Picky Eaters

I saw this article in the Washington Post today about adults who are picky eaters. The first person I thought of was my sister Anne, who is the pickiest eater I know. Everybody has their food phobias, but the people in the article are pretty extreme.

I can't stand to eat any food that looks like it does when it is alive (whole lobster, fish with head and tail, etc). Your food should not be able to look at you with its eyes while you are eating it. Texture is a big issue with me also, yogurt and pudding I have always had a problem with. Now since I am pregnant I cannot eat most meats, expecially chicken and pork. Just can't stand the feeling of chewing meats. So weird.

Dayton in the NY Times

I was checking out the New York Times today and what do I see? The great Dayton Art Institute featured in an article about the new Rembrandt exhibit.

Earlier this year I decided to finally become a member of the art istitute and it has been worth the money. For being in a small city, the museum has really had some fantastic exhibits in the past year. Plus they have their Oktoberfest next weekend which is usually a good time. No drinking for me this year, but there will be good food and shopping. And I do love the shopping.

Ultrasounds are awesome

I had another doctor appointment today and my due date has been moved to February 25th. Everything looked good and healthy, which is wonderful news. Last week I felt the baby move for the first time! It was such a weird feeling, like a tickle or butterflies in my stomach, but completely awesome. Thanks to my dad we now have a scanner so here are a few pictures:
From my last ultrasound at 13 Weeks.

From today's ultrasound at 17 Weeks, I think the head looks like an alien.

Today's ultrasound, some great pictures of his/her hand.


Today's ultrasound, the spine.


The doctor took a ton of pictues, but half of them are hard identify what's actually in the picture. At least to us. Not sure when my next ultrasound will be, hopefully then we can find out the gender, the doctor said what he thought the baby was, but couldn't give us a 100%. So we have a good idea, but I'm not going to say in case he was wrong. But we are very excited!

I am ready for some football

This has been a football filled weekend! Saturday evening B.J. and I went to Columbus to our friend's place to watch the OSU vs Texas game. Our friend Nick (best man at our wedding)has a new HD TV which is the best way to watch anything. As much as B.J. and I would love to buy a new HD TV, I think that is a few years away. The game was awesome as the Buckeyes overpowered Texas. I drove B.J.'s drunk ass home and about 5 minutes away from the house I am pulled over by the Ohio State Highway Patrol for speeding. Luckily I just get a warning. This is the first time I have been pulled over since college, since I speed all the time I guess I have been lucky.

Sunday is a lazy day where B.J., Flanagan, and I sleep until 10:30. We continue to be lazy by laying around reading the paper, and watching football. B.J. does make some excellent waffles for breakfast and we watch the Browns/Saints and Bengals/Chiefs games. The Browns lose, but they show some signs of life, better than last year. The Bengals look great. B.J. is looking forward the Giants/Colts game tonight.

For dinner we head over to the Italian Food Fest put on by the Sons of Italy. B.J. has a meatball sandwich and I have some pasta. They were out of calzones so I think I will have to make some for dinner this week. The food was pretty good, not much of a selection since some of the booths were sold out. For dessert we get a cannoli, some cookie, and a funnel cake that had some Italian name. The funnel cake was the best. Mmmmmm, funnel cake. (New Simpsons tonight)

I didn't accomplish much this weekend, but after all the cleaning of last weekend I don't feel that bad about being so lazy. This week will hopefully go fast, I am not that busy at work and on Wednesday my boss and I are going to Ft. Wayne, IN to see a quarry. Should be interesting, at least it's better than being at work.

Have a good week everybody, hopefully it will fly by.

The funniest thing I've seen in a long time

Wow. Classic.

More Home Repairs

This weekend B.J. took out the carpet in our former office, soon to be baby's room, and to our surprise the hardwood floors look very good. We were going to put new carpet down if the floors needed completely refinished, we didn't want to deal with the work and mess of sanding, staining, etc. B.J.'s dad said that a good cleaning, light sanding, and a coat of poly is all we need. Plus we will need some additional molding which is fairly inexpensive. We will have to paint the walls, but are waiting to find out the gender of our baby. If it's a boy we will paint the walls blue, yellow if it's a girl. I can't wait!

B.J. Working.

The worst of the damage to the floor, which is not much at all.

Super Long Weekend

I realized I haven't posted in forever, but for a summary of my weekend, check out B.J.'s blog. I am still on my holiday weekend since I took today off of work. I have not been very productive at home, just did a load of laundry, but I did go maternity clothes shopping.

I am having a hard time finding pants that fit. I really only have two non maternity pants that fit right now and my two pairs of maternity pants are a little big. I went to Once Upon a Child today (a second hand baby and maternity store) and tried on seven pairs of pants. None fit, it was so annoying. It seems that most maternity pants come in Small, Medium, or Large which is very irritating. The smalls are too short and the mediums are way too big. I did find a jean jacket and sweater from the Gap so I bought those.

After that trip I stopped at Starbucks for a Chi Latte and a piece of marble cake. It was awesome. I went to Old Navy since I have one pair of pants from them that I like and am actually wearing right now. I ended of buying three pairs of pants that actually fit! One pair is the green version of the pair I already have, Jeans, and khaki's that rollup to capri length. I also bought some longer regular shirts since the maternity shirts are too big right now. Then I went home before I could spend any more money.

I forgot to take any pictures of our Labor Day party, but here is a pictue of Flanagan and I from Saturday. He's making sure I don't fall off the couch, how nice of him.