Nels

Pregnancy adventures of a first timer
Nesting

Home improvement month is happening now at 45 Walter. Our hallway is a battle zone, covered in dust and craft paper, as we finally apply some proper paint and mending to our walls and doors. We're having some custom shelves built for our kitchen a...

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Halfway

I really can't believe I'm halfway through the pregnancy ... before we know it, Todd and I will be overjoyed and overwhelmed with our new life. On Friday, April 29, we had a monumental sonogram, seeing the babe in a much more developed state. We o...

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Name game

The NCAA final was on tonight, and because we live in the west, it was over before our night began. Good TV is hard to come by these days ... Instead, Todd found a "popular baby names" app, and we began a serious chat about starting our name list....

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15 weeks

Today marks 15 weeks, just about 4 months, into the pregnancy. I've enjoyed receiving my email notices from BabyCenter.com, to inform me of these weekly milestones. Each week, the email shares little facts about the growing babe, as well as update...

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Snake

A few years ago, on a long Ohio road trip, Joe, Todd and I passed the time with creative conversation ... What will we name our first child? (surprisingly without pressure from Abby) Of course, with a surname like 'Johnson', the challenge is how t...

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