What not to say....a tutorial

If you by chance come across a pregnant woman and you are wondering what would be an approptiate thing to say you have a few options:

1. Don't say anything at all about her body...this is by far the safest option

2. Tell her how great she looks and that you can barely even tell she is pregnant (if it is early on) or something about the cute baby bump being the only part that makes her look pregnant or you could even mention how she is rockin the cleavage...you may be lying but I think there is a place in Heaven for liars who lie solely for another's self-esteem.

3. Make comments such as, "I knew it was a girl, because of the way your lab coat was so tight over your bum and you know they say girl's steal a mother's beauty" or "your little face is getting so cute and round" (the word cute doesn't make it any better) or "oh I can tell you are pregnant because you are starting to waddle...well not really waddle it is just the way your jacket is getting caught on your butt you could tell...I mean you look cute" (I think she realized it was awkward but didn't know how to stop saying that) or "your bottom is getting so much wider" (this one was particularly awesome because I told her it didn't make me feel good and she replied...."baby got back!!")....I have heard all of these comments and I ...well I don't really know, I think they speak for themselves.

I would like to take this moment to apologize for anybody that I have said this kind of thing to...I am a fool. Please forgive me.

Also, as I was trying to prepare myself for what I would look like as my face continued to "fill-out," I discovered what I could do with my camera.

I guess I could end up looking like Jay Leno.

Feeling Lucky.

We love the Banff film festival. The shows are fantastic and make me want to hike, bike, ski and learn how to kayak. We found out that we were going to miss the Richmond showing and decided that we would have to go to Charlottesville for two nights of the film festival. It was awesome as usual, but the best part was when I had to make a mad dash to the bathroom Rich told me I must put his name in the drawing for Blue Ridge Mountain Sports. I rolled my eyes a little because we have been going to this for 3 years in Richmond (which was a smaller venue/crowd) and we have never been drawn. But I dutifully entered both of us in the drawing. Well it was our lucky day and Rich won a $100 head lamp.

Geek

Rich was talking to our friend Brad about the prediction that the world might end in 2012. That in itself was a little geeky then Rich says, "The world better not end in 2012!! The Hobbit movie is coming and I would so bummed if the world ended before I got to see it."

Okay Rich, I love you, but let's think about this for a second:

1)You are only 28 and your biggest disappointment at dying before the age of 30 is that you would miss The Hobbit movie?

2) You are graduating from four years of dental school and if the world ended in 2012 all that would be for nothing...not bothersome?

3) By the way we have our first born child coming this year...any sadness about not getting to see her beyond the age of 1?

Darling...you are a geek!

Pink blankets, dolls, tiny dresses, pretty bows, training bras and prom dresses...oh my!

"It's like my heart is a tooth, and it's got a cavity that can only be filled with children." -Gru,Despicable Me

We are excited to report that our heart cavity is being filled. Our baby is due July 8th (7 days after Richard's Bday and 1 day before mine). Lucky for us we have a connection to an ob/gyn(Richard's dad) in Harrisonburg and we got to take a sneak peek at the baby this last Saturday. Richard's mom did the ultrasound and we skyped with my parents. It was amazing! Nancy said she was 90% sure we are having a girl. She was really wiggly (I blame the diet coke I drank earlier that afternoon) and wouldn't "moon" her for the perfect view.

Rich was certain we were having a boy. Last week we were shopping at TJ Maxx for a friend's baby boy and we were looking at all the baby boy stuff and feeling sure that we would be buying little suits and ties in the future. As we were walking out I pointed out a tiny little dress that was adorable and I told Rich that it might be fun to get little girl stuff too. When we found out it was a girl Rich said he wanted to go back and buy that little dress. Yesterday he told me that he went to the store and he told me he was looking at all the little pink outfits and getting excited for our little girl. Then he looked to the left and saw the training bras. His response: "oooohhhh CRAP!" I had the same reaction when one of the nurses at work mentioned all the things that come with girls... including prom dresses. Ahhh...one step at a time...one step at a time. Tiny baby dresses first!

My mom sent us a card that said:

New baby checklist

Fancy Diaper Bag-Check

Baby Wipes-Check

Jogging stroller-Check

Car Seat-Check

Binkie-Check

Bib-Check

Diapers-Check

Crib-Check

Blankie-Check

Maturity to raise a little human being without laughing at the word "poop"-No Check

Well, nine out of ten's not bad! Congratulations!

Hilarious and so true

We are super excited.

Volkswagen Commercial: The Force

I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes....You can just picture this kids face, so awesome

Groundhog's Day

When I was a little girl I remember feeling that Groundhog's Day was one of the most important days of the year. I truly believed that what the groundhog saw would determine the weather. I remember coming home on Groundhog Day in 3rd grade and being upset that there was 6 more weeks of winter and I really just wanted to wear shorts. My mom tried to console me and explain that even if the groundhog hadn't seen his shadow it wouldn't be warm enough to wear shorts for a long time. I think that was even more depressing. Hopefully the groundhog was right this year.

I am pretty sure I had Seasonal Affective Disorder...who are we kidding...HAVE Seasonal Affective Disorder.

We the Pizza

I was told I needed to update my blog. So here it is:

Like my fuchsia tights? Me too, but turns out it is hard to put an outfit together around purple tights, It took me 30 minutes and changing my clothes 6 times to figure out what to wear and in the end there was only 4 inches of tights showing under my boots. So as we are walking out the door I said something about it to Rich and he said, "they look fine okay....but even if they didn't I wouldn't say anything now because you have already spent 30 minutes getting ready." That is not exactly the way to instill confidence in a girl or to let me trust your future opinion. Do they REALLY look okay or are you just in a hurry/sick of waiting for me? The whole first part of the drive I kept insisting that he would PROMISE to not let me out of the house looking like an idiot no matter how late we are. Again....I am neurotic. But seriously, I think all of you ladies would agree that this is an important promise to make. So whether the fuchsia tights were ridiculous or not, I liked them and Rich gave his seal of approval (whether I can trust him or not I will never know ;) ).

We LOVE watching the Bravo show Top Chef so our goal was to go to dinner at Spike's pizza place after the temple trip. We went to We the Pizza and got a Potato and Prosciutto pizza and a Mushroom pizza with 4 types of mushrooms and truffle...mmmmm. I love mushrooms.

We called up our friend's Billy and Laura and they met us there. It was a great night.