Hey Kid,
Today we went public to our friends regarding your impending birth. Of course congratulations came from all around. Some suspected things when your mom didn't drink anything when we met up with everyone during Christmas at a Mexican restaurant.
Lately you've been giving your mom a lot of problems with nausea in the evenings. I know it's called "morning sickness" but you only seem to make her sick at night. And you make her tired. Oh so very tired! She's going to bed around 8-830 these days! She can't make it through an episode of American Idol and falls asleep on the couch.
Another good thing that happened this week was that I was offered the job at KSM as their Digital Media Supervisor on the Jimmy Johns account. I won't lie - I was a little concerned losing my job at BKV in your 8th week of development but luckily I was unemployed for just one day before I landed the next job. Quite a feat given that the US economy right now is terrible and unemployment is hovering around 9-10%. I guess it pays to have a very robust set of employable skills and a college degree. You'll be thanking me one day for making you go to college (hopefully my alma mater Georgia - Go Dawgs!). The only problem with the new job is that it is in the city which means I'll be commuting like 3 hours a day. I hope you don't decide to come while I'm stuck in the city at work! It'll take me over an hour to get back up to your hospital!
Friday, January 27, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
1st Ultrasound
Hello Kid!
Today (1/16/12, I apparently don't update this blog immediately..) we saw you for the first time via the wonders of ultrasound. To be honest you're not much to look at right now. There is a black spot they tell me is your brain and some little nubs that are arms and legs. The most impressive thing about you right now is your heart. We could see it beating away in the center of the little blob that is you right now. I'll admit when the nurse turned on the sound and we were able to hear your heartbeat for the first time I got a little teary eyed. We were hearing the first sounds you ever made to us - a beautiful 172 beats per minute thump thump thump. I could have listened to that all night long.
After the ultrasound we heard back from the radiologist and everything is looking good. You're still on target for a 8/25 delivery date.
You're giving your mother quite a bit of nausa every night. Every night she comes home from work, switches into her pajamas, and lays on the couch. She's usually good till around 830ish and then she's lights out. We're both asleep by 10 usually. Pretty exciting parents right?
In other not so pleasent news my advertising agency has decided to lay me off due to several large account losses. While working remotely would have been great once you were delivered it looks like I'm going to be working in the city by the time you arrive. Hopefully your mom doesn't go into labor while I'm at work - that is a long train ride back to the suburbs! I've been on several interviews this past 2 weeks and there seems to be a promising position at Kelly, Scott, Madison. I'm headed back on Monday for more interviews the additional team members. Hopefully I'll get the job and I won't be unemployed when you're born. Although I suppose I'd get to spend a whole lot of time with you then. That'd be nice but I think your mom would prefer me out there making money to buy you fancy things like baby caviar or a baby monocle...
Friday, January 6, 2012
Hello Kid
Hello yet to be named child of ours. Today your Mom's doctor confirmed what at least 8 pregnancy tests had us suspecting - she's pregnant with you. This blog is the first of what I am sure are many things I'll one day do to embarass you (as all good Dads strive to do). My hope is that Google stays in business long enough for you to learn how to read so you can actually check these entries out and find out what was going on while you were going from embryo to human. Otherwise I'll have to retell these tales from memory and who knows how accurately I'll remember this when you're old enough to understand it. I know your grandparents don't recall much from my own incubation...
Currently my iPhone app tells me you are the size of a blue berry and are starting to develop a heart. Next week we have our first ultrasound scheduled where we'll hopefully hear that heart beating for the first time. I stress the singular heart. Your mother's family has a history of twins and triplets so we're hoping that there's just one of you in there. While we're planning on more than one child (only children are so spoiled!) we'd prefer not to have more than one child all at once.
I guess a pretty good story to tell you would be the story of how we told our parents that we were pregenant. It was right before Christmas and we were about to head to Augusta to spend the holiday with my family and we were debating if we were going to tell people so early (you were only like 6 weeks old at the time). Of course our eagerness to share this good news overrode our desire to be cautious in the first trimester and we decided that we had to tell our families especially since we were going to be seeing my parents in person.
So that night we went over to Grandpa & Grandma Reining's house under the ruse that we were giving Scott his birthday card before we left Chicago for Augusta cause his gift was something he'd probably want to use while we were gone. Inside the card we had written "you're going to be a grandfather" to surprise him. The problem was that once we got over there it took him forever to open the card! Grandma Penny kept talking about their Christmas decorations and showing us our stockings and Scott kept forgetting about the card in his hand! Finally he opened it and instead of reading the message we had written he was reading the punchline of the card (it was something about golfing in hell). Penny is still talking about how cute of a card it was when Scott finally read that he was going to be a grandfather and went "Whoaoaaaoooo!!" or something like it. Then Penny got it too and there was a bunch of shouting and hugging and some misty eyes (including your Dad...). Then we swore them to secrecy! Which currently is killing them. They want to tell somebody, anybody so bad!
Jump forward a couple days and we're in Augusta with my family. We decide the card thing worked so well on the Reinings that we'd pull it on my parents too. We rush out to Target and buy a Christmas card with a dauchshund on it (which is sort of a thing we did with Grandma Marsie - always get her a card with dauchshunds on it). Inside we write the same "you're going to be grandparents" thing on it and I give it to her saying that she could probably use it tonight and that I knew Uncle Chris and Aunt Kim had already gotten her the same card and I wanted to give it to her first (Target had a limited selection of Dauchsund themed cards you see...). She opens it and enjoys the cute dogs on it befor reading the actual message and she starts shouting like a mad woman. Again more hugs and teary eyes. Chris and Erin were there at the time too so they knew but they wanted to keep it a secret from Kim all weekend. That lasted about 4 seconds after Kim got to the house and I think Erin blabed it.
So that's how our immediate family found out that you were on the way. Actually I don't know how you mom told her brother so I guess you'll have to ask her. Hopefully she remembers cause she doesn't have this cool blog like I do :)
Love ya kid and can't wait to meet you August 26th, 2012.
Currently my iPhone app tells me you are the size of a blue berry and are starting to develop a heart. Next week we have our first ultrasound scheduled where we'll hopefully hear that heart beating for the first time. I stress the singular heart. Your mother's family has a history of twins and triplets so we're hoping that there's just one of you in there. While we're planning on more than one child (only children are so spoiled!) we'd prefer not to have more than one child all at once.
I guess a pretty good story to tell you would be the story of how we told our parents that we were pregenant. It was right before Christmas and we were about to head to Augusta to spend the holiday with my family and we were debating if we were going to tell people so early (you were only like 6 weeks old at the time). Of course our eagerness to share this good news overrode our desire to be cautious in the first trimester and we decided that we had to tell our families especially since we were going to be seeing my parents in person.
So that night we went over to Grandpa & Grandma Reining's house under the ruse that we were giving Scott his birthday card before we left Chicago for Augusta cause his gift was something he'd probably want to use while we were gone. Inside the card we had written "you're going to be a grandfather" to surprise him. The problem was that once we got over there it took him forever to open the card! Grandma Penny kept talking about their Christmas decorations and showing us our stockings and Scott kept forgetting about the card in his hand! Finally he opened it and instead of reading the message we had written he was reading the punchline of the card (it was something about golfing in hell). Penny is still talking about how cute of a card it was when Scott finally read that he was going to be a grandfather and went "Whoaoaaaoooo!!" or something like it. Then Penny got it too and there was a bunch of shouting and hugging and some misty eyes (including your Dad...). Then we swore them to secrecy! Which currently is killing them. They want to tell somebody, anybody so bad!
Jump forward a couple days and we're in Augusta with my family. We decide the card thing worked so well on the Reinings that we'd pull it on my parents too. We rush out to Target and buy a Christmas card with a dauchshund on it (which is sort of a thing we did with Grandma Marsie - always get her a card with dauchshunds on it). Inside we write the same "you're going to be grandparents" thing on it and I give it to her saying that she could probably use it tonight and that I knew Uncle Chris and Aunt Kim had already gotten her the same card and I wanted to give it to her first (Target had a limited selection of Dauchsund themed cards you see...). She opens it and enjoys the cute dogs on it befor reading the actual message and she starts shouting like a mad woman. Again more hugs and teary eyes. Chris and Erin were there at the time too so they knew but they wanted to keep it a secret from Kim all weekend. That lasted about 4 seconds after Kim got to the house and I think Erin blabed it.
So that's how our immediate family found out that you were on the way. Actually I don't know how you mom told her brother so I guess you'll have to ask her. Hopefully she remembers cause she doesn't have this cool blog like I do :)
Love ya kid and can't wait to meet you August 26th, 2012.
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