We had an ultrasound yesterday to try and see about how big Harrison is just to make sure he's not so big that he needs to make an early entrance. There's potential that he's going to be a pretty good size baby, but nothing scary.
Overall they estimated him to be about 7 pounds. Tomorrow will mark three weeks to go and babies usually gain about half a pound a week, so if the estimate is right, he may end up between 8 and 9 pounds but there's a +/- 2 pound window on the estimate. They may be right on or he may be as little as 5 pounds. The measurements they took make me think he's closer to that 7 pound mark though.
His head measured right on with where he's at: 36 weeks and 5 days. His abdomen measured way ahead of that though. She measured it twice because the first time she came up with over 40 weeks. The second time she got about 38 and a half, so still big, but not so far out as to be worried. Finally his leg measure a few days over 37 weeks. Who knows exactly what all that means, but just looking at the numbers, they all kind of average out to about a week ahead of where we're at. I doubt that means he's going to come a week early but who knows?
DeAnne is starting to get fairly uncomfortable. We've been so thankful just to be pregnant and to have this blessing that she's really tried this whole time to not complain about anything. The past few days have been testing her resolve on that though. She's not getting much sleep, she's having a hard time moving around and getting up off anything she sits or lays on and she's retaining enough fluid that her hands are swelling and hurting. Harrison also moved yesterday afternoon and ended up pushing on her back in a way that made her back start hurting. While she tells me all this stuff, she's been good not to really complain about it. She has started talking to him trying to coax him to come on out though.
So we're getting closer. 3 weeks and a day left. No plans for the weekend. With the recent rain we've gotten, the yard has actually grown a little, so I'll be cutting grass Saturday morning. Other than that, it should be a pretty low-key weekend. Probably going to be that way from here on out.
Have a good weekend.
--Paul
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
24 Days
We had a pretty nice weekend. Friday, DeAnne had to take the car over to Enterprise to get a leaking seal replaced so she spent most of the evening in Kinston with her mom. This gave me the chance to do something that I haven't really done much of lately: play video games. I don't know how much time I'll have after the baby comes, so it was nice to get to play some.
Mom and Sid came down on Saturday and took us out to lunch. It was good to see them both and spend some time with them before Harrison arrived. We had to go back to Enterprise to pick the car up that afternoon so on the way back we stopped and ate dinner with DeAnne's mom and Wayne.
Then finally, Sunday was the usual with church and just being lazy around the house. We did watch a movie called "The Legend of the Guardians" that was pretty awesome. It's an animated movie about owl warriors. It really seemed like something that would be from my childhood and the way it was scripted and the way the story moved felt like the old animated movies that I loved as a kid. I thought it was great and DeAnne liked it, so it must not have been too terrible. Worth a watch.
24 days to go.
--Paul
Mom and Sid came down on Saturday and took us out to lunch. It was good to see them both and spend some time with them before Harrison arrived. We had to go back to Enterprise to pick the car up that afternoon so on the way back we stopped and ate dinner with DeAnne's mom and Wayne.
Then finally, Sunday was the usual with church and just being lazy around the house. We did watch a movie called "The Legend of the Guardians" that was pretty awesome. It's an animated movie about owl warriors. It really seemed like something that would be from my childhood and the way it was scripted and the way the story moved felt like the old animated movies that I loved as a kid. I thought it was great and DeAnne liked it, so it must not have been too terrible. Worth a watch.
24 days to go.
--Paul
Thursday, June 23, 2011
On and On
DeAnne continues to progress along. The doctor said everything looks good even though she's beginning to swell some and is retaining more water than she had been. I can't really speak for her, but I know that I'm starting to fight with impatience. I know he'll come when he's ready and it's time, but I can't help but be ready to see the little guy. 29 days and counting. We're scheduled to tour the hospital and preregister today so that should be fun.
Everyone say goodbye to my little white car. I put a sign up at work with both the Sentras saying one of them had to go and the white one went first. I'm kind of sad to see it go. It's the car that took me to Troy and back when I moved up there. It's the car I drove up there and back nearly every weekend for a year to see DeAnne. It's the car we were supposed to drive away in at our wedding until I scratched the side up on Memaw's van that morning. There's a lot of memories in that car. I've had it for nearly 10 years but it's time to say goodbye. Plus it'll be really nice to get the refund from the insurance company.
Have a good weekend.
--Paul
Everyone say goodbye to my little white car. I put a sign up at work with both the Sentras saying one of them had to go and the white one went first. I'm kind of sad to see it go. It's the car that took me to Troy and back when I moved up there. It's the car I drove up there and back nearly every weekend for a year to see DeAnne. It's the car we were supposed to drive away in at our wedding until I scratched the side up on Memaw's van that morning. There's a lot of memories in that car. I've had it for nearly 10 years but it's time to say goodbye. Plus it'll be really nice to get the refund from the insurance company.
Have a good weekend.
--Paul
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Not Much To Say
We had a pretty laid back weekend. We just stayed in and watched T.V. and really just did a whole lot of nothing. It was pretty nice and it may be one of the last times we get to say that for a long while. I did finally get the grass cut Saturday. I got started as early as I could but it was after 11:00 before I finished and by then it was incredibly hot. With everything as dead as it is and as dry, I was pretty much covered head to toe in dust, dirt and grim. It was not pleasant.
Other than that, on Sunday we ate lunch in Kinston and then spent some time with my dad. Like I said, it was pretty laid back.
DeAnne's doing good. She's going to the doctor pretty much every week now. At the moment, she's going on Wednesdays. She'll be 35 and a half weeks this Wednesday. There's a little concern about the potential size of the baby. Last week at 34 and a half weeks, the doctor measured her stomach at 36 weeks. Right now it's a wait and see type thing but they've scheduled an ultrasound for Wednesday week to try and measure him and see if we can get an idea of what we're looking at.
See you Thursday.
--Paul
Other than that, on Sunday we ate lunch in Kinston and then spent some time with my dad. Like I said, it was pretty laid back.
DeAnne's doing good. She's going to the doctor pretty much every week now. At the moment, she's going on Wednesdays. She'll be 35 and a half weeks this Wednesday. There's a little concern about the potential size of the baby. Last week at 34 and a half weeks, the doctor measured her stomach at 36 weeks. Right now it's a wait and see type thing but they've scheduled an ultrasound for Wednesday week to try and measure him and see if we can get an idea of what we're looking at.
See you Thursday.
--Paul
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Looking Good
DeAnne will be 35 weeks tomorrow. After yesterday's appointment, it looks like we're to the point of going every week. Throughout the entire pregnancy, her stomach's always measured a week ahead. Yesterday it was measuring 36 weeks. So as a precaution, they scheduled us for a visit next week and an ultrasound the week after that, just to see if they could measure the baby and see how big he is. Everything's looking good, it's just all the signs are pointing to him being a hoss.
We're also getting closer on the nursery. I've got one more letter to hang up and then I've got a hook to hang behind the door for a height chart and after that, I think we're done. The only other thing we've got to do is get the car seat base into the car and pack the hospital bag and then we'll just be patiently waiting for him to decide it's time.
We're also getting closer on the nursery. I've got one more letter to hang up and then I've got a hook to hang behind the door for a height chart and after that, I think we're done. The only other thing we've got to do is get the car seat base into the car and pack the hospital bag and then we'll just be patiently waiting for him to decide it's time.
Yard work is finally on the horizon. It's so dry that even the bahiagrass is starting to look bad but at the same time, the yard just looks kind of ragged. At least if I cut it, it will be trimmed and dead instead of ragged and dead.
Other than that, it should be a fairly relaxed weekend. Have a good one.
--Paul
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Getting Closer All The Time
We had a great anniversary weekend.
Friday was filled with the excitement of Bryan and Adrienne having their baby, Jay. He was born around 8:00 that night after about 12 hours of his parents being at the hospital, so it was a stream of updates throughout the day.
We got to see Jay on Saturday. We stopped by the hospital on our way to Dothan and baby, mom and dad were all doing well. Saturday was a pretty productive day. We had just a few things to return that we had gotten duplicates of, so we took care of that, we picked up the nightstand from Our New Baby, hit Babies R Us to get the few things on the registry that we didn't get and then picked up a fan from Lowes for the nursery. There were a few other stops here and there but that was the major stuff. We celebrated our anniversary with dinner at Olive Garden and then hit Krispy Kreme on the way home since the sign was on.
Between services on Sunday I managed to get the curtain rods and the fan put up. We also bought some letters to hang over the crib and DeAnne got those painted like she wanted them. We grocery shopped, picked up some screws to hang some hooks on the wall and swung by to see Memaw and that was about it. There's still a lot of little things to do in the nursery, but we're getting close to being done with it. There's just a few more things to hang up and that's about it. It's getting closer and closer.
--Paul
Friday was filled with the excitement of Bryan and Adrienne having their baby, Jay. He was born around 8:00 that night after about 12 hours of his parents being at the hospital, so it was a stream of updates throughout the day.
We got to see Jay on Saturday. We stopped by the hospital on our way to Dothan and baby, mom and dad were all doing well. Saturday was a pretty productive day. We had just a few things to return that we had gotten duplicates of, so we took care of that, we picked up the nightstand from Our New Baby, hit Babies R Us to get the few things on the registry that we didn't get and then picked up a fan from Lowes for the nursery. There were a few other stops here and there but that was the major stuff. We celebrated our anniversary with dinner at Olive Garden and then hit Krispy Kreme on the way home since the sign was on.
Between services on Sunday I managed to get the curtain rods and the fan put up. We also bought some letters to hang over the crib and DeAnne got those painted like she wanted them. We grocery shopped, picked up some screws to hang some hooks on the wall and swung by to see Memaw and that was about it. There's still a lot of little things to do in the nursery, but we're getting close to being done with it. There's just a few more things to hang up and that's about it. It's getting closer and closer.
--Paul
Thursday, June 09, 2011
6 Years
Saturday marks mine and DeAnne's sixth wedding anniversary. I seems like we barely just started dating. I'm so blessed to have been able to meet such an incredible woman and now to be able to spend the rest of my life with her. I love you, DeAnne.
Some interesting things about our anniversary this year. With it being the sixth and counting leap year, this is the first year since we were married that our anniversary falls on Saturday. It's also been six years since the busiest hurricane season ever brought us the likes of Katrina and Wilma. The list of storm names cycles around every six years and they reuse names for anything other than major, memorable storms. So once again this year, there will be an "Arlene", the same name as the tropical storm that came through on our wedding day.
With Harrison just around the corner, we didn't really make any big plans. We're going to head over to Dothan on Saturday shop for the last few things we need for the nursery and then we're going to go to dinner at Mikata's.
Speaking of the nursery, a big thanks goes out to Sara and Sally who spent the last two days painting the nursery for us. They did a great job and kept me from having to worry about it, so I will be forever grateful of that.
And that's about it. Have a good weekend.
--Paul
Some interesting things about our anniversary this year. With it being the sixth and counting leap year, this is the first year since we were married that our anniversary falls on Saturday. It's also been six years since the busiest hurricane season ever brought us the likes of Katrina and Wilma. The list of storm names cycles around every six years and they reuse names for anything other than major, memorable storms. So once again this year, there will be an "Arlene", the same name as the tropical storm that came through on our wedding day.
With Harrison just around the corner, we didn't really make any big plans. We're going to head over to Dothan on Saturday shop for the last few things we need for the nursery and then we're going to go to dinner at Mikata's.
Speaking of the nursery, a big thanks goes out to Sara and Sally who spent the last two days painting the nursery for us. They did a great job and kept me from having to worry about it, so I will be forever grateful of that.
And that's about it. Have a good weekend.
--Paul
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
One Wild Day
Yesterday was pretty crazy. VBS started and things seemed to be going pretty well until DeAnne called me around 10:00. Each day they take pictures of the kids doing different things and then drop them into a slideshow that tells a story. The problem is that the software that runs the show only displays the show on the primary monitor. Our projection system is set up as a multi-monitor system with no way to really display the primary monitor to the projectors. In the end, we had to go up to the church yesterday afternoon and I set up a laptop to be a second computer on the projection system. It's not perfect and it messed up some of the settings on the main computer, but it works. I'll just have to deal with getting everything back to the way it's supposed to be after VBS is over with.
In the midst of all that, DeAnne's mom and sister decided that they were going to paint the nursery for us but that they had to run back to Navarre and get some of Sara's stuff so she could stay longer. To keep Liam on his routine, he spent the night with us. He's been pretty good. He didn't have a nap yesterday so he was a little ill last night, but he went down with no effort and is still asleep right now.
Finally, yesterday marked the start of both the annual E3 video game convention and Apple's annual developer conference. Apple showed off some really cool stuff for the next version of both the Mac OS and iOS. I was pretty impressed with what they've managed to accomplish. iOS 5 is going to be a pretty big stab at both Android and may be the nail in the coffin for Blackberry. They didn't announce any new hardware (iPhone 5), but the new iOS 5 is going to work on everything 3GS up, so hardware probably isn't a huge concern. They'll refresh it when they have something ready.
The only real news I read from E3 was the Xbox presentation. They're really pushing Kinect and it looks like it's going to be integrated into more and more games. If anything, Mass Effect 3 showed that even if it doesn't allow for motion control, there are small things like giving your AI controlled squad mates commands and selecting dialog options by actually saying them that will make games more immersive. They didn't talk about, or announce a new Xbox system though. This isn't a huge issue, but looking at the games they showed, it seems that the Xbox 360 has probably reached the extent of what it can do graphically. None of the sequels they showed looked any better than the previous games in those series. They're pushing Kinect as an upgrade to give the system more life, but you have to wonder if a new system with Kinect directly integrated and better hardware isn't a real need at this point.
Anyway, yesterday was crazy and now it's Tuesday. Hopefully it will be a little less crazy.
--Paul
In the midst of all that, DeAnne's mom and sister decided that they were going to paint the nursery for us but that they had to run back to Navarre and get some of Sara's stuff so she could stay longer. To keep Liam on his routine, he spent the night with us. He's been pretty good. He didn't have a nap yesterday so he was a little ill last night, but he went down with no effort and is still asleep right now.
Finally, yesterday marked the start of both the annual E3 video game convention and Apple's annual developer conference. Apple showed off some really cool stuff for the next version of both the Mac OS and iOS. I was pretty impressed with what they've managed to accomplish. iOS 5 is going to be a pretty big stab at both Android and may be the nail in the coffin for Blackberry. They didn't announce any new hardware (iPhone 5), but the new iOS 5 is going to work on everything 3GS up, so hardware probably isn't a huge concern. They'll refresh it when they have something ready.
The only real news I read from E3 was the Xbox presentation. They're really pushing Kinect and it looks like it's going to be integrated into more and more games. If anything, Mass Effect 3 showed that even if it doesn't allow for motion control, there are small things like giving your AI controlled squad mates commands and selecting dialog options by actually saying them that will make games more immersive. They didn't talk about, or announce a new Xbox system though. This isn't a huge issue, but looking at the games they showed, it seems that the Xbox 360 has probably reached the extent of what it can do graphically. None of the sequels they showed looked any better than the previous games in those series. They're pushing Kinect as an upgrade to give the system more life, but you have to wonder if a new system with Kinect directly integrated and better hardware isn't a real need at this point.
Anyway, yesterday was crazy and now it's Tuesday. Hopefully it will be a little less crazy.
--Paul
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Hot
The heat has been incredible this week and it looks like it's going to be that way for a while to come. At this point, my yard is so fried I think I may just take the weed-eater and knock down the bahia and be done with it. Nothing else is really even close to growing.
There's not really much going on. We've kind of entered the calm before the storm. DeAnne has one last shower in Opp this weekend and after that, we'll just be trying to get everything organized and ready to go for Harrison's arrival. We're excited. DeAnne's doing good though. She developed a sinus infection this week, but that's nothing that some antibiotics can't take care of. Other than that, it's been a really good pregnancy and she really hasn't had anything to complain about. We're just so excited that God's blessed us with a child, I don't think she would complain even if something was bothering her. This is just too great a miracle and too great a blessing to make it about us. We want Harrison's birth to point to the Lord and we pray that it shows others what He has done for us.
So that's about it. DeAnne's been working on getting her lesson plans ready to go for next year but other than that, she's been enjoying her summer. It's business as usual at PowerSouth, and here at home, we're just patiently waiting. Have a good weekend.
--Paul
There's not really much going on. We've kind of entered the calm before the storm. DeAnne has one last shower in Opp this weekend and after that, we'll just be trying to get everything organized and ready to go for Harrison's arrival. We're excited. DeAnne's doing good though. She developed a sinus infection this week, but that's nothing that some antibiotics can't take care of. Other than that, it's been a really good pregnancy and she really hasn't had anything to complain about. We're just so excited that God's blessed us with a child, I don't think she would complain even if something was bothering her. This is just too great a miracle and too great a blessing to make it about us. We want Harrison's birth to point to the Lord and we pray that it shows others what He has done for us.
So that's about it. DeAnne's been working on getting her lesson plans ready to go for next year but other than that, she's been enjoying her summer. It's business as usual at PowerSouth, and here at home, we're just patiently waiting. Have a good weekend.
--Paul
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