No more silent nights

Elizabeth Cora Marvelle arrived November 27 at 6:52am, 6lbs 4oz and 18 1/4 inches.

Whoa! She's Pregnant!

Another picture we found when cleaning up... Recently we went to Saint Louis for a wedding of a friend of Nathan's. They have a really cool set up where a photographer would take black and white pictures of people. I thought this one was too funny!

Here are the others.

Seattle Video

So when I "retired" I had to give back my work computer. We ended up purchasing a new computer and this meant moving and organizing all of our files. We stumbled upon some old pics and video. Here is a video from our 4th of July trip to Seattle:

Seattle from Nathan Marvelle on Vimeo.

You can see it in HD here. And our pictures are here.

Retirement

I have been working/studying since August 2004 and now it was finally over. Friday November 13th was my last day at lab... it felt really weird, but it has been great to take the time to prepare for our baby.

Face

When cleaning off my old computer I found this really cool picture:

Nursery

Today we put together most of the nursery. Here are some pictures. We still need a twin bed which will go in the corner where the swing is currently, a bookcase which we plan on putting behind the door, and curtains.
This weekend we also got a white side table which is now in the place of the maroon ottoman and we have a pink rocker from my sister, which is downstairs for a little while until she moves upstairs to sleep and will go in the place of the pink chair in the pictures. Finally we got a crib skirt - brown with polka dots.

So really we will need to updates these pictures, but here is a taste.

On our way...

I am feeling more and more pregnant and looking it too. My doctor says on Tuesday that I was 50% effaced, 1cm dilated, and the baby has dropped. However, none of those mean that I will give birth anytime soon... it could easily be another 2 to 3 (or 4 or 5 or 6!) weeks. My pelvic bone aches and sometimes I feel like it will break in half! I am predicting that she will come early, but don't really want to think that because if she comes late, then I will be so anxious, and I'm not sure if I will be able to handle the waiting... (I'm not really good at this not knowing thing). All I know is that she will be born by December 14th. They wont let her go any longer than that.

Baby bangs

This is the worst! While I'd love for our little one to have hair, this has gone too far.

Baby bangs for the girl who has everything except hair.



What's next...baby spanx for those unsightly rolls!

NaBloPoMo

November is NaBloPoMo - National Blog Posting Month, where the goal is to post every day of the month. I learned this from a friend's blog and thought I would try it!

It has been a while and I'm 5 days late, but hey - what the heck why not try posting for the rest of November?