My New Job

I've recently started a new job, so I just wanted to share a picture from work with you. The other gypsies in the photo are training me. They are excited to have a pregnant gypsy on the team now... it seems to add some diversity.

Nursery-in-Progress

Bob has been working really hard on the baby's nursery. Here's the progress he's made so far. It's taking quite a bit of time because he had to paint two different colors!

Wait until you see the coolest thing Bob found to replace this light fixture... I was so proud of him. That post is to come!


This was the most expensive part of the whole room- a Container Store closet. I'm a little jealous.

Can you believe my child only has a half a shelf of books? I'm working on fixing this problem. Let me know what your favorite picture books are so I can add to his collection.


I decided against a rocker for two reasons. First of all, I can and have slept in this chair, so I know it's comfortable. Secondly, it's my favorite chair in the entire world, and I know if Bob had his way he'd get rid of it. I gave Bob half of the living room back by putting it in the kid's room.

Bob thinks he's leaving this. He's not.


On this wall is where our shooting glow-in-the-dark stars are going to go. We actually already put them up, but they fell down (and I won't tell you that they'd have hit the kid if he'd have been in his crib). We lost all but two yesterday, and Bob pointed out when I posted this pic that there's only one left. Hmmmm.... we may be rethinking this wall....



Thanks for visiting! We'll post more when we're (or Bob) is done!

It's a Boy!

Don't read this posting if you don't want to know the gender of our kid.   Well, maybe it's too late.  The story of how we found out is funny and shows just how scary Bob and I will be as parents.  Our doctor gives us lot of sonograms, which may sound great to you, but unfortunately, I can't really see anything on the pictures anyways, so I don't know if it really matters.  We went to our full anatomy scan and the sonographer kept seeing things like, "And there's the left pinky toe, and there's the right ear lobe..." And I just nodded and smiled and hoped that I looked like I believed her.  She kept looking for the gender of the kid, but he wasn't cooperating.

    "I think we have a girl..." She'd say over and over again.  Bob was smiling from ear to ear.

    And then, suddenly, the kid stretched his legs out, and at that point, even I knew she was wrong.

    "I don't think that's a girl."  I said.   

    "No," she said.  "It's not."

    Bob will post the sonogram pictures asap.  When you see them, you'll be certain, as well.   I think Bob was slightly disappointed at first, but we've compiled a list of why having a boy is a good thing:

1.  Two racks of clothes at the store instead 25 racks.

2.  Pregnancy.  That's all we'll say.

3.  Cheaper toys (compare a matchbox car with a Barbie)

4.  Bob already has tons of boy toys.

5.  Boys come installed with sound effects.  

6.  Bob gets to deal with puberty (that one's just for me).

7.  Blue seems to show fewer stains than pink.

8.  If statistics remain constant, he'll make more money at his job than if we had a girl.  That means we have a better retirement plan now.

Please add to our list...we look forward to expanding it!