Rumble Seats

Now that Owen is done with his final exam, he has been anxiously awaiting me going into labor. After our doctor's appointment yesterday, he was convinced that I would start last night. So, in an attempt to "help" me along with the process, he has decided to take the Honda Civic to all of our destinations. Last night as we were going over the dirt/gravel parking lot of the baseball parking lot and this morning as we were going for bagels through a construction zone, he was optimistic that would be just the "bump" I needed to put me into labor. Now, he will tell a very convincing story as to why he decided to take the Civic for each of these trips (vs. the smooth ride of the Equinox), but don't be fooled...as we were going over the bumpy terrain he asked if I was feeling any labor pains yet, so I know there was an ulterior motive. :)

Scientific gender prediction

In conversations, we found that many people believe our previous methods for predicting the gender of our baby flimsy and prone to error. Laura's coworkers used this as an opportunity to provide us with a foolproof prediction method. We put it to the test and captured it on video. Here are the results. Enjoy!

No Differences Yet

So, it's been about a week since the positive test, and it still hasn't completely sunk in. I think we keep having to mention it to each other just so that we can get used to it. We've both talked about it and, despite the test, nothing seems to have physically changed yet for Laura. If she hadn't told me that she was late, I would have no idea that anything was happening. I think they need to have something happen to signify that a woman is pregnant, like having her belly button turn blue or something. It would make it seem like something actually occurred.