Baby Land is a work in progress

Yes. Last week we received bedding and news of the crib’s arrival. Fun… Know what that means? Somebody (me) gets to clean out the office and turn it into a nursery. When I say ‘office’, I mean a jammed pack ‘catch-all’ room with two bookcases, two desks with all the fixins, every text book we owned in college, an ironing board, the unabridged copy of my never seen best seller, extra dental products, a life sized cut-out of Keanu Reeves from The Matrix, extra stores of food, a desktop computer, enough toilet paper to roll Mississippi, seventeen thousand paperbacks, two plastic storage bins of wrapping paper, all of our high-school yearbooks, a set of Samurai swords, photo albums, and every knickknack Jen and I’ve collected since 2002. I can hear her now, ‘You know I can’t pick up anything over five and a half ounces. You should move that over there. It’s what’s best for Max.”

Um, this kid is not coming until Easter. It’s not even Turkey Day yet! At this pace we’ll have an actual nursery all during Christmas with FOUR months to wait until Max gets here. Maybe we’re a bit obsessive. That’s OK, I’ll then have several weeks to rest the bulging disk in my lower back from dragging furniture all over the house.

Although I’m whining I look forward to it. It’s time to purge a little and clean out dusty closets, remove old furniture and hang new pictures. Hopefully Jen and I won’t strangle each other over every decision from ‘Baby Land’ details or the best way to keep Max from playing dress up with his cousins. (Don’t get me started.)

Eldest Greer Brother and I went and picked up the crib this week (He’s in town for Turkey Day with his girls) and decided the box said crib was in could double for an extra bedroom in any apartment. This thing is HUGE. It looked like the crib was already put together inside. It now sits in our living room, waiting for its new home to be stripped, Kilzed, and painted. Sound like a good way to work off some turkey this weekend.

Hope you all eat yourselves miserable, and remember to not make mom do all the dishes. She worked hard cooking, do the right thing when she starts to clean up.

Matt

Pics are finally here!

Hi all! So sorry for the delay, but I finally managed to get the ultrasound pics into a format that I could save onto the blog.

Enjoy!

This is the proof of baby Max as opposed to baby Maya! If you need help figuring this one out, it's as if he were sitting on the camera - top is one leg bottom is the other leg, then the "Max" part in the middle. Get it now?

This is one from the side - you can see his head and belly, then one arm with his hand next to his head. Yes, we know it looks like his head is separated from his body, but the technician assured us all was fine! :)

This is one of the 3D pictures. The doctor says these will turn out a lot better in the next ultrasound in the 3rd trimester. Right now he's so small it's hard to see a lot.

Last one - this one is Matt's favorite. He says he can tell that Max has my nose...the Ward nose!

Max is moving around more and more now, which I love for the most part. The only time I don't love it so much is when I get up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night and he decides it's time to play. Usually takes a while to get back to sleep after that.

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!! We certainly know what we have to be thankful for this year!

Love you guys! :)

Fun day in baby land!

Happy Wednesday all! Sorry we haven't posted anything since the BIG NEWS was announced last week, but I've been trying to get the ultrasound pictures scanned so I can include them. Well, it hasn't happened yet...I'll try to get them done today.

We are all SO EXCITED that we're having a boy!! Obviously we would have been happy with either, but we didn't make much of a secret that we wanted the first one to be a boy. The first Greer boy - he'll have fun being dressed up by all his female cousins for the next 12 or so years! :) Baby Max (yes, that is his name) was a little over 9 oz last week and as healthy as can be!

Yesterday in baby land was a lot of fun. First I got a call from USA Baby that our crib has come in, so we'll pick it up this weekend. Then Matt called to tell me we had a big box from Amazon - our bedding had come in! We LOVE IT! It turned out so much better than we thought. Picture is below. When we get the crib set up and the bedding in the room I'll send actual pictures.




The other very exciting thing yesterday was that Matt was able to feel Max moving around for the first time last night. I'm not sure what I ate yesterday that Max either loved or hated, but he was acting out last night turning flips and dancing around for hours! I think Matt was a little freaked out, but he'll get used to it like I have! If you haven't ever had a baby, it really is an odd feeling. It also feels great because you know he's doing well in there and growing like he should!

OK, I'm going to be late for work. I promise to get the ultrasound pictures posted soon.

Love you guys!!

It's a BOY!
Just got back from the Dr's office and we have pictures to prove it. YES!!!
More later...Matt

First time...part 2

First Time... For me.
I thought it time to weigh in a bit on what's going on with the other half of this newly pregnant duo. Oh, yeah. I can hear Jen now: "Um, WE are not Pregnant. Unless you wake up every morning with something the size of an avacado recreating a gymnastic's routine from the Beijing Olympics on your bladder or the fact that every smell from the garbage, to unscented candles, fried food, Men's cologne, toothpaste or the glue on Post it Notes make you swallow back a little bit of last night's cereal. We are not pregnant."

Ok. I get it. GIRLS get pregnant. BOYS get ulcers...

Like Jen, I'm anxious as a 5 year old on Christmas Morning, waiting to see if we're having the fifth Greer Girl or the first Tyrant Boy. I have two brothers, one has three girls, the other just one girl. So, is it asking too much to demand a boy? Besides, I don't think I can deal with Female Teen-Aged Drama of She-Was-My-Best-Friend-Now-She's-Dating-My-ExBoyfriend stuff. Or the "Now, how do I distract Maya-the-Toddler in the Men's Bathroom at ... (fill in the blank with any public restroom without her mom) so she doesn't ask fifteen questions about what I'm doing and why he's doing THAT beside me." As you can see, I now forsee every awkward situation between my kid and the world occuring at my feet. Literally.

Funny thing about this 'Name our Baby Boy' item over on the left... EVERYONE loves the name Miles Hamilton. I think some of you guys thought the poll was actually for you dear readers to determine the future name of our baby boy. Jen just threw that up as as fourth name to round out our little poll. We do appreciate you taking the time but it was never really an option. Unless Nike, Cheerio's or
e-Bay want to thow in some cash.....

If we are blessed with a girl, Maya Ruth she shall be called. My little brother Adam has already asked permission to call her Baby Ruth.GREAT... So two years from now when some of you see our little (hopefully!) boy, you'll be like "Tyrant, your silly parent's wanted a boy so bad if you were a girl they would have nicknamed you after a candy bar."

So does anyone care that my wife goes all exclamation point crazy when she writes this blog?!?!
That's ok, I get all CAPITAL LETTERS and dot dot dot (...) on ya.

Thursday is quickly approaching and most of you will sleep the peaceful dreams of the innocent Wednesday night. Jen and I will be tossing and turning those last torturous hours before the fate of the free world comes crashing upon our heads. . . Wait. Got a little carried away there... Jen and I will lie awake all night staring at the ceiling a little nervous, yet at peace, praying our little Princess or Tyrant comes into this world as a healthy little runt, happy, and surrounded by great family and friends.

Fingers crossed...Matt

Lots of fascinating info....

...OK, not really. I'm really only posting today to say that I don't really have a lot to post about! We're so excited about the ultrasound next week! I can't wait to finally prove to Matt that I'm right and it's a girl! :) I feel like after next Thursday, we'll really be able to get the ball rolling and start buying stuff and getting prepared...you all know how I like to be prepared!

So I promised that I wouldn't get political on here because this is supposed to be about family and baby, but I want to say one thing and I'll leave it alone. I'm sure you all know I'm disappointed about the election this week, even though I'm not surprised at all. However, I truly hope that Obama can prove us all wrong and really make some changes for the better. If my team couldn't win, I pray that the team that did win will be successful at bringing this country together and making the future better for my children. And if they don't, here's looking forward to 2012!! Maybe this was the wake-up call our party needs to get it together.

Ok, that's it. Last time, I promise. :)

I hope you all have a great weekend, and I can't wait until next Thursday when I can post about baby Maya or baby Max/Miles/??????

Love you guys!