The Due Date

Just an update...

My due date has come and gone and still no baby.

It is fun to watch people's reactions when they ask when I'm due and I say, "Two days ago." I get the, "Are you serious?" look which quickly evolves into the "I don't know how to deliver a baby!!!" look of terror when they realize I am.

We'll keep you posted.

As requested by my mom, here's a picture of me on my due date.


As Gracie would say, "Holy cow, big belly!"

What happened to May???

Life has been so busy lately I've missed updating our blog for basically all of May. Here's a quick recap...

In mid-May Brian and Tammy threw us (and Derek and Gina) a baby shower brunch. They made awesome breakfast foods and we all had fun watching the kids tear into all the presents because that's what kids do (even if the gift inside turns out to be nursing pads).

Getting some help from Gracie

A great excuse to wear my maternity dress again

A few weeks later Andy's dad, Gary, and his friend, Debbie, paid us a weekend visit. It was fun to show them the nursery in real life and to force them to eat several consecutive meals of Mexican food since that's what the baby likes...

Two days after Gary and Debbie left, Andy's sister, Laura, arrived with her family. Andy spent two days on his own with his nephews, Trevor and Tyler. They visited the Battle Ship New Jersey, played at the park, spent time at the library, and played several rounds of Candy Land. Saturday we all went to Ocean City so the boys could see the Atlantic Ocean.

The boys at the Battleship

Trevor getting a haircut on board

Tyler playing in the freezing ocean

Andy and Laura watching the boys

Andy and me

The day Laura and her family left, our Illinois friends April and Rusty arrived to stay with us for the night. It was so great to see them and catch up, and we finally got to meet their son, Easton, who was born in December.

Rusty, Easton, and April

Other than enteraining lots of visitors, Andy and I have been busy preparing for the baby. We've also been trying to spend a lot time together as a couple before the baby joins our family of two.

I'm now visiting the doctor weekly. The heartbeat continues to sound great. The head is down. The baby has dropped. We still don't have names picked out.

2 1/2 weeks to go...

The Nursey

Here are a couple pictures of the baby's room. There's not much to it yet other than the beautiful furniture that all of the baby's grandparents helped to buy. I want to wait on other decorations until I can make it more personal (and gender specific).