1) Sweet tree mural!

2) Joe, Its the "magical tree of Dreams" OOOHHHHH AHHHHH!

3) Thats the mom, Bek , talking by the way. You know Moms have crazy magical names for everything
-bek

4) Sweet room. Make sure you can block as much light from those windows as possible. It is in your interests to make this room as dark as possible.

5) Dark as in evil, Limey? You're twisted. That's no way to decorate a kid's room.

6) Its a beautiful room. I love the tree and color.

7) No Joe, I used the word dark meaning its literal and most basic definition. Babies (and people in general) tend to sleep better and longer when it is darker.

8) Tell that to Ameren. They keep putting good bulbs in the street light right outside my bedroom window.

9) Yes, and someone should tell the neighbors behind our house that maybe their back yard American flag would like to come in for the night to sleep so that I don't have that spot light shining in my eye through the blinds. Or maybe Mr. Flag would like a lower wattage.

Joe, have you been doing something that would make Ameren have to replace this light frequently?

10) I absolutely LOVE the Room and the color Scheme, and the Magical Tree!! Super Cute!

11) Okay ...today is the day! Or so I predicted this "Girl...July 10th, 7lbs 7oz." What do you think? Not today huh?

12) Spike I will go on a really long aggressive walk today just for you!
-bek

13) Where is the computer? How is Baby Mitchell going to surf Humzoo without its own computer? First-time parents... geez.. the know nothing.

14) try chocolate cake too...that is supposed to help. :)

15) Is today the due date? On my due date I did all of the things to induce labor I could, took the dogs on a 2 mile walk, ate spicy food, made the husband "cuddle" with me. Unfortunately it was 9 days later when I was induced. I hope you don't have to wait too long.

16) Monday is the Due Date!!!!!!! 4 more Days!!!!!! But another 2 weeks is possible!!!!

17) Caster oil!

18) Niki, I am prepared in my mind to go two more weeks, however, the baby has lowered alot and I have been having pretty good contrations here and there, nothing regular. Today I have also decided to give my house a serious cleaning, maybe just an energy burst or nesting, who knows.

Emily, I will ask Damaris about castor oil on Monday. Mrs. Denise did that and boom... baby in 4 hours.

-bek

19) If the baby is low then it will probably be sooner rather than later. Dylan would not drop that is why they ended up inducing. I think you will have the baby tonight or tomorrow morning if you are in serious nesting mode.

20) actually my house had really just gotten dirty! But that is because I just didn't feel like cleaning. Now I feel like I need to get everything in order before I go to sleep tonight. I am currently cleaning out the freezer and fridge...go figure.

21) It will probably be soon then. Our friend Holly had the urge to scrub her kitchen floors on hand and knee right before she went into labor with the first one.

22) Whoooo Hooooo!!
I hope we get a play by play! Just kidding, I know you'll be pretty busy having a baby and stuff.
We love you and can't wait to hear the big news!!!!

23) I suddenly felt the need to Bleach the cross bars in the drop ceiling.... and paint the bathroom just before I had my daughter. She was two weeks late, acccording to the dr. but I knew she was right on schedule. :)

24) Bek - I would not go the castor oil route if you can help it - for several reasons
1. the stuff is really really gross and you have to drink alot of it
2. you won't know if you are having the baby or not because you will be sitting on the toilet witht he runs (sorry)
3. You won't know if you are in labor or not because your stomach will be cramping horribly.

25) Thanks, justmeg, I was not going to do that until I got approval from the midwife.

26) Bek, just say no no no to castor oil. I was a week+ over due with my 1st and I tried it. That was going on 5 years ago and I can still almost make myself vomit if I think about how that stuff felt going in my mouth and down my throat. The aftermath of being on the toilet all day was nothing compared to actually ingesting it, although that wasn't fun either. The old wives' instructions say to "repeat the dose" if labor doesn't start in 6 hours. I found the first one so sickening that I couldn't even walk into the room where the bottle was sitting, let along stomach another dose. No baby until about 36 hours after I took a shot of the oil; I was almost 10 days overdue, so I don't think it helped me at all.

27) Will, how does the house look? And are you able to lay anything down for more than a minute before its gone? If not, you are about to be a father. Right before Dylan was born our house was absolutely spotless and I couldn't even put a drink on the coffee table for more than a minute without Niki putting it in the dishwasher.

Unfortunately that tidiness goes out the window after the baby is born. I am thinking about getting Niki pregnant again just to get the house cleaned up.

28) haha. i think there should be a book written about pregnancy through husband eyes.

then there can be "old husband tales" ... which inevitably half would be wrong anyway...:)

29) There are plenty of books like that already.

30) not the Humzoo Husbands book.

31) Niki: That's not "cuddling." There's a much different word for that.

Denny: Are you sure Niki's not pregnant now? I told Dave after our last visit that I think Niki kept putting my cup in the dishwasher the minute it was empty. It would magically disappear.

32) I have no idea what Niki meant by "cuddling". We don't do that much. I think when you were here she was just showing off. She is not normally like that. There are usually piles of stuff around the house for weeks with her name on them. In other words, come back and visit us soon.

33) Hayley, that is funny. Will told me he was going to Lowe's for supplies the other day because the "books" told him he needed a hobby because he was going to ignored for the next few months. And here I didn't even think he read or took anyones advice. As far as I am concerned his new hobby can be cooking and cleaning, massaging my feet and he might as well take a pedicure course.

34) Bek, Don't forget diaper changing. Sounds like a good hobby to me!

35) On the day I was born... My mother was REALLY ready to have me so they got in the car to drive to the hospital. My dad leaped out and went inside, (for what seemed to be forever to my mom) he returned with an egg salad sandwich (which almost made her barf).
"They told me I should pack a lunch, it could be a while," My dad explained.
I was born about 20 minutes later.
Wouldn't it be nice if men listened to everything we say.

36) I am not pregnant, just big boned. Also Courtney, I don't remember putting your beer bottles in the dishwasher, but I can sometimes be absentminded. Are you sure it was me because Denny hates when glasses sit by the sink for the day. He puts them in the dishwasher every time. He did that to his mom when she used to take care of Dylan.

37) He put his mum in the dishwasher?! That's so mean!

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