It's a Boy! Again!

Well, today I'm excited to announce that the 2nd baby V will be coming into this world come April 24, 2011 and he's all boy. :)

Pics to follow...

Hello Ya'll!

Hey it's mid-April already. My blogging career is grinding to a halt. Good thing I don't get paid to blog.

Twitter on the other hand...

Anyways here's a 30 second synopsis of what's new...

1. Josiah is growing like a weed! It's all that Dr. Pepper and Ice Cream! (Go go! Cookie Dough!)

2. Karen is staying super busy @ home with the little bugger

3. I'm keeping really busy at work. Can't find enough .NET developers. Know any? I can put them to work...

Oh, our new 'hobby' is now live (muahaha)...

www.clearcreekcandles.com ~ crafters of fine homemade candles. Poured with love and scent (hehe) forth to aromatize the world...er..yeah.

Check it out and buy some candles! :)

Oh, shameless plug for some great friends of ours - www.handsfulloffun.com - Kevin & Melissa have been doing balloons, puppets, and magic for a few years now. It's turned into a pretty cool business for them as well. So if you know anyone looking to have some great entertainment for their kids birthday, retirement, funeral (ok..maybe not that one) then give them a buzz. Tell 'em I sent ya!

Ok, until sometime in the summer...

(writing this @ 2343 hours. I need sleep.)

Few more pics...

Getting used to this dad role. Pretty fun I say! Gotta love digital photography too!

First pics!

Here are a couple of pics! :)

Inky foot!

I'm liking daddy!

I love my sleep!

I love my parents!

There you go! A couple of pics of baby Josiah!

Home!

Got home about 15 minutes ago. Mom & baby are downstairs sleeping soundly. I'm upstairs updating blog and getting ready to download some pictures from the camera!

Stay tuned :)

May I Introduce My Son...

Josiah Allen Vailliencourt
11/15/2008 @ 1520 hours
6 lb. 1 oz.
20"

All is well.

Tired but well.

What an amazing miracle!

False Alarm - 1. Us - 0

Well, just got home from the hospital. All is well so far. Karen is still having contractions but no baby and she's not far enough along to be admitted. So, that means hanging out at home and letting her rest while I get all geeky and blog/twit about the whole event.

I will say, the new Greer Memorial Hospital is very very nice. Great nurses too! Although the cafeteria food is a little on the meh side.

Check out my Twitter feed for the latest info on the Baby V episodes! :)

Is This It??

Well, it's about 5:21 AM. Karen's been feeling poor all night. Right contractions are in that 10 minute +- zone. Packing bags for the trip...

Oops. Forgot to Update.

First of all - no baby yet.

Secondly it's been so crazy the last 3 months that blogging was the furthest thing from my mind.

Here is what has been going on in a nutshell:

• Karen's done with work! Yay! Nov. 7 was her last day.
• Baby is right on schedule for the 17th! Yay!
• Work for me has had it's ups and downs. Ups in that I am finally getting some contractors on billing! Woohoo! Downs in that business has really slowed down overall. So I'm working harder and faster than ever before. A 'sense of urgency' is driving me...
• I have pictures of the finished baby room that I need to get up on the blog. So yeah, it's coming.
• My laptop died completely so I have no decent system @ home to develop or utilize to write (I'll take donations please. kthx)

Next post, hopefully with some really really good news!! :D

Catan Dice Game & Baby Update!

My wife and I like to do lunch on Fridays when we can. She has an hour lunch that day and so I either go to her office or she comes to my office. Normally we eat, chat, and just chill. Sometimes I'll bring a game from home if I remember. The only problem is that most of the games I have at home are not fast or portable.

So today I picked up the Catan Dice Game from Kevin at The Command Post (our local FLGS). It was only about $11 bucks so the price was right. We were able to get a quick game in after eating and had a blast. It's basically Yahtzee! with a Catan theme pasted on it but I think it's funner than Yahtzee! It's Euro! :D

Oh another cool thing, it's small and portable. So I'm thinking we'll be playing this a lot at lunch now! Yay for more games!

In baby news, our registry is mostly complete. Visit Babies R Us and search for "Vailliencourt" for info on our registry. Karen has a baby shower in Delaware at the end of the month, then another one down here from her office. It's been fun and tiring looking at all the baby stuff. Talk about a change! Wow! I cannot wait! For those so inclined feel free to purchase an XBox 360 or PS3 for dad-to-be... ;)

The baby is moving quite a bit now. Getting hiccups a bit too much to Karen's discomfort. The Doctor said that all is right online and looking good.

Almost 9 weeks counting...

Eek! :)

August Already?

Hard to believe that in about 3 1/2 months I'll be a dad! Yeowzers! Talk about exciting, scary, surreal, awesome, and a whole lot more.

Karen is definitely feeling the baby move a lot more. Especially when she changes position (going from sitting or standing to laying down). At that time the baby decides he wants to do somersaults and kick and what not. It's kinda weird feeling him move around in her tummy. Strange that this beautiful baby inside belongs to us! Our God is good & the miracle of life is amazing.

Oh, keep your eyes open on this site - allenandkaren.kidmondo.com - it's like a specialty kids blog/site. Some place to put up pics and baby info for the family. It'll be private only (ie our family only most likely). The concept behind kidmondo is really neat too.

Probably will have some pics up this week since my sister and 75% of her kids will be visiting along with my parents. Full house FTW! or should that be FTL! Ask me next week...

It's a Boy!

Today was the day our baby became a boy. :) We had our 1st (well, my wife did) ultrasound and we have a 20 minute DVD of the whole thing! Talk about cooool. Baby V was quite active and kept squirming around mommy's tummy.

I captured a few images off the DVD. Here's one of the pics of Baby V! The arrow you see in the picture is pointing to his tiny heart. :)


Later on he decided to do a flip and stretch his legs. Here's a pic of that event as well (not as clear though).


He kinda looks funky. Like some quasi-alien-human-thingy. :D But he's got all the human parts necessary to function. It was amazing seeing his heart and watching all 4 chambers operate. Got to see his kidneys, stomach, umbilical cord, spine, legs, arms, ear, nose, mouth, etc.

The creation of life is absolutely amazing. All this designed by our Heavenly Father. That's what blows me away. Praise be to Him!

I'm going to try to get some video uploaded this week as well. Gotta share the good news!

Now taking name suggestions... ;)

Second Dr. Visit.

My wife and I went to the Dr. for a 2nd visit on Tuesday. We were able to hear the heartbeat again. It's a lot stronger this time! Even heard the baby move a little (at least that's what the Dr. said). Wow!

We also got an official due date - November 17. So possibly he/she won't be a Thanksgiving baby (unlike her mom and dad...) Yay!!

Our next visit is for the ultrasound and that will be in about 2 weeks. Cannot wait! First pics of the baby! Wee!!

We decided to do a little window shopping at Target the other day and looked at some baby stuff. Still seems kinda surreal but it was fun nonetheless. Karen's dad bought us a nice web cam so we can chat with them and show the progress as the baby develops. That's been fun to do as well.

The baby closet is all cleared out of games but we probably won't be doing anything major to the room until after September (since my parents will be coming into town before they fly out to visit).

Ah, the great excitement of the whole journey! :)

Great News!

Hi everyone. My once in a lunar cycle of updating this blog. Most everyone knows but wanted to post it here as well (for official record?!?!)

My wife and I are expecting our 1st child come mid-November. Yay! We're ecstatic and at the same time scared to death! At the doctor's last week we were able to hear the heartbeat for the 1st time. That was way too cool. In a few weeks we'll be going in to get a sonogram and I imagine it will really sink in then!

Karen has been feeling pretty good so far, which has been a big blessing. We're just praying that we'll have a healthy baby. :)

Other than that big news, nothing much else too exciting going on. I'm updating my other blog with most of my work related info - www.valien.net - so feel free to visit that one and see what's happening.

Yay for parenthood! Eek! hehe :D