Week 23: Good Friday... Mango Style...

Hola Friends, Family, and "Others That Stumbled Onto This Blog and Just Can't Get Enough Of It",

Today is Good Friday, which means that I am off work and Christie is not. Which also means, that I can lay around and do nothing all... day... long!!! Wait! What? I have to (make that "get to") paint Rylie's room?!?! Ugh... So much for relaxation.

Our Lil' Mango and her friend Mr. Quarter

I painted the crown molding (which I put up a few weeks ago) last weekend... some may say Extreme Procrastinator, I say Precise Planner... So today I will be painting the main pink color (Behr Pink Punch is what we decided on) and next weekend (or this week sometime if I get a wild hair up my tookus) I will draw and paint the circles in Behr Tart Apple (which is like a Granny Smith Apple color) and Behr Breakfast Blend (which is a Chocolate or Dark Coffee color) we just have to decide on the "design" which I'm still working on. An artist's work is never done!

As you can see, our little girl is about the size of a mango. I've decided to post the pictures each week now, and wouldn't you know, as soon as I start posting pictures, the fruit is recognizable on its own... unlike the fig, or razzleberry melon (I know there wasn't a razzleberry melon on the list, but I wouldn't put it past them to put a make-believe fruit in there one week.)

Christie is still feeling pretty good... getting hard to roll out of bed and her back hurts more than usual because of the weight of her ever-growing belly. We can already see where Rylie is by which side of Christie's belly is more lopsided... and her movements are beginning to show on the outside... its pretty cool!

Later,
D&C

Week 20 & 21: Kicking Banana Sonogram Split

I FELT RYLIE KICK TODAY!!! Christie has been able to feel her moving and kicking for a while now, but she would always stop when I would put my hand on her belly (naturally, since I'm a calming force of nature, she would calm right down...) but today, I must have been off my game because she kicked right through my calming aura! She could possibly take part in the 2028 Summer Olympics going for a gold medal in Boxing, like Lela Ali (or possibly a martial art, we're gonna give her options)...

Rylie has gotten quite a bit bigger... as you all know, we had a sonogram a couple of weeks back and found out we are having a little girl! Rylie can be found posing for some pictures below... such a ham, must get that from her mom (ok, probably from me...) I know i've missed a week on the posting, but such is life... Last week she was the size of a banana and this week she is a carrot... the reason for the jump in fruit size is that after 20 weeks the baby is measured from head to toe, while she was previously measured from head to rump... I don't know why, but those are the rules.

Next on the agenda is PAINT!

We have finally picked the paint colors...after selecting 1 chocolate, 2 greens, and 3 pinks to test, we nailed it on the chocolate, 1 of the greens was perfect and completely struck out with the pinks. So we start over on the pinks and pick 3 more... so the grand total is 9 paint samples on the wall and 3 colors chosen! We're going with a pink base, Behr Pink Punch, in case you're interested... with Chocolate and Green (Behr Breakfast Blend, and Behr Tart Apple) circles on the wall. We're not sure about the size and arrangement of the circles but I am using my awesome Adobe Illustrator expertise to layout the wall before we paint... It's much easier to move circles on a computer than ones painted on a wall! We will have pictures up as soon as things are painted... I promise.

Next up? Camcorders!

I just purchased a Canon Vixia HF200... the sleekest most affordable little video camera ever made (maybe not ever, but i like to pretend). It takes only "flash memory" so no tapes, no on-board harddrive, nothing to go wrong except pure camera! So when I take a video of my little girls first steps, i pop a card into my laptop and its on this blog within minutes (actually it'll probably be more like days because i'll have to edit it to look all fancy, since im a perfectionist like that...) Should be pretty fun stuff!

My next purchase will be a DSLR still camera, probably a Canon Rebel XSi or Canon Rebel T1i but that's a ways down the road. Hopefully before Rylie comes, but if not maybe i can save some birthday money and christmas money. We'll see...

Until next time,
D&C