So What's the Rush?

Still no Baby, but he's sure a Mover! Last night Kristen placed a pencil on her "shelf" and it rolled off several times as a wave went by. Don't know how much longer she'll go. They have a betting pool going on for readers of Kristen's blog. I'm the only one thinking this should be a November baby. Everone who has hazarded a guess is December 5th or later. But hey, I want to get in some serious baby time before my return to Colorado, so we're going for a walk at the mall to get gravity in play. Kristen has an OB appointment on Thursday, so that's a good day as far as I'm concerned for a baby to get serious.
Also the weather has been unseasonably warm and mild here for the past week, and that can't last, so this is a REALLY good time to head to the hospital. Come on Chase, let's see a little action! (as if I have any control of the situation)

Day after Thanksgiving

Well it's really quiet around here now. Brian, Phil and Michelle have all headed back to Colorado, and Aaron is industriously studying for his Anatomy finals, so Kristen and I are trying to be quiet. She is looking stuff up online for potential Christmas gifts, and I'm playing with the laptop we brought with us so that we could check our email daily. Now what would we do to entertain ourselves if we didn't have all the gadgets we like to play with???

Earlier today the girls went to get our hair "do-ed", with cuts and some color. It was fun, and we liked the final products. Michelle especially had a change, with a new cut, Kristen got a new color, and I had a minimal-change cut, but a maximum-out-of-the-comfort-zone highlights. We have been admiring ourselves all day.

Tomorrow we'll hit the mall to walk around for a while to see if we can get this baby business underway. In a few more days Kristen will feel a lot less like walking, so if we're going to get any actual shopping done it had better be soon!

First Post--this is scary

Okay, this is a scary thing to do, but Kristen has been a good example of journaling, and this is a good way to play at being a techno-whiz while spending time at the computa. She is going to show me how to put pictures in and make this look like I know what I'm doing. (now if I had only learned how to use the keyboard better...) but all of you reading this don't have to know how long it takes to type a sentence or correct all the typos that magically appear when I look up from the keys...so now I want to see what it looks like when I put it on the blog! (which will probably be boring for a while, although I am in a very good place to learn from my daughter...)

For those of you who are not yet aware, Kristen and her husband Aaron are living in Buffalo NY so that Aaron can attend dental school at the University of Buffalo, and he is almost 12% finished with the program...they came out here with our first ever grandchild, who is due to be born on or about December 9th. My fam and I came out to spend Thanksgiving week with them (Brian closed his office for the week before T-Day); and they (Brian, Phil, and Michelle) will head back to Colorado on Friday so that they can get back to work and school, etc etc, while I get to stay here and play GRAMMY!!! My plans are to stay, give support, fix meals, and hold the baby, so it's time to get with the program, baby Chase!

I will have plenty of pictures and stuff to put in this blog, so the time to learn is now. (Hopefully things will improve as we go along, doncha know!) Meanwhile, looking forward to the wonderful Thanksgiving meal we get to enjoy and the wonderful people we get to eat it with tomorrow at Dave and Melba's house. seeyabye