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Holiday weekend!

Andrew Q Gordon

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Four months from today is the 'Due Date' for the baby - so like 17 weeks or so and my life is over :P Surprisingly there's been no new baby momma drama - well not since two weeks ago when she called to complain the check the bank sent her was not drawn on a bank in her area so she had to wait 'three whole days' for the check to clear to get her money and would I call the bank to find out why they didn't send a check she could cash. :blink: Yeah, um no sorry, not doing that.

 

Pretty much everything else is going as expected. Everyone is excited, Mike is busy looking at baby clothes, blankets, bonnets, whatever - and I am trying to stop him, we are trying to decide on colors for the baby room - we are leaning toward light green with some pink - er ... well Mike is leaning toward that, I'd leave it as it is - yellow.

 

Seeing babies now is such a different experience. Before I wanted one, now I'm scared cause I'm having one lol. Honestly, we are excited, probably naively so, but still excited. Mike is always saying stuff like, if our daughter does that ... or our daughter isn't going to be like that etc. Watch, everything we don't want is gonna happen. He is already picking out kids she can and cannot have contact with lol

 

We've started the paperwork to have her parental rights terminated, so when she gives birth, she has no rights. We've got to get the paper work to the hospital so that when the baby is born they know not to give her to the surrogate. That seems to be Mike's biggest concern, that they will make a mistake, give the baby to her and she will fall in love with it and disappear. I keep trying to reassure him that she isn't organized enough for that. But watch her prove me wrong again.

 

Added to the list of things we need to do before the baby is born is, get married. We thought about DC but the republican's in congress are making noise about adding a rider to some appropriations bill calling for the repeal of the gay marriage law in DC. We figure we need to go to a more stable state - since Maryland will recognize other states gay marriage - won't allow it on the own, but heck you can spend the money elsewhere to get married and be recognized here. :wacko:

 

Probably go to New England somewhere to do it, but we gotta get a move on it, summer is almost here and that's it. We don't want our daughter born out of wed lock :P

 

Going to go enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend, and try to keep Mike out of baby stores, or sections of department stores. :P

 

 

Andy

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Lugh

HAH good luck with Mike! Mama is nesting.

 

And good luck with pink.. every thing for newborn girls is pink. Get used to it.

 

And about time the two of you got married... living together, having a baby... shame shame shame... *finger wagging*

 

giggles

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K.C.

Awwww, such an exciting time. Enjoy every second of it. My brother just had a baby (hahaha-his wife had the baby) and when we were shopping for things, wow! The baby stuff has changed so much over the years.

 

They didn’t have half the cool stuff they have now when we had JJ.

 

I disagree with Lugh- not all girl stuff is pink. We actually had JJ in lots of cute non-pink stuff when she was little. You guys are going to have a blast but…all of that she’s not going to do this and she will do that…that isn’t going to fly! She’s going to have her own little personality and you two are going to have to deal with her being her!:D

 

 

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MikeL

Little girls are so cute. I was reminded of that just yesterday.

 

I think yellow is the perfect color. It's neutral, warm and cheerful. Most important, you don't have to repaint for the second child... or the third..... :P

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Marzipan

No pink, nooooo.... jk

 

I'm happy to hear that things are going well and into the right direction --> a baby flicka :D

 

I'm sure the momma will know her rightful place and do as you have all agreed and signed to do. If not... *** :P Try not to stress about it since there is not much more you can do.

 

You'll be such handsome groom :D I bet Mike will be too ;)

 

Joyful waiting!

 

 

 

 

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AnytaSunday

No, no. Life AIN'T over, it's just beginning. Really, Truly, Honestly.

 

Kids are miracles. But it's something that you'll truly appreciate only when you have your own little one with you.

 

Not that this counts for anything, but I waited until I gave birth before finding out the sex of my baby, so I had uni colors, yellow, green, blue for the baby room. Now, my hub's parents wished and thought it would be a girl, so they kept sending us pink stuff. (Yeah, so my boy wore quite a lot of pink, lol) Anyway, just wanted to say, you'll probably be given HEAPS of pink things. So, green and yellow would make a refreshing change. :P

 

Happy knot-tying too! :)

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Andrew Q Gordon

@Lugh: No kidding we are living in sin - :blink: so terrible. What will the crazies think?

 

@Frosty: Thanks :)

 

@KC: Evidently "Pottery Barn Kids" has it is picked out for us. They'll color coordinate everything, just come in an buy it. <_<

 

@Mike: First girl must me amazing for you and the family - congrats and enjoy - I agree with the whole Green thingy, but not so much on the second and definitely not the third LOL

 

@Maria: She'll be fine, she wants the money :) As for handsome, that'll be Mike - everyone else is going to ask why he's marrying me :P Oh yeah, not going overboard on the Pink, just a few touches here and there.

 

@Anyta: Well - we already 'know' so what - as Cia told me she knows someone who had 3 ultrasounds that said girl and then gave birth to a boy - I doubt that will be us, so I think the little bit of pink stuff we have/get won't be a problem :)

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Nephylim

Just make sure you value every moment and don't let her grow up too soon.

 

Yeah there is a lot more stuff out there than there was even when my daughter was little and yeah I did dress her in pretty dresses and frilly pants only to find that as soon as she knew what jeans were I had to wait until her 6th form ball (the closest we get to prom) to see her in a dress again... but today kids are wearin mini skirts and leather jackets before they can walk.

 

NEVER buy her a Bratz doll because they encourage all sorts of horrible things like wearing make up and high fashion... well at least wait until she's 10.

 

Give her a childhood. She already has a warm safe home and two wonderful parents so she's got a good head start.

 

looking forward to the piccies

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rustle

Andy, this isn't the end or the beginning, but it's def a turning point. Fight the pink, though, with everything you've got. It won't do any good, of course, but you'll feel better than if you just roll over. :2hands:

 

As for a wedding, Matt may have a great idea - I hear New England is beautiful in the summer.

 

Though you're going through the wringer now, you know hard-won victories are the sweetest, Daddy.

 

rustle

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Cailen

Get married in mass, there are a slew of places you can do it like Coggshall Park where I got married...

coggshall.jpg

pretty isn't it.

besides that... I'd get to go and lets face it, it's not everyday I'd be able to go to a celebrity wedding!

 

keep me posted if you need Massachusetts advice.

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Andrew Q Gordon

Hey Cailen,

 

Well if we do make it to Mass to get married and you make it, you two will be the only two there besides mike and me, that is sort of the plan it seems. But still would be grand :)

 

Thanks for the info and for being willing to help.

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