Blog Post by Kati:
Well, football season has begun. That means knitting season for me. Though I haven't started yet, I'm sure I'll get a lot of baby booties done in the next few months. Though I should probably find a good pattern for little hats to expand my knitting repertoire. But I had the thought today while football was on that by the end of the football season, we'll have a baby. That is pretty crazy!
We went to the birthday party of Chris' cousin Jean's 1-year-old, Erik, today. It was fun to see him and his (almost) 3-year-old sister Anna. We got a little glimpse of our future! :) It was hilarious watching Erik eat his cake- he just took fistfuls of it. Adorable!
I took Kona on a long walk earlier tonight and by the end she was moving slower than me (which is totally ridiculous since I'm moving REALLLLY slow these days...especially up the hills that we have in our neighborhood!). She's a lazy little pup but she'll be such a good big sister! :)
The weekend flew by and now it is almost bedtime before another busy week. Baby Goose is doing a little dancing right now as I lay in our big comfy chair!
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Rutabaga
Blog Post by Kati:
Week 25 info (a few hours early!):
Head to heels, your baby now measures about 13 1/2 inches. Her weight — a pound and a half — isn't much more than an average rutabaga, but she's beginning to exchange her long, lean look for some baby fat. As she does, her wrinkled skin will begin to smooth out and she'll start to look more and more like a newborn. She's also growing more hair — and if you could see it, you'd now be able to discern its color and texture.
Once again another vegetable (I assume it is a vegetable?) that I have not every had. This baby is opening up my eyes to so many new things already!
It has been fun being back at school with kids this week- the ones I had last year initially gave me funny looks, and then mustered up the courage to ask if I was having a baby. All the kids also ask what I'm having, and the girls are thrilled to hear a girl, and the boys are disgusted to hear a girl. They're pretty funny. I am definitely way more exhausted these days, though. I've taken "naps" at night the past few nights on our new comfy chair. Once 8pm rolls around it is hard for me to keep my eyes open.
As Chris said, Baby Goose has become more active the past few days. The best way I can think of to describe the feeling of her moving inside is a small version of the feeling you get on a ride when there is a drop (roller coaster, log chute, etc.) and you feel your stomach drop. I just like to picture her doing somersaults even though I'm pretty sure that isn't what she is really doing.
My mom gave me a journal she kept the last 4 months when she was pregnant with me. She wrote in it daily, and it has been really fun to read the different things her and my dad were doing to prepare for their first little girl! Though the idea that the baby adopts the taste buds of the mother during pregnancy is clearly false! My mom and dad ate lots of stuff I would never eat...haha! And my mom was the one who made most of the meals...hmm...that is not what I'm doing. :) As I've said before, I'm "cooking" the baby, so Chris gets to do the cooking for me AND the baby!
We have a busy weekend ahead so I wanted to post the weekly update tonight to ensure it gets done on time! Hope everyone had a great week!
Week 25 info (a few hours early!):
Head to heels, your baby now measures about 13 1/2 inches. Her weight — a pound and a half — isn't much more than an average rutabaga, but she's beginning to exchange her long, lean look for some baby fat. As she does, her wrinkled skin will begin to smooth out and she'll start to look more and more like a newborn. She's also growing more hair — and if you could see it, you'd now be able to discern its color and texture.
Once again another vegetable (I assume it is a vegetable?) that I have not every had. This baby is opening up my eyes to so many new things already!
It has been fun being back at school with kids this week- the ones I had last year initially gave me funny looks, and then mustered up the courage to ask if I was having a baby. All the kids also ask what I'm having, and the girls are thrilled to hear a girl, and the boys are disgusted to hear a girl. They're pretty funny. I am definitely way more exhausted these days, though. I've taken "naps" at night the past few nights on our new comfy chair. Once 8pm rolls around it is hard for me to keep my eyes open.
As Chris said, Baby Goose has become more active the past few days. The best way I can think of to describe the feeling of her moving inside is a small version of the feeling you get on a ride when there is a drop (roller coaster, log chute, etc.) and you feel your stomach drop. I just like to picture her doing somersaults even though I'm pretty sure that isn't what she is really doing.
My mom gave me a journal she kept the last 4 months when she was pregnant with me. She wrote in it daily, and it has been really fun to read the different things her and my dad were doing to prepare for their first little girl! Though the idea that the baby adopts the taste buds of the mother during pregnancy is clearly false! My mom and dad ate lots of stuff I would never eat...haha! And my mom was the one who made most of the meals...hmm...that is not what I'm doing. :) As I've said before, I'm "cooking" the baby, so Chris gets to do the cooking for me AND the baby!
We have a busy weekend ahead so I wanted to post the weekly update tonight to ensure it gets done on time! Hope everyone had a great week!
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
More Kicks
Blog Post By Chris:
Well our little girl was a super mover again tonight. She was moving around pretty good when Kati was reading in bed. It is sort of weird to feel that on the outside, and I can not imagine what it must be like to have something moving around inside your belly. It sort of reminds me of the movie Alien. I guess it could be worse, she could be as ugly as Dan. Kati had her first day back at school today and made the comment that this fall is going to go by really fast. The second tri has gone by pretty slow, but this last part should go by really fast and then we can all enjoy our little girl.
Well our little girl was a super mover again tonight. She was moving around pretty good when Kati was reading in bed. It is sort of weird to feel that on the outside, and I can not imagine what it must be like to have something moving around inside your belly. It sort of reminds me of the movie Alien. I guess it could be worse, she could be as ugly as Dan. Kati had her first day back at school today and made the comment that this fall is going to go by really fast. The second tri has gone by pretty slow, but this last part should go by really fast and then we can all enjoy our little girl.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Blog Post By Chris:
Well as you can see we finally have transformed our decade basement into something respectable. It is pretty nice to have good looking carpet and some nice furniture in the basement. We have banned Big Dave from the new furniture, so he has to sit in a steel reinforced chair from now on. Also like Kati said we have spent all 4 days of this weekend cleaning up around the house. We just kept so much useless stuff that we started running out of room to keep all of it. For those of you that have seen our house very messy, you will need to come over and see the transformation.
Okay enough about the house, on to baby news. Our little girl has been kicking a lot more recently. Instead of little flutters there is definite kicking and punching going on. It was so strong tonight that we could see it on the outside of Kati's stomach. It was hard to see it with Kati laughing and breathing, but still pretty cool to see. I have also been reading a different blog lately. The Stecher family lives down in Iowa, and we met them last year during our trip on RAGBRAI. The Stecher's have two girls, Olivia and Hannah. Beth posts on her blog about different things her girls do during the day. It has been really funny reading all the things their girls do and say. The reason I talk about this is because it is really interesting to see how kids change every single day. I am really looking forward to learning everything about our girl and seeing her change everyday.
Well as you can see we finally have transformed our decade basement into something respectable. It is pretty nice to have good looking carpet and some nice furniture in the basement. We have banned Big Dave from the new furniture, so he has to sit in a steel reinforced chair from now on. Also like Kati said we have spent all 4 days of this weekend cleaning up around the house. We just kept so much useless stuff that we started running out of room to keep all of it. For those of you that have seen our house very messy, you will need to come over and see the transformation.
Okay enough about the house, on to baby news. Our little girl has been kicking a lot more recently. Instead of little flutters there is definite kicking and punching going on. It was so strong tonight that we could see it on the outside of Kati's stomach. It was hard to see it with Kati laughing and breathing, but still pretty cool to see. I have also been reading a different blog lately. The Stecher family lives down in Iowa, and we met them last year during our trip on RAGBRAI. The Stecher's have two girls, Olivia and Hannah. Beth posts on her blog about different things her girls do during the day. It has been really funny reading all the things their girls do and say. The reason I talk about this is because it is really interesting to see how kids change every single day. I am really looking forward to learning everything about our girl and seeing her change everyday.
Labor Day Weekend
Blog Post by Kati:
This weekend was definitely spend doing LABOR- on our house. We basically did our own version of "Extreme Home Makeover." And we still aren't done...but we did get a lot accomplished. The weekend of labor started on Thursday when we got new carpet installed. The basement shag is gone! Here is a shot of it in all it's glory:
And for those who haven't seen it, here is what our basement looked like (without our lovely hand-me-down furniture):
And now, thanks to new carpet, new furniture, and lots of cleaning and organizing, our basement now looks like this:
And here is the best chair ever- I predict lots of naps with the baby on this chair! It reclines and is super cushy. So comfortable!!!
We're still working on our upstairs- the baby room is painted and has new carpet, but is still housing some non-baby stuff until we can clean out the rest of our stuff.
Tomorrow I start my 6th year of teaching! I actually won't be doing as much teaching this year, but I'll be doing a lot of teacher support and coaching. I'm excited about the change and I think it is a perfect time to switch things up!
Now I'm so tired from the busy weekend, so I'd better get to bed...after a nap in the comfy chair! :)
This weekend was definitely spend doing LABOR- on our house. We basically did our own version of "Extreme Home Makeover." And we still aren't done...but we did get a lot accomplished. The weekend of labor started on Thursday when we got new carpet installed. The basement shag is gone! Here is a shot of it in all it's glory:
And for those who haven't seen it, here is what our basement looked like (without our lovely hand-me-down furniture):
And now, thanks to new carpet, new furniture, and lots of cleaning and organizing, our basement now looks like this:
And here is the best chair ever- I predict lots of naps with the baby on this chair! It reclines and is super cushy. So comfortable!!!
We're still working on our upstairs- the baby room is painted and has new carpet, but is still housing some non-baby stuff until we can clean out the rest of our stuff. Tomorrow I start my 6th year of teaching! I actually won't be doing as much teaching this year, but I'll be doing a lot of teacher support and coaching. I'm excited about the change and I think it is a perfect time to switch things up!
Now I'm so tired from the busy weekend, so I'd better get to bed...after a nap in the comfy chair! :)
Friday, September 4, 2009
WOW!!!!
Blog Post by Kati:
When we made the blog "public knowledge" in the middle of June, I added a counter to track the number of site visits that the blog gets. I was just curious and wanted to keep track of how many people are reading it (it is at the very bottom of the page on the left side).
Anyway, today we got over the 1000 visits mark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So thanks for reading everybody!!! It is awesome to see that people are so excited about Baby Goose! :)
When we made the blog "public knowledge" in the middle of June, I added a counter to track the number of site visits that the blog gets. I was just curious and wanted to keep track of how many people are reading it (it is at the very bottom of the page on the left side).
Anyway, today we got over the 1000 visits mark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So thanks for reading everybody!!! It is awesome to see that people are so excited about Baby Goose! :)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)