We think we are doing okay...

So it seems that there is somewhat of a routine appearing, although it's not a steady one, but it's there.  We can normally get at least some sleep at night.  Colin is doing the normal healthy baby things: poopin' eating, sleeping, crying.    We've noticed he has a couple of personalities.  He will be very cute/handsome or just furious. 

We have a couple more albums to share so take a look:

https://picasaweb.google.com/plethora3333333/RestOfAug?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCKye9ezfn7OuiAE&feat=directlink

https://picasaweb.google.com/plethora3333333/TheFacesOfColin?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCJKT0c-Wysi3zwE&feat=directlink

First photo album

We'll be posting photos and videos of Colin's progress.  They won't be here forever (we have a data limit) but I think you can download them.  We'll be keeping them on the computer so you could also ask us about the pics if they aren't here. 

https://picasaweb.google.com/plethora3333333/ColinHospital?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCNvGoaWYloqxSw&feat=directlink

https://picasaweb.google.com/plethora3333333/ColinSFirstDaysAtHome?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCK-n_fOzh6HZCw&feat=directlink

We are all happy and things are going well.  The sleeping routine is getting figured out, luckily we are both home for a while.

Colin Richard Rybarczyk

Colin weighed in @ 1:14am Fri Aug 12, 2011. He's 7 lbs 4oz and 19 3/4". Jenny did and is doing very well. YEAAAA!!!!!

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Colin Richard Rybarczyk

Colin weighed in @ 1:14am Fri Aug 12, 2011. He's 7 lbs 4oz and 19 3/4". Jenny did and is doing very well. YEAAAA!!!!!

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Are we there yet?!

No.

He is apparently biding his time with his little baby nun-chucks, repeatedly assaulting Jenny from the inside.  He just needs to find the right way out we guess/hope.  Jenny has been doing well if you exclude the discomfort, sleeplessness, hunger but filling up quickly, swelling in the feet, etc.  We visit the hospital frequently for checkups and what-not and the baby is healthy, average size and all the right parts.  Now we just wait.  Hopefully our next post will be with the baby......

Almost there...

We're almost there. At our last appointment the midwife told us that other than gaining a little more weight, baby is ready. The crib and changing table are set up and ready to go, and the hardwood floors upstairs are done. We've moved back into our room and just need to get the baby room arranged. Pictures of all this stuff will have to wait a bit

Hobie

We got our dog

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Skip squash and go onto honeydew

Besides tasting better, honeydew is a bit more easy to picture.  There are too many types of squash and don't taste nearly as good.  Therefore we'll will be skipping the "squash" stage and move onto the "honeydew" stage (we're pretty much there anyway).

The baby moves quite a bit, it looks like something is trying to escape.  There is still some time though.  We've taken 1/2 of an intro to birthing class which has given us some good information about what to expect during the birth and some ideas on how to cope with it.  They also gave us a dolphin shape massage thingy which works pretty well so we'll go back this Saturday.

The baby shower was this past weekend and all the gifts filled the car.  Thank you to everyone.  Thank you cards got done right away, now we just need to mail them...

We also will be having another, sooner, addition.  That will be this weekend if things all go well.  Hobie will be our collie/german shepard.  We are excited about that.  Hopefully he'll (because all dogs are boys by default even though he's technically a she) be a quick learner and get trained before the baby arrives.

Baby room - done

We finished the baby room, now we need to do the floors in our room. Thank you to Jed for the help.  Here is a little video to show how the progress went.

This is before we did much work on the room.

Here is the room after we ripped up the carpet

And here is the completed room.  We need to touch up the clouds and probably redo the soccer ball.  They look much better through a camera not close up....

Moving along

Things are moving along.  The doctor visits are more frequent and the baby is doing fine.  He's in the 50th percentile for size and weight, so average is good.  We've been getting a lot of baby things like clothes, toys, things we don't know what they are, diapers. We need to get his room done so we have a place to put everything. His room is all painted, now we just need to put the flooring in (this weekend's job).   August will be here soon, hopefully he'll wait.
We think we have everything where we want it in the house, at least the room it will go in.  After the bedrooms get the flooring we can actually organize the rooms.  We are definitely keeping busy.  It's good practice, right?