The Mischievous Abbie

Greetings friends! As time wears on Abbie (and Lindsay) get bigger and closer to the due date. We're over halfway there and Lindsay is definitely starting to feel the effects. Lindsay had a great couple of doctor visits and the result is that it is now 100% a girl, she's healthy and looks great and all is right on track. In other news, Lindsay has been feeling Abbie kick constantly for a few weeks now, but I finally got the chance to feel it too. It's all starting to get very exciting.

In housing news, we finally decided to stay in the rental market and have to decided to upgrade in the apartment complex we are currently in. The location is too convenient and it's too good on gas to consider moving farther away. We have also pushed up the moving date to late August which will give us about 3 months to settle in before Abbie is scheduled to arrive. Lindsay will be a much bigger help at that point rather than later.

Lindsay's mom visited last weekend which gave us house guests for two weekends in a row. Zoey loved it, she gets so excited she almost doesn't know what to do with herself. We saw "Wall-E" last week which is a great movie. If you haven't already, go see it, it will warm your heart. Once again, enjoy all the pictures, and I hope all is well in your part of town. Take care.

This is the picture that inspired the blog title. It looks as if she just got into some mischief and she has the "who me" look on her face.



Classic baby picture

The Little Baby Bump

Hello all, lots of changes in the past couple of weeks so here goes. First off, the little bean made itself apparent today. Lindsay sat down on the couch and it was obvious, she has started to show. We all knew it would come sooner than later, because let's face it, Lindsay is thin as a rail. This baby only has one way to go, and that's out. Nonetheless, it was a surprise daddy moment for me as I finally got to see the effects.

The house hunt continues with an asterisk (*). We have recently been reading a great book by Dave Ramsey called The Total Money Makeover. It contains good common sense when it comes to handling money. It features a simple 7 step plan to get out of debt and build wealth (for retirement and college) which we have incorporated into our every day lives. (If you haven't heard of it, check it out. And, if you have heard of it but were reluctant to read it, try it out. It's a very easy read with great advice that most of us need to hear.) So the asterisk basically means that while we are still actively looking for a house we are also not going to step into a bad deal, and are willing to simply expand into a two bedroom apartment for another year in order to save money. So there's that.

There are incredibly exciting opportunities on the horizon for me and my career. I have been making great strides as of late to advance with The Walt Disney Co. and it looks like those efforts are finally going to pay off. No guarantees yet, but a huge part of the process is behind me.

My sister, Melissa, graduates from the University of Georgia (UGA) in the next couple of weeks. Which provides us a great opportunity to road trip up to Snellville. It will be my first time back home in a long time. A great chance to see all the old haunts and catch up with old friends. Plus, most of our immediate family will be there, so good times all around.

I know it's a long blog this time, but don't you feel better and more educated for reading all the way to end! I hope all is well, feel free to drop us a line. Take care everyone.

9 Weeks, aka. 7 Weeks

Well gang, what we thought would be 9 weeks tomorrow actually turns out to be only 7. We had our first sonogram today which revealed the little bean in all of its splendor. And, according to the great big magic machine that knows everything about babies in the history of the world, it predicts 7 weeks. My prediction is that it is in fact 9 and its just saving all its energy up so in can start growing as big as its dad as soon as its born. But that's my amateur opinion, no match for the machine.

Nonetheless, it has a heartbeat which the doctor said was strong and easy to find (which we got to see/hear and was approximately 156 bpm). I would say that's fairly strong as my heartbeat only gets that high after sprinting for an hour (again supporting the theory that this kid is preparing for massive growth and will be well over 7 feet tall).

All in all the visit was surprisingly short and all felt fairly routine (to the doctor at least). There's nothing quite routine about hearing your first born child for the very first time. I'm still in a small state of disbelief that I actually saw it today, I guess it's becoming more and more real by the visit.

House hunting still plugs away at the normal pace. Analysts on Bloomberg radio assure the country that housing prices will "continue in a downward trend" until the election or after. So we're waiting until after the summer, but we have certainly found a number of areas that we like.

Enjoy the pictures, I tried to shoot a video of the heartbeat but this doctor moves fast. I barely had time to look at my little creation, let alone video record it. I guess that's par for the course for the next 20 years. Take care everyone...

P.S. - We can all stop wondering...it's not twins.

6 Weeks

Nothing too exciting so far. Lindsay is fairly tired (all the time). And oddly enough, coffee (decaff before you yell at us) seems to be a culprit for nausea. For those of you unfamiliar with our coffee addiction, allow me to emphasize just how out of the ordinary it is for her to skip the coffee in the morning. To add to the joys of planning for a baby, searching for a house is currently occupying the rest of my time. The good news is, "it's a buyers market," or so they say. This process is as confusing sometimes as preparing for the kid. Anywho, enjoy the picture, more to come.