Little update

Hi there,

Here are some new belly pictures. I'd like you to compare the 4 week picture to my 36 week pictures. It's any wonder that I can continue growing!! I think I might pop, or a foot might come right through my tummy! I cannot believe how big I am!

My midwife started acupuncture on me, although I don't think this little one will need much help coming out early. I have a feeling he'll be here in early-mid May.

We went out for dinner with Vicki and Nate (Tessa was home with the sitter). It was nice to spend time with a couple who just went through this and who wanted to talk about it as much as we do. I swear this is all that Brian and I talk about anymore. We must be extremely annoying! I think we tone it down a little bit for other people, but there's only so much you can do when you want to meet your son!

Fun weekend

Hi again,

We had a fun weekend. Yesterday we ran a number of errands, went swimming and then had the Parkers over for dinner. We broke in the BBQ (which Brian LOVED) and made a fantastic dinner. We stayed up late talking and hanging out with them, which was just wonderful. They're excited to become grandparents (they're adopted parents of ours), so we spent a bit of time talking about our little one. Here are some pictures:

Thor: Mommy, can't I please eat what you're eating?
Thor: I'm pouting because they won't feed me people food. I look super cute while I'm pouting though.
Little Teri and me
The Parkers (and the chef in the background)
The happy couple :-)

Sunday morning we met Garth at the beach. We have never let the puppies off of their leashes in a place like this before, so we didn't attempt it today. However, I think we'll try letting them run off leash on a different beach in the near future. I can't imagine them trying to get away from us - we love them too much! Garth, whose wife just had a baby girl 2 months ago, also has a beautiful black and white Husky. His name is Pre and he's 2 years old. We're looking forward to more bonding experiences between Thor, Nala and Pre. Above: Nala and Pre
Me and Thor
Nala and Boo
The fam
Pre and Garth

Thor
Pre
Garth and Pre
Pre
Mommy and son resting (it was HOT!)

Pre
Thor
The boys (Pre and Thor)
Pre
Pre running through the flowers

Life...

Hi there!

It's been a busy couple of weeks. I've been working hard on school stuff and trying not to count down the days until Baby George makes his appearance. Of course, this is impossible and I end up calculating how much longer until he's due in every different way possible. Days. Weeks. Numbers of classes. Number of clients. I could go on and on, but I won't bore you.

I made a big decision this morning that I would not defend my dissertation proposal on May 6th. It was a difficult call to make, but I think this decision is for the better in many, many ways. It's unfortunate, and a big disappointment to me, but I think I made the best decision that I could make at the current time. This gives me more time to relax and wait for the baby. This also means that I only have 2 weeks left until I'm "off" for the summer. When I'm "off" I will be working on my proposal and qualifying paper in addition to swimming and trying to spend some time with my friends. I haven't spent much time with friends lately, so it would be nice to see some people. I'm hoping Brian will be inspired by me being home, so he'll stay home with me and hang out...we'll see how well this evil plan of mine works. I know I'll want him at home when the baby comes.

Brian's birthday was on the 8th. He turned 28! What an old man. I have some pictures from when his mom and her husband came over to celebrate but they won't upload right now for some reason. Instead, here is a picture of me from when I turned 34 weeks - I'm 35.5 weeks now. We start acupuncture on Wednesday, which might help move the baby along so at least (if anything) he won't be late!!! I HOPE!

Baby Shower

The baby shower was the best it could have been! I know Emily and Susie (my mother-in-law) worked really hard to make sure that all the details were in place. They even created a crossword puzzle about me and Brian! We had a catering company put together a "tea" with little sandwiches, scones and bite size desserts. It was pretty adorable. A lot of fun people came to celebrate Baby George, which was really sweet. I know he will feel very loved when he gets here because I felt very loved by everyone who joined me. Here are some pictures from the event. The little boy baby I'm carrying around most of the time is Tommy Cannon, Katy's baby; he's 2 months old. I've been friends with Katy and her sister Jen since high school; Jen lives in NY so she couldn't make it to the shower. Brian giving some love to the baby
Me and Marissa

Opening gifts - This was one of my favorites! Go to LittleKatyDid.com to learn more about it!
Bridesmaids: Tiff, Emily and Vicki (missing: Anjali)
Friends feeling the baby move (and Jess holding my niece - Tessa)
Emily giving some love to Baby
Thanks Em for putting on this AMAZING event!

Sister-in-law and niece (Vicki and Tessa) - SO cute!
Yay Tessa is sleeping!
Playing games
Serious scrapbooking
Me and Em

Family

Sarah came!
Loving the Baby Daddy
Lab: Jess, Lewina, Me, Amber, Poorni, Emily and Barbara (missing: Randi & Margy)

Pretty flowers
Labmates: Em, Amber, Me (Tommy), Barbara and Poorni
A picture of the future - but substitute our baby for Tommy! He's SO cute.
Me and Jaclyn - who looks great and only had Andrew a month ago!
The amazing pool!

Tommy - looks like he's hungry
The little cupcakes
Scrapbooking (Katy (Tommy's mom), Marjie, Jiye and Cecilia)
Carlyn
Gatz ladies - Emily, Amber, Barbara and Poorni. 3 of them are troublemakers.

Poorni and Cecilia
Tiffers!
Katy and Tommy
Alex and Lil working on the scrapbook
GIFTS!

The kitchen in preparation
Me and Teri (an adopted mom)
Me and 2 Emilys
Jaclyn, Amber, Barbara, Emily, Lina, Me, Emily and Teri
Susie and her friends.

I think everyone had fun - I know that I did! We're still trying to make room for all of the wonderful gifts we received. Friends keep telling me that there are more gifts on the way! Hard to believe. Thank everyone for making me, Brian and the baby feel so loved! We can't wait for him to get here!