Week 29 - April 24, 2006

When you say the word 'Baby Boom' or 'Baby Explosion' up in the dictionary, you might see a picture of my gang of friends....it's official - the boom is on! So, just to give you a sense, here is the latest on who is all expecting:

• Meghan and Matt Wagner (Boston, MA)- due August (and as Meghan shared with the KSU girls in an email, we are all having kids in the year of the Golden Pig as she learned from her collegues:)
• Andria and Jeff Slavick (Mt. Pleasant, PA) - due October 18 (the baby's room will no doubt be Ang's favorite color - blue)
• Michelle, Shawn and Austin Ulery (United, PA) - having baby #2 in October (have moved in with Michelle's parents while there new dream house designed by Shawn is being built in Kecksburg)
• Anne and Harry Silvis (Hurricane, WV) - due October 31 (Anne and I are both October babies and I told her she needs to have Baby Silvis on my b-day on the 29). Anne and Harry have started a blog of there own as well: www.thesilvisfiles.blogspot.com
• Cheri and Nick Magistrelli (Westlake, OH) - due in November (As Cheri put it, they'll be finding out if the baby is wearing a wrestling singlet or a bikini!)

Girls - if I don't have your date filled, that means I've forgotten so send me a reminder!

I am so excited that we are all going to be sharing in this fun time together!

Week 28 - April 22, 2007

Had a great weekend at PSU and enjoyed the spring football game. The weather was just fantastic between 70-80 degrees. And as promised - I've got pics to show that Baby B is growing. Especially since we were with the Dixon's, they are always good with pictures. Their son Jack officially attended his second tailgate and was just a champ - mom and dad are grooming him to be a world-class tailgater! I'm sure Baby B will be learning some of these skills soon as well.

Week 28 - April 20, 2007

So I know everyone keeps asking for pictures to see how much I've grown - I swear I will try to get a pic posted soon. Not to sound vain, but Dave has taken 2-3 pictures of me over the last few weeks that I keep meaning to post but I really don't look so good in any of them (I need to stop trying to take them at the end of the day when I am clearly tired and look it!) With the weather finally turning into spring like temps this weekend, I'll try to get a nice pic of me outside in the sunshine. We're headed up to State College to visit Matt, Jenny, Jack, Rob and Amber and watch the spring football game so I'm sure I'll have pics from the weekend to post.

Week 26 - April 7, 2007

Since it's Saturday, Dave and I were working around the house and decided to put the crib together - the room is really coming together. I still have to wash all the baby bedding, but I couldn't resist putting it on to see what it looks like - I LOVE the room :)

Week 26 - April 6, 2007

Wanted to share some exciting baby news about Rodney and Jenny Schmucker - they welcomed their new daughter Avary Grace on April 5 at 5:33 PM. She weighed 7 lb. 3 oz. and is 19 1/2 in. long. Mom and baby are doing well - we're so excited for them. Congrats Rod and Jenny :)
















Baby B is doing well too - getting very active and is really enjoying pushing or sitting on my bladder. I'm about to move my office into the bathroom :) Besides that, not too much new to report. Finished registering at Babies R Us, Baby Depot (Burlington) and Target....talk about stressful. Alicia was a huge help in guiding me to what I really need and probably won't use - thx Alicia! There are just so many things to pick from!

Finally got the bedding that I ordered too and I love it! We're going with the pastel stripes and polka dots (http://www.babysupermall.com/main/products/cci/cci2224094.html). Once we get the crib set up w/ the bedding on it I'll post a picture!

Hope everyone has a happy Easter!

Week 24 - March 28, 2007

Quick post - went to the Dr. on Monday and all is still moving along. Per the ultrasound last week or the week before we are still on track for a July 18th due date. All looked good in the pictures and they aren't sending me back for another sonogram for a profile of the face (even though they didn't get a good picture the 1st time!) Have to do the fun glucose test on 4/23 so hopefully that test turns out ok. The nurse told me after the next 2 appointments, I'll be moving to bi-weekly appointments - wow, that brought a dose of reality meaning that July is going to be here before we know it!

My mom and I will be heading out on Sat. to finish up my registry - wish me luck :) (This is a bit stressful!)

I'm blogging from Asheville, NC tonight - in town for client meetings for our Asheville CVB client (www.ExploreAsheville.com - check out some of our good work :) And the eating is fantastic down here! We had an awesome dinner and I can't wait to eat tomorrow - ha ha!

Week 24 - March 22, 2007

So, I was thinking about writing my blog entry to say what an exhausting week it's been. I just couldn't seem to catch up on enough rest....then tonight was just the icing on the cake. My car broke down (no worries, I was in a safe place). BUT it could have been a nightmare because I did my normal hour commute home on an apparently broken tire arm which kind of means I had no steering ability in my right front tire. I pulled out of the office around 5 to get to my 6:30 hair cut appt. and heard a kind of crack when I made hard right turn. Not good. So then I had to make another right hand, heard the crack again and had a hell of a time straightening my car out. By that point, I was almost on the parkway and really had no where to pull over so I held my breath and decided to go for it and see if I could make it home. I honestly had to have had an angel watching over me today. I made it thru the hour drive by holding onto the steering wheel pretty tight for an hr and going pretty slow. So I pulled into Shear Magic and that's where the tire arm apparently just broke. So my card was stuck in the middle of the parking lot at the hair salon but luckily I wasn't blocking any other customers in. I was the talk of the salon. Dave met me there about 15 min. later and we called a tow truck to take the Sebring away :( Quite a sad moment to see your car on that flatbed, but hopefully it will be ok. The tow truck guy really wanted to know how I got from Pittsburgh to Greensburg - I told him I had my angel w/ me :) And not to leave anything out, I slipped going down the stairs this morning because my freakin' shoes are like slippers on the bottom! I managed to stay upright and catch myself on the underside of my right arm...I've got a nice bruise there. So all of that being said, I'm ready for this week to be over. The baby has been keeping me awake at night - he/she is an active little bugger :) But that is also a comforting sign that all is going well so that's the good news for this week.

Lastly, I just saw a commercial for the new 2008 Dodge Avenger http://www.dodge.com/en/avenger/index.html
(for those of you that don't know, the Avenger was my first car and I loved it!) so maybe I'll look into getting a pretty metallic red new car and be a really cool new mom :) This is my way of making myself feel better right now - lol!