4 Mos in Boston

As we are walking a path on the Boston Harbor and crossing some elegant condos directly next to office buildings...

Jon: Yeah, people really do want to live close to work so they can walk there

Me: Or scoot on their butts there

15 Weeks

Jon...doing what husbands do best when pregnant wives shouldn't use harsh chemicals...

As I am walking by the bathroom, Jon asks:

"How do I know when I'm done?"

hahaha....thanks Grandma Sorenson for having TWO MAIDS for most of Jon's childhood! ;) 

Me: So, about our plan, did it cross your mind that such-and-such could happen?

Jon: No, but it crossed my mind that it would cross your mind.

hahaha...As Jon always says, he's "the foremost expert on Lauren."

Wow, I remember when that baby ticker thing was closer to 280 days....Now it's 180...time is a tickin' until we get the maturity letter in the mail that says the baby is going to be born soon ;)

3.5 Mos

Me and Baby "hanging out"

***Had our third midwife appointment and baby's heartbeat is strong. :) After getting a second opinion, we decided it would be best not to get the fetal anatomy ultrasound since we'd both rather meet any challenges if/when they came rather than worry about them for the rest of the pregnancy. So, unless there is a complication that requires an ultrasound, we won't be finding out the gender until the baby's birthday...which means we get to spend the next 6 months guessing. 

Any guesses on if we're carrying a boy or a girl??? We both think we're carrying a boy, but that's mostly because we refer to the baby as "he" generically instead of "it" so it has influenced our thinking. 

This is NOT our baby....

But, our vicarious way of living through other people's sonograms...What our baby would probably look like right now at 3.5 months:

***It's also cool to see the development that has happened by looking back at the last sonogram I posted of a baby at 

10 weeks: http://confessionsofasteubiewife.blogspot.com/2008/05/2-months.html

Happy First Father's Day Jon!!! Me and baby love YOU!

Graduate school...makes THIS somehow unproblematic

Those homeschoolers...at it again

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7454345.stm

On this site, there is a link to this person's blog, which is also very cool

Today I have stepped outside of the Ivory Tower...past the circle with no center...and into the world..which I must say is in a worse state of chaos than when I left it.

Today I finished my Master's degree in English! 

Jon: SuperHusband

I am thankful for a husband who...

-happily helps old ladies move heavy bags to their cars 

-tells me I'm beautiful even when I don't fit in most of my "before baby" clothes

-takes me out for a relaxing lunch to celebrate the beginning of the end of morning sickness

...among much much more and all in one day!

On the crazy train...really.

Today takes the cake for pregnancy "what is going on with my body???"

It started with being overheated at Mass (since the air conditioning was more like French air conditioning than Texan air conditioning)...to be compounded by hormonal heights and crying for no reason at all in the church foyer (the whole time wondering what Laura was thinking as she sat next to me holding Daniel)...and I mean crying a lot. Jon came out from Mass to stand by me, all the while with a sweet "my wife is pregnant and adorable" smile on his face, which made me cry more. Then, when I realized I was missing a lot of the Mass, I started crying even more because I wanted to be there, but felt frustrated by my fatigue, hormones, and temperature level.

Then we came home and by 5 p.m. I was sleeping...for 3 hours. Since we've been pregnant, Jon has been encouraging me to take naps, saying "you're the only pregnant woman I've known who doesn't sleep during the day," but I was usually too sick to really rest or resistant to the inactivity. Today, he was very happy that I slept, even though for me it was bizarrely against my usual energy level.

But, alas, at least I have been warned about these little emotional moments and extreme fatigue by friends who have been pregnant...now I get to live it myself, or at least, cry and sleep it.  

13 Weeks and Cooling off in the basement...It's SUPER hot and humid here

What can happen if you don't read ahead of time...

Professor: So, yes, she was very ill.

[I raise my hand, having not read the text, but trying to show some effort during the discussion]

Me: Could you qualify what you mean by "ill"?

[Professor stops for a moment]

Professor: "Ill" as in "you should not start people on fire" ill

Okay, learned my lesson. And I'm still laughing about it.

My Small List of Great Inventions

1. The spork 

2. The double-stick popsicle

3. The parachute

Really, what would we do without these things? 

Talking about various political topics (or more like me interviewing Jon on all that he absorbed in his undergrad political science studies)..including the IRA (Irish Republican Army, for those of you like me and out of the English-Irish loop) and British political institutions....led to some discussion about various terrorist/revolutionary events....and ended on this note:

Jon: So what did you think the Boston Tea Party was?....A tea party???

********

So, what are you trying to say, the Underground Railroad wasn't a railroad?

3 Months of BABY

This one is from around 2 months I think.

This second one is from Beaver Creek at 3 months