20 Week Update!

Just yesterday, Kristie reached the 20 week mark. She's starting to feel the baby move so it's becoming very real now!

This past weekend, Kristie's Dad came up to visit for a few nights. We took care of a small project around the house...which I always seem to rope Chuck into :) ... and then we went to dinner at Arrabiata's in Bay Village. After dinner we headed over to Avon to catch the Lake Erie Crushers game that night. We had first row seats on the first base side and it was a great night for a ballgame.

The garden is coming along nicely despite noticing we had a security breach as a rabbit somehow made its way through our fence.  We've picked about 10 cucumbers so far as well as some lettuce and cilantro.  Both the corn and broccoli is just about ready.  And once the tomatos start, we are going to have hundreds, if not thousands.

And finally....the news you've all been waiting for!  Kristie had her second ultrasound tonight and they were able to analyze much more this time.  They gave us a slightly updated due date of December 7th.  We also decided to find out the sex of the baby despite having some last minute thoughts about changing our minds.  We found it we are having a baby girl!  We are both thrilled!
We will check back with another blog in a few weeks.

Summer is flying by

So we let everyone know that we are pregnant but I don't think it has really sunk in for me as much as I would have expected at this point. I am 19 1/2 weeks along and we went to the Dr last Thursday morning. She said I'm on track with my weight (up about 4 pounds) and we got to hear the heartbeat again. We go in Thursday the 22nd to hopefully find out the sex of the baby. Jeff is in a race against time to get the living room in order and then we need to get the nursery in order. Keith came over and they moved all the living room furniture to the basement. We have that set up now as a family room or den. It's nice down there and very cool in this heat.

He started painting the living room on Thursday and we will be working on it some more tomorrow. My dad is here this weekend. The two of us went out to El Rodeo last night for dinner. Jeff went to the Indians game with some Cavs folks. Today we hit Costco and Pettiti's. Tonight is dinner and then to the Avon Crushers game. We went a few weeks ago to one of these games with our neighbors Ed and Jenise and had a great time. $9 tickets and we were practically in the bullpen.

It's about 93 degrees today. There is a slight breeze which is helping matters but still very warm and muggy.

I may sneak in a quick nap before we head out to dinner tonight. I'll try to keep things better posted on here and hopefully some pictures soon.