16 Weeks and Current update!

Tuesday we hit the 16 week mark.  As my wife belly gets bigger, things are starting to happen.  A few days ago, my wife was able to feel the baby move for the first time.  And as of last night i was well.  Very cool feeling.  Our 19 week ultrasound is scheduled for mid feb and hopefully we can find out if we are having a boy or girl.

As for our house, things are moving along.  The lot is prepped and now the prepiping for the slab is going into place.  Hopefully, the slab will be in place by the end of the month, but i'm not holding my breath.  If not, next month should be very exciting. 

Planning stages are underway for me doing a little adventure of cycling up in skyline drive this coming march.  I'm sure it'll be a little cold and dreary but worth it as i attempt to tackle some of the hills i used to love going up and down in the car.  

Moby is still taking over the bed.  We are now finding him in there by himself sometimes.  Crazy dog.  More pics to come from all aspects of life.  

More Fun to Come

Nate :oP

First Step...er purchase

So it has begun.  Our first purchase for the new baby.  Technically speaking it was multiple purchases.  Saturday began with me coming off work and performing my usual run in the morning.  Now usually i would be wiped out, but i was excited about the entire weekend of not working or being on call for once.  Adrenalin is a wonderful thing.  So our shopping adventure began with the local stops to the lot to check on progress.  Yahoo.  We have more dirt!!

The 1000 dollars that we spent is really coming together.  I'm just glad it hasn't rained and turned our dirt pile into a mud house.  From there, we traveled around hitting stores here and there.  Eventually we ended up in Baby's'r'us with lots of coupons in hand.  Of course we weren't the only ones.  You would think they were giving out free pickles and ice cream with all the pregnant women shopping around.  We did get the things we set out to get...sort of.  Stroller has been bought, and the glider has been ordered just not coming in just quite yet.  Surprisingly, for knowing exactely what we wanted and knowing what we needed to get, it took an hour and a half in that store.  That is how busy it was.  But it has begun.  We now have our first items for the baby.  Now only 298 more items, 3 years of diapers, and enough formula and food to feed a baby elephant for a week, not too bad. 

Yesterday, we had the fun experience of living in florida.  Unlike most people,  We were able to spring clean our house in the middle of january.  Absolutely love it.  70 degrees, doors and windows open, garage reorganized and cleaned, cars washed and cleaned out, even cleaned our the house.  Just one of the reasons why i love living in Florida.  Looking forward to the next productive weekend i have off.  Though i'm suspecting that will consist of me packing up things and getting ready to move.    

Moby

So here is the culprit that has taken over our bed.  Suprisingly we had an interesting experience last night.  We decided to give moby a shower.  Now usually he totally freaks out at just the thought of getting a single drop of water on his skin.  Usually he cowers in the corner as far away from the water as he possible could.  However, last night we made some sort of progress with him.  Instead of cowering in the corner he actually just stood there and appeared to enjoy it.  Go Figure.  More to come.

Florida

So since moving down to Florida, i've noticed a few oddities.  First, everybody except us down here has the air conditioning on around the clock and set at like 60 degrees.  Even if its like 70 degrees outside, the locals complain that it is way too hot.  But yet, when the temperature drops to like 59 degrees outside, everybody bundles up and cranks the heat up to like 75 degrees in their house.  Not to mention they don't leave without their earmuffs, scarfs and winter coats.  When temperature drops to the 30's, the craziness begins.  Now i still haven't figured this out but in order to protect the oranges and strawberries, they turn the sprinklers on in the fields in order to create an ice layer covering the fruitt to protect the fruit from freezing.  Am i the only person in this entire state that doesn't see the logic with this?  And truely it only gets down to like 30 degrees for like 2 hours and as soon as the sun comes up the temp goes back up to the 50's, but it's histerical to see all these locals freak out.  How would they ever survive in VA, PA, or even way up north i have no idea.  On those rare occasions where frost actually forms on the windows, everybody turns to the old trusted driver's license or even better credit card to scrape the small hole in the front windshield to see out of until the defroster kicks in.  As if the florida driver's weren't bad enough.  After all 90% of them are over the age of 70, wear glasses, have peripheral neuropathy, have delayed reaction time, and now are trying to see through a scraped hole in the window about the size of laptop screen.  Not to mention the older drivers are more susceptible to passing out, having a stroke, or even a heart attack while driving down the road.  Lucky for us we don't have the added danger of having to drive during a snow storm.  Personally i can't image adding that lovely hazard to the way people drive in florida.  I will say i do miss those days of stocking up on milk and toilet paper before the huge snowstorm hits, even if it's a dusting.  I still haven't figured out if we are supposed to do the same when a hurricane comes through here.  I don't think it would make much sense, after all if a hurricane comes more than likely we'll lose power for a few days so the milk would just go bad.  If and when a hurricane comes through i'll be sure to run to the store to find out.  Though my best guess is water and batteries run out first.  Now that i think about it the way people react upnorth when a snowstorm comes through is about how everybody drives down here.  The good news about florida is the fact that we have a no helmet law.  As i recall reading somewhere florida has the most organs harvested than any other state.  So if your in need of an organ transplation....  Of course the shelf life of the organ may not be too long considering age of the population down here.  All in all i love it down here.  Which is why i'm so excited our house or should i say our lot has lots of dirt on it right now!!

And so it begins...

Things have finally started to come together.  Our lot, which was supposed be cleared like 2 weeks ago has some progress on it.  First on monday, there was a new sign leaning against the port a potty.  You know one of those signs that say what lot number it is, just in case nobody can figure it out.  After all it's probably the only house that is actively being built in charlotte county.  Personally i think it's kinda funny that it's leaning up against the port a potty.  A nice big strong gust of wind and away it goes, surely to get all the construction workers confused as to which lot it is.  Then on tues, amazing enough, the Lot is FINALLY cleared... Well sort of.  Most of the trees and shrubs are in a big pile near the back of the lot.  I think some of the trees that were on the plan got taken down by accident considering that we didn't know and didn't mark those trees.  At least we can plant new ones after we move in, in four to six months not fortysix months!

Thanks to my lovely dog, we now have to buy another power adapter for our macbook.  Apparently, after eating and relaxing on the couch, he decided to use it as dental floss.  Hopefully he got a little shock when he chewed right through it, considering this is the second time this has happened.  However, the first time he didn't manage to chew threw it completely like he did this time only enough to make it potentially electrifying if used.  So off to spend another eighty dollars buying another one.  Hopefully it will last longer than a year this time.  Another interesting note is how he sleeps now.  He has totally claimed the bed as his own.  I'm just surprised he hasn't peed on it to mark his territory.  Instead of laying parallel with everyone in the bed (would ensure the most room) he likes to maneuver his way to laying perpendicular to everybody in the bed.  From there he'll push his way up and over so i find myself all the way to the edge of the bed with only half of the covers covering me.  Repositioning him is accomplished with a few grunts and groans (from both of us) without even lifting his head or legs while heaving his 80lb dead weight around. 

As for my wife, She hit the lucky 13 week mark this past week.  Her belly is getting bigger and is getting harder and harder to hide.  That's the good news.  The bad news is that unfortunately nothing is quite like being pregnant and catching a cold or a sinus infection and nothing can be done or taken for it.  Suffering it out is the only thing that can be done.  Hopefully, her nausea symptoms may soon subside and she'll be able to enjoy this pregnancy a little more.  As for me, i'm still counting down the days until things start to change as all our new plans become reality.