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Your life will resume normalcy in a scant 18 years or so.

LOL. Really though, how bout an update?
 
whoops!
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Sorry I missed your thread, Andy. I don't get around on forum much on the weekends. Plus my wife's B-day was the 18th and we had her friends in for a weekend visit since we can't do our standard winery wine-tasting thing this year like we normally do:P

As far as an update goes:

Things are awesome. Brenna is doing well, getting bigger, and I'm spoiling her a bit with big savory breakfasts in the morning. We ripped up the old carpet in the living room, hall way, and nursery and my dad and I put down new hardwood laminate flooring; so we have a 75% baby puke proof house. It was a lot of work, but not hard work and looks great.

The biggest and most exciting piece of news is coming Monday. We're going to get to see if we are having a boy or girl. My mom and Bren's mom are coming with us to find out:) Now, these aren't set in stone....

Gavin Michael Kelley if it's a boy
Evelyn Gayle Kelley if it's a girl
 
:rolleyes:Careful, you don't want to be too prepared. It will take away from some of the spontaneity.:)

Hmm. Come to think of it, it's probably not possible to be too prepared ... even in theory.

Never mind. Carry on.:D:thumbup:
 
Well looks like congratulations are in order!!!!!!!!

So Congratulations!!!!!:thumbup: :D :cool: :eek:
 
Great news and thanks for the update, and also, happy Birthday. I'm glad the news is good. I got worried when you didn't respond that I'd dug up something painful. Maybe the wife finally went and looked in your khukuri box, freaked out and threw you to the curb. (You need to keep that thing padlocked.)
 
Fiddleback said:
Great news and thanks for the update, and also, happy Birthday. I'm glad the news is good. I got worried when you didn't respond that I'd dug up something painful. Maybe the wife finally went and looked in your khukuri box, freaked out and threw you to the curb. (You need to keep that thing padlocked.)
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Thanks for thinking of us, Andy:) I was gonna give an update Monday when we find out what we're having. There is just something very....concrete about finding out what sex your child is. Once the initial shock and excitement wear off when you find out, you have this limbo period of KNOWING that you're going to be a parent. I mean, my wife is getting bigger, wanting to eat weird things, we talk about names, we've done projects to get ready for having a little one. However, my wife being with child has felt more like a condition just due to the fact that you call your baby to be "baby", "him or her", "little one", etc.

Once monday gets here we finally get to say "him", "her", my daughter, my son, Evelyn, Gavin, my little girl, my little boy, etc. It cements it in the psyche as to what role I'm going to have as a father. I don't mean that I am going to love my child any less if they are male or female. I'm just saying that Brenna is "Mommy". Mom is unconditional love and nurturing. She's an equal opportunity boo-boo kisser. A dad, well it's different:D It's not really, but it is...ya know?

At any rate, we're as excited as can be. We are still stoked equally to have a boy or girl. Passing around the pigskin or instilling a creeping primal fear up the spine of gentlemen suitors;)
 
DaddyDett said:
Kids..... can't live with em, can't enlist em in the Foreign Legion


=;-)
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Oh my kids will be threatened at an early age that if they don't shape up they'll have to spend the summers working for their grandpa:D
When I was 8 years old my dad brought home a pallet of bricks from a job site where the homeowner he was working for didn't want them (my dad always collected bricks and cinder blocks for future projects). He would store them behind the detached garage (which he had constructed out of said bricks and blocks). Now, he could have just as easily unloaded them right at the stacking point. Instead he purposely left them at the front of garage.

My job was to move each and every brick by hand, stack them nicely, and have it done before he got home that evening. I didn't even get a wheelbarrow. Do you have any idea how many bricks an 8 year old kid can hold at a time? Maybe 3 or 4:p

When I was 10 he started working me in the store stocking the shelves. That didn't last long.

At 12 I went to work for him in the summers. I started out washing tools and being a gopher.

At 15 I was prepping and building above ground swimming pools.

At 17-22 I spent the summers running the build crew on the in-ground pools, wheeling concrete, and sometimes being the only person who showed up to work because of "heat advisories"...the sissies;)

...lol now I'm stuck bored in an office 7 days a week BECAUSE of my experience. :grumpy:

Who am I kidding. My dad's gonna be a total softy:rolleyes::D
 
We just got back from the hospital.

It's gonna be a girl!!:D:D:D:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Evelyn Gayle Kelley is due to meet us August 6th. Fingers, toes, heart, brain, spine...all present and accounted for. I've never felt so much pride and emotion at one time in my entire life. I am one very proud papa to be:D:thumbup:
 
Great news, Jake.

My best to your wife.

Do your best to anticipate life in Indianna in the summer with a pregnant woman, and make arrangements for air-condtioning and foot massages.

Gonna be neat. You will become a human being. Daughters do that.
 
Kis, I'm way ahead of you:D

Luckily for me, Brenna is off work Labor Day-Due Date, so no pant suits or pants for that matter:P She's gonna spend her days in maternity dresses and swimming in the display pool at my office. I tend to pamper her as it is;)

To be honest, I was secretly wanting a lil' girl. The daddy-son relationship in my family is usually a pretty rough road where mutual respect and friendship aren't attainable until about age 25.

That said, her gentleman callers are going to learn quickly that Evey's daddy is a protective Papa Hawk and has friends that live in the river bottoms of Indiana that would gladly bury some trash for him:grumpy::D
 
:D :D Y'all wanna see her?:D :D

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I don't see a khukuri in that pic???
 
Fiddleback said:
I don't see a khukuri in that pic???
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Well I TRIED to sneak one in there, but my wife caught me.:grumpy::D

oh well, she's only 7 oz right now. I figure she'll have to at least make it up to the 1lb stage before she's ready for a paper cutter;)
 
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