Amici: Adjusting to all the new stuff

I am now on my 33rd week of pregnancy. I never imagined that it would go by this fast. Depending on if our little baby boy arrives on his due date, we only have a month and 15 days to go! Last week we had a 3-D ultrasound done to check on how the baby was developing, etc. So far, the doctor states that he looks good. He weighed 4lbs and 13 ounces at 32 weeks. I asked the doctor if that meant I was going to have one "big" baby but she said she thought his full weight will be around 8lbs.
Here is two of the 3-D pictures from the ultrasound. It is amazing what the ultrasound can show you:



Last weekend my family and close friends threw me a baby shower back in my hometown. It was a wonderful shower and we were blessed with receiving a lot of necessasity items (car seat, crib, etc.).


Here is a picture of the homemade quilt my Aunt Susan made for the baby:
















Amici has been a good sport about all the new stuff. He definitely sniffed out all the baby shower bags hoping one of them were for him. He isn't used to having gifts come in the house that aren't aimed for him, but he did all right and just sniffed.
Amici in the "Where's Waldo, I mean Amici :)" picture:















The baby's crib all set up and Amici looking comfortable next to it. This is in our room. The crib will eventually go into the baby's room which will be a lemon souffle color.
















I think our blog may be taking a new turn to it. I'll definitely still be posting about Amici but I will also be adding information about our little baby to be. I thought about making a separate site for the baby but it is just too much to keep up with. Amici doesn't seem to mind sharing as long as he is included in all that we do. I hope we get a thumbs up from all the DWB pups/their folks. :)

Surprise!! We have awesome news!!

 

For those of you that know us well, you know that Amici is a male and that he is neutered. Amici is letting all his fellow bloggers know that his human mom is pregnant!! I'm approaching my 18th week (this coming week). We found out that we're pregnant on Dec. 27th. We decided to wait and tell family & friends once the 2nd trimester arrived. In the first month, Amici has been very patient. I was so tired. Looking back I feel that I slept the whole month of January away. Amici was there, by my side, waiting patiently for me to wake up. Once he realized that things weren't normal, he was as sweet as could be and just slept there with me. Once February hit I got some of my energy back. Amici has also coped well with my disturbed sleeping pattern. Before, I slept through the night like a champ. Now, I wake up 4+ times a night to go pee. Amici, afraid he might miss something fun, has come downstairs with me each time. Lately, he just lifts his head up because he has gotten the hint that I am not doing anything fun downstairs. Perhaps Amici's favorite part of this experience has been my upset stomach. He gets to eat a lot more of my breakfasts, lunches (on weekends) and dinners. He has run with me to the toilet as I have had the pregnancy sickness (wish I could just say it was in the morning but sometimes it is morning/night). He grosses me out sometimes as I've had to shoo him away from my projectile vomit. But, at least he is there with his wagging tail support and kisses. Pregnancy definitely effects the whole family and Amici has been a star through it all. A few weekends ago I was able to take a bike ride with him. We didn't go our normal route but it was nice to be out in the fresh air and get a little exercise (although we went pretty slow). We'll find out if we are having a boy or a girl at the end of the month. We don't have a preference, we just want our baby to be healthy and happy.

PS. Amici was around a little baby a few weekends ago at Shawn & Mary Ellen's (they had a friend over who has the baby). Kana and Amici both did great. The baby started to scream/cry at one point and Amici just laid down on the floor and put his head down. He didn't seem to get anxious, scared, etc. We're hoping that Amici will act that calm when he meets his own little baby sister/brother in August.

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

We choose and cut down our Christmas tree a few days after Thanksgiving. We go to a fun Christmas farm in Scarborough, ME where they have wagon rides, hot cocoa, and a nice family atmosphere.


I am always a bit slow on decorating the tree once we get it inside. What I really like about a live tree is the smell of it. Awww. It smells so good! Come to find out I was wise to not decorate the tree too soon because Amici had his own decorating idea. We've been trialing him out of his kennel for about a month. We got the Christmas tree and he seemed unfazed by it. Well, one night we got home and this is what we found (in addition to our first snow fall):


Yup, you saw the evidence. He chewed two nice size holes in our tree. Thankfully they were at the bottom so we were able to just turn the tree around. After the shock of him doing that, we started the kenneling again. One for the sake of the tree and most importantly, for the sake of Amici since pine needles can be deadly (they can puncture intestines). Amici has not displayed any side effects from it and has acted fine so we hope that he didn't digest too many pine needles. It seems he just wanted a few sticks, saw a tree, decided to chomp on it, and the rest is history.

He went to see Santa that Sat. Do you think he was on the good list or the naughty list? Apparently by the pic Santa thought he was on the good list. :)

From Santa & Amici

These pictures were taken today of our tree and Amici. Although he has gone back to the kennel- which hasn't phased him a bit, he has been a bit nicer to our tree. Today I found him carrying around my Santa ornament in his mouth (it is a stuffed one with my name on it). He wagged his tail and looked all sheepish but he hadn't ripped it. Santa is back on the tree again with a bit longer beard.


We've been getting our DWB Christmas cards by snail mail and email. All of them have been great. Thank-you for sending them to us! It is so much fun to check the mail now!

Here is Amici chillin with one of his few toys that he hasn't ripped to shreds within a few seconds of receiving it.

From Lovie

Thanksgiving & Thankfulness

We have some exciting new to share. Kana has a new member of his family- a kitten! Tigger passed away a few months ago as she was hit by a car. She had been part of Kana's whole life with Shawn and she was Shawn's first animal to share his home (6 years +). Mary Ellen, Shawn's fiance' (my human Dad's brother), has never had a cat or dog of her own. This fall she rescued Hunter from the Animal Welfare Society in Kennebunk, ME. Here he is the very first time at his new home.


Here Kana and Hunter are a couple days later, still working things out.


Due to the new kitty in the house, Amici wasn't able to go to Uncle Shawn's for a while. Kana and Hunter needed to adjust first and then once that happened we slowly have been introducing Amici to Hunter.

Alan's parents were very generous this year and decided to help us all enjoy Thanksgiving by having just one on the actual day. As a result, they offered to come down the Sunday before Thanksgiving which worked out great. Here are the fur kids.


In between the Pennington Thanksgiving and the actual day, Amici and I went to Popham Beach with Linsey.


We had Thanksgiving at my parents' home in the Midcoast Maine area. It was a fun day. We forget that being around 10 people, 2 other dogs, and a cat may be overwhelming not just to us at times but to Amici. By the end of the night he actually jumped into Alan's lap and kissed him asking us to go home. We left a few minutes later and Amici slept all the way home in the backseat with me.


We hope everyone had a safe, fun, and thankful Thanksgiving. We have a lot of things to be thankful for and DWB is one of them. :) Happy Thanksgiving. :)