Falling asleep

Simon's first video! He's making cute little faces and noises as he's settling in for an afternoon nap.

Sleepy Burping

After an epic 2 hour feeding this afternoon Simon was wiped out but still needed to be burped... usually he puts up a bit of a fight when I'm trying to burp him but this time he was just too tired to care.  The resigned look on his face while we were doing this cracked Emily and I up.

Welcome to Chicago, Simon Emory Basque

Less than 5 minutes old... he's just been wiped off and been checked out.  9 out of 10 on his Apgar test, even after all he went through this week!

Raise the Roof (May 3 - May 23)

I knew I was behind on posting pictures, but I just realized that even though I've posted some disaster shots from inside the house I haven't posted anything about the progress on the outside of the house since mid-April. 

By the end of the last post, we had the basement and kitchen framed out but nothing much done on the second floor yet.  The focus for the next couple of weeks was on the inside of the house so by May 3 they had only really finished up the sub-floor for the master bedroom but still no walls or roof.

More after the jump...

Dad and Kiki with Pictures!

Dad and Kiki came into town last weekend. We looked at lots and lots of tiles and we took some pictures. Here's one of the group (sadly minus the photographer) and more of my big belly after the jump.

Hiccups and Heat and So Much More

The past couple weeks have FLOWN by. We've had so much going on... from visitors to extreme weather, to more house demo (Alan will cover the pictures on that). I've got lots in this one post, so jump to read the details.

One and a half weeks

Every day I say how far along I am at least twice a day. That means that being 35 weeks did not sneak up on me at all. And I always tell people that 37 weeks is considered full term and I don't really think I'll go all the way to 40 weeks, which is considered 'normal'. It's not like I didn't know that soon there would be a baby soon... But I guess it didn't hit me how close it all really was until Erika as she was leaving this weekend said something along the lines of 'just 2 weeks now!' and I was floored. We could have a baby, not early or something to worry about, but a perfectly healthy, happy baby in just two weeks. One and a half weeks now. Wow.

Baby Boy Basque only needs a very few things for his first few days, so we are making sure the list is completed this weekend:

1. Cradle - Cindy and Ken still have the cradle that Ken made for Alan. It's beautiful and they're sending that this week. So Baby Boy will have a place to sleep.
2. Car Seat - Alan is ordering it today and we'll go to the fire station this weekend to get it installed. They won't let Baby Boy leave the hospital if you don't have a car seat.
3. Diapers - We will go this weekend to get newborn diapers and the accouterments. We are going with cloth diapers.
4. Pack Hospital Bag - We've got to have a bag packed of snacks and other essentials like a tooth brush and socks! Who knows how long we'll stay, at least 2 days probably more.

One more really important thing we need before Baby Boy Basque makes his appearance:

A NAME! Unfortunately not too much progress on that front. Luckily we can decide when we see his cute little face in person! Though we might be so distracted counting fingers and toes that we won't get around to a name for a while.

Anything else we need for the first couple days that we're forgetting?