Random '09

~I have to brag briefly. Yesterday morning, Keith and Garrett were reading "Rudolph" and Keith was trying to get Garrett to tell him the letters in the word Rudolph. Garrett looked at him and said "It says Rudolph." Keith said "I know what it says, I just want you to tell me the letters!" Then today we were on our way home after running errands and we passed a Walmart semi truck. Garrett said "That says Walmart."

~Keith bought a GPS system and it came in on Wednesday. He seriously loves that thing already. Initially he wanted to send it back because there's a small flaw in the screen and the back of it is missing a cover over one of the screws. (Keith is very particular about things like that.) But now I think he's fallen in love with it so hard that he's going to have a hard time sending it back and waiting for another one. He asked me last night what I would do if this were my GPS. Then he retracted and said "Well, it is your GPS, but... well, you know what I mean." LOL So I said if it was completely mine, I would just keep it because it works fine and those little flaws don't bother me, nor would I have probably even noticed them in the first place. But I can understand why he's aggravated, so I don't care either way. Send it back and he's fully justified in doing so, or keep it because the flaws don't affect how it works. We'll see what he ultimately decides. He has it at work today...even though he rode with his boss because they had to go to Fort Worth and his boss has his own GPS. I'm telling you it's true love. Had I known which one he would have wanted, I would have bought him one for Christmas and I could have gotten all the credit for an awesome gift. It's too late now.

~Yesterday we had Christmas with Keith's family. We had a good time and Garrett got several gifts. He is currently playing with the playdough factory which he absolutely loves. He's been playing with it off and on for the past 3 hours. It's not like he's never played with playdough before, but this particular tool that came in the factory is new to him and he apparently loves it (almost as much as his dad loves the GPS.) Keith and his dad both bought each other guns for Christmas, not surprisingly. Keith bought his dad some sort of rifle with a scope on it and his dad bought him a .45 stainless steel revolver with a holster and 8 boxes of ammo. Garrett was thoroughly intrigued with both guns. He loved the scope on the rifle, but was so funny when he was trying to look through it. I don't think Garrett has any choice but to be a huge gun enthusiast, he's surrounded by it.

~I've slowly started taking down our Christmas decorations. Right now everything I've taken down is on the dining room table. Last year when we took down all the decorations, they never made it out of the garage into the attic where they belong, but Keith is determined to put them in the attic this year to clean up our garage some. So I'm going to wait to box them up until he's ready to immediately take them to the attic. It will be nice to get our house back to normal.

~I have baby appointment #3 on Monday. We should get to hear the heartbeat which will be really fun. I'm also hoping he'll let me know when we'll be doing the ultrasound to find out what we're having. Garrett is on a baby sister kick right now. He punched me in the stomach earlier today for saying that I thought we were having a baby brother. That didn't go over too well with me. But I really don't think he's going to care one way or the other. Yesterday he was around his 8 week old cousin, Michael. He stared him down for awhile at one point, but he mostly just ignored him. He didn't even care when I held him for about 15 or 20 minutes, so I thought that was a good sign. Of course Michael slept the majority of the time so Garrett never really got a chance to hear him all out crying and, in turn, potentially get annoyed or worried about him. I've felt the baby move very sporadically. It's mostly been small tapping in my lower left abdomen. But it's not even a daily occurance right now. I know in the next month it will become more frequent and more noticeable, so I'm trying to enjoy the minimal movement right now. The first time I felt Garrett move I was 16 weeks pregnant and it seriously felt like he did an entire body flip all of the sudden in my abdomen. I'm sure I had been feeling smaller movements before that, but that was the first one that registered with me.

~Once all the Christmas decor is put away, I will seriously begin tackling the guest room which is a current disaster area. I want to completely clean it out and then paint. At that point I'll start slowly moving Garrett's things in there, making a very valiant attempt at getting things organized from the start. Then we'll set the crib up in Garrett's current room and I'll start moving down our baby equipment from the attic. I told Keith once this stuff comes down, it's not going back up. The only thing that would go back up would be if we have a boy, then I'll be boxing up Garrett's clothes as he outgrows them and moving them temporarily to the attic. We only plan on keeping the pack n play and the highchair. Everything else will be given away when we're done with it. The crib turns into a headboard and footboard for the full sized bed we have, so it will continue to be used. I have no plans for painting the baby's room until it's older and I know its personality, likes, and dislikes. If it's a boy, he'll inherit Garrett's nursery decorations and will have a John Deere tractor/barn yard theme. If it's a girl, I have some pictures that I'll hang in there and will just have to buy some bedding that will match. In a way, all of this is overwhelming, but I know that we have about 6 months till the baby gets here, so that helps. Though I do want Garrett moved into his new room atleast a couple of months before the baby is born. I think that would be easier on him.

I think this is about as random as it gets. I should get off here now and put away some laundry. I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year's day!