When are you due? Today...

No news yet. It would appear as if we will have to wait until Tuesday morning to meet Abbie. If nothing happens today or tomorrow then the inducing will happen, as planned, tomorrow evening. Family starts getting into town today, but we will be sure to update with pictures as soon as we possibly can. For now, enjoy (what is quite possibly) the last pregnant picture.

9 Days

Only 9 more days until our scheduled inducing date! It literally could be any day now! Lindsay starts her last week of work before maternity leave on Monday.

As fast as Halloween came it has now passed, and Christmas has descended upon the Walt Disney World Resort. We have our first Mickey's Very-Merry Christmas party starting this upcoming week. And, after a long week of overnight rehearsals everyone is very ready for it to begin.

Enjoy the picture. Plenty more to come I'm sure!

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Just as I thought!

We had our last big ultrasound last week and my hunch was correct. As they were taking measurements of Abbie inside the womb, the magic machine that knows all about babies looked at those measurements and told the doctors that it looked like Abbie was full-term, a month early! After a little investigating on the nurses part they found out the measurement of her femur was throwing the predicted date off. Meaning, that Abbie already has super long legs. Lindsay seemed surprised by that. I, however, was only surprised that we didn't hear it until this late in the game. As predicted: tall.

We've had our first cold snap in Florida, and by cold I mean upper 50's low 60's at night. Rumor has it that this week will even get down into the 40's. As some of you scoff at our temperatures, this is big news to Floridians.

Halloween is wrapping up at Disney World and in just a few short days it will be Christmas all over! This weather came at exactly the right time, it has definitely put me in the holiday spirit! Once again, things are great with us, looking forward to the holidays and very much looking forward to meeting our daughter! Could be any day now. Take care everyone!

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Where to Begin...

Hang on tight, this will be a long one. Lots of stuff to update on. First off, my apologies for it being so long between posts. Allow me to explain:

First off, in true PC fashion our old Windows based computer completely gave up. This time it was a fatal piece of hardware (the hard drive) which we decided not to replace. We've practically rebuilt the thing replacing all the failing hardware. The actual mechanism that is the hard drive decided to stop working. We lost most everything, thankfully I backed up everything crucial about 4 months ago. So, long story short, we are now officially a part of the Apple family and proud owners of our very first iMac. We decided a long time ago to swap once we were done with the older computer. It's just that time came a lot sooner than anticipated. While I wasn't really prepared to buy a new computer at the time I have to say I was secretly EXTREMELY excited to go buy it. I must say, I'm sold on the Apple brand. It's difficult to describe other than Mac's just work. That's all, they simply work, no mess no fuss, just a really easy to use system.

Moral of the story to all my fellow computer users: Back up your stuff! I considered myself to be somewhat computer savvy, keeping my machine clean and tidy. No viruses, no clutter and running smoothly. But all that matters not if your hardware stops working. Backup your important stuff!

Our very first car, our Honda Element, is completely paid for. Ironic though that the day I made the very last payment the car's battery went dead. Poetry in motion if you ask me. As always, in the grand scheme of things a battery is mild compared to what could happen with cars.

Baby plans are still plugging away. The baby room is completely set up now. Crib and all, so everything is set for Abbie to get here. Which, by the way, if Abbie can wait that long, the Dr. has set a date of Nov. 17 to induce Lindsay. That's only 34 short days away! I have been able to get the time off of work and will be able to spend almost two straight weeks with Lindsay and the baby. And while it will be stressful and tiring, I'm very much looking forward to getting to know my daughter.

Work is good, home life is good and gas is inching close to $3.00/gallon (how brainwashed are we to be praising $3.00/gallon?!?!). While the global economy isn't quite in the best place, overall life is good at the McKinney household. Once again, apologies for not updating sooner, now that I finally have all of our old pictures on the new computer, I will try to keep the updates, at least in the form of pictures, coming more frequently. Take care everyone.

Halloween and other headlines

Here we are, September 7 and the autumn/Halloween season has begun at Disney. The Magic Kingdom had its first "Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party" last Friday. My job this fall puts me very close to all the parties. Opening night of the season went incredibly well and hopefully is a sign of what's to come in the latter part of '08.

Lindsay is coming along nicely, her belly button has almost completely disappeared. Soon, it will pop up just like the little thingy on the thanksgiving day turkey, signaling that Abbie is done baking and ready to be introduced to the world! Only 10.5 weeks to go.

We moved last weekend, OY! I'm glad it's over, we only moved down the street. Not really far enough to warrant the need for a U-Haul. However, you could have convinced me that we needed one very easily while wheeling our 500 lb armoire through the parking lot at 11:30 pm. But it's all over and everything is set and we love the extra space. So there.

Lindsay had her baby shower yesterday which was a rousing success. Lindsay commented numerous times on how nice it was to have all those old friends all in one place. A friend of ours, Becky, went all out in planning the event. Many thanks go to her and her husband, Evan, for not only helping us move, but in also planning such an amazing shower.

Zoey is good. She's staying busy exploring all the new nooks and crannies of our place. The first week was a little stressful for her as she couldn't quite figure out why we weren't in our regular house, but it seems as if this is now home for the little doggy.

The storms have not affected us nearly as much as the news stations would have you believe. There has been a lot of rain, but fortunately our part of town hasn't been too badly hit. I hope everything is going well in your part of the world. Take care everyone.

She's a Dancing Machine

Greetings everyone! It's been quite some time since our last post. Lindsay and I have been spending the majority of our weekends packing whatever we can to make the move easier at the end of the month.

All is well in baby world. Abbie gets bigger and bigger every day, and according to Lindsay gets stronger every day as well. We have started playing music to the tummy and have learned Abbie's favorite composers already. She is a huge fan of Chopin and piano music in general. Beethoven, even the gentle Beethoven is not her cup of tea. She is also a fan of Norah Jones, but not Michael Buble. But regardless of what we play to the stomach, she immediately begins moving, and, according to Lindsay, starts grabbing at the headphones (meaning the thumps from inside happen right where the headphones are sitting on her stomach).

I took Zoey to the tennis courts yesterday and we played like a doggy should for about 10 minutes. On the way home though she started limping. Apparently she slid the wrong way on the concrete and hurt her paw. So we're nursing ourselves back to health today, nothing serious, but she's treating it lightly.

Both Lindsay and I have a very busy week ahead with work and packing for a move. I hope everything is running smoothly in your corner of town. Feel free to drop us a line any time. Take care