Big News!!!

Well hello there fellow bloggers, it's me, “The Man” as Wendy refers to me here on her blog.

For some reason she thought it would be a good idea for me to write a guest blog.

So here's my story and I'm sticking to it.

After being married to genius for 3 years, you would think that my wife would learn to take what I have to say a little more seriously sometimes...

So let me take you back a few months real quick before I break some news to you.

My wife and I decided we were going to have another baby. We already have a boy, so naturally, she tells me that since it's the male that determines the sex of the baby, that I need to have a talk with my sperm and only send over “Girl” sperms which I can only assume she is referring to the sperm that contain only the X chromosome, but for the sake of the story, lets just call them “Girl” sperms.

Well I found out very early that in general, it's easiest to just humor her and go along with her plans. So there I was, giving my manhood a pep-talk about how all the “Y's” can stay out of this one, and take a breather.

Fast forward a few months... WHOA!!! we're pregnant, I say we as in just Wendy, not we as in I somehow miraculously conceived a child along with my wife... that would just be awkward “hey honey, I'm pregnant!” “Me too?”... anyway, back on track... We're pregnant! So we tell our families, and I inform them that it's going to be a girl. They all said the same thing “Oh, you're that far along already?” no, no, we weren't, but I figured it's my body, why shouldn't I have complete control over what it does! So I was VERY confident that this was a girl, seeing as only “Girl” sperms went over. Somehow people didn't believe me and were still skeptical, INCLUDING MY WIFE!

Fast forward again a few months, and back to the beginning of this story, Here I am sitting in the doctors office with my wife's belly exposed, and a starving baby (because we OBVIOUSLY never feed him) devouring a cup of cheerio's on my lap.

After what seems to be close to an eternity, she finally breaks the news:

“It's a Girl”

Knowing now the back story, you're probably not surprised by this news... but you'd be SHOCKED at how many people take the statement “I already know it's a girl because I only sent over “Girl” sperms” as a joke... some people I tell ya, can't talk sense into them to save your life!

Well that's the big news, we are having a healthy, and female, baby!

Now, onto bigger points of interest.... The naming war!

More to come on that one.

Spicin' it up!

In an attempt to get a few more posts and not bore everyone anymore than they already are I have asked the Man to be guest blogger. He has way to many things going on to keep up with his own blog, so this will give him that outlet as well. I'm not sure how often he will post but I'm sure they will be full of good stuff.

Point: Look for future posts from the Man on here!

Entertainment at it's finest

I'm not sure who is more easily entertained, Jackson for doing this for a good 20-30 minutes or the Man and I for sitting there watching him the whole time!

This is one of Jackson's new tricks :)

Social Media Update #2

Ok so a little while back I went off on this social media rampage. Well I've dabbled a little bit in a couple other areas since then and I still have a love for Instagram, a love/hate relationship with facebook and a love for Google+.

I'm not going to lie I love everything about Google. From their work environment for their employees to their search engine & email service. I am 100% all about Google. I just wish the people that I liked were all on Google+ that way it would be even better than it already is. I mean seriously, it backs up all of my photos from my phone so I can access them anywhere and even put them on my blog with out plugging my phone into the computer. I can easily allow only certain people to see posts that I don't want other people or the public to have access to. There are Google hangouts with allow multiple people to video chat together...it's pretty awesome if you've never tried it! And I also enjoy the communities section of Google+, I currently belong to a Home Decor community and a Mom Blog community...check them out!

Seriously people if you don't use Google+ you should and NO ONE from Google is paying me or asking me to say any of these things.

End story: I will still be on Instagram and Facebook but would prefer to use Google+ and one day maybe only that or at least not Facebook....unless I'm looking for a pick me up and Facebook some people that post way to much drama that makes me feel better about my life :) you know you do it too!

the hunt is on!

 So instead of doing some household chores while Jack is napping I thought blogging would be a better use of my time...the Man will probably disagree with me on this one, oops!

Things have been a little crazy around here lately and I don't think they are going to slow down anytime soon.

The Man and I are currently on the hunt for a house to buy...this renting crap is for the birds! I mean, I really love the pool, playground and the sense of security our apartment building has but seriously we pay a crap load of money every month in rent and we could have a mortgage for probably less. And with the Man getting this new awesome job we are probably going to be sticking around this area for at least another 5 years. I do realize I haven't filled you guys in about the Man's new job...its on the list of posts to do!

Here is the problem with house hunting in the D.C. area....its NOTHING like house hunting in the central Wisconsin area.  I'm talking about paying over $300,000 for house that is barely 1,000 square feet and requires you to park on the street did I mention I refuse to parallel park. So the hunt is on to find us a house that will cost us either the same or less per month than what we are paying, is in a good/safe neighborhood you wouldn't believe the number of sex offenders that will pop up in a mile radius of pretty much every house, good school district, not too long of a commute for either one of us and won't require us to stick a crap load of money into it. Our current lease is up the end of February but our apartment requires a 90 day notice of moving out, so basically we have to find something by the end of December.

We are also on the hunt for a vehicle with 3rd row seating. Now most people would just say they are looking for a van but neither one of us every imagined purchasing/driving/owning a van EVER in our lives. It's not something we are excited about but it's something we need to do for when we have people out here visiting us. We don't want to spend a lot of money because as I mentioned before we are trying to buy a house in what seems like the most expensive area in the world this isn't true San Francisco is more expensive :) My take on a van is if I can't have a newer mini van that doesn't seem so much like a van then I should just go all out and get a 15 person van with carpeting on the floor, walls & ceiling. Apparently the Man's family had a 15 passenger van when he was growing up...makes sense seeing has there was 8 kids in the family, it was either that or get a school bus and I'm guessing the van is better on gas :) So the Man is not as on-board with me on going all out with the van thing so its looking like we will end up with some sort of mini-van in the near future and say good bye to our trusty PT Cruiser.

A Couple Videos!

Jackson and Dahlia!

Tunnel Slide!

Photo Overload!!

Here are a ton of pictures filling you in on what we have been up to for basically the past 2 months! I do apologize all of these pictures are from my phone, some day photos from the real camera will make it on here again! Enjoy :)

 Hanging out with Kelly before she left

 It's been so nice out that we have been going on at least 1 walk a day

 Kelly, Jackson & I at Mount Vernon (above & below)

 Waiting patiently to be seated for lunch at Mount Vernon...side note: the food was AMAZING!

 Jack's 1st time down a tunnel slide!

At the park with Daddy when he got home from his 2 week det

I let Jackson talk to Josiah on the phone one day, apparently he wasn't done because after we hung up he grabbed the other phone and was talking gibberish and saying dada

Loves playing in his stroller!

Another trip to the zoo!!

 Jackson signing his name in my birthday card!

 Jack helping me eat my birthday ice cream at iHop

Playing at the Little Gym during our Birds class

Pool time!!

 The National Aquarium proved to be too much for Jack this time!

 Playing with cousin Dahlia

 wrestling the pillows!

 The pool!!

 More time at the zoo!

 We met my Mom's cousin and her grandson at the zoo one day while my Mom was out visiting. 

 Grandma Patty bought Jack an elephant at the circus!