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This Week

Well, a lot of stuff has happened since our last blog.
1. We enjoyed a fun-filled Halloween. Both Chris and I dressed up at school (me as a pregnant army chick, Chris as a Doctor...fitting seeing as he teaches Health).
2. We enjoyed the company of good friends of ours Jamie and Lauren who are expecting their first baby around the same time as us.It was great to catch up with them and enjoy a nice meal. Only problem was the 200 or so kids who kept coming to the door asking for candy. I guess that's what you get for having friends over on Halloween?!!
3. I reached the 5 and a half month pregnancy mark. This is not a feat worthy of comment on its own, but now that i finally look pregnant and not just fat, i am much more happy when people stare at my stomach.
4. Chris and my dad demolished the bathroom.
5. Tile is being cut and laid in the bathroom as i write this.

As promised...

Last week i drove up to PA to visit Danielle in her new house, with her new fiance and their doggy! They have a great house with lots of color (hate white walls!) and she is lucky enough to have snagged a really great guy! Not only did he put up with us gossiping but he put up with me being super nosy about their wedding!

All of a sudden i have gotten quite large! I feel like 2 weeks ago i barely looked pregnant now its hard to put on socks! The first photos is of my fancy new maternity outfit my grandma got me (at about 4 1/2 months) and the second is my official 5 month shot from today! We took it after school (all the others we took first thing in the morning) so i am bit bloated, but basically i'm just big! I can't believe it has been five months already!!

5 months!!

Five months already!! I can't believe how fast the months have gone by! We have some new pictures to put up of my 5 month belly, a play date with Danielle and her new Fiance, and we'll get some Halloween stuff up too! Check back soon!!!

October Snow?

That's right my friends and not just a little snow either! My school had about 5 inches at the end of the day, we were without power/heat for a few hours and the last bus didn't get to school until after 5! (Can we say unprepared??) Chris only got an inch or two at his school (about 20 minutes away) but had a rough time getting home. All (yes all four) major highways were closed or simply at a stand still! He had the joy of all back roads to get him home! I was really really hoping to get a picture of all the snow when i got home (5 minutes away from my school) but was surprised to find only a dusting!!! My school is on the Mt. of Mt. Olive Township and we live in the valley...hence so snow at our house! Needless to say it was quite the eventful day! Lets hope it warms up for Friday or Halloween isn't going to be too fun!

IT'S A BOY

Not only do my boys swim, but they make more boys! We had the level II ultrasound yesterday and were pleased to find out our little guy is healthy. He has fingers and toes in the right place, has a healthy heart, organs, bones etc. We were also very pleased to find out our first little one is going to be a boy. See the picture below for proof!!!!

The arrow is pointing to his tackle. Its almost like he sat on a photocopier naked and this is the resulting image!

Michelle's Bday

On Saturday we drove up to Hartford, CT to visit Dani's sister, Michelle. She had just celebrated her birthday so we drove up to see her. We met Dani's parents there for a nice afternoon of schmoozing and walking in the park. Michelle has a very nice condo in a beautiful area. Here are a couple of happy snaps from the day.

Super GREAT New!

As if being pregnant wasn't cool enough, TWO of my VERY good friends are now engaged!! Big shout out and congrats to Linds and Danielle!! Can't wait to see how beautiful you'll both look on your big day!

We hope this means that you'll jump right into having kids so we can have real play dates and not just puppy play dates!!!

Love you both!

4 months down, 5 to go

As you can probably tell, by virtue of the fact that i am writing this, Dani has not offed me for changing the template of the blog. This is mainly due to the fact that i have been monopolizing the computer of late. So i thought id post some lovely snaps of Dani at 2, 3 and 4 months. Enjoy.

My Say

Having the second name in the title of this blog allows me certain rights and privileges. Like changing the template style whenever i like. You will know when Dani has checked this blog next because you will either a) hear about my unfortunate death, or b) see that Dani made me change the template back, or to something else she likes better!

Bella Band

Possibly the coolest pregnancy thing ever (or at least that i have discovered so far!)! This tube top looking spandex band goes over the top of your too tight pants. It allows you to leave your pants un-buttoned or un-zipped! The band lays over the top of your pants, keeping them up, while allowing your "expanding" stomach to be more comfortable!! While i realize eventually I'm going to have to get maternity pants, I'm not big enough for them yet but I'm big enough for my regular pants to be too tight! Super cool solution for now!

Check out the website! http://www.ingridandisabel.com/

From the Baby Mama!

Having to keep the secret of being pregnant was a lot of work! Not only did it stink not being able to share the great news but it was just hard! I am happy to say though that so far everything has been going quite well! I have not been sick, only tired, and have been feeling pretty good! The only issue...bloating! While I'm only three months and not really showing, as the day goes on i get quite bloated (not that i can really complain b/c it has been the only downside!). I start the day off nice and slim (or as slim as i normally am!) and get increasingly larger as the day goes on! By 5pm i look like i am about 6 months pregnant! Because of this i have had to be very careful with my clothing selection because what fits at 7am when i get dressed, doesn't at 4pm when i leave school! But other than that all is well!

We got out latest test results back and we only have a 1 in 10,000 chance of the two most common chromosome diseases (very very good news), my blood work is good (also good news), and we haven't gotten any phone calls on Chris' blood work so he should be clear too (more good news!). Our next round of tests are in mid October when we go back to listen to the heart beat and they steal more of my blood!

Stay tuned for more exciting news!

Little Baby Marangon

Well the big news of the day is that Dani is pregnant. Although not big news to us as we have known for a few months. She is 3 months along and everything is going well so far. She had her second ultrasound today for her 3 month checkup and we were able to get some photos. Pretty cool that we had them zoom in on one to see the hand bones. Dani wasnt too happy having to chug a ton of water before and after the ultrasound but she was a big girl and did it anyway. Listening to the heart beat of the baby during the ultrasound is pretty amazing. We actually listened to the heart beat the first time (at 2 months) when the little guy was only 2cm long (i am assuming its a boy because i want a boy but we wont know the sex until the end of October!) .

Picture at 2 months

Dani had a good first trimester and didnt really have morning sickness but was just very tired for a lot of it. Dani thought we would take a while to get pregnant as statistically it usually does take a while. Fortunately for us, we got pregnant first time we tried! I joked with Dani straight after, that she was pregnant and it would be a boy. In fact for about a week after, i greeted her with "first time and a boy" in a fantastic announcer type voice, which i guess got a little annoying for her seeing as we had to wait a week till she could take the pregnancy test. Or just the fact that it was annoying?!


In any event we are very excited and have a lot to do now to get ready. We wanted to share our news (and pics) with all of you.

So long to summer!

That's it, it's over! We have enjoyed our last two weeks of not working and now must return to the world of 9-5 (well it is really 8-3). While we haven't exactly been sitting by the pool getting drunk, we have enjoyed the end of our summer. Chris has been very busy attending 4 days of new teacher meetings, i went to a 3 day reading workshop, chris has been visiting the schools he'll be at and getting all his supplies together, i have been unpacking my classroom after having to move rooms, and chris has been super busy planning for the first few weeks of school! We managed to squeeze in some other stuff and have been able to get a few things done around the house, sleep in a little, and eat way too much junk food!!

While we had a great summer, as we report for our "welcome back to school" meetings tomorrow, we will be gazing out the window wishing for just one more week of summer!!! And i'm sure everyone else will be too! :o)