Bryson's Room

Here are some pictures of Bryson's room. The picture quality isn't all that great, but it gives you an idea of what it looks like (just ignore the mess in some of the pictures). Jason and I painted the two toned blue walls, and my mom made the awesome curtains and crib skirt. We, of course, went with a doggy theme. I hope this kid likes dogs :)

From the "garden"

Pictures

I've been meaning to post pictures of Bryson since his first photo shoot, but I had not got around to scanning them. Well, we've now had 3 ultrasounds, so now you can see just how much he's grown.

Here's a shot from our first appointment (4/14/09). This is still at the "we better label it so you can figure out what you are looking at later" stage:

The next time we got a look at him was at 20 weeks (7/6/09). Looking a little more human here:






And here are the latest shots from our appointment at 31 weeks (9/21/09). He's looking a little grumpy here, but cute none the less:

A dose of cuteness

The staring contest:


Maggie being "wrassled up":


Lucy and Tucker having a chat in the backyard:

Preparations

We've slowly but surely been getting things ready for our little turkey. A few weeks ago, we picked up the furniture and assembled the crib. And just this past weekend, we finished painting the room. The furniture was packed amazingly well, despite the puzzling size of the box containing these parts:

And the box that contained nothing. Even Lucy was perplexed. She thought, "If they had the extra room, they could have at least thrown in a few milkbones."

Maggie was either supervising from the hallway, or just overwhelmed with the mountain of packing material that had taken over the house. Seriously, 2 trash/recycling days have passed since then and we still haven't gotten rid of all the cardboard and styrofoam.

While the unwrapping and cutting down of the boxes seemed to take forever, we must have been very fortunate to obtain an easy-to-assembly crib. Having always heard horror stories of how hard and complicated crib assembly could be, we were prepared for the worst. However, it seemed like we went straight from this:

To this in no time at all:

Okay, maybe there was a little of this thrown in for good measure:

But overall, it was pretty easy-cheesy. More pictures of the nursery progress to come...

Random Things

Shortly after my last post, our new pet went missing. Jason had mowed the lawn and said he thought he saw a frog hop away from the lawn mower. When we didn't see Jeremiah for the next few days, we were worried he might have hopped away with one less leg. We were worried about our little buddy.

Then, after coming home late one evening, I saw something moving in the yard between our house and the neighbor's house. I took a closer look and it was Jeremiah!! He was hopping his way to the bush in front of the neighbor's house. I hope one day he will come back to live in our backyard, but at least now we know he's okay :)

We are making some progress in preparing for our little turkey. The room that will become the nursery is a little closer to being empty. I think we might go buy the furniture today. And I bought some letters for the wall (B-R-Y-S-O-N), so I guess that makes our name selection "official". I need to put some "pictures" of our little guy on here. Maybe that will be my next post.

This morning, I noticed a lady in a car behind me talking on a cellphone. The scary part was that she was using her other hand to "talk" too. I mean, it's one thing to talk on a cell phone... I admit I do it at times. However, if you are going to do that, use your other hand to do something important. Like, I don't know, maybe driving? Or eating a breakfast taco. But the person you are talking to cannot see your hand.

We have a new pet!!

Before you think we are crazy, there are a few things you should know about our new pet.

1. He stays outside all the time.
2. We do not have to feed him.
3. We do not have to clean up after him.
4. All we really have to do is make sure our other three pets don't eat him.

Luckily, all the dogs have done so far is sniff him then walk away. He's out and about just about every other night, next to the deck or under the rose bushes. Here's a picture of our new addition:


We haven't named him yet. Any ideas? Jeremiah, perhaps?