Waiting For the Stork

As we await for the Stork to arrive I thought I would get an update on the blog in. Sorry it's been a while, but things have been a bit busy and usually the last thing I want to do when I get home and finally put the kids down for bed is get back on the computer.

So Val is now 38 weeks pregnant and we are both anxiously awaiting the new family arrival. We still don't know the sex of it and no we really don't know. We have chosen a name that is a-sexual so that we don't have to worry if it is a boy or girl. The name will be "Pat". Sorry if your name is Pat and you are reading this. It's a joke.

We will definitely be having the little one by the 23rd of May because that is when Val is scheduled for a C-Section. Since Val has already had a C-Section the ability to induce natural labor has been minimized to a very small chance. So we are trying the natural ways starting now. Walks and anything else we can think of, we are interested. As long as Val is comfortable I guess. We went for a mile walk last night and this morning she woke up feeling like she had ran a marathon I think.

In the meantime the nesting is in full effect. We finally finished the babies room and at least that portion of the nesting is complete. I'll upload pictures soon for that.

For many reasons we decided to go ahead and build a shed so that we could move all the Shed and Tool items out of the garage and basement into a rightful home. So I decided as a real do it yourself kind of guy, to build my own. The first thing I did, was decided that size does matter in this case. I decided a normal 6x8 shed is way too small. Why build it that small when you can have a 10x12 shed instead. Sheesh!! So I went online to find plans that I liked. I found one that was a good design and had a materials list to go with it. Perfect, I thought. It should build itself! This where carpentry 101 starts. Note to self and to wives. When daddy says he is going to take off a little early (2pm) and go pick up the materials for building this shed, don't expect him to be home before 9pm. Don't plan a ladies night out that evening if you plan to not be pissed at your husband too. I love Val. Any other wife would have jumped down my throat and had me for breakfast. Instead she did her way of getting mad at me. "The boys are asleep, Here's the monitor, I'm going out."

After 3 weeks of work so far, I have the start of a nice shed. Here is a picture of where I am right now.

Other than the Shed, it's all about the boys and keeping them busy. Lately, we have been getting them practicing their batting skills. Caleb shows great eye hand coordination and can actually hit the ball sometimes when you toss it to him. Jackson prefers hitting it off the T-ball Tee which they boy are great at using. The show some signs of being golfers as they like to hit any ball on the ground with what ever stick / utensil they can find.

The boys are becoming more and more like their own little people. They both enjoy playing outside and with the neighbors and any kids they can. Caleb tends to be more in your face type of playing, where Jackson observes and finds what is fun and can get them into trouble, then goes for it. Jackson is the, "That looks like a great idea" type of kid.

I had a great moment the other day, when both of them were helping daddy do something in the babies room, and they both had the same hanger / latch with a screw type device that daddy had just taken apart. They held it up to the window that I was working on and grabbed to closest item that they thought they could turn the screw with and they were methodically trying to get it to happen. Jackson consulted as Caleb tried every combo he could. They worked on it is if they were helping me and talked as if they knew exactly what they were doing. It was pretty cool to see that they indeed were like their dad and like to try to figure things out mechanically.

I hope to try to update the blog more often so please keep checking back to see more updates.

Here are some pics from recently.