Housecapades

We put three offers on houses today. Here are pics from two of them (before the camera died). Ignore the fat pregnant lady.

You might not be able to tell from this picture, but this is actually a garage. It's huge-mongous~

Baby Showers!

Our baby showers officially have a date now! We are having two showers on Sat., April 4, 2009. The first will be from 11ish to 1ish at some restaurant. The second one is a scrapbook party at the Crafty Scrapper in Waxahachie from 4-8 p.m. An invitation/evite will be coming asap! We're having two because we know there are lots of you coming from out of town.

Here's info on the Crafty Scrapper:


http://www.thecraftyscrapper.com/about/

Baby Needs Space

It turns out that our house isn't big enough for the three of us, so we're house hunting! Check out the prospects... Each of these houses are a bit larger than ours and going for a great price. We even get an acre of dirt for the kid to play in, crazy! We'll keep you all posted on the prospects on where we end up.

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!

Pumpkin Patch

Today was an important day in the life of Baby Egg Yolk Chiang.  Baby ventured to her first Pumpkin Patch.  She was joined by her Aunt Peggy and Favorite Uncle Cameron, along with Cousin Maia.  At the Patch she was able to ride a tractor, choose a pumpkin (with parental help of course), and even complete a hay maze with cousin Maia.  Sort of. Then she was driven home, where she rested while the parentals decorated their pumpkins.  This year we decided to avoid the knives and other dangers by painting our pumpkins.  Bob made an ogre, I made a pregnant ghost, and Baby made and Egg Yolk pumpkin.  You can see pictures below, narrated by Bob. (My comments are in parenthesis). 



Just barely conscious, Baby Daddy is stepping back out of the little house. Apparently, if you try to stand up you get knocked out by the rafters. For a rocket scientist, couldn't he have figured that out before being conked on the head?

(Bob isn't making this up.  He really did this.  With an audience of two or three seven year olds.)





Baby Mama amongst goards of many shapes and sizes.(Hiding her baby bump which shouldn't be quite as big as it is already.)









Green acres is the place to be,
farm living is the life for me...










(Notice the ogre, pregnant ghost and egg yolk to the right.  We did that. :)