Halloween overdue

I am sorry I have been late in posting about our Halloween fright fest, but here are some pictures of the night's events...

Cast:Laura, Me, Amy, Jenn, Paul, Jeremy, Tori, Grant, Annagrace & Drew

Harry & the Headphones

Tonight, my wife, Laura and I decided to give Mauldin his first lesson in Harry Potter. If you did not know Laura and I are big fans of the series, both the movies and books. We are on the hinges of.. well lets say me more than Laura, but almost obessive-like sometimes. You probably already assumed as such if we are exposing our unborn child to the likes of the Boy Wizard, the chosen one if you will... or the Boy who lived, okay I disgress, if you aren't picking up on these refrences pick up a book or a movie and you may can follow this a little bit... honestly, if you haven't seen Harry Potter, for religious reasons or something you may want to losen up a little bit. I mean I don't think Mauldin will come out of the womb wanting to study potions for a living. But, you know what if he does we will just say he likes chemistry!

The point of my blog is to introduce that Mauldin has began kicking, well not like, "whoa he just knocked my hand off your belly kicking," but Laura swears she is feeling it. Although, everytime I place my hand on the ever-growing bump, the kicking subsides, well lets say it, all together goes away. Is she making this up? Is she just wanting to feel it so bad it is happening, or is Mauldin playing a cruel joke on daddy already? Well, whatever it is I would like to feel it happen... atleast once!

Back to the headphones and Mr. Potter... we are trying to give Mauldin some culture early on... there are no concrete studies that; say playing music or whatever will make your child smarter, but who says it will make them, I dunno, not smarter? So, will Mauldin be born speaking with a British accent? Well, if he does wouldn't that be hilarious?

Cheers!

It's A Boy!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, bring on the blue stuff... It's official, we are having a boy!

53% of people who voted said, girl... (I was in that group) however, my beautiful and intuitive wife, Laura, said boy alllllll along! Not to mention almost everyone in our family! I guess I was just saying girl so if it happened to be I would have already prepared myself for it.

Not that having a girl is a bad thing, but having a boy first really would be a nice thing to have off our shoulders... for one, we don't have to worry about having our name stolen!

With that being said...

Mauldin James Skates will be a very welcomed addition to the Skates household.

See the pictures...

It's almost official...

It’s almost official…

We have names picked out, but now we just need to know which one we will need to use!

Hopefully, tomorrow we will have an answer…

Boy: Mauldin James

Girl: Tessa Darling

Penis or Vagina... just tell us already!

In less than three days my wife, Laura, and I will be heading to the doctor's office to have an ultra sound that may give us the answer we have been waiting for, for soooo long!

We are fastly approaching the 20 week mark.

Is the child floating around in my wife's tummy a boy or a girl?

If you haven't voted on our poll, be sure to hurry and make your guess.

Of course, there may be a possibility we may be let down if our dear Baby Skates is being a little modest... if that is so then we will have to wait another two weeks!

On Saturday, November 22nd, we are having our 4D ultrasound where we can see our baby look like a clay figure and see it give us a peace sign or, shutter to think, the "finger," not on purpose, of course! LOL! I've heard stories... lol

So, Thursday, November 6th, be thinkin' about us as we are on pins and needles just waiting to find out if Baby Skates is a boy or a girl.