He's Here!

After the longest day ever, Samuel Brent Bulkeley made his appearance at 11:59 p.m. on October 29th. Weighing in at 7 lbs 8 oz, 19 3/4 inches he looks very much like Andi did, so I am going to predict that soon everyone will be saying how much they look alike ;) I'd go into more detail about the whole experience, but for some of you that's over sharing, and let's be honest, I'm really tired and the story could take a while. So here are some pictures instead.

This is Andi visiting us Wednesday night, not sure why after the entire day away there was still no baby sammy to be seen.


First moments together


Close up, he was really alert and curious right away.


Andi holding Sammy. She was pretty sure no one else was allowed to hold him but her.




This is just one I forgot to post with our pumpkin pictures and I love it so much I had to post it anyway.

The Great Pumpkin

If Charlie Brown and the gang ever really got to see the great pumpkin, this is what they would have seen.


There are a couple of fruit stands on the 126 that Thad passes every day to and from work, and this year he stopped in and brought home an 86 lb pumpkin. Needless to say Andi has been very excited to make it into a jack-O-lantern. Here are some before, during, and afters of the process.




In case you were wondering, yes that is a cord sticking out of the back of the pumpkin, because Thad though a candle just wouldn't do it justice. So he took apart a lamp and that is a 75 watt bulb lighting up the block. Andi's little pumpkin however has the traditional candle lighting it, which is why it looks blank ;)

Ridiculous!

Okay, so here goes yet another pregnancy tirade, but I think this one is more justified than any I've posted yet. Last night about 8 I started having regular contractions, real ones, not the braxton hicks I've been having for weeks. By 10 they were coming every 4 minutes. By 3 am they were coming every 2 minutes and stayed that way till we went in at 4. Seriously, clockwork, every 2 minutes, and there was no mistaking these for anything other than real labor. So we go in and literally the minute they hook me up to the monitors they stop. Completely. So we sit there for an hour and a half to see if they come back, but oh no, they didn't! Are you kidding me!?!?!?! How do you go from hard contractions every 2 minutes to nothing?!?!?!? This has officially been the most ridiculous night of my life and I'm so irritated and sleep deprived about it I can hardly see straight(but honestly that's probably the lack of sleep more than anything).

Nosey Strangers

I'm not an overly social person, especially when it comes to people I don't know, like people you see at the grocery store for example. And I have never understood how or why Thad manages to strike up conversations with people everywhere we go. I also have never understood why people are so presumptuous when it comes to pregnant ladies. Just because you can tell I'm pregnant does not make it any of your business crazy strangers at the store!
So today I'm at the store with my mom and Andi who have wandered off somewhere else and this random guy walks buy and asks when I'm due, and what I'm having, and if I have any other kids and what her name is. I answered politely but what I was really thinking was. . . .

Stranger: So you are expecting!
me: yes captain obvious
S: When are you due?
Me: Do I know you?!
S: Is this your first?
Me: Not really any of your business
S: Girl or boy?
Me : refer to previous answer
S: What's her name?
Me: Like I want to give a total stranger information like that!

Seriously, I need to have this baby already, so I can stop wanting to throw things at people in the grocery store.

This just made me laugh so I had to share. Andi was at my Grandma's yesterday while I had a Dr's appointment. When I picked her up to leave Grandma said "see you later alligator." She always says this and Andi always mumbles something I don't understand and walks away. Well Today she made herself very clear and when Grandma said that Andi's response was "I'm not alligator, I'm Andi!" with the best indignant scowl on her face I wish I had a camera with me.