Blog Break Continues

Last Tuesday I mentioned that I had extended my blog break (Saturday & today's posts don't count). But I forgot to mention when I'm returning with the new version of this blog. My plan had been today, however due to a major shot in the head early this morning when I lost everything on my blogsite, including 12 hours of work I'd done yesterday to my layout (a new design, buttons, and many other HTML code that was making my page the best it'd ever been - I'd planned to unveil it today with the start of my new posts), it's going to take awhile for me to recover (this wasn't the first time I have lost hours on this blog - despite trying to save as much as I can), so I have decided to wait until the first week of October to return from my blog break. Except, this Friday I'm going to post about a medical mystery and today I wanted to announce the arrival of my friend/next door neighbor's new baby girl!

Makenna Camille was born at 12:42pm this afternoon (Tuesday, September 8, 2009) weighing an even 9 pounds, and 22 inches long. Labor was 5 hrs. I haven't actually spoken to Jenn yet so I look forward to hearing more details of the birth and meeting her 4th child when they are settled back at home!

Her due date was this Saturday (the 12th) so I had a feeling she would have her baby this week, before then! Her first two babies were induced and she was with this one as well. Her husband said it was a smooth delivery and everything is going well so that is good!

Joe's nephew also became a father to a son (his second child) on Saturday night! (September 5th). They had their first baby, a girl, two months before Logan so their kids are only 18 months apart. Once again we don't know any details yet of the delivery (although she was 40 weeks along and her first baby was induced so she might have been again), just that mom and baby are doing well!!! (I saw a pic on facebook and can't believe how good Mom looks!) Anderson Mark weighed in 8 lbs 12 oz, 21 in.

Have you heard that there is now an at-home test women can take as early as 10 weeks gestation to find out if they're having a boy or girl? It's called Boy or Girl Gender Prediction Test by IntelliGender. I'm SO buying it next time I get pregnant!!! It was so hard to wait until 20 weeks with Logan! They say it is almost 80% accurate - that's not enough to start making plans but it's better than any of those old wives tales I did last time (I got 50/50, as you can read in my post Guess The Gender). You can read more about this over-the-counter test here at CNN.

Not much else to report since my post, I ♥ This Age, except that on Sept. 1st while Logan was at Babysitter's (where he goes 8 hrs a week), I went over to Brooke's house to finally meet her baby who was born the end of April (she lives a half an hour away). She is only working 3 hrs a week at the radio station (where I worked 2003-2006) and we had such a blast that morning that we have decided to have "stay at home mom day" each week to get together from now on! It's crazy how you can know someone for awhile and not realize how much you have in common until you are at a similar stage. I worked with her for three years and we hardly talked. Then, after I left the radio station to be a full time writer, she e-mailed me because she was writing a book, too. She tried for awhile to get it published but decided it wasn't for her - however, we've continued to e-mail back and forth and get together a few times. We've since discovered other similarities, and both realized having another stay at home mom with a similar parenting style to chat with in person each week is awesome. So next week she is coming over here and then after that we will meet every Monday, either rotating between our houses or meeting somewhere Logan and Kaelyn can play. She's also looking into joining a MOPS group and invited me to go with her to a meeting which I might do.

I didn't end up meeting with Stacy that day because she caught a virus from her boy (Stacy works full time but has Mon & Tues off) so we are getting together next weekend instead. Our husbands will join us as we take Logan & Jaxson to the Dinosaur Exhibit for the first time! (By the way, Joe had his last golf night of the season last Tues. There's a dinner tonight but from now on he'll be home after work on Tuesdays - yeay!)

Over the weekend Joe & I re-arranged our office because I'm either going to decorate it or our family room next (we went to Best Buy and almost bought a flat screen for the FR but right before we purchased a Plasma - the cheapest for the biggest - we decided not to because it sounds like they are all being replaced by LEDs so we didn't want to get something that won't be compatible or good quality in a few years. So that's why I might decorate our office first 'cuz who knows when we'll finally get a flatscreen; then I'll be done decorating the downstairs after two years of living here)! Here is a pic of Logan playing in our computer desk. I love that he answers "yes" and "no" now when I ask him questions! :) I am still ADORING this age!!!! I can't believe how easy he has been the past two months!!!On Monday morning we met my parents halfway to Des Moines because Joe & I hadn't had a night to ourselves since the end of July. We went out to eat to our fav Mexican restaurant, Margarita's, and then to the movie theater to see The Time Traveler's Wife (which I wrote about in I ♥ This Age). I thought it was good. I liked both the book and movie equally. The only thing that kept them both from being all-time favs was it's just a really sad story! I can't believe I didn't bring Kleenex with me. After seeing previews of The Lovely Bones I really want to read that now. I've had a ton of people recommend it to me over the years but I've never gotten around to reading it - I didn't really understand what it was about. But after seeing the previews of the movie, I can see why the book might be good. Now that my library card arrived in the mail I'm going to see if they have it to read before the movie is out.

Tomorrow my parents are passing through Omaha so they are bringing Logan back. This coming weekend is the ISU Cyclones Vs Iowa Hawkeyes game so we are going over to Lisa & Darin's for that which I'm looking forward to. Go Cyclones! :) I'll end with a picture of Logan & me on the day of their ISU Vs Huskers party last year!