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Here are some ultrasound pictures from Tuesday. Our next little one will be a girl!! We are super excited (and admittedly kind of scared), but happy none the less. Little Sean has been talking about getting a little sister when we ask him, and he says it’s name will be “baby boy.” Hmm…guess we’ll have to work on that one.

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We’ve been hard at work lately trying to transform the rooms on the 2nd floor. We had a really fun time making Sean’s room a big boy room a few weeks ago. It’s Thomas land now, and he loves it. He finally has toys in there now, and really loves laying on his floor playing with all his toys. He’s even good at cleaning up!

Of course, there’s some pictures of his favorite thing…running around in his underpants. These were too cute not to post!

I spent the day today swapping the office/guest room and the baby room. We were orginally going to put the baby in the office, but Paul suggested making the guest room into the baby room. It’s a little bigger than the office, and the office is the only room with a cable/internet hookup upstairs, so we’d have to do some major changes to re-run those wires. I put all the baby furniture in the room today and it looks great. It really is making the fact that a new baby is on the way even more real! Only 2 more weeks, then we can pick out bedding, decorations, etc, for either a baby boy or girl!! Sean doesn’t like the room; he says the baby cant’ sleep in his crib or use his chair.

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So I was just telling Sean that we were going to go watch the Memorial Day parade in a few minutes, and that there would be kids, firetrucks, police trucks, soldiers, etc etc and that they would throw some candy at us and he would get to keep the candy. Of course, I thought he would be super excited about the candy part, but his reply was “I don’t need candy from the policeman, I have candy at home.” Classic.

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As you can probably tell, we’re trying to post a little more often on here…we’ve gotten terrible about it. We bought Sean a big boy bed awhile back, but havent’ pushed him sleeping in it. Yesterday he wanted me to set it up, so we did. He slept in it last night perfectly! He is so proud of himself and his ‘friends’ that slept in it with him (stuffed animals). We plan to dismantle the crib and remove it from his room today. Hopefully he’ll be ok with sleeping in his bed from now on!!

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Our sonogram date is June 29th. We are very excited to find out if this little baby is a boy or girl! Sean always says that it’s a baby boy, but some of us are feeling the girl vibes pretty strong! Any bets?? Ours are:

Emily – boy
Paul – girl
Lil Sean -boy

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Sean wiped out rounding a corner in our house and split his lip wide open

Poor guy.

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click the pics to go to the gallery.

Thanks to Alli and Stephen and Alli for sending Sean the train set! It was Stephen’s when he was a boy and Sean LOVES it. He named the engine Thomas and it went to dinner, the mattress store, and to bed with him

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Emily and I finally got our taxes done this past weekend and now we are springing for a temprapedic mattress. We’ve slept on a few of those foam mattresses (on a cruise and at the local Episcopal diocese camp) before and really liked them. Now that Emily is pregnant, we need something more comfortable for her (and me?) to sleep on. Our current mattress is only 5 or 6 years old but it is super uncomfortable. We are getting it delivered on Saturday and I (we) are SO looking forward to it.
I’ve picked up three new projects for the summer. I am determined to get the garden we started last summer finished to some point – meaning its not some walled of dirt lot that its been:) The second project is to restore the grass in a number of spots in the yard that have become barren due to shade or poor soil. The third…and my most ambitious…is a truck. When I was at Murray State, my folks got me an 87 Mitsubishi Montero 2 door – the sport model (top o the line). We bought it from a guy on base from the “Lemon lot”. It was my first car I didn’t have to share and I loved it. I met Emily when I had the truck, installed my first stereo thanks to Kurt, and many other fond memories. So I bought another. I’ve scoured the net for years to find one…one that wasn’t way overpriced that is.
The problem with an 80′s truck is rust and carburetors. Both of which this truck has problems with. I am dealing with the rust with a wire brush, evap-o-rust, primer and other fun stuff, but I’ve only ever worked on fuel injected cars so this is new to me. I’m in no hurry – but next winter would be nice Emily is a very patient wife…because I bought a second one for dirt cheap – it is a rust bucket but came with a boat load of parts and extras that I can use to rebuild my project truck.
Sean has been potty training for a number of weeks now and its going slowly. Some weeks he is spot on and we think things are turning around, then the terrible twos turn their head and he fights tooth and nail. He’ll learn eventually and we are proud of everything else he does.
Lots of stuff coming up in the next couple months so I’ll make sure to keep everyone updated!
–pc

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So we are around 8.5 weeks pregnant (well, its mostly Emily, not really ‘we’). Due date is late November, I think the 19th. Emily can correct me (she’s good at that) if I am wrong
The morning sickness seems to be strong this time around, which makes us think its probably going to be a girl. No ‘ralphing’ or anything, Emily just described it as a constant hangover. Not my idea of a good time!
The next sonogram will be sometime in July and we should find the baby’s sex then.

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So its pretty obvious that Emily and I have been very lazy when it comes to our website.  We’ve both been busy with our jobs and life in general.  I guess the other reason you don’t see too many posts on here is because of Facebook.  Facebook has essentially ruined many of the blogs I used to visit.

Its so much easier to make the quick “status” update on there and post a few pics as opposed to all the back end stuff required to update this site.  Its interesting too see how the internet has gone from websites like Geocities in the 90’s (they offered free websites to anyone that wanted one), then the early 200’s brought us people wanting their own sites (like this one!) to the modern day where its just easier to post on social media sites like Facebook and the (on its way out) Myspace.

We won’t be abandoning this site of course – we’ll probably just not be posting to it as much as we did in the last few years.  We recently discovered that being a parent keeps you super busy!  Whoada thunk it?  We do have quite a few photos to post to the gallery to catch up on recent events.

Did you know that Sean turned two back in Feb?  YUP!  Our lil boy is a BIG boy.  We had a GREAT birthday weekend.  BIG sean flew in from Seattle and Megan and Mom came into town from St. Louis for the party.  Sean had a great time before his party going to the hotel pool with mom and big Sean (that kid loves to swim!).  We were hoping Aunt Karen and Uncle ted would make it, but that didn’t work out.  We hope to have them visit soon

Sean’s party was great and emily made an AWESOME Thomas the Tank Engine cake.  We were worried that he wouldn’t want her to cut into it, but everything worked out

Hmmm…what else?  We carpeted the third floor and bought a super comfy Serta futon to go up there.  I think its going to become our default guest room since our current one has two twin beds which doesn’t work out great for most visitors.

We had Emily’s sister Cate visit over her sprint break.  It was the same week as Emily’s spring break so Emily put her to work.  Cate had never painted before (whhhaaaat??) so she and Emily repainted our office while she was here. 

Sean is currently potty training.  Holy SMOKES that is one of the most stressful things I have ever done in my LIFE!  (our life..I’m married ).  Sean is starting to warm up to it after a few weeks.  I think in a couple of weeks we will pretty pretty solid on it.  I’ll tell you – this kid is SMART.  He figured out that if he holds everything until bedtime he can “let go” in his pullups once he is in bed and then we have to change him etc. He also figured out that warm bath water “encourages” him to go, so he started hating baths. TSEC ( his day care) has done a good job coaching us on all of this so we are making progress.

Spring is coming so that means yard work, playing outside for Sean, etc.  I’m looking at picking up a new car-toy to tinker on – thats another blog post in itself though.  Hope this was a good catch-up for everyone.  Comments are welcome!

–pc

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