On September 4 at 1:31 pm, Julia Joy Carlo came into the world. She weighed in at a very healthy 8lbs 9oz and was 20.5 inches. We are both doing well.

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Steve and I are expecting a little girl in the middle of September!

I am now unmistakeably pregnant. Don't want to run into anyone and have them wonder why I didn't mention it. Mostly just too busy between the house move and the trying to work again.

We finally settled on our house. Irony abounds. We didn't want to settle back in January but the seller basically gave us everything we wanted but the date. Then the settlement gets delayed by some legal issue that happened from when he bought the property. We get delayed but not before packing up our entire house and packing a few days worth ( Read more... )

Yep, Sitting in Bowie right now. We (David and I ) got here late late on Tuesday. Spent Wednesday driving around DC trying to find a parking spot near the bank and failing miserably and battling mild food poisoning brought on by Safeway's salad bar. After several days of pizza and burgers I thought we should have something healthy turned out to ( Read more... )

From cthulugrrl: Post a comment here, and I will pick seven of your interests. Then you post in your own journal explaining those interests.

compostingOK, when we moved here Steve and I started gardening. Container gardening because of all the wildlife around here. Deer, rabbits, bears, foxes are all my neighbors. Turkeys regularly run up my driveway ( Read more... )

1. Leave me a casual comment of no particular significance, like a lyric to your current favorite song, or your favorite kind of sandwich, maybe your favorite game. Any remark, meaningless or not ( Read more... )

Don't know how long these guys have been hiding but David has his upper 1 year molars! When he gets a full set a world of food is going to open up to him!

Since I am no longer keeping David's baby calendar, feel the need to record this somewhere.

Yesterday David was 22 lbs 14.5 ounces and 32.25 inches tall.

He running everywhere, climbing, getting into everything, talking, he says about 10 words consistantly and babbles constantly.

We have been back for a little bit (since last Sunday). We had a fabulous but long vacation. Saw loads of people and had time to do it, partly because some people were on their own vacations and we had 3.5 weeks to do things! It was a long time to be away from home. I was worried about leaving things for so long ( Read more... )

The past 2 weeks I have been dealing with ( Read more... )