Kevin&Stephanie

After numerous requests, I am finally posting pictures of my pregnant self. As I have told many people, I feel like my belly's really not all that impressive. It seems like I'm just spreading out on all sides! This first picture was taken about 2 or 3 weeks ago, when I was around 19 weeks. See....not much to see! I was still in my normal pants at that time, even if they were snug. Now here I am a couple days ago, at 21 1/2 weeks. As I post this, I am 22 weeks. There is a big difference, but no watermelon. This past Wednesday I had my big ultrasound. Baby was pretty shy, and didn't seem to want to show him/herself much. The technician was able to visualize almost everything she needed to, but I'll need to get another ultrasound next visit to try to get a better view of the heart. Everything we did see looked normal and healthy. Baby is 40th percentile in size, at about 15 oz. Heart rate was 154. We did not find out the gender. Even if we'd wanted to...

Wow what a crazy couple days. We had our open house last night, and Steph and I were frantically getting ready for it. Actually, I was probably a bit more frantic than Stephanie because I was desperately scraping wallpaper, trying to finish with enough time left over to clean the room and take care of a few other things before guests began to arrive. Well, I set my deadline for 2:00, and lo and behold, I finish at 1:51. Yep, I was mighty proud of myself. So, I stood there for a moment, still standing ankle deep in wallpaper scrapings, pausing to silently pat myself on a back for finally finishing that...well, words can't even describe what a tedious pain that job was. As I stood there for that brief moment, mere seconds after finishing (literally), a car pulls into our driveway. It is Grandma and Grandpa Anderson, and Aunt Jo. Crap is all I can think. Steph is still bustling away in the kitchen, and I'm standing in what looks an Origami holocaust, covered in wallpaper glue dri...