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We had our annual clothing giveaway at church this past weekend. It was absolutely amazing. When you see people who are down on their luck and they come and receive a blessing, it is just the most wonderful thing. We have been collecting clothing for the past 6 weeks and we filled a 40 foot trailer to the brim. We had over 250 volunteers come and unload that trailer and sort all of those bags of clothes. When you see the mountain of clothes and then you see how God moves it, you will never be the same. Some of those volunteers were there on Saturday to help the "shoppers" and to load their bags in cars and find items and just be there. We had 400 people lined up at the door before we opened at 8:00am.
This is the 5th year that our church has done this and Nick and I are always amazed by what we see. This event was the vision of Melanie Mooney (who has become one of my favorite people), she had a passion and a call and we have all helped her to acheive it. I am including the pics that I took, although Melanie's daughter got much better ones. For those of you reading this that were volunteers, I want to say a HUGE "THANK YOU!!!!!!!". We could not have done it without you (and we look forward to seeing you next year!).
Well, we have finally picked a name for our baby boy. Unless something drastic changes between now and January, his name will be Caleb James Adair. Now some of you may wonder where we came up with this name. Well, Caleb, I just liked. It was an uncommon, but not unusual, name. James was Nick's great grandfather's name, his childhood best friend's name and my father's name. So, it just seemed kind of perfect. Also, he will have the same initials as Nick's mom. We are slowly getting his room together. Right now, it just looks like a room full of stuff but soon it will be complete. Once we have it presentable, I will take some pics and post them. For now, just use your imagination!
On the baby front, I am really feeling him move now. Nick hasn't been able to feel it yet because as soon as I get Nick's hand on my stomach, he stops. He is much more active at this stage than Angie was and I am wondering if that is just a sign of things to come. I am feeling pretty good, except for this nagging back pain and a belly that prevents me from moving certain ways. I have another doctor's appointment on Friday so I will post anything new that comes from that appointment. I am posting a pic from his ultrasound on August 27. It is of his profile for those of you who have told me that you don't understand ultrasound photos.
Angie has had several adventures in the last couple of weeks. She went to the Atanta Zoo, the Georiga Aquarium, and the new World of Coke. She didn't enjoy the zoo as much as we hoped she would. I think it was because she couldn't be up close and personal with the animals. Daddy did take her into the petting zoo and let her pet a sheep (sorry, no pics of that, the smell was too strong so they went in alone).
I am including pics from all of our adventures so that everyone can see what we did. It just so happened that we were at the zoo the day before the panda gave birth! Once we got to the aquarium, Angie seemed to enjoy herself more. I think it was because she could touch the tanks so she felt like she was touching the fish. Speaking of the fish, I had to marvel at God's handiwork while we were there. Most of us would categorize the animals at the aquarium as "fish", but I saw so much creativity there. No two species of fish were the same and they were all so beautiful in their own way. It is amazing to know that our Creator is so concerned with the details that he even made our fish different! Ok, back to the adventures...I think Angie's favorite part was the large tank that is featured on channel 11 news. She really enjoyed watching as each individual fish swam by her and she could "touch" them.
The next day, we went to the World of Coke with Memommy, Pop Pop, and Nana. Angie wasn't as interested in that as the rest of us were. At least she didn't cry when we saw the giant polar bear mascot and got her picture made with him. She liked the movie that they show at the beginning, it seemed to be her favorite part. She then went to the Varsity in down town Atlanta for the first time and had a cheeseburger. I think she liked it, she did not however, care for the Frosted Orange that Daddy tried to share with her. Not sure why, its one of my favorite things.
All in all, we had a lot of fun! It was great family time.
So we had our ultrasound today and found out that we are having a little boy!!! I am quite in shock as I was certain that we were having a girl. We haven't been able to agree on a boy name at all so that should be interesting. Any of you who have boys, I think I am going to need all of the help I can get. Nick is happy (but he would have been happy either way). I am sure that as soon as the shock wears off I will be excited too.
Hi everyone. Sorry its been so long since my last post but there just hasn't been too much to blog about. Now, however, there is. Our precious cat, George, is at the vet. He has had really stinky breath for awhile now and Nick noticed last week that his gums looked like they might have been bleeding. I took him to the vet on Wednesday and the doctor said he needed his teeth cleaned and possibly one or two teeth needed to be pulled. I took him back yesterday for the cleaning and surgery. His pre-op blood work showed some poor kidney levels. He has been on IV fluids at the vet since yesterday morning. He had to stay overnight last night. I am waiting to hear back from the vet's office so that I can go pick him up. He can't have the surgery until next week. We went yesterday to see George at the vet and he was so sad looking. Fortunately, we found out that a girl who goes to our church works at the office so I know he will be getting the very best care. Plus the vet is the father of a friend of mine. I am including a pic of our little George. For those of you who don't know, we have had George since right before we got married and he was our first "baby".
Angie has started wearing her hair up almost everytime we leave the house. What seems to be the crowd favorite is her pigtails. Nick has been the only one to do them so far (I have only attempted the single ponytail on top). I am including a pic of the pigtails. Angie has a new tooth. I think it is called an eye tooth. It is the one next to her two bottom teeth. I just noticed it the other day and we are very excited. It looks as though the one on the other side of her bottom teeth is about to cut through too. Its amazing, she went for months with only two teeth and now they are just coming and coming. That's all for now.
Its now official, Angie is a big girl. She has moved into her "big girl bed". We wanted to accomplish this long before Caleb was born so that she wouldn't feel like he "stole" her bed. She has been in the toddler bed for about a week and a half. She is doing great. Occasionally she falls out (we have pillows on the floor) but ususally she stays in her bed all night long and during all of her naps. When she does fall or get out of bed during the night, she just lays down on the floor on the pillows and goes back to sleep.
I think she really enjoys her new "big girl room" because she has a lot of toys at her level and I think it makes her feel more independent. I do think we have hit the terrible two's already though. She will go to touch something that she knows is off limits and will look at me the whole time to see if I am watching and what I will do about it. I even think she rolled her eyes at me the other day! She is talking up a storm although we still don't understand most of what she says. She is getting better at repeating words we say though. Just yesterday I got her to say "please". I don't think she knows how to use it correctly yet, but she will learn. She goes to the doctor tomorrow for her (can you believe it) 18 month check up. I'll update after that with all of her new pertinent information (i.e. has she actually gained weight).
On the baby front, little Caleb is very active. He just loves to kick mommy all the time. He seems to be quite strong already so I am not sure what to expect once he is born. We heard his heartbeat again on Friday and he is doing just fine. I have to have my glucose screen the next time I go for an appointment and get my Rhogam shot since I have a negative blood type.
I guess that's all for now. I'll post again tomorrow after Angie's appointment. Here are some pics of her "big girl room". Hope you enjoy!
