Your mom and I went to Las Vegas last weekend.  Don’t worry, we didn’t lose our life savings so you can still go to college.  We were in Vegas from Thursday to Monday and had a wonderful time.  We were there for the wedding of our friends Chris Yard and Amanda Vasquez.  We stayed at Planet Hollywood on Thursday and at the Paris hotel the remainder of the time.

If later in life you find yourself with an odd obsession with Prince, that’s probably because we watched a Prince tribute band named Purple Reign at the House of Blues.  It was pretty loud in there so your either going to have an aversion to loud noises or we messed you up for life.

The most exciting part of the trip was that I got to feel you kick for the first time!  You’ve been such a squirmy worm throughout the pregnancy.  Your mom has been feeling you kick for a while, but this was the first time she felt you from the outside.  We hope your restlessness is not a sign of things to come 🙂 .

This was the fourth and final time you’ve flown in your mom’s belly. So far you’ve been to San Antonio, Iowa, Indianapolis, and Las Vegas. Your mom and I love to travel so much, there will be many more flights in your future!

BTW, the title of this blog is a quote from a popular movie from 1996 call Swingers staring Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn…you just put a whole new spin on it.

Brad, Kristine, and Hailey at the Bellagio

Stephanie, Chris, Amanda, Jason, K & B

Purple Reign at the House of Blues

So your father had this great idea when we found out we were pregnant – set a countdown clock that would count backwards to your due date. Well today, for the first time, it is showing a double digit number….gone are the triple digit days! While this clock seemed like a fantastically fun idea when it showed 180+ days, I am starting to think it’s a bad idea for me now…especially since my heart rate increased when I saw it showed 99 days today! YIKES!

I woke up this morning to the delicious smell of breakfast cooking. Your father decided to surprise me with breakfast (pancakes, eggs, bacon, and chocolate covered strawberries) for Valentine’s day! He also gave me a very sweet card. I truly am the luckiest woman alive! I gave him a card and some new cologne – Kenneth Cole’s RSVP. After breakfast we went and got haircuts then went to look at baby furniture. We still haven’t decided on your bedroom furniture though we have it narrowed down to a few choices.

After furniture shopping, I went to the mall while your dad took a nap. The minute I got home we went right to it….painting your room. We’d already chosen the color – it’s called Moonlit Yellow – and fortunately, Brad had taped off the room last week so we were pretty much ready to go. However, we’d both forgotten how much we hate to paint. If we can help it, I think this might be the last room we ever paint! Though we have quite a few friends who are true do-it-yourselfers, your father and I just can’t seem to derive much pleasure from most DIY projects. Just one of the things we have in common!

Brad the Painter

As the story goes, babies are delivered to their parents by a stork. But we don’t believe that to be the case for our little girl. On the weekend we believe you began to grow in your mommy’s tummy we were hanging out in our swimming pool. Dragonflies are all too common around our pool in the summer time. But on this weekend, on this day, there was a special dragonfly.

He was the friendliest dragonfly we’d ever seen. He just would not stay away from your mom. He’d land on her shoulder, her head, or if she held out her hand the little guy would perch on her finger. I could hold out my hand and he would land there too. But he seemed to be most infatuated with Kristine.  He hung out with us all weekend.   That’s why we believe our little angel was delivered to us by, not the stork, but the dragonfly.

Hailey's Dragonfly

On Kristine's Hand

Kristine and the Dragonfly

Man, I can offically say I’ve got pregnancy symptoms!  My ankles were swollen to the size of cantalopes last night and my feet weren’t any better.  Jason always teases me that my feet look like Barney Rubble’s feet (he calls them “Barney Rubs”).  I hate to admit it but they truly were living up to that name last night.  I am having the same feet/ankle swelling today, too.  I think that’s just going to be part of it for the next few months.

I’ve also had swelling in my fingers and hands and I’ve been having the occassional bout of heart burn.  I am also starting to feel really tired again.  I feel asleep on the couch at 6pm tonight.  I slept for about an hour until the phone rang and woke me up.  I go in on the 17th for mandatory diabetes testing, the doctor said she would also check my blood for antyhing else that might be contributing to my fatigue, like anemia.  Chances are it’s just a result of the pregancy itself combined with the extra stress that’s been going on lately.  We’ll see….

Your father and I went for our monthly check up today.  Everything looks really good!  We got to see you on the sonogram again…it was pretty amazing that we could both tell how much you’ve grown just in the 4 weeks since our last appointment!  Your arm and leg bones are longer and you just looked bigger overall.

We confirmed yet again that you are a girl.  And like every other time, you were VERY active.  You were moving around so much that they had trouble getting you to sit still long enough to hear your heartbeat.  We also got to see you fold up into the shape of a U and play with your toes.  I guess you’ve gotta do something to keep yourself entertained in there.  The nurse said “oh, the active ones grow up to be leaders, not followers”.  I had to politely explain to her that there were already two very strong leaders in our household and that adding a third would be challenging for everyone involed.  🙂

You weighed in at over a pound and are measuring about 11 inches long.  I can definitely feel you moving around these days; everytime you move it makes me smile.  I am going to have to start  sleeping on my side now which is less than thrilling for me since I am a full time back sleeper.  It’s officially the beginning of the many sleepless nights to come.