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15 Week Update from Baby Nelson
Hola from my round pool that I play in every day…it’s been a few weeks so I figured all of you are wondering what I’m up to nowadays.
Well, I’m 15 weeks old as of tomorrow. Time seems to be flying by! I hope my future parents realize this and get a move on to setting up a pretty sweet bed for me. (A DRY one will be nice). All I do now is float around in amniotic fluid! Not only do I float around in fluid, I’m now starting to breathe it in…let’s talk about me for a bit:
I’m probably the size of an apple or an orange… 4 in-4 1/2 in. I am getting huge! (At least the warden thinks this is big). My legs are now getting longer than my arms and all of my joints are now fully functional. I am so about to get into full ninja-mode up in here! My eyes still don’t open but if you shine a light on the outside, I should react to it. My skin is paper thin and has tiny little hairs all over it…just when I thought I was looking ‘more human’. It even has a name…’lanugo’. Whatever. But, that should all be gone by the time I make my grand entrance and I should be as ‘smooth as a baby’s bottom’… Haha…I crack myself up sometimes! I’m developing taste buds and scalp patterns, but I’m still bald on top. (sexy mental picture, I know).
The warden just keeps expanding. (At least that’s what I HEAR…quit the complaining lady!). But, from what I gather she’s still trying to keep it healthy and get her crossfit on so she can bring it all back together when I quit taking over her body. I’m poking out a little now in the front so she’s starting to actually look a little prego. I keep practicing some acrobatics but she’s not sure if she’s feeling it or not. Like I mentioned earlier, full ninja is coming soon so maybe in my next report she’ll feel me. She did hear my heartbeat Monday and everything is good…*smile.
On a more interesting note, the folks are going back to the other doc that was poking at me last time (bastard) in two weeks so I have some time to figure out those hand gestures I told you guys about last time. This time he’s gonna see what I got going on ‘down there’. I can’t see anything yet (hello fused-shut eyes), but I’m sure it’s pretty amazing since it’s such a big deal. The warden is counting down the days. I guess my next email will be pretty interesting!
Well, that’s it for now….till next time!
~BN~
Sent from my sac.
You’ve Got Mail
So Little Baby Nelson (LBN) has taken to sending out updates to a select group of lucky recipients every couple weeks. One was sent one out at 10 weeks, and again at 12 weeks. Will there be one next week at the 14 week mark?? Only time will tell. More importantly, how is LBN doing it?? Mini iPhone?? If so, how does it stay charged?? So many questions.
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Getting You Caught Up
First of all…I lied. If you scroll back just two short posts, you’ll see that I said I was going to keep this blog going even after all the hoopla surrounding the wedding ended…well that was a year and a half ago. Maybe I haven’t blogged because there just hasn’t been anything exciting to blog about. We’ve just been living the suburban dream…get up, go to work, pay the bills, squeeze all the fun we can out of our free time, rinse, repeat. Well that formula has certainly been turned on its ear a bit with the news that we will be welcoming our first lil’ un’ into this crazy world on (or near) July 4, 2012. Lesli is currently in her 12th week (and doing great), and we will be using this blog to once again keep everyone in the loop of our progress with pics, videos, stories, and whatever else we can cook up. So please check in periodically even if you are facebook friends with us as we will be posting some things on here that aren’t very likely to be on facebook.
Also, a few quick administrative details, I’ve left the links at the top for the time being. You can still read “About Us,” and the “Registry Info” is still there as it will likely be needed between now and July 4th, but I wasn’t really sure what to do with our “Guest Book.” Everything in there is wedding related, and now we’ve kind of moved on to a new chapter. Should I leave them?? Should I delete all of them for a new batch of comments?? Am I overthinking this?? Feel free to voice your opinons on these matters, and any other opinions you may have while you’re at it. Welcome back.
Pictures, Pictures, and More Pictures
It would probably take you about 5 hours to sit down and go through all of these, so please pace yourselves. Some of you may have even seen all of these before, but I still figured I would consolidate them all into one location.
…And They Lived Happily Ever After
Just like that…it’s over. What took months of planning, stress, poring over details, and big fat credit card bills, was seemingly over in a flash. And I do mean a flash. We would again like to thank anyone and everyone who participated in any way. I know we’ve already done so for the most part, but it can’t be done enough. First and foremost the parents. I think its pretty obvious this never could have happened without you. Next, thank you to the wedding party. I know it can often be a pain to be in a wedding party, so thank you for doing all that was asked of you along the way. Finally, thank you to everyone else who was involved in any way at all. Thank you to friends and family, to the people who participated in the showers, to anyone who gave us a gift (your thank you note is in the mail), and most of all to anyone and everyone who was able to be a part of the big day. I’d like to think that everyone had a blast during our wedding weekend, and that was our goal.
The plan is to keep this little blog going. Obviously its not a wedding blog anymore, so it is undergoing a little bit of a cosmetic overhaul (I did leave the registry tab up…just in case 
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Loads of pictures will be coming soon. Rehearsal dinner, wedding, reception, honeymoon, and everything in between. So keep your eyes peeled.
Well…Here We Are
We are Officially in Countdown Mode
Well, as of today we are exactly one month out. One month from the moment I’m typing this we’ll be partying it up at our reception as a newly married couple. Pretty crazy, huh?? At this point, the invitations are out and the RSVP’s are already starting to roll in (don’t forget to send yours in). In addition to the shower gifts we’ve already recieved, we’ve also begun to receive some of our wedding gifts with some of the “unable to attend” cards. We’ve also already gotten some use out of a great deal of those gifts. For instance, we received a cheese grater literally as I was cooking fajitas last week, so it immediately got used. And with all that, we are more or less in the homestretch save for a few of the smaller details. We’ve finalized the menu with Maggiano’s for the rehearsal dinner and we’ve met with the wedding coordinator at the church and selected all of the readings/music/etc. But first, next weekend, we will take a welcome break from the real world of wedding planning for a few days, because its time for…bachelor/bachelorette party. Look out!!
Wedding Planning with a 100% Chance of Showers
Well despite having the bulk of the wedding planning taken care of, we have still been very busy, and now have reached the point of taking care of all of the details. Lesli and I had the really, really, really tough job of going not only to a tasting at Maggiano’s to choose the menu for our rehearsal dinner, but also a cake testing at Romano’s so we can decide on our cake flavors. Poor us. We also got the invitations all picked out, and Mrs. Brenda is currently putting a lot of time into addressing the envelopes for those invitations (thanks Mrs. Brenda). As a bonus, my hand crafted map to be included with the invitations was so awesome, that I’m pretty sure the lady at the invitation store added me to their vendor list.
Also, since our last posting, Lesli and I have been treated to a couple of wedding showers. First we had a shower in Rayne, Louisiana at Lesli’s grandmother’s house. This shower was nice because it was the first opportunity for a lot of our family to meet each other. Then, earlier this month, we were given a shower here in Dallas at The Quarter Bar. It had a Mardi Gras theme complete with beads for everyone, and most importantly, real deal Gambino’s King Cakes. We’d like to thank everyone who contributed to either of these showers in any way.
I think we’ve had our engagement announcement appear in about 4 different newpapers, and sometimes more than once in those papers, so here is one of them…from which paper I’m not even sure.
