I'm bumpin' out! I've got a lot to say!

Here's a photo of SJC from New Year's Day, approximately 24 weeks, apologies for missing last week:


Here's SJC on New Year's Eve with 2 pregnant friends. We went to one of their houses for dinner (cheese and chocolate fondue, yum!) and managed to stay up(!) till midnight by playing Totally 80's trivial pursuit. We agreed that if we were up next year at midnight, it would probably not be because we chose to be.

Christmas with the family

Here are some pictures from Christmas in upstate, NY, first at SJC's parents' house, and then at MEG's mom's house.

The baby is already getting gifts

Some of us wish it was 1986

Mary and Matt with two (Lucy and Maggie)
of the four furry friends at 11 Bethwood Christmas

Gingerbread house built by SJC, MEG, and Mom,
later eaten by Gracie when we weren't looking

The full 60 photo album (warning, lots of bad pictures!) is available here:

Christmas 2007

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Christmas at 9818!

Here are some pictures of our house all decorated for Christmas:

An annual shot I require of SJC

Sarah gets creative with low lighting

9818 from the front

Last year with just two stockings!

Baby Bump Photos #10 and #11

Sorry for the lack of posts. Sarah is getting huge. Here's photo #11, just taken tonight:




And here's photo #10, taken last week:

Fun with pregnancy symptoms at work...

So apparently one symptom of pregnancy is dizziness. I've read this and every once in a while I've gotten up quickly and felt a little light-headed...until today.

So picture this: today I'm teaching my first period class (about 7:45 am) and all of a sudden I start to feel a little dizzy. I figure everything will be okay if I just take a seat on the stool I have in the front of the room and keep going over the warm up problem. Then I realize it's not getting better - it's getting worse. The room is becoming a little blurry and I'm no longer really following our discussion. Great, now I have to tell the kids. I mention that I don't feel very good and maybe one person could pass out the lab, everyone else could read it over, oh, and maybe someone could get the nurse. I move from the stool to my big desk chair & put my head down. Now keep in mind that the students just found out I was pregnant - at this point I can't really tell what is going on, but I think I hear the following quotes, "I think she's gone!" "I think she's having the baby!" "Does this mean science class is over?"

Fortunately, sitting with my head down made me feel a lot better and the nurse did come in right after that. I recovered, but didn't feel quite right for the next few periods. Consequently, I taught from my big rolling desk chair - which was interesting. Fortunately the lab we did today only involved potatoes and salt and nothing too dangerous.

Half-way to baby!

According to the April 21st due date, today is officially the half-way point of the pregnancy: 20 weeks!

Baby Bump Photos #8 and #9

Here's today, while we were getting out our Christmas decorations:


And here's last weekend: