Orzo's Room

John and I have been hard at work getting the baby's room ready. You might remember from earlier posts that it was a very bare room that initially was an office. We have cleared out all the office furniture, taken away the computer (though my father thought Orzo should start off with her very own computer), installed a new light fixture and a new closet system, painted the room, and finally just added furniture.

We knew we would have to put together the crib, but had assumed all the other furniture would come in one piece. The deliveryman informed John that the rocker/glider would have to be put together and that it was incrediably difficult to do. Everyone either paid him to put together the chair or called him back within a few hours to get his help. With all the things we had to do around the house I would have paid to have it done, but the delivery man put so much emphasis into how difficult the chair was to put together that John saw it as a challenege and proudly told him we would do it ourselves. Fortunately, John was right and easily put the chair together, the crib was another story and took all afternoon.

PS If you look closely at Franklin's tail you will notice that he got covered in white paint after a painting mishap!

Parties all around

It was overall a very festive week, my brother in-laws birthday was on Sunday, Franklin's birthday on Thursday (Rob isn't always so happy that he has to share his B-day with the dog!), and my friend Kelli threw me a surprise baby shower yesterday. It was a complete and total surprise, I thought I was arriving at her house for a Pampered Chef party and instead arrived to find all my coworkers with baby gifts yelling 'surprise'. How a group of 30 women kept the baby shower a secret I will never know. Thank you Kelli and everyone else it was so exciting to see everyone there and 'oh and ah' over all the adorable baby clothes and toys!!!

Happy Birthday Franklin

Thursday we celebrated Franklin's 3rd 10th birthday. It was 2 years ago on Thursday that Franklin arrived at our clinic as a stray unable to walk and covered in ticks. (I should note that it is because of Kelli that I ended up adopting Franklin) He made a full recovery from his 'stray days' and has made a full recovery from his tumor removal surgery in August. He does look a little unhappy in his party hat, but take a look at a video of him on a typical day prior to bringing him out for a walk.

10 weeks left

It is hard to imagine that I am in my last trimester and only have 10 weeks left to go. Considering the long list of things John and I want to get done around the house and we have to fit in Thanksgiving and Christmas in between, I'm not quite sure how all of that is going to happen. My family has recently been making all of our plans for the holidays, but the funny part is that while we can do all the planing and scheduling we want to, Orzo prefers to keep her time of arrival a secret and could drop in unannounced at anytime.

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