Tuesday, June 16, 2009
She must feel better!
It appears that Carla is feeling much better! It has been 96 hours since her last "morning" sickness episode. YEAH! She also appears to have her appetite again... yikes... can't get enough food inside of her at times. "Potato skins now" or "bread immediately"!!!! :) These last three days is how I thought pregnancy would work. She eats, tries to relax, and complains about ugly maternity clothes. LOL! Apparently ugly maternity clothes are numerous out on the web. :) i am hoping for 7 days of no morning sickness! Friday night... please come soon!
Saturday, June 13, 2009
The Last Eight Weeks
The Last Eight Weeks
8 weeks ago: We know… and well, time to start looking at baby room décor… Carla is doing all of the work and sending me links to look at. Some are awful (who buys this crap) and some is pretty cool… Animals seem to get my vote.
7 weeks ago: How many baby books do we need? It feels like 5 different ones show up each day. Don’t they all say the same thing?
6 weeks ago: I get a book from Doug “My boys can swim” by Ian Davis… awesome. Totally recommend for us future fathers. Easy read… and hilarious! Carla isn’t sick yet, phew!!! She starts complaining about tight pants… really? 3 weeks in, and your pants feel different? Alright... if you say so.
5 weeks ago: More books, people start to figure out. Probably should mention something to parents and my brother.
4 weeks ago: Tell my parents and brother… Brother is all excited! I start to think back to all of the ‘cool’ aunt and uncle gifts we gave to Matt, Natalie, and Toni…. And well, Carla and I are in trouble. Big trouble in the future!!! I am sure that Tim and Michelle are already plotting revenge gifts. I think my parents were completely shocked. I am pretty sure they didn’t know how to react verbally. I know they were excited to be grandparents again, but they weren’t expecting it from Andy and Carla. We make the doctor’s appointment and wait.
3 weeks ago: Status quo… nothing out of the ordinary. Lots of excitement from those who find out. I think… is this real? Yep… awesome!
2 weeks ago: the first ultrasound is coming up… what happens?
Last week: Carla is soooooooo sick. There is no way this is morning sickness. Off to the doctor. The result… Influenza A. Quarantine… Tamiflu…yep, you got it, Swine Flu, seriously. How the heck does Carla catch Swine Flu… it had to be one of those kids… I am feeling fine and am taking great care of her! We are both worried about how the Tamiflu will affect peanut Anderbrand? The research does prove or disprove that it is harmful…. Being the optimist, I have no worries.
Monday 6/8: Carla is coughing soooooo hard and soooooo often. The ‘morning’ sickness is really all day sickness. This all day sickness has been around since Saturday. I feel awful for her. It has to be miserable to be in her skin.
Tuesday 6/9: Carla has ‘recovered’ from her swine flu, mostly. That is quite a cough that continues to linger… anyways, our first ultrasound… I am very excited, but part of me is worried about peanut Anderbrand since Swine Flu was just last week, but… overall, I am thinking how awesome is this??!?! The picture comes up… and… a beating heart and a mutant blob.
Wednesday 6/10: Thank God the doctor prescribed some anti-nausea medicine!!! Carla is holding down some food…
Thursday 6/11: Food is staying inside! I think we are on the mend! I really hope that Carla can enjoy this pregnancy.
Friday 6/12: Carla almost made it 48 hours with out all day sickness…. Almost! What a two weeks!!!
I am sure that I won’t drop a note every day… but… after these this post and the previous year, it might have caught everyone up to a point.
7 more months…
8 weeks ago: We know… and well, time to start looking at baby room décor… Carla is doing all of the work and sending me links to look at. Some are awful (who buys this crap) and some is pretty cool… Animals seem to get my vote.
7 weeks ago: How many baby books do we need? It feels like 5 different ones show up each day. Don’t they all say the same thing?
6 weeks ago: I get a book from Doug “My boys can swim” by Ian Davis… awesome. Totally recommend for us future fathers. Easy read… and hilarious! Carla isn’t sick yet, phew!!! She starts complaining about tight pants… really? 3 weeks in, and your pants feel different? Alright... if you say so.
5 weeks ago: More books, people start to figure out. Probably should mention something to parents and my brother.
4 weeks ago: Tell my parents and brother… Brother is all excited! I start to think back to all of the ‘cool’ aunt and uncle gifts we gave to Matt, Natalie, and Toni…. And well, Carla and I are in trouble. Big trouble in the future!!! I am sure that Tim and Michelle are already plotting revenge gifts. I think my parents were completely shocked. I am pretty sure they didn’t know how to react verbally. I know they were excited to be grandparents again, but they weren’t expecting it from Andy and Carla. We make the doctor’s appointment and wait.
3 weeks ago: Status quo… nothing out of the ordinary. Lots of excitement from those who find out. I think… is this real? Yep… awesome!
2 weeks ago: the first ultrasound is coming up… what happens?
Last week: Carla is soooooooo sick. There is no way this is morning sickness. Off to the doctor. The result… Influenza A. Quarantine… Tamiflu…yep, you got it, Swine Flu, seriously. How the heck does Carla catch Swine Flu… it had to be one of those kids… I am feeling fine and am taking great care of her! We are both worried about how the Tamiflu will affect peanut Anderbrand? The research does prove or disprove that it is harmful…. Being the optimist, I have no worries.
Monday 6/8: Carla is coughing soooooo hard and soooooo often. The ‘morning’ sickness is really all day sickness. This all day sickness has been around since Saturday. I feel awful for her. It has to be miserable to be in her skin.
Tuesday 6/9: Carla has ‘recovered’ from her swine flu, mostly. That is quite a cough that continues to linger… anyways, our first ultrasound… I am very excited, but part of me is worried about peanut Anderbrand since Swine Flu was just last week, but… overall, I am thinking how awesome is this??!?! The picture comes up… and… a beating heart and a mutant blob.
Wednesday 6/10: Thank God the doctor prescribed some anti-nausea medicine!!! Carla is holding down some food…
Thursday 6/11: Food is staying inside! I think we are on the mend! I really hope that Carla can enjoy this pregnancy.
Friday 6/12: Carla almost made it 48 hours with out all day sickness…. Almost! What a two weeks!!!
I am sure that I won’t drop a note every day… but… after these this post and the previous year, it might have caught everyone up to a point.
7 more months…
Friday, June 12, 2009
The Last Year (Andy’s perspective)
About 12 months ago:
Carla comes home and talks about how much fun she is having and how much River is growing and has quite a personality. The first time I hear the question, “We should have a baby, what do you think?” My answer, “ok, but something has got to give. You can’t teach private voice, nanny, audition every other weekend in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, and consider the possibility of moving to Germany for two or three years.” Carla would reply, “Whatever, we would make it work.” I think to myself, how serious is she about having a baby?
About 11 months ago:
I continue to hear about awesome River and how much fun Carla has watching all of her verbal and motor skills develop. Carla performs with Gilbert and Sullivan and her day is completely packed and there are a couple mentions about babies, but not much.
About 10 months ago:
Carla turns 27 for the 3rd time… and we are heavy into filling out applications for the New York, Chicago, and San Francisco audition junket that is coming up. Not a lot of baby talk but it comes up every now and then…
About 9 months ago:
We start to receive letter informing her of auditions granted across the country. We start planning her travel schedule, housing, etc… I start a class for my doctoral degree. There really isn’t any baby talk and I really don’t think about it much.
About 8 months ago:
Carla is flying around the country auditioning, coming home teaching voice and nanny, and driving up to Bellingham for rehearsals. I have no idea how she is remaining sane! I really haven’t thought about babies in awhile since the school year has started and I am working and taking a class.
About 7 months ago:
Carla is heavy into audition season and I am doing status quo working and taking a class. On a few phone calls home she mentions how much she misses River and feels bad for being away from her for so long. She says, “We should have a baby, what do you think?” I reply, “Ok, but I something has got to give. You can’t teach private voice, nanny, audition every other weekend in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, and consider the possibility of moving to Germany for two or three years. Oh yeah, BTW, there might be a job opening in the country of Oman for me… what do you think about moving?” We start looking into the culture of Oman. We find out that the Royal Opera House is building an opera house to be open in 2010… interesting?!?! We start talking about having a baby in Oman and we both think how cool would that be!?!??! J
About 6 months ago:
Carla is in New York for 2 or 3 weeks for auditions and we continue to talk about moving to Oman and just how awesome that would be. I am working with a contact, which has a contact, who is working with someone at the university. We have many conversations about Oman and babies in December. I finish my class and get a break from reading and writing papers. As we continue to talk on the phone, it feels to me that we are talking about babies more and more. I am thinking, there is no way she is serious about having a baby. When she asks about having a baby, I reply with… “you can’t do everything you are doing, you have to stop something.” She replies back to me, “you know I am not going to stop performing,” and I say, “I would never expect and want you to stop performing.” She finally returns from her many, many auditions.
The last five months:
January – I start another doctoral class and Carla returns back to a ‘normal’ busy schedule. Things are back to normal in the Anderbrand household, but we start to have some real serious conversation about having a baby. Where would we put a baby in our house? What fears do we have? What would be the perfect time for a baby to be born? Is it better to have summer or winter maturity clothes?
February – We start planning that August would be a good time to get pregnant, right after she is done with Gilbert and Sullivan. I haven’t heard back from the Oman folk, so that is off the table… I am getting excited about the baby, but trying to keep things to as planned. After our many baby conversations, I am convinced that Carla is completely serious about getting pregnant. I start thinking… August? Really… that far away? Yeah… that will work. Then, we start talking about July, and then it becomes June…
March – Carla cuts back on her nanny hours and gets a part-time job teaching music to pre-schoolers and infants. Things are getting serious in the Anderbrand household… June became May and we are both really happy about this decision. I finish my class; she is back on a ‘normal’ busy schedule. We appear to have a household baby plan in place… May? Really? May?
April - F$^& it! Let’s get this train moving. What difference does 30 days make? The test comes back pregnant and well… the deed is done! Didn’t take nearly as long as I thought it would. I started thinking… can I tell people? Who do I tell first? Do I need to tell certain people? What the heck are the ‘rules’? J
May – We start telling certain people and a few people find out at parties via a very obvious educated guess.
So, there is the last year… probably way more information than you wanted to know.
Carla comes home and talks about how much fun she is having and how much River is growing and has quite a personality. The first time I hear the question, “We should have a baby, what do you think?” My answer, “ok, but something has got to give. You can’t teach private voice, nanny, audition every other weekend in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, and consider the possibility of moving to Germany for two or three years.” Carla would reply, “Whatever, we would make it work.” I think to myself, how serious is she about having a baby?
About 11 months ago:
I continue to hear about awesome River and how much fun Carla has watching all of her verbal and motor skills develop. Carla performs with Gilbert and Sullivan and her day is completely packed and there are a couple mentions about babies, but not much.
About 10 months ago:
Carla turns 27 for the 3rd time… and we are heavy into filling out applications for the New York, Chicago, and San Francisco audition junket that is coming up. Not a lot of baby talk but it comes up every now and then…
About 9 months ago:
We start to receive letter informing her of auditions granted across the country. We start planning her travel schedule, housing, etc… I start a class for my doctoral degree. There really isn’t any baby talk and I really don’t think about it much.
About 8 months ago:
Carla is flying around the country auditioning, coming home teaching voice and nanny, and driving up to Bellingham for rehearsals. I have no idea how she is remaining sane! I really haven’t thought about babies in awhile since the school year has started and I am working and taking a class.
About 7 months ago:
Carla is heavy into audition season and I am doing status quo working and taking a class. On a few phone calls home she mentions how much she misses River and feels bad for being away from her for so long. She says, “We should have a baby, what do you think?” I reply, “Ok, but I something has got to give. You can’t teach private voice, nanny, audition every other weekend in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, and consider the possibility of moving to Germany for two or three years. Oh yeah, BTW, there might be a job opening in the country of Oman for me… what do you think about moving?” We start looking into the culture of Oman. We find out that the Royal Opera House is building an opera house to be open in 2010… interesting?!?! We start talking about having a baby in Oman and we both think how cool would that be!?!??! J
About 6 months ago:
Carla is in New York for 2 or 3 weeks for auditions and we continue to talk about moving to Oman and just how awesome that would be. I am working with a contact, which has a contact, who is working with someone at the university. We have many conversations about Oman and babies in December. I finish my class and get a break from reading and writing papers. As we continue to talk on the phone, it feels to me that we are talking about babies more and more. I am thinking, there is no way she is serious about having a baby. When she asks about having a baby, I reply with… “you can’t do everything you are doing, you have to stop something.” She replies back to me, “you know I am not going to stop performing,” and I say, “I would never expect and want you to stop performing.” She finally returns from her many, many auditions.
The last five months:
January – I start another doctoral class and Carla returns back to a ‘normal’ busy schedule. Things are back to normal in the Anderbrand household, but we start to have some real serious conversation about having a baby. Where would we put a baby in our house? What fears do we have? What would be the perfect time for a baby to be born? Is it better to have summer or winter maturity clothes?
February – We start planning that August would be a good time to get pregnant, right after she is done with Gilbert and Sullivan. I haven’t heard back from the Oman folk, so that is off the table… I am getting excited about the baby, but trying to keep things to as planned. After our many baby conversations, I am convinced that Carla is completely serious about getting pregnant. I start thinking… August? Really… that far away? Yeah… that will work. Then, we start talking about July, and then it becomes June…
March – Carla cuts back on her nanny hours and gets a part-time job teaching music to pre-schoolers and infants. Things are getting serious in the Anderbrand household… June became May and we are both really happy about this decision. I finish my class; she is back on a ‘normal’ busy schedule. We appear to have a household baby plan in place… May? Really? May?
April - F$^& it! Let’s get this train moving. What difference does 30 days make? The test comes back pregnant and well… the deed is done! Didn’t take nearly as long as I thought it would. I started thinking… can I tell people? Who do I tell first? Do I need to tell certain people? What the heck are the ‘rules’? J
May – We start telling certain people and a few people find out at parties via a very obvious educated guess.
So, there is the last year… probably way more information than you wanted to know.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
The Mutant Blob
It is official... 8 weeks pregnant... due January 2010... The third Anderbrand (insert scary music)!
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