Gotta Love a Sale...

So now that i'm in my 30's, it seems that times have totally changed.  Instead of getting items as needed and only getting items when needed has totally turned into the buy big and buy in bulk.  For instance last night, we traveled around on our shopping experiences once again.  Seeing as how the nearest babys'r'us is like 45-50 minutes away, we had to go to the local toys'r'us whose selection is less than appealing and with more disorganization.  Anyways our plans to spend more than 50 dollars but less than 100 to get a whopping free 5 dollars three months from now had us excited.  Then of course our parousing the isles of baby stuff ended when we found the buy one get one 50% off!  We practically wiped them clean of everything in that category.  We managed to get some breast milk storage bags, some gel things, some sort of cream thing, and a couple of other things that i have no idea what it's going to be used for but i'm sure i'll find out in the next six months.  Since we had most of the items on the baby list and planned on getting them at full price we were very excited now.  Scratch one more item needed off the list, and add it to the now room of stuff we have.  YaHOO!

My wife is slowly getting bigger and bigger as our baby keeps on growing insider her.  Our most recent follow up appointment showed everything looking wonderful.  Ultrasound looked great, we just need her to grow a few more weeks.  We based the halfway mark the other day, which was quite exciting seeing the 2o weeks complete, 20 weeks to go.  We have the name narrowed down but won't be revealing that to anybody until the day she is born.  That is by far the one secret we are keeping and the one secret we aren't dying to tell everyone just quite yet.  

The house is progressing very well.  Hopefully we are on the projected completion date of 2-3 months on the time line we have with the progress that has been made.  Which would put us as moving in around the end of may?  Driving by on my way to work has become a daily occurance.  And seeing the progression reminds me of the days way back when we i used to work as an electricion.  Right now, the roof is on, the interior framework has been completed, and we are waiting for the exterior doors and windows and the plumbing rough in.  Today we plan on going with measurements of our stuff and start planning where things will go.  How sad is that!

BABY!!

So the ultrasound confirmed our suspicion.  My wife is definitely pregnant with a baby inside.  Even better, we were able to confirm that we are in fact having a little girl!!  How awesome is that. That is what we were hoping for and what we kinda thought we were having.  Of course we had to change a few things since we confirmed that we are in fact having a girl.  We returned our baby swing and got the little princess one since my wife absolutely loves it.  We also switched a few things on our baby registry to coincide with everything else.  It's funny, after all it's not like the baby comes out takes one look around and associates pink and purple with being a girl!  Coloring is more for society to associate gender.  We could wrap that baby in something green and blue instead of pink and purple and she wouldn't know the difference as long as it's warm.  As for names, we've picked the last name.  As for everything else, we will release that information the day she is born.  Nobody is going to know prior to.  That way people can't make any negative comments or opinions.

As for our house, things have been going great.  The window was fixed mid week last week.  Surprisingly, the window is very huge.  Much bigger than what we thought it would be, but will be really nice.  The trusses arrived early last week, and they began setting them on friday.  They of course didn't finish setting them yet.  I'm hoping they will have them finished on mon or tues.  The next step is interior walls and exterior doors.  That will be most exciting part seeing as how the house is starting to come together.  I'm hoping that will all be accomplished next week, but i'm not holding my breath for it.

As for some funny things we totally tortured moby yesterday.  We forced him to the dog park near venice beach.  I went for a decent bike ride some 40 miles while my wife and ty stayed with the dog at the beach.  He apparently wanted to leave after like 2 minutes of being there.  It's funny he loves going on car rides, but now hates going to the dog park.  He just runs around and pees and poops on everything that he can find.  It might be time to get him some company so he can get over this antisocial behavior.  We'll just have to wait a few more months when everything settles down a little bit.

Almost a month

Almost a complete month has gone by and this is the first time i've been able to post.  So much has happened, and so many awesome things have started to happen.  First off our pregnancy.  Everything is going wonderfully.  But whom am i to say?  After all it's not like i have to deal with the growing baby inside of me, the nausea, the weight gain, the emotions, etc..  Nope i get the easy part... i get to lift and move all the heavy boxes and stuff like cooking.  We passed the eighteen week mark and next week we get to hopefully find out the sex of the baby.  Our ultrasound appointment is scheduled for tues morning.  So more to come on that.  The baby is becoming very active.  My wife can now feel the baby move every day.  I've been able to feel the baby move on the few and far between days i have off.  With everything coming together, we have begun our baby shopping experience.  Finding coupons and getting all our baby stuff for less than what we have budgeted for has been absolutely amazing.  Its so much fun to save money on everything we need.  We have been buying the bulk of the items that are the most expensive.  Yesterday, got all the baby furniture we need.  We even started to put it together.  Here is a lovely pic of our new crib.  This is only one of the few things that we have gotten.  Moby, our greyhound was

 really curious about this crib.  And wouldn't you know it it's like the perfect size for his body.  In fact his doggie pedic bed can even fit in the space for the baby mattress.  Since the crib can convert to a toddler bed and or a day bed, Moby could have a wonderful new bed.  The question is how much weight can the crib hold?  After all it's not like a baby weights eighty some pounds (we actually weighted moby not too long ago and yup eighty pounds).  In one of our recent shopping trips, we managed to see a greyhound rescue at the petsmart locations.  of course we had to stop and see the greyhounds.  In doing so i realized something.  Moby is a HUGE dog.  The females look like Italian greyhounds to me and the only other male they had was shorter and fatter.  They said he weighted 80lbs, but it wasn't like our 80 lbs.  Speaking of moby we had the fun experience of getting his teeth cleaned.  Not to be an easy task, after all he needed anesthesia.  The funny part is the vet techs described him as a drunken sailor when he was coming out of anesthesia.  That night though, my wife got some entertainment from his lethargy as he fell off the bed while trying to reposition himself.  I guess he thought somebody was moving the bed.  A sight i only wish i could see.  Also on our recent shopping trip we ended up in one of the fit 2 run stores.  What a cool store.  I knew i needed a new pair of running shoes since i started running again this year, but wow.  As the associate said,  "you have the worst case of pronation i've ever seen."  So yeah, i'm an overpronator when i run.  In seeing the video, i can see why my legs hurt sometimes after i run.  The good news is hopefully a new pair of shoes will provide a little bit more support.  However, i left with more than one pair of shoes.  I had to try those five finger shoes and wow.  They are neat, comfortable, and fun to wear.  Totally different but natural.  Running in them is quite different as well, something i'm going to have to get used to.

As for our house, things are coming together quite nicely.  Last week the area was prepped and rough in plumbing was completed.  Walking around the area, i was surprised at how small the house looks.  It just didn't seem right, way to small.  It makes me wonder if everything will fit inside the house.  Last week there was very minimal changes.  I'm assuming we were waiting for the plumbing inspection.  However, this past week saw a plethora of activity.  At the end of last week, the site was prepped for the slab pour.  I was hoping that the slab would be poured on friday and then things would begin to happen this week.  I of course was wrong.  Nothing happened on friday.  However, on monday feb 7, excitement came as two cement mixers showed up  to the house and began pouring the slab.  Our thoughts was that the rest of the week would be a wash

as the slab cured.  On my way home from work on wed morning i was surprised to find a huge delivery of concrete block sitting on the slab.  Things seem to be moving very fast which is perfect because our timeline puts us approximately mid may to close.  Hopefully sooner.  Thurs morning on my way home i even more surprised to see that workers had arrived and had begun blocking up the house. So to bed i went anticipating later in the afternoon returning to see how much work can be done in one day.  The answer is they

are able to block a house in one day.  It's looking more and more like a house then a big pile of dirt.  The only bad thing we noticed in this house is a lack of a window in the master bathroom.  One of the upgrades we asked for was the upgraded master bath with a garden tub that had apparently a simulated block glass window...whatever that is.  In standing in the master bathroom i'm looking at a huge concrete wall where there should be a window.  Will they have to tear down the wall or will we get some sort of credit for not having the window in our bathroom.   Hopefully we will find out today.

So that is the long update with everything that has happened in the last month.  The next month will be more exciting as things come together more and more progress is done with the house.  More to come...

Nate :oP