Baby Ciho and I are 18 weeks and 5 days along in this pregnancy. We are quickly closing in on the halfway mark. The picture was taken before Christmas, in the 14th week, so I’ve expanded a bit more since then. We were really looking forward to yesterday’s ultrasound and Kaiya joined us because she kept insisting that she wanted to “see the baby” too. Thankfully, a friend offered to keep Tobi. Our ultrasound technician was great. After she took all of her measurements, she spent a lot of time going through each area of the baby, explaining to us what we were looking at on the screen. Even though this our third time doing this, I still find it amazing that we can see our baby. We watched the heart beat and at one point the technician explained that the baby had just released a full bladder. She said everything looked great and that the baby was developing right on track and weighed approximately 10 ounces. (Read more …)
January 2009
Tue 20 Jan 2009
Mon 19 Jan 2009
Today, January 19, is a very important day. Three reasons come to mind, but I’m sure there are many others. Here are my top ones in no particular order: (Read more …)
Mon 19 Jan 2009
November brought with it much colder weather, the first snow of the season and plenty of warm snuggle time with daddy.

Wed 14 Jan 2009
Rewind: October Edition
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This rewind back to October will shed a little light into how we found out about Baby #3 and made the decision to move to Atlanta.
October was an exciting month as we took our very first road trip as a family of four. We’ve taken several short trips in the car with the kids, but never traveling more than a few hours from home. After our last trip down to South Carolina back in June, I hinted that we were done with the airline industry (at least for a while) and wanted to give driving the 16 hour drive a whirl. Surprisingly, the trip went really well and the kids did great for being strapped into their carseats for so long. We borrowed a portable DVD player, which made the hours go by so much faster. In fact, Kaiya spent most of the drive watching her favorite videos and looked like this: (Read more …)