Hooray!

Obama won in Wisconsin! We couldn't be happier. Jeff, some of his coworkers and myself all attended the Waukesha Town Hall where Obama came and spoke for a couple hours. It was cool to be a part of that and see him speak in person. He is very charismatic.

I am 21 weeks this week. Can this pregnancy go any slower? I really think that once spring comes with warmer weather, it will go quicker. My belly is showing and I can definitely feel him kicking each and every day. He's quite a mover!

My friend, Stacy, started a baby pool (no fees, just for fun). If you want to enter and haven't... let me know! You can go to expectnet.com and go to the game named "Maddern_2".

Jeff and I are participating in an event next weekend called Bowlin' for Colons. Our friend, Kate, has stage 4 colon cancer and the disease has also affected people on Jeff's side of the family. Our team name is the "Bowl Movements" (BMs for short!) If you care to send a donation with us towards the cause, let me know and we can arrange that.

Kami is going through a bit of a hitting/kicking phase right now. We're trying hard to curb that. Most kids go through it, so I am trying hard to not get too down on it. But, especially since I am pregnant, it's not good to get kicked in the gut! Jeff just wants to put her down for a nap when she hits. LOL But on a good note, she shows us how increasingly smart she's getting each day. She can count to three (for the most part), she can tell you where most of her body parts are and she is using more and more words all the time. It's so much fun to see the new things each day. I do, however, miss some of the innocence she had before she could hit, not listen to you or refuse to do something. But I certainly can't complain. She is an amazingly good girl. We can only hope that her brother is of the same temperament as her.

Snow Day!!

Kami and I are home today due to snow... they're saying 10-16 inches! I'm doing some work from home, as much as I can with Kami around. I also updated our website home page, if you haven't noticed! Along with that, I have started a new project. TicketStubCollection.com. This will be a collection of my ticket stubs as well as other people's. I am hoping to get lots of people to send me a digital image of their ticket stubs to post on the website.

I am 19 weeks this week in the never-ending pregnancy. I think it feels so long because of this long, snowy winter. Hopefully it goes faster once nice, warm weather comes. We had our BIG ultrasound last week and it is confirmed a boy. No doubt about it. So now we're pondering names. Have any suggestions?? Send them in!

Hope everyone is safe and warm on this snow stormy day! Go Obama!!

Kelly

Is it summer yet?

Well now that the Packers blew their chance of being in the Super Bowl, there's nothing left to be excited about this winter. Time for the snow to go and the nice warm summer air to return.

Baby number 2 is coming along nicely. We had a couple scares due to some bleeding, but all is well. We find out next week what the sex is, although we're already 90% sure of what it is. We even have a name picked out... I think.

Kami is becoming her own little person more and more each day. She's increasing her vocabulary on a daily basis. Luckily, when she says "No!"... she's mostly just mimicking the word. She doesn't quite know what it means and where it will get her. When she says No, I say Yes and then she says Yes. If only it was always that easy.

I've uploaded a lot of recent pictures. Be sure to check them out. And when you're going through... feel free to leave some comments. We don't have many and I'd love to have something to read.

Happy end of January!
Kelly

14 week ultrasound

Kami's 15 month check up

Kami is in her 15 month check up at the doctor as I type this. She has to get 3 shots, plus her flu shot if they let her. She couldn't get it earlier in the season because she had croup. Jeff just called me to tell me the stats that the nurse gave... 40th percentile for weight (21 lbs), 75th percentile for height (31 inches) and 90th percentile in head circumference. Yes, you read right... 90th percentile!! LOL

That's all we know for now... except that she's the cutest little girl EVER! :)

Happy New Year!

It's already the second day of January... 2008!

The holidays were great for us. Busy and hampered by some pregnancy tiredness and ill feelings, but overall a good time.

Kami got into the gift opening pretty well by the end of our holidays at various places. It was much more fun than last year.

Mama Digdown's had a great show at the revamped Majestic in Madison and it was a lot of fun. Jeff used his new pocket trumpet he got for Christmas during the gig.

Now we're back to work. Back to real life. We have our 2-year wedding anniversary to look forward to, as well at the usual Green Mill gigs in Chicago.

Only about 6 months to go until the new baby arrives. Aye.

23 days until Christmas!

We had our first big snow storm this past weekend... it left a mess! Jeff was gone yesterday until today and I was unable to get out to shovel. Now it's 7:20pm and Jeff's out there trying to shovel the ICE! Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny and 33... so he's going to try to only shovel some and hope that the rest melts tomorrow.

I spent the weekend with Kami. I used to LOVE girl's weekend, but now that Kami is soooo active and I am sooooo tired... It's a little harder to enjoy. It's so sad that going back to work tomorrow will be more relaxing. I just try to remember that it's all worth it... just 7 long months until the new baby comes.

I put up the stockings and some Christmas decor today. We have to go get our tree to get the rest of the stuff up. I really need to work on collecting more holiday decor for the house. I don't have enough. The only signs of Christmas are our mantle and our front room when the tree gets up.

Amazing Race is on right now... so I have to pay attention! Until next time...