis on Monday. If the steroids had expedited the baby's lung development to the point they were full operational, they would proceed with inducing labor. Right now, that plan is thankfully off of the table as both Barb and I would much prefer to wait until at least 36-weeks (December 22nd).
The most important thing is that Baby is healthy. At our last ultrasound, the baby weighed in at 4 pounds and 11 ounces, with the technician saying that she always underestimates. The ultrasounds can be off by one-full pound, meaning that chances are Baby is about 5 pounds right now which is a very good size. The baby is VERY active and really gets riled up when I play with its feet when they are pressed against Barb's stomach. It starts kicking, doing somersaults and everything in between. Chances are I will regret this as I am creating on irritable child before it even experiences the world...but hell, it is damn fun to do!
We got to see the baby one more time on an ultrasound, although it was tough to tell the features. My best guess from the static-ridden pictures is that the baby has Barb's nose (a bit more compact, smaller than mine), my lips (the baby's lips looked very full, while Barb has very thin lips) and my head...why? Well, I have a huge, huge head. Like, Barry Bonds size. I wear a 7-3/4" fitted hat. The Baby's head was a full two weeks larger than the rest of its body!
...So, Barb will thoroughly hate me while pushing the baby through. I can picture it now...
@#!$ you and your @#$^@$% massive skull! I hate you @$$^&%#!
Ah yes, the joy of birth! I guess as long as it doesn't receive from me what Barb refers to as my "Horse Teeth," she'll be okay with it (yes, my wife is very affectionate and loving...No, really...)
Well, we're 34-weeks come Monday and we'll just keep going along day by day. Wish us luck!
