I saw all the comments so I thought I'd comment. Adam has written so many funny blogs. He's working really hard to make sure the living room is finished soon. I can't wait until the construction is OVER.
Madison is moving around like crazy in my belly. I've been playing Baby Mozart on my belly at night and listen to 80's-current music on the radio, but I don't think my daughter shares in my musical tastes. Lately, when I turn to the dance station and a particularly upbeat song comes on, she starts moving around and kicking. I think I have a dancer in there. Must be the musical influences of her uncles!
Love to all. Can't wait for you to meet her. (I can't wait to see her!!) xo Tina :)
4/13/06
4/12/06
Peanut To Pounder
Here's the lastest two pictures of the baby, from the most recent ultrasound. I have two sets, one lighter than the other to hopefully show more detail. This is a picture of her face, you'll see her forehead, nose, cheeks, eyes, and in one picture you see her mouth open... look closely. She's a little over three pounds now.
4/10/06
Doctor Visits
Wow, I can't believe it's April already! Hmm, let's see, what's happened since the last update here...
We've had a few more doctor visits, the baby is doing fine and growing like she's supposed to be. They told us that in these last three month's they will be able to determine if she's going to be a large or small baby. This is the ultimate growth spurt.
Doctor visits have been interesting, and I have to say Tina has educated herself very well about pregnancy. Its apparent when we are in the room with the doctor. As he explains what's happening, Tina is always asking questions about very calculated and scientific matters involving fetuses. Then there is me sitting in the "significant other" chair they have in the room. I'm holding Tina's Jacket, purse, and several free baby magazines in my lap, nodding like I understand what an episiotomy is. Every once in a while, I can pull a cool sounding question out of my butt, but that's far and few between.
It's not that I'm completely in the dark about babies. I know a great deal, I just don't know all the technical details. I am learning however, and having a baby is a man's crash course in female anatomy. Light years beyond anything they teach in high school.
I had hoped to have more pictures for you, but at the last ultrasound the baby wasn't cooperating. All we were given was the apparent full frontal of the baby's face. It wasn't too detailed though and all you could see was teeth. It reminded me of the Chesire Cat when it would disappear and all you saw was the grin. A bit creepy if you ask me. Next week there's another ultrasound though and hopefully I'll have some good pictures to put up.
Right now, I have to go and put some drywall up. I have some visitors coming at the end of the month and need to make sure that there's a living room for everyone to sit in.
We've had a few more doctor visits, the baby is doing fine and growing like she's supposed to be. They told us that in these last three month's they will be able to determine if she's going to be a large or small baby. This is the ultimate growth spurt.
Doctor visits have been interesting, and I have to say Tina has educated herself very well about pregnancy. Its apparent when we are in the room with the doctor. As he explains what's happening, Tina is always asking questions about very calculated and scientific matters involving fetuses. Then there is me sitting in the "significant other" chair they have in the room. I'm holding Tina's Jacket, purse, and several free baby magazines in my lap, nodding like I understand what an episiotomy is. Every once in a while, I can pull a cool sounding question out of my butt, but that's far and few between.
It's not that I'm completely in the dark about babies. I know a great deal, I just don't know all the technical details. I am learning however, and having a baby is a man's crash course in female anatomy. Light years beyond anything they teach in high school.
I had hoped to have more pictures for you, but at the last ultrasound the baby wasn't cooperating. All we were given was the apparent full frontal of the baby's face. It wasn't too detailed though and all you could see was teeth. It reminded me of the Chesire Cat when it would disappear and all you saw was the grin. A bit creepy if you ask me. Next week there's another ultrasound though and hopefully I'll have some good pictures to put up.
Right now, I have to go and put some drywall up. I have some visitors coming at the end of the month and need to make sure that there's a living room for everyone to sit in.
2/6/06
The Prophecy is True!
A long time ago, my brother and I pushed my mom to the brink of insanity. I'm not sure what we did or why we did it, but I do remember what she said to us in retaliation.
"I can't wait until you have children of your own..."
...that was followed by...
"...and I hope they're all girls!"
I for one thought nothing of it, who does when you're young and stupid. However, I've come to realize that Mothers posess magic abilities, and they use that magic to teach their kids lessons.
I'm proud to say that the words my mother spoke long ago are becoming reality, as Tina and I have found out this evening that our first child will be a girl. We're also proud to say that the baby is healthy, has all it's limbs, and has a large head like his father (that's what it seems to look like to me at least, who knows!)
Tina's absolutely giddy about the news. I'm also excited, but I tend to look way too much into the future of things. For instance, everyone says children grow up so fast. Does this mean that before I know it, I'll be dealing with first bras, boys daring to date her, college, and god forbid having to let her get married? I think about that movie "Father of the Bride" and can realistically see me as Steve Martin's character.
A lot to think about indeed, but don't worry, I won't drown myself with worries. That is, until the next daughter is born, and the one after that even! How do I know the trend of girls will continue? My mother wished it so.
With all that said, Tina and I are very happy 'bout the little girl to be. Certainly helps us narrow down the names. I leave you with the best of the ultrasound pictures we were given of the girl.
This is the head shot, look close and you'll see a shadow of the ear, the nose and mouth contours. She's about 11.5 inches long now.
"I can't wait until you have children of your own..."
...that was followed by...
"...and I hope they're all girls!"
I for one thought nothing of it, who does when you're young and stupid. However, I've come to realize that Mothers posess magic abilities, and they use that magic to teach their kids lessons.
I'm proud to say that the words my mother spoke long ago are becoming reality, as Tina and I have found out this evening that our first child will be a girl. We're also proud to say that the baby is healthy, has all it's limbs, and has a large head like his father (that's what it seems to look like to me at least, who knows!)
Tina's absolutely giddy about the news. I'm also excited, but I tend to look way too much into the future of things. For instance, everyone says children grow up so fast. Does this mean that before I know it, I'll be dealing with first bras, boys daring to date her, college, and god forbid having to let her get married? I think about that movie "Father of the Bride" and can realistically see me as Steve Martin's character.
A lot to think about indeed, but don't worry, I won't drown myself with worries. That is, until the next daughter is born, and the one after that even! How do I know the trend of girls will continue? My mother wished it so.
With all that said, Tina and I are very happy 'bout the little girl to be. Certainly helps us narrow down the names. I leave you with the best of the ultrasound pictures we were given of the girl.
This is the head shot, look close and you'll see a shadow of the ear, the nose and mouth contours. She's about 11.5 inches long now.
1/24/06
They Didn't Make The Cut...
How you doin'?
The other night I was finalizing the list of names for both boys and girls that Tina and I liked. In total we had about 100 names chosen as potentials. After some conversations with a few friends and relatives, and with each other, we got the list down to about 67. We still have a lot of work to do to get down to the top five.
In searching for these names, I read through about 55,000 names... it took me about a month. The process was particularly difficult because so many names are already taken between the two families. For a while I was getting desperate, thinking that "Turnip" or "Datsun" might have to be considered as finalist names for the baby. However, after some digging through the Internet, we found some names that were unique but not overly complicated.
While we aren't even close to a final list, Tina and I probably wouldn't tell anyone what the names were anyway. We want that to be a surprise. It'll probably be a surprise for us!
I did compile a list of rejected names, so I'll list those instead...
BOYS
Edward
Colin
Jared
Ramone
Armond
Felipe
Bradley
GIRLS
Madison
Giselle
Jocelyn
Ashley
Mila
Caressa
Christa
Cristalin
Dulcinea
Eurydice
Florisel
Sabrina
Sasha
Mistral
Carraway
Isis
Lomasi
Marissia
Natalia
Adalia
Lorelei
Kaylan
Darian
Geneveve
Miranda
Callista
As you can see, we have a lot more girl names than boys, probably because boys dominate both families and have used up all the names already. I have some advice for future parents in the family...copyright the names you might want now, because they might be taken up soon in the future.
Update on Tina. She's healthy and sleeps a lot. Oh, and remember how I wrote before that saucy things disgust her now? Well, I made this amazing Chipotle BBQ sauce and she loved it on the baby back ribs I made the other night. So that's one point for the sauces.
I'm hoping to get some pictures up of Tina soon, just need to develop the film. No stomach shots though. I love all of you but I do value my own life, and putting up belly pictures would put my life in serious jeapardy.
The other night I was finalizing the list of names for both boys and girls that Tina and I liked. In total we had about 100 names chosen as potentials. After some conversations with a few friends and relatives, and with each other, we got the list down to about 67. We still have a lot of work to do to get down to the top five.
In searching for these names, I read through about 55,000 names... it took me about a month. The process was particularly difficult because so many names are already taken between the two families. For a while I was getting desperate, thinking that "Turnip" or "Datsun" might have to be considered as finalist names for the baby. However, after some digging through the Internet, we found some names that were unique but not overly complicated.
While we aren't even close to a final list, Tina and I probably wouldn't tell anyone what the names were anyway. We want that to be a surprise. It'll probably be a surprise for us!
I did compile a list of rejected names, so I'll list those instead...
BOYS
Edward
Colin
Jared
Ramone
Armond
Felipe
Bradley
GIRLS
Madison
Giselle
Jocelyn
Ashley
Mila
Caressa
Christa
Cristalin
Dulcinea
Eurydice
Florisel
Sabrina
Sasha
Mistral
Carraway
Isis
Lomasi
Marissia
Natalia
Adalia
Lorelei
Kaylan
Darian
Geneveve
Miranda
Callista
As you can see, we have a lot more girl names than boys, probably because boys dominate both families and have used up all the names already. I have some advice for future parents in the family...copyright the names you might want now, because they might be taken up soon in the future.
Update on Tina. She's healthy and sleeps a lot. Oh, and remember how I wrote before that saucy things disgust her now? Well, I made this amazing Chipotle BBQ sauce and she loved it on the baby back ribs I made the other night. So that's one point for the sauces.
I'm hoping to get some pictures up of Tina soon, just need to develop the film. No stomach shots though. I love all of you but I do value my own life, and putting up belly pictures would put my life in serious jeapardy.
1/17/06
FYI...
Just wanted to let everyone know that unless otherwise told, I'm using home E-mail address to send correspondences, rather than work because I don't want anyone to get busted.
1/16/06
Hello!
Well here it is, the baby blog for our baby. Since this is a public blog, here's a few things non-family will want to know. I'm Adam, and Tina is the one pregnant. Good, now that we've gotten that out of the way its on to more important things.
First, Tina is 16 weeks pregnant...I think. I'm terrible with the numbers involved with pregnancy, and I don't have one of those handy wheel things that all the doctors have. 16 weeks though, that's pretty close and I'll be sure to verify later with Tina. It has been a pretty normal pregnancy thus far, no surprises or worries and the doctors say she's right on track. Hooray for us!
For those of you who like lists I've rounded up the top changes I've noticed about Tina since she's been pregnant.
1. New drink of choice - Shirley Temple
2. Number of times she threw up during the first three months - Three
3. Number of times she's thrown up since then - Zero
4. Cravings - Nachos
5. Foods she once thought tolerable, but disgust her now - Chicken (God forbid she walk in on me while I'm butchering one up!), and sauces.
6. Trips to the bathroom have increased by 50%.
7. Her driving habits have gone from aggressive New Yorker to protective mama.
8. Burping is always the baby's fault, never her own.
9. Her belly is larger and firmer, while mine has only gotten larger... not firmer.
10. When she wants to snack on something its not because she's hungry, its because the baby is.
Okay, I just talked to Tina, and she said we're about 18 weeks, not 16. See, I'm terrible with numbers.
Okay, so that's a gist of what's been happening the last several months. Now for some sonogram pictures. Look for the crosshairs, the find the baby. Oh and in the last picture, the baby was being really stubborn and kept moving so all they got was a shot of its head, arm and hand.
Its very hard to see the baby in the first two photos, but he or she is there. In a couple weeks we have another sonogram appointment and the baby will be considerably bigger. I'll hopefully have a good shot then.
First, Tina is 16 weeks pregnant...I think. I'm terrible with the numbers involved with pregnancy, and I don't have one of those handy wheel things that all the doctors have. 16 weeks though, that's pretty close and I'll be sure to verify later with Tina. It has been a pretty normal pregnancy thus far, no surprises or worries and the doctors say she's right on track. Hooray for us!
For those of you who like lists I've rounded up the top changes I've noticed about Tina since she's been pregnant.
1. New drink of choice - Shirley Temple
2. Number of times she threw up during the first three months - Three
3. Number of times she's thrown up since then - Zero
4. Cravings - Nachos
5. Foods she once thought tolerable, but disgust her now - Chicken (God forbid she walk in on me while I'm butchering one up!), and sauces.
6. Trips to the bathroom have increased by 50%.
7. Her driving habits have gone from aggressive New Yorker to protective mama.
8. Burping is always the baby's fault, never her own.
9. Her belly is larger and firmer, while mine has only gotten larger... not firmer.
10. When she wants to snack on something its not because she's hungry, its because the baby is.
Okay, I just talked to Tina, and she said we're about 18 weeks, not 16. See, I'm terrible with numbers.
Okay, so that's a gist of what's been happening the last several months. Now for some sonogram pictures. Look for the crosshairs, the find the baby. Oh and in the last picture, the baby was being really stubborn and kept moving so all they got was a shot of its head, arm and hand.
Its very hard to see the baby in the first two photos, but he or she is there. In a couple weeks we have another sonogram appointment and the baby will be considerably bigger. I'll hopefully have a good shot then.
