16 Weeks 5 Days (Part 2)

I threw that last post up rather quickly. Nicole felt a "flutter". We still don't know for sure, but wow, who knew such a simple thing could be so exciting. She wasn't sure if it was a kick or not -- she had the beagle in her lap. It could have been his tummy rumbling. Anyways, I was already asking a lot if the baby had kicked; now, I'm thinking I'll be asking WAY more often, and I'll be adding a hand to her tummy each and every time. Yup. I'm excited. Just. A. Little. Bit.

So I'm way overdue for an update. Things have been CRAZY. We were hard at work refinancing our mortgage with a real bank (long story, but HUGE savings for us, hooray!). Just finished that and a tape library in Montreal exploded in a fiery stream of molten slag, and I had to rush out there and fix it. Nicole hates it when I have to travel for a few days; Pregnant Nicole despises when I travel.

While in Montreal we got bad news. Our sweet little Bear needs surgery. She has a bum knee and needs two operations on one leg, with another operation likely to follow not long after on the other hind leg. "Luxating Patella" and "Cranial Cruciate Ligament Rupture". Well, recovery means the poor thing has to live in a cage pretty much for six months. Bear, for those that don't know, is a very active, highly excitable dog of only three. I know we can do the surgery, but I worry about this recovery; and so we have to think about that horrible option C. Needless to say, getting this news while I was out of town was unfortunate.

So I finished up, came home, and took Friday off to start painting the nursery. Took me four hours to clear the junk out of the room, which left me an hour to paint before I had to pick up Nicole. I surprised her and took her out to lunch at Martinis, a nice fancy restaurant here in town (one that I get to visit on business lunches often, but she seldom gets to enjoy). We had fun, and both wished she could have a drink. By the time we got home, we had entered couch potato mode, and vegged for the night. Saturday was pretty much errand day. Sunday I went to see Iron Man 2 and then... came down with the FLU. Still fighting it now. Boy, did I feel like crap.

So that's the update, and my excuses for not posting. I might go into more specifics in a day or two on one or two items. Definitely more on the nursery. Later all.

16 Weeks 5 Days

Not 100% sure... but we think the little parasite just kicked for the first time!!