Just a quick note about the doctor's appointment yesterday:

Christine is now 1 cm dilated and is officially now ready to pop!
The doctor predicts that little baby is not so little anymore. From examining Christine and her tummy, she thinks baby is probably about 8 pounds! Christine's understandably nervous about this. "It's your fault!" She said with a giant smile on her face. "You're the one with the giant frame. Not me."
I can't help but feel a little guilty.

We are both nervously excited and as ready as we'll ever by for the huge change to come.

Stay tuned for more frequent updates.

Off to a restaurant while we're able to...

-Jon

New videos.

Hello everyone,

Things are go well. Christine is relaxing and happy.
She has a doctor's appointment today, so we will let you all know how it's going. We will post more pics as well.

I have two new videos to show you that I've been trying to post for some time now; but to make a long, boring story short, I'm unable to post it directly onto this blog.
So instead, I've stored it on another website that's very easy for you all to access:

1. Simply visit www.videoegg.com.

2. Sign into my account by clicking on the "Sign in" on the top right of the screen.
Screenname: gumgum
Password: 1234

3. Once signed in just click on one of the videos and it ought to play.

For those of you with slower connection speed, it will take longer for the video to play, but it should work if you give it some time.
Let me know of any of you have had any problems viewing these by leaving a comment.
One of the video's audio is wonky. Sorry about that. Don't know what happened.

-Jon

Week 37 - well almost 38...

So as you can see - I am pretty large these days :)

Little things like putting on shoes and getting out of bed are such a major ordeal at this point. It takes me forever to get ready to go out of the house and by the time I'm all set I'm in a full sweat and ready for a nap! I think I am almost to the point of having had enough of this pregnancy thing but I am still not quite mentally prepared for the labour/delivery so I am holding off on that for a few more days (hopefully...)

It has been really great to have some down time over the holidays. Jon and I have had a quiet and restful Christmas. We have both been catching up on some sleep - though its never quite enough it seems. Jon cooked everything over the holidays including a prime rib dinner with yorkshire puddings and EXCELLENT gravy! We had no need to make any dessert with all the sweets that we received from our moms for the holidays! Thank you!!

I'm off for a nap before little New Year's party - hope I can make it to midnight!

Happy New Years everyone!

A snippet of Christine and her big belly.

More pics of the baby's room.

Blogger can be picky sometimes. I had to break up the post this morning, as it doesn't seem to like too many pics in one post.
The characters were inspired by a Swedish folk artist by the name of George Nebren.
My arm was sore for a week after I had finished all the painting.

-Jon

Pics of the baby's room.

This is for those of you that couldn't view the video.
The video was mostly just an experiment - to test for future use when the baby finally arrives. We plan on posting many little videos of the baby thoughout the months and even years...

Here it is. It's a farm theme!

Sorry to everyone that has a slow connection speed. This might not work for you.
If so, soon we will post pics of the baby's room.