The Year of Baby Fraz

Hi there!  It has been a busy time of year for all of us!  The holidays are always especially busy.  The picture to the left is from Matt’s birthday.  He bought me a juicer for Christmas and we have been experimenting with many concoctions of juices.  I believe this was a beet, grapefruit, and lime juice.  Not our favorite one but still tasty!  Since the last post the basement contruction is coming to an end, we had our front door and door frame replaced, we celebrated Matt’s 29th birthday, Matt ran his first ever 50K, and we started registering for baby gear (which nearly gave me a nervous breakdown because I hate shopping and felt like I didnt have a clue as to what I was supposed to get)!  Also the dogs ran away 2 times and, one of the times, I took a big fall and got pretty banged up.  It took about a week to recover but am feeling better.  As expected the doctor does not recommend falling so I will do my best to avoid this again:)  Wow a lot can happen in 2 weeks!!! 

It’s funny, I think that in the back of my mind I was very calm and relaxed about Baby Fraz’s arrival thinking that I wouldn’t really have to kick the planning into gear until 2010.  Lo and behold it is 2010!!!  Only a few more months until his/her arrival!    Can you believe it?  So as the hormones kick into full force I have had some little meltdowns.  Ryan, Bryce, Joel, Christine, and Matt have put together a great effort to help expedite the basement renovations.  It looks like we will be hopefully painting then getting carpet sometime this week, and installing the toilet, shower door and sink next weekend!  You would think that then we could kick back, relax and enjoy this but there is the little issue of Baby Fraz’s room posing as a storage closet right now:)  So next plan is to clean out that room and organize the stuff that we have so that then we could begin painting and organizing Baby Fraz’s room before his/her arrival in April.  To make sure that we are documenting all that is occuring in the preparation for Baby Fraz, Matt bought me a great baby book where I can write down everything.  I took time the other day to start that and it was really fun to reflect back on the past 6 months!  Can you believe I have been pregnant for 6 months?!??!? 

As for Baby Fraz, he/she is moving around all the time!  I feel a ton of kicking, sliding, maybe rolling etc all around.  In the past the movement was really low but now I feel it all over!  It is really fun for all of us!  Baby Fraz’s aunts, Christine and Colleen, were both able to feel the movement over the holidays and Baby Fraz did not disappoint!  Just the other day we were trying to listen to the baby with this monitor that Matt bought for me, we could hear kicking but then the baby went wild!  I don’t know if there was a sound wave omitted from the device that got him/her moving but the device was just bouncing on my stomach because Baby Fraz was kicking so incredibly hard!  You could see the movement clearly just by looking at my stomach.  Another pretty neat moment for us. 

So now as we have entered 2010 I can’t help but think about all of the wonderful blessings to come, many of the wonderful “firsts” that will happen this year.  We can’t wait to meet Baby Fraz, give him or her a proper name, and for all of you to share in our joy!  It looks like it is going to be an amazing year! 

So without further ado……  Here is a picture that we took at 24 weeks of my growing belly!  It seems like every day it gets a little bit bigger and rounder! 

Until next time…

Erin 🙂