8 Weeks to Due Day

Lots to catch up on...2 birthdays, a Labor Day trip to Indiana, another baby shower, and lots of Bean growth. Let's start by hearing from the Momma.

-At week 32 my belly began to go out moreso than forward
-Walking up our driveway feels like running a marathon
-This morning I could barely fit my feet in my sperries
- Bean has felt more like a treadmill rolling across the top of my belly than sharp punches like earlier
-I love hearing Steve laugh when he feels Bean kick
-I've been getting lots of leg cramps at night and dizziness a few times a week
-I've been wearing Steve shirts to bed
-Glucose screen came back high, 3 hour glucose test the next week came back negative :)

Working backwards on a few other things, We were sick for the last week, sore throat, sinus pressure, runny nose, cough, etc. We think we got it up in Indiana, Hannah and Casie both had a bug. Yesterday was the first day we really felt better.

Mother Bears! With Ty and Katie

Shower at the Whatley's

We decided to go to Indiana for Labor day at the last second. It turned out to be a great trip, last time to the Hoosier state before the Bean comes. We left at 4 AM on Saturday, went through Bloomington to meet Ty's fiance Katie, swung through and saw Tyce (few weeks before his wedding), spent the afternoon/evening celebrating our Birthdays in Danville, spent Sunday at Nate and Erica's new house, then drove back Monday.

Fantasy Auction

All of the cousins except Isla!

Labor Day 2012

Sweet Isla

Decked Out for Indiana/Indiana State game

Bonnie's Birthday!

Megan stayed with us this past weekend, it was fun but now our air conditioner went out AND ceiling fan fell out of the season. What are the odds??

Babymoon

Lots to catch up on here for our readers, we’ll start with our trip down to South Florida last week. We spent 4 nights in Fort Lauderdale and had a blast! Our little Kia scooted us down to Key West, up to Delray Beach, and down to Miami. Our hotel was on the beach in Fort Lauderdale, it was a cool place with tons of yachts parked out back. 

The weather was good and the food was even better for the week, we had anything from Cuban to seafood to pizza. It was much easier not hearing the news/results of the Olympics and watching them 'live' at the hotel at night, so that was cool. I’ll let the captions in the pictures do the rest of the splainin. 

First stop on our way down to the keys. We fed some HUGE tarpons, if the video works below you can check out a live shot

Wasn't worth waiting in line for a picture with it, but here ya have it

Sunset from the keys

Bonnie and Bean! Taking from a tree off of South Beach during a little shower

Our little rented Kia did us good

Walked a trail at a nature preserve in Delray Beach, saw some turtles and a gator

Bonnie is in her 26th week with the little bean. At her last appointment Bean gave the doc a swift kick when she went to take the heartbeat, how great is that? She is still feeling well overall. The nursery is almost finished, we spent a few days painting/sanding/finishing the dresser and end table white, it is looking goooood. Tonight we are going to meet with a couple in Grant Park about potentially doing a nanny share, hopefully it works out, we got their information through Susan. 

We also went to cousin Kelly’s wedding two weeks ago in Minnasooohhta. It was really fun seeing the Olausens, Nate’s family and Ryan were there too. The morning of we golfed with Uncle Tom, Steve, and Mike. Bonnie stayed behind with Erica and Maggie and played with the kids. The wedding itself was very...interesting!

Pretty sure Ryan's stain is from Seth clearing off our whole table during the reception

Outside the reception

Hannah danced the whole time

Before golf Saturday morning. Forecast of 100% rain luckily turned out to be 100% wrong. Besides psyching each other up to being outside for 5 hours of downpour, conversation was us compiling the 'All-Mets' team.

 In other news, Casie had little Isla last week! It may be a while but we can't wait to meet her and see the three sisters together!

Its a...

Boy or girl! We had the ultrasound last Friday (July 6). Mary and Laura came down for the occasion. Bean is 1.2 pounds, which I guess is sort of big for 22 weeks, everything else checked out well. It was really cool to see the lady zoom in on different parts, Bean even stuck his/her tongue out when she was zoomed in on the face! Laura tried getting some inside information on the gender but didn't get very far.

Bonnie is still feeling pretty well despite getting kicked more and more by the little jumper. There is an updated pic of the belly below, we spent yesterday afternoon at the pool. Bonnie had the day off b/c her work didn't take July 4th off.

We ate goooood when Mary and Laura were down, Fox Brothers on Friday and Anticos on Saturday. After Anticos Natalie and her parents swung by to see everyone, it was cool all of the IU girls got to catch up for a bit. Elise was in town for the weekend as well.

IU Girls

Bonnie and Elise at Coca Cola Museum 4D Show

Anticos!

Dessert run

Haircut with Emma

Visit to the Potters, who just moved down

Day off = pool day!

The nursery is coming along well. I don't think we know the workers at Target, IKEA, and Babies R US yet but we may before the end of the month. Here are the up to date purchases/gifts thus far...
IKEA- Curtains, rugs, shelves, baskets, dresser
Target- Crib, pack-in-play
Babies R US- Glider, stroller/carseat

6 hours of struggle, redeemed by comfort of final product

Almost done...

Other than that not much else is new. We watched Mike and Holly's dog Madie last weekend, it was pretty much (al)literal constant combination of craziness, caution, and catastrophic chaos. They had fun together to say the least. But aren't they cute? 

Neither dog ever 'out-annoyed' the other as they both apparently always do to older dogs they hang with

And apparently some dogs don't sleep...

It has rained every day for about a week (sound like Indiana needs it) but the week before it was record-setting heat. We went to a Braves/Mets game this past Friday with the Bolliers, it was really fun and good to catch up with Jon. We also booked flights to Minnesota this weekend for Kelly's wedding and Fort Lauderdale for the first week in August for a Babymoon, should be a fun few weeks!

Enjoyed this

Yikes

Just for Kicks

I'll try and recap the last few weeks in some kind of sensible way. We took the team up to Indiana three weekends ago (June 6th - 10th). The trip went great, I drove with the team Wednesday (our anniversary) as Bonnie flew, we spent Thursday at the lake, Friday at Lester's farm and a scrimmage at Leo, Saturday tournament at IWU, pool party in Danville, and Sunday at Cincinnati for Mike's camp and back to Atlanta. The trip, although a complete whirlwind, was definitely worth it looking back on it, there were a few weeks in there we were doubting whether it would happen.

Lester taking some boys on a buggy ride

 We spend our 'weekend off' of going to Indiana trying to find a blueberry farm with Jon and Vanessa, in a very roundabout way we ended up at a gem out near Athens. Bon has done a great job finding recipes for the blueberries, then we took a bunch up to Danville.

Picking blueberrie

Bean is growing so fast it is crazy. Besides size (small cantaloupe, I say softball, see below post...) the coolest change is Bonnie is feeling kicks! I felt one today for the first time, it was way cool. 20 weeks in means half way home.  We had an appointment last week and heard the heartbeat again, Dr Cook's words were "Strong and steady, sounds like a boy!" It is so cool to hear. Mary and Laura are coming down in two weekends for the 22 week ultrasound.

This past weekend we went up for Bonnie's baby showers and Tyler Morningstar's wedding. The wedding was fun, it happens so rarely now but it is always great to see all of the Leo guys. Everyone was there except Kyle, Rhys was born this week. The guys also played our fantasy football golf round at Walnut Creek Sunday morning, Ray hit a birdie putt on 18 to beat Adam. My driver broke on the 2nd hole, not sure if I will get another one or get it fixed.

Laura threw Bonnie's shower on Saturday in Danville and Casie threw one on Sunday. It sounded like they went great, Bonnie was especially excited to see Tony Jo. Everyone was so gracious, there are definitely quite a few things we got to check off for Bean. The crib came the Monday we got back (yesterday) and I put it together, it looks great! Third time was the charm.

Back from baby shower...3rd and final crib!

The girls and Finly

2nd shower at Casie's

Morningstar's wedding

Cribs

Bonnie's pregnancy has gone very well over the last few weeks. She is on week 18 and this week especially really started to show. These baby websites drive me pretty crazy because from weeks 13 to 18 the fruits have all been the same size and, in some cases, even sent me to google (kumquat? really?). To me a much more natural progression would be marble, golf ball, raquet ball, tennis ball, bocce ball, softball, etc. Oh well.

In other Bean News we registered a few weeks ago at Babies R Us and Target. Today we returned crib number 2. The first one we got off Craigslist and ended up selling it back (drop-side) and the second one we bought from Wal-Mart and came out of the box with a few healthy chunks out of it. More to come on this later...

We drove up to Indiana with the Kims for Memorial Weekend. Bonnie spent the weekend in Danville, she got to visit Erin with Natalie and also meet Finley. I was up between Leo and the Lake for the Clark Olympics, it was an awesome few days for sure. We are going up again this upcoming Wednesday with the basketball team, should be another adventure.

The rest of the pictures are of Jeff and Tiff's awesome boys. Josh and Caleb had a blast with our animals, as you can see. We had a great time with them all week, a few highlights included Jeff and Neil coming to practice one day, Fox Brothers, IKEA, and Phase 10.

First time experiencing Antico's goodness

18th week!

 

 

 

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