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We had a bite to eat at Wienerschnitzel today.
(Quick caveat for those readers in Germany- There’s this HOTDOG fast food restaurant named Wienerschnitzel in the western half of the US that, and steel yourselves here, has NOTHING TO DO WITH SCHNITZEL WHATSOEVER.  They do have good chili-dogs, however.)

Anyway, while we were eating, a father with his three sons came in.  Ages approximatley 3, 5 and 8, I’m guessing.  While the father ordered the food, Sue and I looked on in horror as the three kids were unleashed on the rest of the restauant.  The youngest was by far the most mischevious, running up and down the benches, climbing on the windowsill to touch with the neon ‘OPEN’ sign, scaling the chair/table/railing combo to reach over and screw around with the drink dispenser-  all the while shrieking like a diminutive banshee with A.D.D.  The other brothers were not a calming influence to say the least, all they did was egg the youngest on, if anything.  This was all punctuated by the dad yelling ‘Hey! Settle DOWN!’ from the line every so often, but I didn’t see that producing any noticable effect.

It was horrible. 

Sue and I looked at each other with expressions that said: ‘what have we gotten ourselves INTO?’

Ach du lieber. 

We have received many cards and well wishes on the news of our little one on the way.  We have also began to receive presents!!  I do realize that they are for the baby – but I get to have the fun of opening them!! 

 In the past week, Denise (one of my co-workers) gave me a book (Goodnight Moon), a pack of infant booties and 3 soft rattles.  Jill (another one of my co-workers) gave me a book/journal that documents the first year after the baby is born.  Steve and Nalaina Harper gave us DISNEY stuff!  They gave us a stuffed animal (a baby Eeyore) and a soft block that has Winnie the Pooh, Tiger and Eeyore on it – it’s so soft!

 I realized last night I need to buy a baby book and start documenting all the fun things we are receiving – Chris rolled his eyes – but I still enjoy looking through the baby book my mom did for me and reading about my first moments on earth and looking in the envelope that has clippings of my hair from my first hair cut – memories make life even more meaningful!  And I can’t wait to create great memories with our new son/daughter!

 Thank you to everyone for their love and support!

Sue’s been having some intese cravings recently-  nothing esoteric, mainly just things high in starch.

I thought it’d be interesting to record the different cravings she gets.  You can see the page on the left ‘Sue’s Cravings‘.

Check it out!

Received the results of the blood work from last week.  Overall, things are looking good.  I found out that I am O positive blood type and don’t need to be concerned about what is called the RH Factor – when the mother and baby blood supply don’t interact well.  The only slight issue is that I have a bacteria infection and need to start medication for the next 7 days – the nurse reassured me that this is quite common and that she had already called 4 other people today that have the infection and putting them on meds. 

Besides tired – I’m doing pretty good.  The last four days I have had no morning sickness and just feel hungry when it’s time to eat but no sick stomach.

Speaking of eating, I’m hungry all the time!

Well, just my office, really.

I went out to lunch with some of my co-workers to Daphne’s Greek Cafe.  (Yum!)

And the six of us were very comfortable, so I just told em! 

It’s kind of a wierd feeling.  Everyone congratulated me and everything.

Cool!

Quote today (delivered while in tears):

"I’m crying that I’m crying ’cause I’m frustrated that I’m crying!"

Poor thing.

So, I talked to my Mom today -

She’s been rummaging through the attic and basement looking for my old baby toys and clothes.

Looking at the things she found, she comments to one of my siblings that:

"You know, once something is over 30 years old, it counts as an antique."

Thanks, Mom.

That’s me, The Antique.   

Wow, what a relief!

Sue and I told a whole bunch of people at church today- well, to be precise, I told most of the people really-  Sorry Sue 

I was so excited!  I feel so much better now.

Everyone was very congratulatory-  our church rocks.

Oh yeah, the topic of our not really being able to host the ‘young marrieds’ small group came up.  We’ll have to graduate to the ‘young families’ group now. That’s kind of sad.  Maybe we should start a new young families group and encourage all our friends to get pregnant as well!