Brunost 0, Diabetes 1

Sadly, I have discovered through several trials (and huge error) that Brunost (Norwegian brown cheese, shown here on the right) sends my blood sugar through the roof. We're putting our giant block of it that we smuggled home back into the freezer. Sob.

Picking a Pediatrician

This looks fairly straightforward. This lady looks pretty good (she's in the office every day, which is good), but I'm a little concerned she lists Hello Kitty as one of her interests. Gawd. I'm hoping her interests in allergies, eczema, nutrition and obesity balance it out. :)

SOLD

We sold our entertainment center tonight. I'm sad to see it go, but happy that we got some $$ for it.

The Missing Things

Dangit. We have three things missing in our apartment and well, it's driving me crazy. I suppose you could argue that crazier is a more accurate description, and you might be right.

Somehow on Monday night I had the list of who gave us what at our shower, and wrote some of the thank-you notes until I ran out. Now I can't find the list anywhere. I've narrowed down the gifts to mostly everyone, but am hoping for the others -- in order for them to get their thank-yous quickly -- that I can just write thank you for the baby clothes. I'm positive that's what they got us; I just can't remember for one person exactly which outfit they got us.

Next up: our wedding print, the Vanity Fair shot. You know the one. We have a 11x14 display print of it, all carefully tucked away to not get damaged. And we're not sure where it is. And we'd like to frame it before LG gets here.

The last thing is an adorable baby gift that I'd really like to use as soon as LG gets here. I'm positive it's not in the humongous bag of clothes for her, since I know that part of it was a duplicate gift (which we don't mind at all). I suspect it's still wrapped, but can't seem to find it.

Dangit. Even though I'm not Catholic, I might have to pray to St. Anthony. Somehow that always works.

Pete's reading up on baby stuff

LOOT!

Once again, we're stunned by the generosity of people. Seriously. My office shower was today and I can't even believe how much stuff we got. Little Girl has more clothes than Pete now. Seriously. Bags and bags and bags. PLUS and insanely huge gift card for buying the crib mattress and insanely priced breast pump, which you KNOW I'll be using at the office, so it'll really be nice that it came from my co-workers. In a nice way, not a creepy I'll think of you when I'm expressing breastmilk kind of way.

Here's a picture of all of the bags. Dude!


The rings of diapers were so cute; I put them around my neck and said I looked like I won the Kentucky Derby. My friend who hosted made me a special cake without sugar that I could eat, and made the other cake too -- how nice was that? She's very very sweet. We're so so so lucky to have such great friends. And I'm lucky to have such wonderful co-workers. Yay!

New week, new circumference

With only a few more weeks to go now..

Someone Likes Her New Bed

We cut up the two-inch memory foam topper that used to be on our old crappy mattress and put it inside Mrs. B's new bed (which arrived today). She uses her bear as her pillow all the time -- we didn't pose her that way!

The Hospital

In case you're wondering, here's the hospital where we'll have Little Girl. We're planning on doing a dry run of the drive to identify parking and the fastest route there, and possibly where I can get ice cream on the way home. ;)

Weekend PREview

Well, the weekend preview is looking fairly blank. We don't have a lot planned, besides chores and errands and stuff. We sat down Monday or Tuesday this week and wrote out a list of everything that needs to get done before the baby arrives. Some of the items I'm hoping we can tackle this weekend; as the pregnancy wears on my energy level seems to be um, decreasing. :)

• We had our next-to-last session with our financial planner this week, and have some homework to do by Wednesday, so there's that.
• We're finishing the entertainment center stain and though it has historically taken about oh, two weeks to dry, I'm praying for a miracle to have it dry by Monday so I can take it to the Home Consignment Center to get it sold and off our porch. Speaking of our porch, we might work on that this weekend too; it's a mess.
• I've got to work on the wedding album; using the Blurb software. Oh, and the first wedding album too!
  
• We've got to order prints of photos of family and friends for the Wall of Love in the nursery -- a wall of pictures of people we love to bring happiness and to remember that we're loved while I'm nursing for the 87th time in the middle of the night. Oh and get all of the frames in order. And figure out if we want to hang them on the wall or put them on shelves (my vote: wall)
  

See, we have plenty to do! We'll post Sunday night with a review of our accomplishments (hopefully!!).