So when you get an awesome deal on a beach house directly on Folly Beach in Charleston for a whole month, you get what you pay for! It’s not quite the beach resort I was hoping for, but at least it can’t get any closer to the beach. The realtor sent us a couple photos beforehand that were so tiny you couldn’t really see anything. After “seeing” these photos, we figured it wouldn’t be the Ritz. Now that we are here, I see why she didn’t send us photos we could actually see. We have to be extra careful in the bathroom so as not to flood the apartment below us. According to the post-it notes all over the bathroom, if we move the rugs, or if we turn the shower on too high, we will flood them. I’m a little nervous each time I step out of the shower that I may just fall through the soggy floor into another apartment! The realtor mentioned something about the inside being updated, but I can’t see anything that looks like its been updated since 1982. I think the icing on the cake is the really old peeling wallpaper that is “updated” with scotch tape to hold it on the wall. I’m not even joking here. Oh well, the beach is definitely the bright side of this situation and being in Charleston is going to be a lot of fun.
Friday, September 4, 2009
“We don’t like white babies”
We had to go to Sam’s Club the other night to stock up on diapers and decided to combine the trip with our traditional Sam’s Club $4 date night (2 hot dogs, a huge fountain drink, and a cinnamon sugar pretzel). We found a table right next to a cute little black family with 2 funny little girls who obviously did not realize how loudly they were talking. Adeline was a little fussy so I was holding her in my lap while we ate. The 2 little girls (probably about 6 years old) next to us were discussing babies. Here is how their conversation went:
girl #1: I once got to rub a baby. You ever rubbed a baby?
girl #2: No, but I want to rub that baby. (referring to Adeline)
girl #1: Go ask them if you can rub that baby.
girl #2: No, you go ask them!
girl #1: But we don’t like white babies!
This is the part where I almost choked on my hot dog because I was laughing so hard! The girls continued to hover and eventually made eye contact. We smiled at them and one of the girls said “we’re not supposed to talk to strangers” and they both ran to their mom who was in line ordering their food. After a few minutes the came back and politely asked if they could rub my baby. I probably crushed their spirits when I told them they could see the baby, but not rub her. Luckily, she was in the carrier, so it would have been hard to rub her anyway, unless they were planning on rubbing her face. They ooh-ed and ahh-ed over Adeline for a few minutes (who can blame them?). I guess they really do like white babies after all!
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Daddy’s Little Girl
Over the past few weeks, this love has only grown. Rob is always eager to hold her, change her diaper, and even feed her. He wanted me to start pumping right away so he could get a chance to bond with her during feeding time too. When she cries, he will cuddle her and let her suck on his pinkie finger to calm down. And you can tell he loves it as much as she does. Sometimes he’ll be all cuddled up with her, reading her a book or singing her a song. Both are so fun to watch because Rob likes to add his own flavor to the book/songs that he shares with her. My favorite thing are the songs—since Rob is not quite up to par on knowing all/any of the words to lullabies and nursery rhymes, he makes up his own words. I cannot count how many different versions of “Hush Little Baby” Rob has sung to Adeline. He just throws in any words that rhyme whether they make any sense or not (usually not). Here is my favorite “Rob original" version of Patty-Cake that I overheard him singing to Adeline the other day:
Patty-cake, Patty-cake
Addie is my girl
You are my girl
Cause you’re made from my sperm!
This is probably a sign of things to come…he will probably be one of those dads that is very open about the birds and the bees :) So to finish off this blog in honor of Rob, I will post some more photos that he has spent hours taking and perfecting. And a side note to Rob, I hope I haven’t embarrassed you too much by this post. I love you so much and want you to know that you are a wonderful husband and father!
Saturday, August 1, 2009
The Photo Studio
The plus of having your front room turned into a photo studio:
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Adeline Jane Egbert
Born July 22, 2009 11:45am 7lbs 19.5 in
On Monday I could tell this pregnancy was getting close to the end and decided that we needed to pack our bags for the hospital, just in case. We still thought we would have about another week, but it felt good to get ready. I went to see my doctor Tuesday morning to make sure everything was going as planned and he sent me home saying everything was normal, just the usual signs of my body getting ready.
Tuesday evening rolled around and I noticed that I was getting more and more uncomfortable. By 9:00 pm I was having my first “real” contractions. We started timing them and, sure enough, they were coming very regularly about every 6 or 7 minutes. That’s when we really got into gear picking up the house, double checking our hospital bags, and calling our parents to put them on stand-by. By midnight we called the hospital but the nurse said not to come in until the contractions were 2-3 minutes apart and really strong. So we got in bed hoping to get a little sleep (yeah right!). By about 2:00am the contractions were hardly bearable and still very consistent at 6 minutes apart. Rob got a little sleep (maybe 2 hours) while I suffered through horrible pain for the next 3 hours, every 5 minutes. By 5:00am I could hardly take it anymore and we called the hospital again. The nurse said we could come in and get checked, but if I wasn’t dilated enough yet they would send me home. At this point I didn’t care, I just wanted to do something other than lay there counting contractions so we loaded up the car and got to the hospital about 5:45.
We got settled in triage and the nurse checked everything and by this time I was dilated to 3cm so she let us stay! I was SO glad we didn’t have to go back home, but she let us know that it would probably still be a long time before this baby came. Once they got us admitted and into our room the nurse told me I could have the epidural whenever I wanted, so we went ahead and got that at about 8:00. It went super smooth, and I hardly noticed him put it in. Rob had a doctor’s appointment scheduled for that morning so I told him to go ahead and go to it since I would just be sleeping. He left around 8:30. The meds started working right away and I was so excited to finally be able to sleep! With all the stuff the nurse had to do I finally dozed off around 9:00. I think I got about 30-45 minutes of sleep when Rob got back. The epidural had slowed my contractions down so the nurse had given me some potosin to get things going again. She came back to check me at about 10:00. When she checked, we were all surprised when she said I was 10cm and it was time to start pushing! I was actually a little disappointed because I was hoping for about 2 more hours of sleep first! I started pushing at about 10:25 and pushed for about 30 minutes to get this girl ready for the “real” pushing with the doctor. We had to wait about 20 minutes for the doctor to get there and then started pushing again. I pushed for him through 2 contractions and out popped our little girl! I couldn’t believe how easy it was! With the epidural, I couldn’t feel a thing.
She’s a wonderful baby, sleeps pretty well and feeds pretty well (so far). Everything went as smooth as can be. My parents made it to the hospital about 30 minutes after she was born and have been helping out a ton. We had lots of visitors at the hospital and have been on the phone/email/facebook trying to keep everyone up to date. We came home this morning (Friday) and Rob and I both enjoyed a nice long nap while Nana and Papa took care of the little princess. All in all, there were 2 stressful things about this whole situation: 1. making it through the miserable night of labor Tuesday night and 2. Not having a name picked out until the day after she was born! We were back and forth on names so many times but finally decided on Adeline Jane. We figured we will call her all sorts of nicknames like Addie, Addie-Jane, baby Jane, and Janey, so she will probably be thoroughly confused! Whatever we call her, we are both so in love with her and of course think she is the most beautiful baby in the world. She’s got Rob’s hair and my long tongue so we know she’s ours! Enjoy the photos…there will be plenty more to come!
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Baby Room!
Here’s photos of the baby room! The only things that are not ready yet are the window treatment and 1more pillow. I got the design for the room/bedding in my head months ago and its so fun to finally see it all put together! My mom and I made the crib bedding and matching accessories. Rob did a fantastic job with the beadboard and the painting (I was a good assistant, but he did most of the work!). I think we did a pretty good job at making it a very girly room, even with all the blue! Oh, and the big picture of Gob on the wall will be changed to a family picture once we get this little girl out of me!
