SCAN TILL YOU DROP

Making a baby registry is almost as much fun as making a list of dreams, but this time you get them ALL!!! Becky and I had an appointment with the baby doctor one afternoon and after, we decided to go and scan some items at a few stores; Buy Buy Baby, Target, and Babies R Us. Becky said “lets scan a couple items to get the gift car that they were offering (my wife LOVES saving money) We have been stocking up on diapers when Target has their gift card sale, if you buy 100 dollars of select baby product you get a 25-dollar gift card...SCORE. My wife LOVES Target, but mostly she loves to save money, did I say that already, I love that. The deal was if you make a baby registry and get a $20.00 gift card. So I tried to document the fun time at Target as much as I could. That place has so many things stuffed into its baby sections, there was things I have never heard of, but people swear by them, like the spatula for diaper rash cream…a spatula? Seriously a silicone “diaper cream applicator” or the abundance of shampoos and the lotions. I believe we had such a great time we lost track of items scanned, a few went to 82 really quick.

Some guides for our travels

Baby Colander??

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Gotta keep that new baby smell!!

This one got me in trouble...

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

I know this blog is about becoming a father, but i have to say that without Moms there would not be Dads so I just wanted to say HAPPY MOTHER’S Day to all the mothers and soon to be mothers out there. I have told all the mothers in my life Happy Mother’s Day, but the one that is extra special, is my wife Becky!! This year has been awesome and is only going to get better.

DADS BOOK CLUB

I am not going to lie, I know NOTHING about taking care of a baby, but having my awesome wife and her brains I knew I would be ok. When my wife Becky told me we were pregnant, she did so by having my open a package that had come for me that Sunday morning. I brought it in and then opened it, there they were, some Dad books, to be specific DADA, My Boys Can Swim, and my personal favorite Dude You’re Gonna Be A DAD! I have read each of these books a few different times in the last six months, they have answered the dumb or embarrassing questions I have had and didn’t want to ask my wife or Siri. I have learned a ton from these books, but after talking to a good friend the words “that shit you read goes out the window when the baby is here”. He also said I could call with the dumbest questions, stating that he had probably had to asked for himself at one point. I would say to the first time dads to read books, watch YouTube tutorials and, learn as much as you can because when the baby arrives it’s GO TIME!!!!

PICK A NUMBER, ANY NUMBER

The question arose the other night from my wife regarding how many more kids we wanted after the baby. I laughed and said “lets see how this one goes”. After thinking about it I said maybe two more, but with as quick as I said that, she replied with “ok, so if we go to Disney who rides alone?” I was taken back and didn’t understand, so she clarified it by saying if we have 5 people and the rides are two seaters, who rides alone? At this point I am thinking if my wife has lost her mind. Until this point I didn’t know Walt Disney was going to have any input on my number of children. I did have to laugh and say yes you make a very valid point. We both come from families of different sizes her parents and my father  had small families growing up and so did my wife, on the other hand my mom came from a family of 15 and I come from a family  of 5. So I guess planning a family may not go as planned, but it is always good to have an idea of it so when it gets asked from family and friends you have an answer. My answer now is; we are going to have enough to have a ride buddy.

NEW PAIR OF KICKS

Reading the title of this entry you may think that I am going to talk about my new shoes or maybe tires for the car. This blog is nothing more than the first time I felt my child’s kicks through my wife’s belly. I came home and all she could talk about, understandably was that the baby was kicking ALL DAY LONG, so I said sweet let me feel and then it started…. Nothing, the baby must have known I was waiting for some movement because for the better part of an hour I tried to feel this small foot or fist beat my wife from the inside. The key we found out was ice cold water and some music to get this thing moving. Then it happened, this baby gave me a high five and I don’t think I can put into words, the joy and amazement that I felt when this happened. The days following, I felt the baby more and more and also witnessed a kick with my eyes, yes I can now SEE the bump rise and fall. This certainly brings life into perspective and I know these 4 months will be great even before our 2 becomes our 3.

THAT'S....UMMM.....NICE

So picking a name is something I thought would be way easier than it is. A name is something that is going to stick with them the rest of their lives, people name their children for many different reasons, for example a relative’s name, one that they want to carry on, a memory that brings good feelings or just because they like it. When my parents picked out names for my 4 siblings and myself, they all had meanings, my sister Tammy was for Tammy Wynette the country music artist, my sister Tiffany was for the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s, my sister Sarah was because of Sara Lee Bakery, Jeremy my brother was simply because my Mom like the name, now when they finally stopped at perfection that handsome baby boy was named Shane from the old western of the same name. My wife has 3 Ann's in the family, but no one knows where the name had come from, they must just like the name I guess. my wife and I have chosen to keep our baby's name a secret until the birth for a variety of reasons, but we have multiple choices in case the awesome name #1 doesn’t look like the baby, but name #3 does.

TO FIND OUT OR NOT????

My wife had always said she wanted on of these "GENDER REVEAL" parties to announce the sex of the baby to our family, friends and of course US, but in the last month and a half it has changed more then the direction and speed of the wind. I had said i have always wanted to find out at our 20 week appointment, but if she really wanted a a party I  told her i could wait the 12 extra weeks to find out because i knew that was going to make her happy. Now it is one day "yes we will find out", then the next "I think we should wait". My wife works in LDRP at Aurora so she is around everything baby, even if she were to choose to wait for the party, i do believe she would "cheat" and have one of the girls scan her to find out the sex and of course she wouldn't tell me. We have our ideas of what the baby is going to be but those have changed as did whether we are finding out.

NEW WHEELS!!!

Made our very first big baby purchase today and all i can say is wow these things are short of a fully load Mini Cooper!!! i took this bad boy or girl around the store for a few laps great handling on the turns. In all seriousness pushing this made this journey of our first child more real then ever. I can't wait to push him/her around the block on a nice fall evening.

Love at first beat

At our 14 week dating ultrasound we learned the baby is healthy and growing like he/she should be. We were told we could hear the heart beat if we wanted and of course we were more then excited to hear this, all of a sudden thump thump, thump thump, thump, this is the first we hear our baby’s heartbeat and the emotions come and over take me tears begin to roll and a smile is permentantly on my face. My wife is balling because it is a healthy baby with a strong heart beat and that is all we care about. 

BABY MAY AUGUST 2016

Our announcement to the world about our bundle of joy!!!!!