So I just happened to look at our countdown timer just now, and saw that it said twenty days and some odd hours and minutes. Wow. It really is coming up soon. In 20 to 27 days, I will be sitting at Christ Hospital with my notebook in my lap, trying to console my wonderful wife who is going through labor. I’ve watched the TV shows, the videos, talked to friends – and this is certainly why guys don’t go thru labor. Its a woman thing and we guys couldn’t deal with it.
Twenty days – I will have a son, I will be (hopefully) moved into my new house, will have family and friends all around us, and experiencing life from a whole new meaning. I’m very much looking forward to the next 30 days, as it ought to be very interesting!!
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One of the gifts we got for Emily’s shower was made by my sister, Megan. Megan has taken up knitting and, by damn, she is good at it! The photo below doesn’t really show the detail of the stitches (is that what you call it in knitting?) but its pretty amazing how the turned out! She is really good at this stuff!
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Right now I have instant messenger accounts on ICQ, Yahoo!, AIM/AOL, GoogleTalk, and my work’s Car-Part Messenger. I’ve pretty much stopped using my Yahoo accounts because I was getting spammed; I don’t really like AOL – log into yoru account in two places? get spammed by AOL’s server to let you know – with no way of turning it off. ICQ is also bad with spam, even though my account number is one of the earliest ones of anyone I know – only six digits long, as I signed up back in 1996 or 1997. I currently use Trillian to manage the accounts. Aside from spam and annoying messages, its kind of silly for me to have all these messengers beacause of the handful of people i talk, most of them have two or more IM accounts in my list. Kind of redundant.
So, first I am going to stop using Yahoo and AOL. If you have paulhcahill in your yahoo! list…it was nice knowing you. If you have an ICQ account and have PC (541449) in your list, you may see me around a bit longer, but I will likely phase that one out too.
Google Talk is free and works very well – it saves your history online (as an option), and has NO spam. Plus it is compatible with AOL’s IM and i get zero spam on it. It’s also compatible with my Car-Part Messaging IM account. Get it!
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Paul’s dad, Lary, has been working on a handmade toy box for Little Sean. He finished it and Narni brought it down this weekend to my shower (hope to have those pictures posted soon). It turned out really great, and got rave reviews at the shower! No one could believe that it was handmade. We put it in Sean’s room when we got home and filled it with all his big toys that he’s gotten so far. It fits perfectly in the spot we measured for it. The green feet are great, especially with the bright red shiny nails! Thanks again Lary, we love it!
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My little (well, not so much anymore) sister Cate turned 20 today! Geez, I feel OLD. 🙂 Hope you have a great one Cate! See you soon!
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Do’s and don’ts with babies
(Big) Sean passed this link on to me. I guess he is concerned that maybe I won’t be educated enough when (little) Sean comes into our family. Here is an example:
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Congratulations to Jeremiah and Kim on the birth of their son Elijah! He was born yesterday at 5:02am, weighing 7lbs 6oz. He’s so cute and has a FULL head of red hair! (He’s takes after his Auntie Emily!) 🙂
Click here to see pictures of him.
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For New Years, Paul and I hung out with Brian and Ashley. We went to dinner then went back to their house and played games through the ball drop (I know, I know, we’re a bunch of party animals!). Anyway, my mom bought the new “credit card” Monopoly game, so we decided to tried it out. We set it up, and didn’t even get two rounds finished before we quit. There’s just something wrong with not having money, not hassling the banker, not talking barely at all during the game, etc. Oh well. Interesting idea, would work well if you were trying to play while you had other distractions around you like a movie playing, but overall, we’ll pass and stick to the old school way of playing. Guess you can’t get away from what you grew up with!
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Brian and Ashley gave Little Sean a very cute airplane outfit for Christmas. It has little airplanes and pilots on it. I personally think that Brian and the pilot on the outfit look pretty darn similar. What do you think? 🙂
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I know I know, I should have posted this a few days ago, but I’ve been sick! 🙂
Like I mentioned earlier, Emily and I made the trek to St. Louis to visit my parents for Thanksgiving. Sean was also in town from Seattle. Wednesday night, my sister Megan and I stayed up sharing a bottle of Chateau Ste. Michelle cabernet and talking until 3:30am (430 my time!). We rarely get to do that, so it was very cool. Thursday was Turkey Day! Man I love thanksgiving…I think we should have it at least twice a year! Although, I’m sure there are a number of turkeys out there who disagree with me. Mom cooked and awesome meal for us and Emily made the famous Marshall Rolls. Aunt Karen, Uncle Ted, and Scott made it down from west St. Louis as well and it was really nice seeing them.
Sean, Manders (friend of ours and Megan’s from high school), and myself then made our trip to the movie theatre to catch our annual bad-movie-on-turkey-day which started back in the day with my selection of “Paycheck” starring Matt Damon. Sean’s selection this year was Hitman. HOO BOY was it rotten. We got to the theatre about 15 or 20 minutes late so we missed the beginning of the movie ( **cue Office Space “I wouldn’t say I was missing it, Bob…” ***). The acting was lousy, the female character in the movie probably only got the role cause she showed her boobs. What can you expect from a movie produced by Vin Diesel? But I digress…
The rest of the week was pretty uneventful – we went out to an irish pub in Belleville, IL that was nice, hung out at a local bar in O’Fallon, had an awesome hamburger at Denny’s (eggs and hashbrowns on a burger! YUM!), and hung around the house. Saturday we did a family trip to Pierre Marquette State Park to lunch on their lodge’s famous fried chicken and take some family photos.
While we were home for thanksgiving Mom and Dad presented us with some new gifts for Little Sean. As we’ve mentioned before, my dad is *very* handy in wood working. When Sean and I were born, he made us a cradle that was also used for my sister when she was born. Well, now we have a cradle of our own:
Paul’s mom has also recently dusted off her knitting needles and made a fun little hat for Little Sean:
Can’t wait to have him try them both out (only three more months to go!!). Here are some highlight photos from the trip:
me showing my approval of the baby bump:
My parents – dad looks great! (mom too!)
I’ll post some more from my dad’s set of photos after I process the huge DSLR snapshots from his Nikon D80 🙂
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