A Day in the Life...

Hi all,

There's not a ton to report, but I've been so negligent with the baby blog, I figured I'd give a quick update.

My last doc appt was 2 weeks ago. I lost 3 lbs since the last month. Since the doc said that the baby was growing fine, she wasn't concerned. Looks like I'll be around 15 lbs down after the baby is born. Woohoo! No one worry - I'm eating normally. Baby's just taking all the good calories. Also had my glucose test done and I don't have gestational diabetes, which is great.

I'm officially 7 months this coming Tuesday. Time flies. Don't exactly know how I'll be 28 wks / 7 months with almost 3 months to go - but hey - I guess pregnancies these days are 10 months instead of nine. Our little girl's kicking more than she used to - or maybe just getting stronger muscles - 'cause she's becoming Lloyd Dobler (random 80s movie reference).

We'll be done with the master bedroom/bathroom/nursery renovations within the week - can't wait! We're really looking forward to moving into the the new space. It's looking great. We'll post pics when it's done.

As for work, I'm still freelancing in Manhattan at Momentum (my client is Revlon). I'm booked until November 1st, which is great. I have a contingency plan if I somehow go into labor while I'm at work and can't make it up to Hudson Valley Hospital in time. Columbia Presbyterian will be our Manhattan hospital if that's the case.

Dave's hoping that a Qwest union doesn't go on strike. If they do, he will need to fly to Minneapolis for two weeks to cover. Not fun! Please don't strike!

I think that's about it with the updates on our end. I'll upload pics next week of the room(s). (everything's more fun with pictures).

-tiff

Name, name, go away. Come again some other day.

Last night we were once again playing the name game with the latest book that Tif brought home. As usual, we were employing our systematic process of evaluating potential HIT's (Human Identifier Tags), which consists of a rating system:

• -5 Hahahahahah
  
• -4 You're kidding right?
  
• -3 Gross
  
• -2 Ugh
  
• -1 Meh
  
• 0 I don't hate it.
• 2 Hrmm
• 3 Bettter than Rocky?
  
• 4 Remember this one...
• 5 DING DING DING DING DEEEE DOOOO DEEEE DOOO DEEEE DOOO WHOOOOOP WHOOOOP WHOOOOOP WHOOOOOP

As we reached a certain letter before Z, but after A, we hit upon a name that received a 5. That's right, little Rocky's permanent HIT will be....


We're not telling.

We'd like to give her a chance to tell you herself, as we fully expect her to climb out of the womb being able to read, write, and program the DVR. If by some small chance she confuses her name with "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaah", we'll let you know then.