I believe we are officially in the third trimester. This pregnancy has flown by and Angie has been great through it all. She still has some swelling in her feet, but so far it hasn’t be unmanageable. She’s also having pain in her ribs, which we were told to expect, but which I’m sure get’s old after a while.

Some exciting things have happened lately though. First, we received our baby furniture. We have a dresser, crib and nightstand that we picked up on Saturday. Bob and Robin were so nice to go with us and let us use Bobs monster truck to haul it all back to the house. The nightstand and dresser were already assembled, but the crib was not. Let’s just say that it was your stereotypical furniture assembly project. I read, and reread the first few steps multiple times before finally calling in some help. After we got going, it wasn’t too bad and I think it’s going to look great in the room. We have a glider on the way which Angie’s mom sponsored. :) Thanks Mom! Hopefully it will get here soon, so that I … mean Angie… can relax in it.

Another exciting thing is the movement that we can now see on Angie’s belly. The baby is now large enough that we can actually see the movement. No big hands or feet yet, but just seeing her belly jump around is cool enough for me. One of the things we read is that now is a good time for the dad to start talking to the baby. That was a little weird for me, and I found it hard to keep a straight face or be serious, which presents it’s own problems. See, the reason I’m supposed to talk is that it gets the baby used to my voice. That way, when he comes out he will recognize my voice and be comforted. My problem is that he would come out thinking I sound like Darth Vader…. “Tater, I am your father!”. So to fix this little problem I’ve decided that I’ll read to him. (Just as a reminder, the words he, him, etc aren’t meant to infer that he will be a boy… she may be a girl… I just dont’ like “it”.) Lately I’ve been reading a book that Rich and Leigh gave me for my birthday, which takes the pregnancy/first year from a mans point of view. It’s brought us quite a few laughs.

Which reminds me… I’ve been suffering from something commonly knows as “sympathy weight gain” and I realized I was either going to have to do something about it or buy some bigger pants. So I start doing some reading and have started watching what I eat. I figured I don’t have time to go the gym right now, but I did throw in a set of push-ups and sit-ups a couple nights ago for fun (and do plan to do some more). The best part was that the first day I decided to do this (including the push-up/sit-up deal) we were reading the book, and it just happened to be the section about weight gain. To summarize, it essentially said I would get to a point where I tried to diet, and then I’d do some push-ups and sit-ups and then I’d start finding excuses and rationalizing why I didn’t need to do any more. Angie loved that… we’ll have to see if it holds true. I hope for my pants sake that it doesn’t.