in the good news department — I felt the baby’s first real movements today!! I was sitting here this morning when I felt a “thump, thump, thump” in my belly. I knew immediately it was little Patrick!! earlier this afternoon I was lying on the couch getting ready to take a nap and he was [...]

I was thinking yesterday that if I could get Joy to pay for my medical benefits when I’m on leave and then take more money out of each of my paychecks when I return, then that would help matters immensely. well, she suggested today that if I can work as late as June 15th – [...]

well, I bought a domain for the baby — patrick-eugene.com. there isn’t anything up there yet, I have to decide on a color scheme and a design, but I’ll be working on it this week. I will, of course, have a photo album up there so I can post photos of the little guy. I’m [...]

after I scanned in all 12 our of our ultrasound pictures and sized them down for posting on the web and uploaded them all to order digital prints for family I thought it would be a good idea to get them laminated so they would forever be safe and not subjected to everyone’s fingerprints. yesterday [...]

BOY!!! Patrick Eugene (yes, we changed our mind about the name!) is healthy and going strong!! he’s on schedule to be born on June 26th as previously predicted and he weighs about 14 ounces right now. he’s was QUITE active today during the ultrasound – kicking his little legs and moving his little hands. he [...]

today is my 20th week of pregnancy. I am officially halfway there. my belly is starting to show and get hard and if I move too quickly I can definitely tell that I’m pregnant. 2 days until the ultrasound and I’m DYING to know what we’re having!! I’ll be posting about it, of course – [...]