Disco Fever

It's Saturday night and the mood is right. As we like to do in B-town... we like to hit up far out shin digs. Tonight's event happens to be a 70's party at a vintage condo just purchased by a friend of ours. We had to get in spirit and work on our moves before we headed over. Here's our groovy photo shoot.
Verdict... we know how to party in the living room after spending all day cleaning carpets.

29 Weeks

Well, I am at 29 weeks. As you can see I am growing like crazy. I can't believe that I have 11 weeks left to go. I am not sure how I am going to manage this belly over the next 11 weeks, but I am sure I will figure it out. I have been going to pregnancy water fitness, and I love it! There's a really nice girl who takes it with me. It's just the two of us and the instructor. I think I am going to hit up the regular water fitness tomorrow so I can check in on the gals I used to workout with.

Last night Joe and I went out into the yard; I could see loads of tulips poking through the dried up leaves. I asked Joe to pull the leaves off and uncover them because I can't reach out that far. I stood there yelling, "There's more, there's another one, uncover those!" It was very exciting. We are in our regular spring weather pattern... two days of snow, a few days of sunshine... repeat. I have been closely monitoring the buds on our trees, and they look about ready to open! My fingers are crossed for a week of sunshine.

Duke's new diggs

Joe here,

Duke, or "the Duke" as we like to say, is the in utero name we have applied to our little guy. Last night I pulled a marathon session after work and we got his room functional. The greatest thing about this is that there are no more big boxes stuffed in corners of the living room with unassembled furniture in them.

Anyway, in our last post we cleaned out my old office and turned it into a blank slate. The first thing that needed to be done was to add new baseboard trim to the room as our new baseboard heating system added a taller scar to the bottom than our old trim could cover. We went for 5.5" trim and it looks great.
Next came a pretty comical assembly of some Chinese furniture. You'd think I could read and follow directions being an engineer, but I suppose my being a man overrode this predisposition for success and I ended up having to take most everything apart at least once to re deploy my screws and bolts in the proper way when I would run out of parts. Anyway, around 10pm last night we got Duke's room mostly together. Now we just have to fill it with tons of crap and add some wall decorations... Sorry about the photos being all wonky, but in order to get the whole room in a shot I had to stitch 4 images together with some software.



About half an hour after we assembled the crib, Misty thought she would do her best impression of Sylvester Stallone's 'Cliffhanger' and scratched the hell out of the front of the crib on an ill conceived and hastily aborted jump. We knew it would get thrashed over the next few years, but we thought it might last longer than 30 minutes!

Baby's room - a blank slate

Joe here,

We spent all last weekend moving all of the junk I've accumulated over the past 4 years and moved it out of my home office. I now have a neat office 4 blocks away and that has de-cluttered the house considerably!

Here's the baby's room, I just need to get the base board trim in and we can assemble the crib, changing table, and move other assorted furniture in. This is getting exciting!

View from the door...
View from the corner across from the door.

We'll keep the photos coming as the room develops!