Mommy can build stuff too...

Matt's parents came down this weekend and we got so much done around the house. The front yard & landscaping got cleaned up/cut/trimmed/edged, grass mowed, out of place trees and stumps cut down and removed, pictures hung, furniture moved and the list goes on. We have a lot more work to do - but it's coming together.

So while everyone else did all the work - I decided to get ambitious and put together the dresser we bought for the baby. I think I did a really good job if I say so myself. :)

The finished dresser....

Thank you Vic & Elaine for all your help this weekend!!!

Daddy Duty

Our crib arrived today - about a week earlier than we thought! We of course immediately started to put it together. Here are a few pictures of our first big baby related purchase, and Matt's first big job as a new Dad. :)

The nursery isn't painted yet - so everything is pretty bare in there still. More to come on that.

Wow - there are a lot of pieces in here!

Slowly but surely coming together.

Drum roll....the finished product.

We figured out the hard way that the finished crib wasn't going to fit through the bedroom door. Awesome. So we had to take it apart and re-put it back together inside the room. It made for a fun night to say the least.

You know your pregnant when...

You spend 9 hours at work - going to meetings, checking email, answering phones and even running a couple errands at lunch time only to come home in the evening and realize you have two completely different shoes on.

It's a.....

GIRL!!!

The Gypsy was WRONG (well - according to the best opinion from our Sonogram Tech!) and we are indeed going to be parents of a sweet little girl.

We thought for sure it would be a boy - so we both got a surprise, but we are so excited about our healthy little girl.

As you can see - the blog colors have been updated with the recent news. ;)

Here are a couple of updated pictures of Matt and I from this weekend also. We were heading to a wedding. I promise Matt usually takes better pictures...:)

You know you live in Suburbia when....

1. The HOA has a 4th of July Parade and the kids out number the adults 8 to 1.

2. You are convinced the neighbors around the corner are Swingers.

3. When you go for walks around the neighborhood - you must participate in the mandatory "hello" exchanges from those that are sitting on their front porches...which is of course every other house.

4. You meet your neighbors for the first time, and they immediately start telling you the age and gender of every child under 10 on the block. They can't remember parents names, but they know the kids...and that's only because of their kids. Oh - and they of course know their dogs names.

5. You are at the neighborhood pool and the lady next to you is 50+ but has had enough surgery to make her seem around 35...drinking Dos Equis in cans...by herself. And of course she was also covered in bling. Maybe she's part of the Swingers Club too.

6. There is an awesome Sno-Cone Truck that rolls through the neighborhoods at night...driven and run by a girl no more than 16 years old, cute, blond and very tan.

7. The average number of kids per household is 3.5.

8. Everyone has lawn service, even though most yards are so tiny it would only take 15 minutes to mow it yourself.

*Disclaimer* - I know this post was a little out of the ordinary for my Baby Blog, but I just had to share and shake things up a bit. We have many more additions to this list...so I'll add more as they come in. We can't wait!

Maybe a boy....maybe a girl

Matt and I found out today what the gender of the newest little addition will be. However - to keep my immediate family from finding out prior to our telling them, I'm not posting it here just yet (sorry Middlebury & Houston - you have to wait too!). The Abram/Heign/Guggenheim's will be celebrating me and Mom's birthday's next weekend - so I am making everyone wait until then.

In the meantime - here is a snippet from our Ultrasound today (push the play button). You can see the profile of the baby and in the lower right hand corner you can see the little heart beating super fast. The end of this video is where they start getting into the 4D image. I think at this point the baby had enough and put it's hand in between the camera and it's face. :)

And here is a sonogram of those cute little feet!

This is the 4D picture that Matt and I think is a little freaky looking....:) The baby is using my uterus as a pillow.

Baby bump

Matt and I finally snapped a few pictures this evening. I'm now at 20 1/2 weeks...so halfway there! I, of course, hated all the pictures and feel the camera truly adds 10 (maybe 15) pounds - to my face, arms, neck, legs, etc. It's a small bump - but it's there. :)

Is it a BOY or a GIRL???

I had my monthly doctors appointment yesterday and got to schedule the date for the next Ultrasound that will tell us if we'll have a boy or girl.  We go in on July 2 - so be watching around that time for blog updates!

Vote on what you think/want/hope it will be!

It's official: we are homeowners!

Matt and I are officially first time homeowners!  We closed last Tuesday on our house (via conference call while I was in Philadelphia - but oh well).  Here are a few pictures that I have - I'll try to remember to post more when we get moved in.  I will send out our new address soon via email.

Why is the blog blue and brown?

We won't find out if it's a boy or a girl until probably the first week in July.  I did the blog in blue and brown only because I liked the combination.  However, here is a funny story about if it's a boy or girl...

I took an Apple group to Baltimore for a meeting in the middle of April.  One of the staff waitresses (older Gypsy-ish woman) for our banquets at the Marriott hotel came up to me out of the blue and said:

"You're expecting, and you are having a boy"

I was speechless nonetheless since at that point we hadn't told anyone - and I certainly wasn't showing!  She must have seen the surprise on my face because her next question was:

"I'm right, aren't I?  You are expecting, no?"

I then say a "uh - yes" and she proceeds to tell me again it's a boy and that:

"I'm never wrong"

So - would you believe the Gypsy lady?