That’s not no sea monkey! Thats my kid!

 

So today i saw my child. it was by far the greatest experience yet. It was amazing christina & I saw its little heart beat again this time it wasn’t a pixel heart beat it was about 12 pixels acrossed. thats guesstimated of course. but it was pretty freaking great to see my little baby growing in my wives little tummy. i also say it move which was the most greatest part of it by far. it did a tiny curl twitch kinda thing. it was cute cause its the size of a gummy bear right now. so yeah we go back to the doctor in 4 weeks but we don’t get to see it. that is what sucks. we have to wait till its 20 weeks along thats along time to wait to see your child but i guess in retrospect 9 months total is a pretty long wait. takes a while to bake a baby in the mommy oven. (thats a sentence i never thought i would say)

In other baby news.

I am almost done ripping apart the nursery. i am going to re-drywall the whole thing then paint it and so on. that will be getting done in the next few weeks ill keep you updated on that. 

Also I am going to be starting the crib soon with my dad we are going to be building all the furniture in the nursery. don’t know if have said that yet. so we are going to be making a round crib. something different and something that will be an heirloom. plus i can’t do anything normal i have to be different thats just what separates me from the weasels & all the other weaselly like animals. 

-MeaD.

Man Cleaning.

I hate cleaning. I do it, but i hate it. Christina keeps telling me how much i suck at it too. which makes me hate it even more. i don’t know about you but i don’t pick up everything and dust under them. i just go around it cause honestly when is that last time you picked up that Bucket with the candy in it to see if there is any dust under it?. . . yeah thats what i thought. We have clutter in our house not junk but just clutter we have a lot of stuff and a small house. It never looks trashy but it just has a lot in it. I’m sure you know what i am talking about. almost everyone has one of those rooms that has a ton of stuff in it but nothing is trash. so moral of the story is i suck at cleaning cause i do a crappy job. which brings me to my favorite kind of cleaning. MAN CLEANING. yes man cleaning its the best. the kind of cleaning you use a push broom not one of those tiny little brooms. Yeah a man broom has to be at least 3 feet wide. That says I am only going to sweep this floor if i can do it in four sweeps. this is also the kind of sweeping that you don’t use a dust pan you use a shovel or you just open up the cannonball door and sweep it out side. OH YEAH thats what i am talking about. and if you are going to do any kind of sweeping you use a vacuum that is named for where you use it. The Shop Vac. yeah this vac is the best it don’t matter if its wet or dry im using that thing to suck up the mess. thats the stuff. I am saying all of this cause i was over helping my dad clean up his shop this past weekend. i was sweating up a storm and for some reason i just love it. just for the reason that i hate cleaning house. all you gotta do is make it look OK. “What are you doing don’t move that just sweep around it” yeah its like that. That is why the shop is the man’s territory cause there is no one picking up after you. which means you never asked where did she put that thing. its always right where you left it. its a good place to be sometimes i’ll tell you that.

-MeaD.

The Point of it.

First off i know this picture is wrong in like a dozen different ways. but i laughed. yeah call me a monster but i thought it was a pretty good idea. no matter how wrong it is. So I don’t have cable or anything the only thing plugged into my TV is my Wii & my DVD player. Christina and I just don’t watch TV. if there is something i want to watch. I just watch it online or i buy it on iTunes. If you think about it what do you watch that you can’t watch online the next day… yeah nothing all the networks have all there episodes online. goodbye cable. So anyway i don’t make it a huge point to watch the Olympics i think that last time i really wanted to watch them was when Charles Barkley was playing. Yeah The Dream Team you know what I’m talking about. I have friends and co-workers that are totally addicted to them. Some of them coming in dragging and they say. “Awww I’m soo tired i was up till 2 something watching the Olympics.” i personally don’t care enogh to watch them but i don’t have anything against them at all thats not what i am saying. but at i have been watching them on my lunches since they started. Due to the fact everyone at work wants to watch them so i am watching them too. but watching all the differnt sports and events are pretty funny when you break them down.

Diving = Jump in the water

Swimming = swim to that end then come back

Running = go down to that line

weightlifting = (my personal fav.) YOU!! lift that.

gymnastics = go jump around but make it look pretty

water polo = take this ball put it in that net.

We were talking about this at lunch the other day. the point of some of these things and when you break it down does it really sound that interesting. ill leave that to you. I know i really cut a lot of it out and really bastardized the sport. but i think its funny to really think of the point of all these things. but yeah thats all.

umm. GO USA!!!

-MeaD.

What’s the Point?!

Why do am I attached to so many social groups or networks?! I’m in a ridiculous amount of different networks where you see what’s going on with other people and what not. But seriously i’m in a lot. A lot of them i put up all the same stuff too. its not like i go to each site and post different stuff each day. I don’t i have one program that post to all of them. I am in a beta testing for Ping.fm its a site that is dedicated to help people update all the networks at once. interesting i thought. i can post to all these sites from my iChat, Phone, E-mail, & the Web. So I am not that big of nerd to update all of these places separately and checking them hourly. I check all of them maybe once a week if that. Cause all of them will tell me if anything has changed on the profile via email. I started doing all this for work as i have told you before but i don’t know why i am doing it to such the extent that i am doing it. The only reason i have come up with is to bring traffic to my blog. My Hits have started going up a lot lately and i think its due to that. i have been getting comments from people i don’t even know. so i guess that is my reason i am going to go with that one. i just love that all of these things are for social networking and seeing what your friends are doing but none of my friends are on these things. the only one where i have friends is on twitter cause i think almost everyone is starting to get on that wagon. I am just waiting for one of these things i am on to break cause some of them are pretty freakin awesome in my opinion. But they are not awesome when you have no friends in them. if i had a lot of my friends on some of these things i would love it. just to see some of the crap they are getting into. but no one is on them so they kinda suck so i don’t really check them i just update them. so yeah. no real point to this post just wanted to post something today….yeah.

-MeaD.

Friendship.

friend·ship /ˈfrɛndʃɪp/ [frend-ship] –noun

1.	the state of being a friend; association as friends: to value a person’s friendship.

2.	a friendly relation or intimacy.

3.	friendly feeling or disposition.

when you put it that way i guess there is not much to it. i have little friends or should i say a few. i have some that i could ask for help and they would come. others that would try to help as much as they could as long as it wasn’t really in the way of something there doing. i also have a friend that would drive across the country to help me no matter how dumb it may seem he would do it cause i asked him in a time of need. i know i would do the same as well. its hard to find that kind of a freind these days or any time for that matter its so easy to find a fair-weathered friend as they say. and it the worst feeling to find out that they turn out to be that type of friend too. trust me i have had my fair share of those freinds. Some times its hard to …not ignore it but i guess to acknowledge it. to truly tell some one that they are like a brother or a sister. that they mean alot to you and there friendship means more than words can discribe cause they have been there when your flat on your face. you have been there when they are flat on there face. and when that time comes your there even if its in another state you or they are there to help them or you up. and letting the one realize that they are going to be fine they/you have been thourgh worse and there will be worser days ahead and you/they will be there. its hard to find i guess thats all i am really trying to say. its hard to find a true friend. I just found out my true best friend is going to into the Air Force. Its scary to think of him getting into service during a time like we are living in now. The thing is being a good friend in my opinion  is never just telling some one what they should do. you have to let them make the decision for them selves the only thing you can do as a good friend is to make sure they know all the options for both choices. My friend had made a list of all the pros and cons and this seems to be the best bet for him. i hope to god it is. I know he is not one to make quick and irrational decisions. its just a lot to take in when you find out these kind of things. Its just something that has been on my mind the past few days.

My prayers are with you greg.

-MeaD.

My Little YouTuber

Oh finally you say a post that you are not talking about your unborn child. Well sorry this is indirectly about that. So christina has started a Video Blog, V-log, Pregnancy Journal, Video Diary. What ever you want to call it she is doing one now. She is doing it more for the baby then anything so when the baby is older it can see how it was coming along in the little baby oven she’s got. So when she told me she wanted to do a video blog i thought it was cute. I wasn’t really expecting anyone to really watch it. I’ve put up stuff on youtube and I haven’t gotten a lot of hits a few every once in a while but thats it. So she wanted me to help her with it so i said ok. It was a cute little thing that she could do to keep track of her progress. So i went all out for it i made a open for her blog and did some easy graphics just to plop in for her. She decided she was going to do one every week a weekly update on what’s going on with her, the baby, and anything related. with some random updates every once and a while. So she started doing it and here is the funny part when she is recording I can’t be around. yeah i have to go outside. Funny right. well she is not one that likes to be the center of attention. So i was like well these are pretty good some people we know might want to see this so they can know whats going on with every thing with the baby. She was like

NOOO!!! i don’t want anyone that knows me to see this.

…Pause…..

um you do know you are posting this so the world can see this right? 

yeah but i don’t know them.

Oh…..

so i kinda left it at that. i really didn’t push it that much at the time. so she did her first one and then she was getting people to watch it comment and even subscribe to her channel on youtube. There were actually people that wanted to keep knowing what was going on with her. I was like WOW you have had a hundred people look at this in a week. crazy. So she started getting involved in her little youtuber pregnant community. its cool she has found something to do that she really likes. so she is going to keep doing it. she posted her week update last week and right now it has like 435 views 7 days that many people watched it. I couldn’t believe it. So i asked again if i could at least talk about it on my blog. she said NO i don’t want you too. so i said ok. then yesterday she is asked if i announced it i told her no. so she gave me permission. you thought i went and did it any way didn’t you…. I’m not that mean. So she is really in this little thing check on people and seeing what they are doing and what not. i found it funny when people were asking her doctor questions like she is a expert. she answered them but saying im not a doc but i read that [answer here] I started to see that she really like to just see what people were going thru and if it is the same thing thats happening to her. she really likes it and she checks it constantly to see if her freinds on there update anything. So yeah here is the famous debut of her YouTube Channel.

Christina’s Pregnancy Video Diary  

Enjoy

-MeaD.

Houston…We have a Heart Beat!

So we have our first baby picture. I have become one of those people that talks about there kid all the time. I never understood those parents. I kinda do now. Its hard for me to describe it its the most exciting thing in the world to me. nothing is more important that my child and my wife right now. I think about both of them constantly. I never had anything against these types of people the ones that always had pictures of there kid. Telling you what they just did the other day. How cute it was and you should of seen it. OH no you can see it i was video taping. Those kind of people i never thought there was anything wrong with those people they love there kids good for them but sometimes i don’t care about what your little tike did with a spatula, a trampoline and a baby duck… well i kinda want to know that but you know what i am talking about. I know i am not really a full fledged ” You’ll never guess what [kid name] did yesterday” Parent yet. its slowly happening though i am turning into one. I’m not really trying to stop it either. I don’t know if that is a sad thing or a good thing. It kinda hit me today by the way I am a father. the second i saw that gelatinous blob with a tiny flickering heartbeat that was it. I was that little blobby things DaD. No matter how good you are with word & no matter how many words you use there is nothing to describe that feeling the second that you realize your a father. Today was kinda of scary, exciting, and a whole bunch of other words i don’t know too! we had a bit of a scare Christina had some cramping and she called the doc and they told her to get there or go to the Emergency Room. I don’t know about you but every time i hear from a doctor go to the Emergency Room I don’t automatically go “Oh! So nothing is wrong at least.” so I left work in a hurry and got her and took her to the doctors office they check her out and we saw our BABY!!! and we say it was looking good it was the right size and in the right place. Which made us very very happy. Thats where we saw a tiny little heartbeat. Actually let me explain how tiny this pixel heartbeat really was on the screen look below to see about how small it was

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see it. yeah thats how big it was. but they didn’t see anything wrong so they just said must be from growing pains. so now we have our first baby picture. its super exciting and i have already begun to become one of those parent type folk.

-MeaD.

Future Thinking.

 

So I’m having a kid which means I’m going to be a DaD. It really just makes me wonder what kind of DaD I’m going to be. Its kinda scary right now trying to think that I’m am going to be responsible for a little things life. Well half responsible. I know there are always those people that are like “when i have my kids I’m not going to be like my parents. I’m going to be better.” well quite honestly my parents did a damn good job. i hope i can be like them. Then only thing I really want to do is be one of those DaD’s that play a lot with the kid. I know I won’t be the kinda dad the forces the kids to play sports. Due to the fact that i never played so i don’t talk about the big game my senior year like it was the pinnacle of my life. So its just so much to think about me being a father. Its just thinking about will i do the right things to make the kid grow into a good person. I’m not horribly worried if I’m going to be a good DaD. All you need to do for that is love the kid no matter what and the whole no beating it thing too. There’s another thing too i really don’t want to be the dad where the kid fears me. I know someone fear you HA! well i don’t want to have my child fear me but at the same time you have to have respect. My dad always told me you Demand respect from a kid to earn there respect when there older. I think that holds a lot of weight too. I’m not going to lie there were times where i was scared to death of my father. I just want to kinda be that DaD where the kid can come to me if something is wrong. i dunno its just a lot to take in all at once. I guess its the fathers-to-be that don’t worry about it that need to worry about it. and the ones that worry about it are the ones that don’t need to worry about it. i think I’m in that “don’t need to worry” bracket. i think since i care i’m doing something right and the kid isn’t even born yet.

-MeaD.

Wait?! What does two lines mean again?!

**I know before i really even start this this is going to be a long entry. there is alot i have to talk about  so before you even start sorry for the novel blog…

well… IM GOING TO BE A DAD!!!!!

yeah crazy. so i will start at the beginning.

Chrisitna & I found out about a week ago. We had a pretty good feeling that she was pregnant cause of certain signs she was showing.  We were really excited and thinking about all the awesome things that would happen if she is. Then she took the test and it was like…”is that another line?! IS THAT ANOTHER LINE!? first reactions: Me- I’m going to be a DaD!!!(super excited) Christina- Oh my god. what are we going to do. I’m Pregnant.(super worried about how we are going to do it) So of course she started worrying and I told her to just enjoy the moment. So we were SUPER excited and had to tell someone and we got dressed and we were at my MoM & DaD’s in 5 minutes. We told them and it was so awesome to tell my parents that I am going to be a parent. it was great the first thing that came out of my DaD’s mouth was “Really?! Well its about Damn Time!” my mom didn’t say much she was in shock i think but they were both happy. Everyone we told was really happy for us. that whole day we went visiting to everyone in my family and Christina’s Family. That was a very tiring day with all the visiting. I think the highlight of the whole trip is when we were at christina’s great grandma’s she is up in her years and so it started we got there and she was going to tell her right off. but she couldn’t get a word in edge wise which was hilarious. it wasn’t till 45 min of us being there when she finally told her and this is how the conversation went down:

GG(great grandma): Yeah so Mike is doing good with everything.

Christina: well thats good. So Guess what granny?

GG:What sweetie?

Chrisitna: I’m gunna have a baby.

GG: well thats great. So next week I am having a guy come in and grout my bathtub its gunna cost me 250 dollars and to finish it another 50dollars thats 300 dollars just for that.

Christina: …..oh……uh….really? how about that.

I love her great grandma she is so funny sometimes. We think that it kinda took her by surprise so she just didn’t know what to day but that. or just is just funny and old. so after we told the whole family we got home and took time to pass out and be exhausted. So then we really started to let it sink in and all the things that we have to start thinking about. We also started to make fun of how Christina has started to Pee like every hour. She was putting out more liquid than what was going in. I know for a fact there were some laws of physics being broke. then monday morning when we were driving into work I scheduled our first baby apt. and we were all excited. that night is when we had the start of what you never really hear about when expecting. all the fear that goes along with having a baby in that belly. Christina went to the bathroom and she noticed there was a little bleeding everything we read said that can happen with the implantation but she also was having cramping and all the books say having one of those is ok. but both together is bad. it is signs of a miscarriage. so that worried us to death so we called the doctor and he told us to come in the next morning. So we got to the doctors in the morning and they took blood and made her pee in a cup. Then we went in for a ultrasound which was really cool to see Christina’s insides. so they did that and the doc said the walls are getting thick and the hole is closed. so those were all good things to hear i was told. Then they told us to come back in two days to check  her levels to see if they are going up. so she did and they didn’t draw blood but they did another ultrasound. he told her everything is looking really good and he didn’t want to draw blood if he didn’t have too. but she was showing all the good signs and all her lab work came back really good. so we really got out of that scare but we are not out of the woods until we are out of our first trimester. I asked christina how many trimesters there are and she told me 3. then i figured out that play on words. So after that i felt really good and i decided to tell everyone at work about the baby. it was so hard that being the only place that i did tell the news. I told everyone and everyone was happy and it was great to tell. its one of those things where you really can’t wait to tell people of your great news. so i think i will end my very long novel blog. 

other things to notice with a crazy change on my life all at once i have created another Category 

FATHERHOOD

well my blog is most likely going to start changing into a weekly update kinda thing for everyone that wants to know what’s going on with christina and everything baby. I will still have my rants but just be aware that I am going to be ad DaD and thats all I’m really going to want to talk about. but i will still have my rants.

thx for reading,

-MeaD.