Terrific Weekend

With a baby on the way, a 2 bedroom home and little storage space we had to do some moving back home to Green Bay. We took down our guest bed to set-up the nursery and headed out Friday evening after wrapping up the mattresses. Side note: isn't it just your luck that the one time you don't need it to rain, it starts to rain?

We got home just before 11:30 PM and got a bit of sleep - OK, we overslept on Saturday morning. We planned to visit Grandpa Dick (on my dad's side) "up nort" in Lakewood. Man, it was great to see the old cabin and the old man. Still makes me laugh how grumpy he gets. Mom, Melissa and I visited with Grandpa and Joyce for a few hours. See picture below... I can't express how cool it was to just be there with them. Mom and I played a racing game where I smoked her!

I've been to the cabin a few times over the last couple years and every time I head up there, the memories come back. The first time I fished, shooting fireworks off the dock, swimming in the lake, deer camp. Gosh, you forget how much you miss those times until you are reminded of them. After a nice visit, we went home for some BBQ. Melissa, Duncan and I got to explore mom's house - it looks AWESOME! It will look sweet when it's done.

To top off the weekend, the mom's got to feel the baby kick - and KICK. I even got kicked in the face. It seems that talking to the baby works well! Before we left for Minneapolis, we had dinner with my sister, Diana, her hubby "The Chad" and the girls. They are getting so big! Crazy! Spooky... are we really getting that old? Don't answer that...

Much love - Adam, Melissa, Duncan and baby (vote to the right about the sex of the baby!)

First Baby Picture!

YAY! We finally got the ultrasound! We got to see the baby and all it's features, that is, the ones that we want to see and the ones we don't want to see! Everything is going great. I am now at 22 weeks and the baby is about 1.3 pounds and about the size of an ear of corn. The baby was very active during the ultrasound and at one point the technician held the camera still and we got to see it move! That was so cool. We do, however, have some discrepancies with the due date. We originally got October 9th as the date and now we are told the 20th. I figure if we shoot for the middle (October 15th), we should be good to go!!

We finally got the headboard for the crib. We haven't opened it yet, but hopefully it will be in one piece. We are headed back to GB this weekend to see Adam's Grandpa and bring the extra bed to my mom's so we can store it in her basement. Thanks Mom! Hopefully we will get the crib together soon and have pictures of the room.

We had some visitors tonight. Our good friends Jon and Elizabeth were in town. We haven't seen them in about 2 years since the marathon that they all ran together. It was very great to see them again. We are happy they are doing well. We had the pleasure of introducing them to our friends Joe and Lisa... we all had dessert together and chatted. It was so cool to hang out together. All is going great!

Hope you all enjoy the picture!!

Love and Smiles! :)

Flutters?

The coolest thing happened to me this week at work. I got the following email from Melissa, "I felt a flutter!" Little did I know this meant the baby was kicking! A flutter, a kick - very similar. This made me light up like the sun.

Baby's kicks eluded me until after my softball game Wed. night. Melissa and I were laying down when she yanked my arm over by her. There wasn't a person near me at work, softball or on the train that hasn't heard my joy about the babies kicks. Baby is kicking Melissa a bit more and it has been amazing.

Kick on my friend, kick on...

We are 22 weeks along, over half way! We had a Dr. appointment on Friday to have an ultrasound and check-up. Have you ever been so excited for something to come that you couldn't focus? Should have seen me Friday morning... until...

Melissa called to let me know the office called, the technician was out ill and we couldn't have out ultrasound. What? One technician in the entire office? Bogus! Nonetheless, we went to see the Dr who scheduled an ultrasound in a little more timely fashion than the office would. Next step - ultrasound, 6/17