Time to catch up @ 37.

Good Morning!

Hello, this is Scott.  Sorry it's been so long.  There hasn't been much baby-info to relate and we've been freaky-busy doing home improvements and other distracting things.

Here we are at thirty-seven weeks.  Pretty much full-term!  The weekly doctor visits have begun.  Due date is still estimated for Thanksgiving, November 22nd, 2012.

The Land-of-the-Lost-Raft-Ride-of-Pregnancy has been very smooth, so far.  No-Name Baby size is 49.5 percentile.  No-Name Baby heart rate is ideal.  DeeDee's blood pressure has spiked at times but overall has been in the target range.  No-Name Baby is currently head-down.  She moves quite a bit throughout the day.  No-Name Baby has no trouble filling her kick-count quotas.

We own an older home (built in 1969).  It was not in the greatest shape when purchased in 2003.  We've performed a few improvements.  One of the big things we've been putting off is new carpets.  It's all pretty old and nasty.  We priced new carpet and even got a whole-house measure.  Pretty steep price.  We decided to re-carpet just the living room and tile the adjacent bath and laundry rooms.  (Those were the most-used, ickiest areas.)

We removed old carpet and pad, original psychedelic vinyl floor (laundry room), wood floor (bathroom), washer, dryer, toilet and cabinet sink.  Next, installed 180 square feet of ceramic tiles in the bathroom, laundry/garage door/back door areas.  Then, had the professionals install the carpet.  It all looks great!  Except now we have a bathroom with no toilet or sink.  Still shopping for replacements.  There are plenty of finishing touches, too, but you get what you get at this point.

On Sunday, October 28th, our friends and families gave us a FANTASTIC Star-Wars-themed Baby Shower.  It was amazing.  We're so thankful for everyone involved.

And as a related follow-up bit of relevant info: The news broke this week that Disney is buying Lucasfilm.  We are ecstatic!  Star Wars VII is expected to release in 2015.  This is a GREAT time to have a baby!

Monday, October 29th, I woke up with a cold.  Just a sore throat at first, but it has progressed daily.  Drugged myself up and went to work Monday and Tuesday, stayed home Wednesday, went back Thursday.  I'm writing this at 2:00am Friday morning because I woke up nauseous.  Not sure if I'll make it back to work today.  Ideally, need to save the time-off for when No-Name Baby gets here.

That's it for now.  Feel free to ask questions and make comments.  DeeDee and I are both fairly scatterbrained at the moment.  Thanks for checking in!

The crazy old vinyl flooring in the laundry room (plays "Taps").

Beautiful, perfect cake (Thanks, Brandi)!