Can You Believe It?

We have less than 2 weeks until the baby arrives! Today is the 1st of December and according to our doctors we're looking at December 10th for our due date... on or around that day!

It seems like just the other day we were hearing the heartbeat for the 1st time and now, very soon, we will be holding a little person to be named at a later date. Within weeks I will be changing poopy diapers, holding the baby, and waking in the middle of the night to get the crying baby and hand it to my lactating wife! (I won't be much help when the little one is hungry. Not at 1st, anyway.)

4 Years With This Turkey?

That's right! Today marks our 4 year Wedding Anniversary! We've been together for 4 years as man & wife! SO much has happened over the past 4 years, and as we all know, within the next few weeks a bigger change is expected - just over 2 weeks until baby comes. But for now we will spend this day, Thanksgiving, with my family, eating turkey, watching some football and celebrating our Anniversary down on the Bay.

Since we probably won't be going out much once the baby comes Sara and I went out for a celebratory dinner earlier in the week. We head back to the site of our 1st Anniversary; Osteria 177 here in Annapolis. We did not take a picture to commemorate the night because... well for 2 reasons Sara would tell you. 1st of all, we normally take a picture that we end up using for our holiday cards, this year we're waiting for our new addition and 2ndly, Sara ended up dripping some of her Pumpkin Ravioli onto her shirt. (The Pumpkin Ravioli with crushed Amaretto Cookies was AMAZING!)

A Few Free Nights...

...But not really! It is true that I was off from job #2 for the last 4 nights but that's only because job #1 crept into my evenings for a few days. I'm helping our with the school's holiday theatrical production so after school rehearsals are needed. Also we've had parent/teacher conferences these past 2 weeks and I've had to be available for a few hours into the evening for 4 days. It was funny to hear some co-workers complain about being at work until 7Pm or so when usually if I'm on a double I work until midnight.
Getting home around 7:30 or so was a nice change of pace. I could have dinner with Sara, relax on the couch and go to bed at a halfway decent hour. It also made me think how I'm really going to want that time at home once the baby comes - in 3 weeks! How can I make that happen? Hmm?
If I'm working close to or over 70 hours a week now trying to prepare for the baby is it possible that once the baby comes - in 3 weeks - that I can cut back on a few hours so I can see the baby that's coming in 3 weeks or am I going to need to continue to work 70 hours a week just to keep us a float while Sara is out of work? Logic seems to say I need to keep working. So I guess that's what I'll do for the time being. Until something else comes along, I guess I'll savor the free nights I get when I can get them.
By the way, there's only 3 weeks until the baby comes. (In case you didn't get that already.)

T-Minus 1 Month!

Here We Go! Not as prepared as we'd hoped, and not as ready as we'll ever be!

Here's the pic I shot during the video

BOO!

Halloween is here and once again I do not know how it snuck up on me. True I've been busy but I'm always using that excuse these days. I had some great costume ideas but not the time or finances to put them together. I carved a Jack O'lantern that has slowly been nibbled on every night by some local wildlife. I worked the whole weekend and today. I didn't get to see the niece and nephew dress up, hand out candy or even just give someone a good scare. We did get a chance to watch a few classic silent film horror movies such as The Phantom of the Opera, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Nosferatu!

Oh, and I kinda gave half-hearted attempts at dressing up at work for the weekend. My most popular costume was my normal work attire - company shirt, name tag, etc - and a pair of butterfly wings. Every see the little girls running around with fairy, or butterfly wings strapped to their back? I did that. I got many different reactions.

(Reposted from my social network page.)
'You're a fairy,' said this cute little girl noticing my butterfly wings.
'No, I'm a butterfly,' I replied. 'I'd look pretty silly as a fairy, wouldn't I?'
She paused, opened her mouth to speak, paused again and then said, 'Um, you still kinda look silly.'

Tomorrow is November, the holidays will be here before we know it, and hopefully we'll be enjoying our little present soon. I'll try and post again before that happens.

I Should Also Add...

...That a year ago I was nowhere near being ready to have a child. I'm still not as ready as I'd like to be. But ready or not we have 6 weeks left until this baby makes its grand entrance. Much has changed in a year, and I'm betting that the year ahead will be full of even more changes!

A Year Ago...

The worst thing about my job was my commute. Nowadays, the best thing about my job is the commute.

Maybe I've Been Working Too Hard!

'Obama put troops in Africa. You didn't know?'

'You've heard about these Wall Street protests, right?'

'Guess you saw that Ghadafi was killed?'

NOPE! I didn't know, I hadn't heard and and I haven't seen! I've been getting up and hitting the grindstone pretty hard the last month or so and realized I really hadn't taken the time to sit down and watch a news program. I think I'll spend tomorrow, before I have to head into work, catching up on some current events. Oh, and I should also try to get more done on the baby's room - 7 weeks to go!

Another Video Post

I should be working on cleaning out the room, setting up the room and getting the room ready for Baby Cobb but I took a little time to record a message.

Where Have I Been?

The simple answer is that I've been B U S Y ! There's not much time to blog when you're holding down 2 jobs, working close to 70 hours a week, and preparing for a baby! There' not much time for anything, not to mention the fact that I've committed myself to read a certain number of scripts a week in order to help a local theatre company pick out its next season. I have been busy.

In the last month, besides working, Sara and I attended a wedding for a friend of mine. It was our 1st coutry wedding - the groom wore cowboy boots - and Sara I were hoping to share a slow dance between two steps. Last Sunday, my last day off, I went to the NOCC Annapolis Break the Silence on Ovarian Cancer 5K & 3K Walk, had brunch with the family, and took my father and increasingly pregnant wife to the Renaissance Festival!
Here's Sara and I heading towards the finish line during the Walk.








Sara left this morning to visit her family in Minnesota. I stayed behind to work, and watch the dog. I know she'll have fun visiting with her family, they'll love experiencing pregnant Sara, and I am disappointed that I could not go with her, but sometimes life is about sacrifice. Now I must go to sleep so I can get back to being busy.