Tuesday, August 3, 2010

38 Недель

Daniel & Alena. Photography by Andrey Rybalka.Нам уже 38 недель и 1 день. ) Я хотела доносить до этого рубежа, а теперь уже буду не против рожать в любое время. ) Говорят, что первородящие мамаши часто перенашивают за 40 недель. Мне бы лично хотелось родить до 16 августа (за 2 недели до Даниного Central Park. Daniel & Alena. Photography by Andrey Rybalka.дня рождения), но тут уж как получится. Вообще интересно всё же — какой механизм контролирует начало процесса? Зависит ли это в большей степени от матери (при здоровой матери со средними физическими нагрузками), от ребенка, или еще от чего? )

Чувствую я себя тьфу-тьфу-тьфу хорошо. Даже спина болеть перестала недели 2 назад. А сейчас еще и жарень на улице чуть меньше стала, так я до метро хожу даже с удовольствием, а не потому что надо для физических нагрузок. ) Конечно, я не могу идти быстро и устаю больше, но всё же по рассказам знакомых картинка мне рисовалась в чуть более мрачных тонах. Правильно, наверное, люди говорят, что каждая женщина переносит Daniel and Alena in Central Park. Photography by Andrey Rybalka.беременность по-своему, и даже каждая беременность может протекать по-разному (это я надеюсь не накаркать на будущеe).

В субботу Данин колега Андрей сделал нам очень приятное одолжение. Андрей увлекается фотографией — и получается у него это, на мой взгляд, очень неплохо. Так вот он провёл с нами 1.5 часа в Централ Парке делая фотографии нашей довольной пузатой семейки. Я фотографий пока не видела, но если получится хотя бы 2-3 хороших снимка, то затея себя оправдала. ) Continue Reading
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Sunday, July 18, 2010

StarCraft II Beta

Starcraft IISomehow a beta key from StarCraft II landed in my mailbox. I tried a couple of game and it feels pretty much like an old StarCraft with updated graphics. I’m not really a fan of this genre of games. Actually I’m not a fan of games at all.

StarCraft IIAnyhow, it’s been fun to play a couple of rounds for free. Too bad the beta is for multi-player only. I would’ve enjoyed a solo campaign more probably. Plus I tend to build a nice base and arrange my stuff and meantime a huge army invades and destroys everything — as I said, not my thing.
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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Baby Stuff

Results of our little shopping spree.Now we’re at a point where there is less than a month left until our official due date — we’re going to become parents during the next several weeks. Alena made a lot of post with regards to what’s going through our or mostly her mind and it’s probably not a bad idea to leave some of my own thoughts and feelings as well.

First of all I’m probably still not realizing the full impact of this. I thought that when Alena grows a big belly the reality will settle in. She does have a huge belly, I can see it moving, I can feel the kicks and the hiccups, but it’s still hard to believe. I do have short moments of “what did we get ourselves into”, but they pass quickly. The rest of the time I’m quite excited and I really can’t wait to see him.

It's not washed and ironed yet, but this is the future bed of our son.There are a lot of problems that we have to deal with, mostly with doctors and medical insurances, but these are not very important things in the long run. The main thing is for the baby to be healthy and for Alena to have an easy (as “easy” as that can be) birth.

Alena is doing a great job. She eats very healthy (she did eat healthy before this as well, though), she doesn’t eat or drink anything that she isn’t supposed. Also from what I hear we’ve been lucky. She had no morning sickness and no other horrible things that you hear women go through. It’s 36 weeks tomorrow and yet just last week we went touring the town for the whole weekend. I’m really proud of her. Continue Reading
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Friday, July 16, 2010

Home Sweet Home

New bedroom carpet.We keep adding or changing small things at our place. Wanted to post a couple of shots of the latest changes. Luckily for me and not so luckily for him — Andrey was staying at our place for this modification. We are very grateful for his help.

Padded carpet covering 100% of the floor of our bedroom.The first one is done in preparation for family expansion. We decided to cover 100% of our bedroom floor with a thick carpet and padding. This should cut down on some noise and if the neighbors are still not happy — it’s not our problem anymore — we’ve done what the rules require. Even though it might not look as great as hardwood floors we think it gives us a peace of mind and that’s more important. Plus it actually did make the room cozier.

Half of the mirror installed. You can see how big the difference is.Another one is a small improvement to the living room wall unit. We inserted a pair of mirrors into the areas with glass doors. This was my parents’ idea and it sure made the whole interior look much brighter.

Both parts of the mirror installed. Hard to capture on the photo because glass reflects as well.Turns out there are tons of mirror shops around and we got ours cut precisely to 1/8th of an inch several blocks away from our place for something like $90 or so. I think it’s a big improvement.
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Friday, July 16, 2010

Surprise Party at Work

Flowers and a balloon.Yesterday I was pleasantly surprised at work — my colleagues did a little “congratulations on your pregnancy” party for me. They caught me completely by surprise — I was called to participate in an emergency team meeting, and did not even notice a decorated table at the end of the conference room with a “baby” balloon, flowers and a cake at first.

Card signed by everyone.I got a couple of gift certificates, and the whole office spent 30-40 minutes in the conference room chatting and eating ice-cream cake. It was certainly a very nice gesture, and again — I did not remotely expect anything like this. )

It was funny to be in the room full of guys (there was just one other women, Yvette, except for me) and talk about pregnancy, birth and babies. )
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