Yup, definitely getting old. It's 10:51 on New Year's Eve and I'm sitting at home in Ramsey. The worst part about that, I actually prefer this to a packed bar. Plus I'm cheap so tonight cost me $6 bucks total, just enough for a Papa Murphy's Pizza. Finally, a pregnant wife usually isn't too keen on spending a night in a bar. :) So I will live vicariously through the analysts I work with. Three of them headed to Chicago for the weekend, a little more exciting then Ramsey. Hopefully they will have better stories about New Year's Eve then me.
We are bringing in the new year with the best movie of the year however, the Dark Knight, on blue ray, on my big TV. You got to love the magic trick of making the pencil disappear, I'm going to watch that in slow motion after the movie is over.
The pregnant belly is no longer hidden. Laura decided that it was pointless now, so first day back from Christmas, no more jackets, large sweaters, or other belly hiding clothing. She said a couple of people stopped her to ask her how far along she is. She keeps claiming it gets bigger every day, I usually answer that I think that's the point. The kid is pretty much kicking constantly now, between the ribs, right in the bladder, and everywhere else on the stomach. I'm able to feel that now so it's pretty cool.
I'd like to talk a little bit about the absurd notion of a push present. In case you don't know what that is (I didn't) supposedly the jewelry companies of the world created a push present idea where the dad is supposed to buy the mom a gift for carrying the baby. I always thought the baby was the gift, as the mom you get to feel something grow inside of you, get really big, and then have it all go away and you get a kid for it. So what if sometimes it includes throwing up, swelling, and a little pain at the end. Laura keeps reminding me that she expects one, I keep reminding her it probably won't happen. So we'll see.
Laura also found some book that said I should be doing things like cleaning the bathroom, scrubbing floors, and doing all the dishes now. I'm not a big fan of things like that, but I suppose I can pitch in here and there. Although I keep reminding Laura that my brain just really isn't wired to notice dirt, so she may have to remind me sometimes.
120 days left until the kid walks into the world. The way it kicks constantly it will probably be running at 2 months. I will leave you with some New Year's resolutions, which are usually absurd because everybody breaks them.
1. Play as many video games as possible before the kid's born
2. Figure out how to use proper language around children, sometimes Laura gets a little out of hand with swear words
3. Start working out again, my goal was to have Laura and I meet at our weights by the end of her pregnancy, but she's not doing her part
4. Clean the house every other month (hopefully that's good enough)
That's all I can think of right now, I'm sure next year's New Year's will be more exciting, maybe we'll be able to take the baby to the bar. :)
Happy New Year!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Cancun trip
So I know you are not going to believe me, but Cancun is cold man. We probably saw a grand total of about 5 hours of sunlight the entire time, it was 70's, windy, and cloudy for most of the time. I didn't get a lot of sympathy from people at work since it was around 0 at the same time, but hey I was expecting 80 and sun, so I'll complain if I want to. :)
We headed to cancun for my high school friends wedding. Kelles as we like to call him. For the first part of the trip we stayed at the nicest hotel in Cancun, Moon Palace. Great food, great service, great atmosphere. The second part of the trip, we stayed at the cheapest hotel, my choice of course. Terrible food, they couldn't even make hot dogs or french fries right. It was on the strip though so we got to go in the ocean for a couple of days and played a little beach volleyball. Both were all-inclusive and I tried to ask for a pregnancy discount since Laura could not drink. I didn't get it.
At the beginning of the trip we saw some Mayan ruins and we snorkeled in the cold water. After we snorkeled we had "beach time". This involved Laura and I huddling underneath towels to stay warm.
The wedding was on Wednesday, which was one of the nice days. Everything went off without a hitch, and it was a great wedding. Some great pictures of Kelles during the wedding, my favorite is the prewedding drink and smoke. Another highlight was Carrie's (the bride) brother dancing with our waitress at the end of the night. Overall we had a great time there.
We met my college buddies and their wives Adam, Krista, Dale, and Jessica at the second half of the week. Good times getting together and having a few drinks, although most of the time we served ourselves. We learned that Dale can't handle a boat on the ocean as he headed out for a 6 hour shipping trip and then forced the boat to turn around after an hour or so due to a little seasick issue. He claimed there were 8 foot swales, but I'm not so sure. :) You can also ask Dale and Jessica to perform at future events as they were called up on stage one of the nights. Both of them did a little stage dancing, I believe the worm may have made an apperance. They have video if you can convince them to show you.
There have been a lot of requests to see Laura's baby bump, some claim it's not even there yet. Laura has requested that you send pictures of your belly first, and then she will post some pictures of her belly. If you take a look online, you may catch a little glimpse.
http://picasaweb.google.com/mbecker0410
So that's it, good vacation, nice to take a break in the middle of December.
We headed to cancun for my high school friends wedding. Kelles as we like to call him. For the first part of the trip we stayed at the nicest hotel in Cancun, Moon Palace. Great food, great service, great atmosphere. The second part of the trip, we stayed at the cheapest hotel, my choice of course. Terrible food, they couldn't even make hot dogs or french fries right. It was on the strip though so we got to go in the ocean for a couple of days and played a little beach volleyball. Both were all-inclusive and I tried to ask for a pregnancy discount since Laura could not drink. I didn't get it.
At the beginning of the trip we saw some Mayan ruins and we snorkeled in the cold water. After we snorkeled we had "beach time". This involved Laura and I huddling underneath towels to stay warm.
The wedding was on Wednesday, which was one of the nice days. Everything went off without a hitch, and it was a great wedding. Some great pictures of Kelles during the wedding, my favorite is the prewedding drink and smoke. Another highlight was Carrie's (the bride) brother dancing with our waitress at the end of the night. Overall we had a great time there.
We met my college buddies and their wives Adam, Krista, Dale, and Jessica at the second half of the week. Good times getting together and having a few drinks, although most of the time we served ourselves. We learned that Dale can't handle a boat on the ocean as he headed out for a 6 hour shipping trip and then forced the boat to turn around after an hour or so due to a little seasick issue. He claimed there were 8 foot swales, but I'm not so sure. :) You can also ask Dale and Jessica to perform at future events as they were called up on stage one of the nights. Both of them did a little stage dancing, I believe the worm may have made an apperance. They have video if you can convince them to show you.
There have been a lot of requests to see Laura's baby bump, some claim it's not even there yet. Laura has requested that you send pictures of your belly first, and then she will post some pictures of her belly. If you take a look online, you may catch a little glimpse.
http://picasaweb.google.com/mbecker0410
So that's it, good vacation, nice to take a break in the middle of December.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
It's a .......
Well if you want to just know the sex of the baby now, you can jump to the link below and check out the pictures. That way you can avoid having to read the whole explanation of the day :).
http://picasaweb.google.com/mbecker0410/BabyPhotos#
So today was the halway point ultrasound. It sounds like we lucked out and got an early one that people don't normally get at around 8 weeks, but this one was definetely a lot cooler. Although not everything went exactly as planned. When we got their they asked Laura if she had drank a lot of water in the morning. I guess we missed the memo that Laura was supposed to have a full bladder. They proceeded to have her drink 3 small glasses of water very quickly. Not a great idea.
We were about 20 minutes in when Laura said that she did not feel very good. We all kind of froze for a second and then I realized, yup, she's going to ralph. Due to my cat like speed I was able to grab the trash can and get it to her in time. So back came the water and some orange juice. This was the first time Laura's thrown up the entire time, so we gave the nurses some greif about that. Also, for those of you who know the eye surgery fainting story, I just wanted to let everyone know I did not faint. So if you are keeping score, wife vomiting right in front of you, not a problem; watching a giant eye on a TV screen, find me a chair.
Other than that everything went pretty normal. We spent about an hour going through all the different body parts, measuring the leg bones, arm bones, stomach circumfrence, and size of head along with other things. Pretty cool technology overall. We were obviously waiting for the gender announcement which they made us wait about 30 minutes for, although both Laura and I had it figured out a little earlier than that. If you haven't looked at the pictures yet, now would be a good time. Pretty obvious that a baby boy is on the way. Not sure if the kid will like having that online in the future, so we may have to take it down at some point, but we thought it was pretty funny.
They keep telling us that the kid is pretty active, so I'm just imagining a one year old running around the house constantly screaming or something. We keep wondering if other babies just lay still in the stomach. We thought the legs and feet looked pretty big so we're hoping that Laura has a 6-6 uncle we don't know about. Time to start buying the basketball hoop and Twins jerseys, although we will also be OK if he wants to be in dance and play chess all day. :) Maybe.
So start sending in your baby boy name suggestions. We currently have none. Laura always had girl names picked out. My top choice right now is Maximus Meridius. Sorry Dale, Laura has vetoed Wilson and Billy so far, I'm still pushing Jimmy. But now we can eliminate half of the baby name book, so that's good.
Laura's belly is starting to make its presence known, which she tries to fight every day. We're starting to feel some movement, but no violent kicks yet. That's all for now, I'm still trying to convince Laura to let me put up some pictures of the belly, but I want to stay married for right now so I'll follow her advice that I better not put them online.
http://picasaweb.google.com/mbecker0410/BabyPhotos#
So today was the halway point ultrasound. It sounds like we lucked out and got an early one that people don't normally get at around 8 weeks, but this one was definetely a lot cooler. Although not everything went exactly as planned. When we got their they asked Laura if she had drank a lot of water in the morning. I guess we missed the memo that Laura was supposed to have a full bladder. They proceeded to have her drink 3 small glasses of water very quickly. Not a great idea.
We were about 20 minutes in when Laura said that she did not feel very good. We all kind of froze for a second and then I realized, yup, she's going to ralph. Due to my cat like speed I was able to grab the trash can and get it to her in time. So back came the water and some orange juice. This was the first time Laura's thrown up the entire time, so we gave the nurses some greif about that. Also, for those of you who know the eye surgery fainting story, I just wanted to let everyone know I did not faint. So if you are keeping score, wife vomiting right in front of you, not a problem; watching a giant eye on a TV screen, find me a chair.
Other than that everything went pretty normal. We spent about an hour going through all the different body parts, measuring the leg bones, arm bones, stomach circumfrence, and size of head along with other things. Pretty cool technology overall. We were obviously waiting for the gender announcement which they made us wait about 30 minutes for, although both Laura and I had it figured out a little earlier than that. If you haven't looked at the pictures yet, now would be a good time. Pretty obvious that a baby boy is on the way. Not sure if the kid will like having that online in the future, so we may have to take it down at some point, but we thought it was pretty funny.
They keep telling us that the kid is pretty active, so I'm just imagining a one year old running around the house constantly screaming or something. We keep wondering if other babies just lay still in the stomach. We thought the legs and feet looked pretty big so we're hoping that Laura has a 6-6 uncle we don't know about. Time to start buying the basketball hoop and Twins jerseys, although we will also be OK if he wants to be in dance and play chess all day. :) Maybe.
So start sending in your baby boy name suggestions. We currently have none. Laura always had girl names picked out. My top choice right now is Maximus Meridius. Sorry Dale, Laura has vetoed Wilson and Billy so far, I'm still pushing Jimmy. But now we can eliminate half of the baby name book, so that's good.
Laura's belly is starting to make its presence known, which she tries to fight every day. We're starting to feel some movement, but no violent kicks yet. That's all for now, I'm still trying to convince Laura to let me put up some pictures of the belly, but I want to stay married for right now so I'll follow her advice that I better not put them online.
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