In the mood for sharing..

Although they aren't my children I will proudly display these images for all to see. Really are too adorable to keep to myself....

As promised....

So I finally made the trek to Walgreens this evening ( after we finally made it home) to put all of the decent ultrasounds pictures on to CD and then post them. I hope that the quality transfers well, they are some pretty good pictures. The ones that aren't creepy anyway. The first three are from approx. 10 weeks gestation, baby was pretty tiny and alien-looking.

The next few are from earlier this week , 15wks. It's hard to tell but in one of the pictures the baby is actually sucking on it's hand, which was really adorable but very hard to capture because boy or girl it's rather ashamed of this apparently filthy habit already. Also note worthy in the other close up of the head, the brain is actually visible. Nice huh?! Of course it is also important to tell you that at this point the baby is drinking in the amniotic fluid, urinating into it and then drinking some more. Delicious!

As Sam was saying in an earlier post, we spent a long time that day trying to determine the sex of baby and we left with nothing but uncertainty. These are the best shots we got that day, one indicating male, the other female. Impossible child already. The entire time we were working on this the baby kept it's legs crossed and for the nanosecond it forgot and uncrossed them, the hand went immediately down there. Modest young lady or extremely curious boy?? We'll see what you think.....

Anyway, whenever we get the camera back from Dad, I might actually take a picture of myself to show documentation of actual weight gain. My grandfather called tonight wondering "how my pregnancy was going," really he just wanted to know if I was getting fat or not. I gave him the gem that I am down to where pair of blue jeans that I can barely button and have to immediately following consumption of food- no matter how much- unbutton them so I can breath. His response was that I wear my jeans too tightly and always looked like I was poured into them anyway. Inappropriate? Not to tell his shameful granddaughter that doesn't vote.

Hope you enjoy the pictures! More to come, I love having free use of Ultrasound equipment at work.

Flyfishing, Italian, and Hayti

Today was a real adventurous day. After going to a fly tying instruction with my father in law, i had the need to peruse fishing equipment and prepare for the up coming year. I also thought getting food at Olive Garden just down the road from the Bass Pro Shops in Memphis would be excellent. Katie agreed. After a quick bite at San Fran Bread (where i had the best tomato soup of my life) we headed to memphis. We watched he fish in the shop, i found a new flyrod to replace the one that snapped last year, and we continued to Olive garden. I got the Tour of Italy (substituted chicken parmesan for eggplant pamesan), the eggplant and lasagna was fabulous. Katie got ravioli that was delicious apparently too. We didnt eat much as we filled on salad and bread sticks....hello dinner! The plan after this was to come home take care of Bailey and go see Juno. But in came the side track. On our way home i talked on the cell the folks and a friend called. Katie read in her book and the next thing i know: "shouldnt we be in jonesboro by now?" The next sign says "Caruthersville" straight ahead. My initial response was that the road we should be on shouldnt have a caruthersville sign on it, atleast i didntremember one. Next we find ourselves in Hayti. Where is Hayti? Missouri. Yes we had driven off course, forgot to make the most important turn home. We obvious made it home by a few familiar signs and 50 minutes out of our way. So much for the movie. Another Day, but hey, We got to see Kennett Missouri, came home with pasta, and a fly rod.

Daily Update according to Sam with special correspondence by Katie

So for everyone out ther who is interested, my wife has this infatuation with my dress socks. She wears them daily it seems. Yes i have noticed that occaisionally she has them on, but i have never paid that close attention to it. I have noticed recently that it seems that just never can find my socks. Last night, noticing that i had no matching pairs i prepared for laundry but discovered one pair of my lesser liked black socks. I secured these into the "sock" drawer only to find them missing this morning. Luckily for me after sneakily wearing white socks with my professional attire, i had the laundry room busy and was able to have dress socks for the afternoon/evening. I did find my missing socks on my wife at lunch. She offerred to switch. If thats not love i dont know what is.
After the resolution of the missing socks, we did ultrasound the baby- no verdict yet. Polls will remain open. It currently is a tight race between boy and girl. The ultrasound did not show anything resembling kittens, and couldnt appreciate the japanese look but im thinking that it is a dark horse at this point. Katie corresponded that i correctly used the phrase "dark horse"; Bailey was without comment.

The Quest For Tacos

I obliged to the pregnant desires and found myself tracking my way to the delightful Kroger for taco supplies. The plus tonight was that i did remember the elusive Kroger card. Why i use the word 'elusive' is another story. As i walked into the produce and vegetable section, i came behind another gentleman who kept buying the same items i was, shredded lettuce and tomatoes. Coincidence? Did he have a pregnant wife with similar desires? I proceeded to the meat without difficulty- Angus beef, yummy. Then i hit a snag on the specialty isle. There were thousands of people there in my way, well perhaps only 5-10. With much trial to my patience, i obtained the shells and the seasoning. I then proceeded to grab English Tea (not on the list) and then got sour cream, cheese, and the pot pies (also request). I checked out and discovered my cost was $20. subtract $4 for the pot pies and $2 for the tea, that leaves $14 dollars for 12 homemade tacos. I believe that taco's at Taco Bell do run under $1 a piece- 99 cents according to Katie. I feel too lazy to figure out tax- Ill leave that to Kristin. Then I had to make the tacos which were very delicious and much appreciated by the requestee. Taco Bell vs. Homemade. I would never imagined it would be more expensive for homemade. Yes it is for #12, but WE are pregnant. Now we have consumed 10 between the two of us, we are fat and happy. The quest for Tacos was successful, but i began this quest at 5:30, and finished at 7:00. Taco bell approx. 30 minutes for purchase and consumption.

After the tacos i was delighted to hear the quotes of the day.
"the car is not the only place to get affectionate"
Emily Gilmore
"you could always go kielbasa because thats a bigboy sausage"
Sookie

Alright already...

It was painfully brought to me attention today that it has been 17 days since my last post, apparently a monthly post is not acceptable. Everything is go well with our little family though. Most of our days are filled with work and sleep..we both actually felt the need to go to bed at 6:30 last night, that's right Saturday night. We are such the young and happening couple.
We went for our doctor's appointment on Friday, everything seems to be going well. We did have to spend several minutes convincing this woman that I am not actually under my starting weight. I had a lot of stuff in my pockets that day, the dangers of wearing scrubs. Anyway I have to gain two more pounds before she will get off my back about it! We did sneak an ultrasound the night before at AHEC ( the clinic I work in), it was so adorable!! I still can't get over the weirdness of seeing some alien like creature moving around inside of you that you can't feel. At one point we caught a glimpse of the baby leaning back and sucking on "it's" hand, as soon as we started giggling the baby turned out and looked as if it was trying to get as far away from us as possible. Unfortunately, we were unable to get a glimpse of anything else....the sex is still unknown. I am sadly less determined that the baby is a girl. Initially I felt an incredible surge of hormones telling me that it was definetly a girl, but now I'm undecided. Though all this week I've been freaking out about 13 years from now when the daughter that I'm destined to have wants to go to her first little dance or on a little well chaperoned date, she is going to want to put on make up and more than likely Sam's not going to be able to help at all. That means that it will fall on me, I have had several years to learn how to apply make up but unfortunately am ridiculously bad at it. My poor, could be daughter is going to end up looking like a hag or a dinosaur. Very bad.....

Hey all! I am sorry that I tricked you in to thinking there would be regular posting from me when you received an invitation to this blog. As Sam said I spent a great deal of time and effort on the grand initial post updating everyone on the happenings since the wedding. I even included pictures from our honeymoon and a delightful tale letting everyone know I am pregnant. Then it all got lost with a click of a button and I was so upset and frustrated with the whole thing at that point I decided I would wait until the next day to post, and that quickly turned into days..maybe weeks before anything was posted. I'm sorry, I've been extremely tired as of late...have I mentioned the pregnancy? Anyway, I will try to post on a more regular basis from now on.

Everything is going these days. Sam's practice is doing well with First Care. They finally opened the new clinic that he will be working out of. He was really excited about picking out the great corner office and moving all his medical books down there. Everything was wonderful..until one night we had to stop by to pick up his space heater and realized that he had gone to work all week at Dr. Sam Parker's office. They got his name wrong on the front door to the clinic. Not even just spelled incorrectly with transposed letters but a completely different name. Even now he doesn't pay attention to see if they have it fixed. I"m sure he'll find lots of little things over the next few months that will have to be corrected or what not, but he's having a lot of fun setting things up.
Work for me is going well also, althought everyday I'm reminded that some people are just crazy while others just want you to think that they are. I'm not sure which is worse. I'm about 3 months pregnant ( Honeymoon baby) and extremely hormonal. That's not going over to well at work right now, because I've found that my patience for whining pregnant women is dwindling and I'm not able to pretend it's not very well. Other than that I find myself either crying over silly things, like The National Anthem or having insane dreams about having the doctor repeat an ultrasound and finding 1 baby and 3 kittens. Life is fun.
It's now officially past my bed time - sad that it's only 9:30. I will try to post again soon.

My first Post!!!

So for all those interested, Katie had this big first post typed and then she attempted to submit it but for some reason it ended up being lost. With obvious frustration she decided to call it an evening and didn't try to retype and resubmit it. I have taken this opportunity to submit the first post of our blog. Yeah for me!
Anyways, things are going well. I just moved into my new office, i am currently there typing this masterpiece (work is slow today). Katie got me xm radio for christmas and i am loving it. I figured out how to stream online for free- although you cant stream the sports channels without paying. Im kinda bummed about that but still, i got great music stations streaming right now! That is awesome.
For those that dont know, Katie is feeling much better these days, throwing up a lot less. I spend my time finding foods that she is craving and not throwing up. So those that dont know, you can guess what that means!
Currently the temperature here is Too Cold. I think i am ready for the summer, or atleast the spring.
Also if you havent seen Stardust, i definitely recommend it.