Two Face

Exhibit A.

A sweet little puppy waiting patiently for Joe to come back to the car.

Exhibit B.

A howling whining nightmare who has lost all her senses.

"I can't wait any lonnngggerrrr Joe!!!!" "I misssss yououuuuu!!!"

House of Responsibility*

It's been quite awhile since I posted anything I am ashamed to say. But I have been busy keeping a secret for a veryyyy long time! And nothing has been more exciting than my secret and thus nothing has been blog worthy! I am very happy to finally be able to say that I am pregnant!

As exciting as this is for us, it's also super scary and happened a lot faster than we anticipated. Which I realize is a huge blessing and we are so thankful that everything has gone very smoothly so far. I think we walked around in a state of shock for a few weeks just because it happened so quickly. We both thought we would have more time to adjust to the notion of it happening. But God saw fit for it to happen in His time and His way and now we are eagerly anticipating getting to meet this new life! And telling people has made it a lot more real!

I am 14 weeks tomorrow, which puts my due date at November 17th which is exactly one week before Thanksgiving. Our 8th anniversary is Nov. 14th so that will be a busy week for us!
I am hoping that this blog will be an easy way of documenting things over the next few months. I know you all might not want to know all the details, but one day I might be able to print this into a blog book and have some memories of this time.

Here is the page my doctor got while we were working together in the OR. I don't know why I did this or why I remember it so clearly, but I looked up at the clock right when he showed it to me and it was exactly 12:00.

I haven't had much nausea at all so far. For about 5 weeks I would get a little queasy if I was hungry and as soon as I ate it would go away. I wasn't overly tired either. Some days were harder than others especially at work, but I have had those days prepregnancy too! I have only actually thrown up once and it happened this week of all times when I am supposed to be past the 1st trimester sickness. Thank goodness I had some clean puppy poo bags in the car or else there would have been some grossed out people in the Hospital parking lot.

We told our parents at 8 weeks and showed them some pictures from our San Fransisco trip (which I am now realizing I haven't blogged about yet) and then put the picture of the above pager in as the last pic they saw. It was a lot of fun to tell them!

Here is a picture from our 9 week sonogram...a little fuzzy since I took the picture with my cell phone but you can see a head and little hand like he/she is saluting us! I had my second appointment today and got to hear the heartbeat for the first time with a doppler.. 140bpm and music to my ears! I still don't have a belly really and with the lack of pregnancy symptoms it's easy to forget that I am pregnant. Plus I still feel like I am duping people or something since I don't feel any different. But I am assured there is a baby in there!

9 weeks

So that's our secret! And I will close with a classic Joe quote in regards to this news.....

"We are on the baby train now, so we better get ready for the ride"!

*Kevin's nickname for our growing household of cat, puppy and soon to be baby

Who Me?

This is Roxie's home when she needs to nap, relax, or get away from her sister Cosby. The clock is to make her think she can still hear her brothers and sisters hearts beating next to her while she's sleeping. Notice the floor to ceiling gate set up since apparently our puppy is half monkey and can scale 3 ft pens in 10.2 seconds to freedom.

Steph made her a cute nametag for the outside of her crate. Fast forward 5 days and it was chewed up and destroyed. But she sure loved it! Who me? I am dirty and stinky and need a bath??

But Mom... I'm scared of going down the stairs!! Don't make me learn how!

After a trip to the vet this week we learned that she 9.4 lbs now and is probably part beagle and part terrier. She really does look like a black and brown Jack Russell terrier doesn't she? There does our dreams of medium size dog... I think we ended up with a small one! But thats ok, we still love her. And according to Joe, he is super excited because terriers are good at obstacle courses like the ones you see dogs running through on tv. $20 I find an obstacle course in the backyard the next weekend I am at work.

Roxie's Home!

I have been out of the blogging world for a few weeks now. We spent the last week in California and just got back on Saturday. I will have lots of posts to come about our trip, but my time has suddenly been cut in half due to a certain little someone we picked up on Sunday afternoon. Meet Roxie (yes, I know I originally spelled it Roxy, but Roxie with a heart over the "i" is just so much cuter). She is 7lbs 15oz, loves sticks, rolling down hills, and can run faster than we ever expected!

Cosby isn't too sure about this little puppy so far. This is a pic of her watching us play outside. I think she is plotting Roxie's demise in a slow and methodical manner. It's been hard because Roxie thinks Cosby is just another one of her sibling puppies to play with. She has no idea what a cat hiss means yet. I am sure she will find out soon, but for now we are trying to keep them apart since Cosby has a good 5 lbs on her.

Roxy

I want to show you what we've been up to this weekend.
Here are some clues!...

1. She's 5lbs.

2. Furry.

3. Adorable

4. 4 Little Paws

5. Lots of Work!

Yup, we are adopting a puppy! She is from a litter of 5 puppies that were found in January with no Mom or Dad to be found. So they aren't exactly sure what type of dog she is. She has the coloring of a German Shepherd and the shelter thinks they have some lab, beagle, and springer in there somewhere! All the puppies look very different, so they even think they are from the same litter but with different Dads. Guess Roxy's Mom got around town:)

We are bringing her home on April 3rd and are very excited but so confused about the potty training process, crate training, and everything else we don't know about. There are so many ways to train your dog. Every website is different and every book has a different method. I guess we will figure it out as we go. Can't wait till April!!

Buzzzz....

This morning I got a phone call at 5am. You'd think that would be nothing but bad news, but when it's a 443 area code number....it's usually great news! Work called me to see if I wanted to stay home today since it wasn't busy, so I said heck yes! I have learned from my past mistakes... the times that I have said no in hopes of saving my day off for a weekend or more opportune time, I get screwed big time. Whether its twins, a crash c/s, or a postpartum hemorrhage, it always happens when I have gotten the phone call and said "no". I think in my sleepy stupor I hesitated about what to do and then said "wait, I'm not supposed to say no"! And what definitely made me say no was the dream I had just had about a patient needing a major blood transfusion. So instead I made myself a busy a little worker bee at home today...

Here's what I accomplished between yesterday and today...
1. Couldn't get back to sleep after my phone call, so got up early and made Joe breakfast before work.
2. I have put off cleaning all the paint spatters all over the stairs and foyer. I was on my hands and knees cleaning before Joe even left for work.
3. Cleaned out the glasses cabinet in the kitchen. Had gotten totally out of control. Somehow cool barware always falls off the table into my big purse when we are out.
4. 4 Loads of laundry, folded and put away.
5. Vaccuumed the family room.
6. Cleaned the bathroom. Down and Up.
7. Cleaned the bedroom.
8. Went to Pier 1 for some potpourri and room spray to make the house smell less like dirty carpet cause know matter how many times I vaccuum, it's still ewwww.
9. Took Cosby to the vet.
10. Got Cosby a new water and food dish as a reward for being so good for her shot.
11. Listed 4 items on CL.
12. Worked out 2x.
13. Made two delicious dinners.
14. Made turkey chili for the rest of the week.
15. Watched 2 episodes of Big Love cause I am wayyy behind. But I don't think the final season is very good so far. Too much politics, not enough wifey drama.

So even though I wasn't at work, I worked really hard! But I got to do it all in my pjs. Which is the best! Hmm.. I guess technically my scrubs are just as comfy as pjs...

Dumps like a Truck

Yowzers! We had such a crazy busy weekend! Friday I had to work and then came home, got ready and went straight to Annapolis for a birthday celebration for Misty at Stan and Joe's. They had the upstairs reserved for the party and we had lots of fun celebrating such a nice, funny, lovely friend!

We woke up and went to the dump. Yes, that's right, we had an early Saturday morning dump run to get rid of the TWO, yes TWO pickup truck loads of junk that we cleared out of the backyard last weekend. Not a single natural element was dumped. It was PVC pipes, old brick pavers, metal fencing etc that had cluttered the back woods. We knocked out a section of the back fence and hauled all the leaves and branches out to the shared community area street for pick up. Big thanks to Mike and Emily for helping us out both weekends. Made the workload less and definitely more fun!

After the dump trip, we took a random afternoon trip into DC. The official goal was to make it to Urban Outfitters in order for Mike to return some things. The unofficial goal was the nearby Biergarten for some delicious German pints of beer! The biergarten was definitely a cool place and we would love to visit again with more friends. There was a party of 30+ people lined up on their picnic tables having the time of their lives at 2pm on a Saturday afternoon! We had some brats and pretzels and cheese with spicy mustard which I apparently love now.

The biggest surprise of the day was getting a call from my Belmont friend, Erin who was in town scoping out places to live when she moves to DC in April. She was just curious if I ever made it to the city and blammo! There I was... in the city! So she hopped on a bus and met us for drinks and tapas at La Toscana. It was seriously the best of all things for me all wrapped into one moment... my Jojo, old friends, even older friends, beer, sangria, and food! Thanks for meeting me there Erin!!

After the day drinking trip to DC, we headed home to shower and get ready for the next gig. The Courtesy Line was playing at the Irish Channel from 10 till close, so we got our band-aid outfits on and went to support them. It was a great show and I wish they could have played longer, but they ran out of cover songs! Demanding, aggressive drunk girls insisted that they play one more song so we got to hear Teenage Dream as an encore. TCL probably hated that, but we loved it!

Then, TGFRSSIMPADL.

"Thank Goodness For Rainy Sundays Spent In My PJS All Day Long"

We watched 127 hours, which was super good. And then I was fast asleep by 8pm!! Hooray!

Looonnnng weekend which is just how I like it!!