May 14, 2010 : NYC
We had so much fun at night of A Thousand Stevies, maybe too much fun. I was quite sick the rest of the trip. I thought I was really hungover, because who gets pregnant on the first try when they are over 30 and have had surgery twice for ovarian cysts. I do, that's who. First bought of morning sickness the day after Night of A Thousand Stevies in NYC, about 2-3 weeks along. (To henceforth be called Night of A Thousand and One Stevies)
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| Chris, Tony, Matt, Mike, Chad and Jen aka Stevie. |
May 22, 2010 : Connecticut
We went to our dear friends Julia and Pearly's wedding. We had found out the day before that I was indeed with Baby Sasso. After about 41 positive tests we knew it was real, but weren't really ready to tell anyone. However, Darcy guessed it because I didn't ask for a taste of her bad dirty martini at the rehearsal dinner. The big giveaway to everyone else the next day... I was only having seltzer. I miss cocktails. I had already told my mom the day before on her birthday, so we immediately drove to VT to tell the Battilanas before it got posted to Facebook.
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| Palest. Couple. Ever. |
May 29, 2010: The Picard Weekend
The next weekend went way up in Maine to Becky and Nate's beautiful new farmhouse in Maine to celebrate Emily's Bday. By now the "morning" sickness was in full swing, so I spent most of my time trying to get Tugs the dog to let me pet him and went to bed early. But Dave stayed up for some epic flip-cup.
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| Becky Picard, Dave, Matthew and Ann. |
June 2010: 6 weeks
What did we do in June? Beats me. I spent most of it downing and then upping saltines. But Dave turned 34 and I do remember an amazing lobster roll at Neptune Oyster with Matt + Chad. And that's about it.
July 4th : Vermont : 10 weeks
We FINALLY got up to the Bogarts place in Worcester, VT and it was just as beautiful as I'd imagined. We got to hang with BFFs Marisa and Peter, the Green and Bogart families and see a killer fourth small town parade. We had Thanksgiving dinner outside to celebrate Peter's dad's healthy recovery, Thanksgiving happens to be my favorite meal.
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| Marisa is just so tiny. |
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| Roadside watching the parade. |
End of July 2010: Roadtrip : 13 weeks
We went to Montreal, Vermont and the White Mountains. We ate, went to the Botanical Gardens, drove through the Mts and found an awesome New Hampshire county fair, demo derby and all. Dave took lots of pics of the bump cause we realized we really hadn't done much in regards to that. By now I had discovered the miracle drug that has helped me keep food down and the weight gain race was on!
Montreal Street.
The super windy White Mts.
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| Maybe the best photo of Dave ever. |
July 30: Forest Hills Cemetery : 14 weeks
We decided to go look for name inspiration in one of my favorite places in Boston. And do a little shadow play.
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| Shadow Boxing |
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| I have like 10 iterations of the same maternity outfit, I really do change my clothes despite what these photos may lead you to believe. |
August 14: Woodstock for Bill's Bday : 16 weeks
This was a great weekend of family, friends, outdoor movies, photobooths, lobster and more good eating. Plus Tugs was there and I love that dog.
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| That was a good Mexican Dinner |
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| Outdoor movie set up |
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| A smiling Tugs with Emily |
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| Adam in the photobooth with Lisa. |
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| Bill on the move |
August 27 : Chicago : 18 Weeks
We had just found out that Baby Sasso was in fact a boy. We went to Chicago with Boggy and Darcy for our dear friends J.J. and Lauren's engagement party. We had a great time, got to see Adi and Anthony and the Boghdan's got to experience the hunger of a pregnant woman first hand. Frightening. We ate at the Original Pancake House and went on a Cocktail Boat Architecture Tour, were I got 2 free dove bars instead of cocktails.
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| Boggalina and Sasso at the Original Pancake House |
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| Me eyeing Anthony's pancake. |
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| Best Breakfast. Ever. (Not all mine, though it could have been) |
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| J.J. gives us his own tour. |
September 11 : Housework + Alzheimer's Walk : 20 weeks
So now we have been painting the bathroom, pantry, kitchen and baby room. Getting rid of lots of stuff. Switching rooms around. It's chaotic but looking nice. We went and did the Alzheimer's Walk in Keene with Wendy and Aunt Cathy on dad's birthday and saw Grandma. She regaled us with stories of when she was young and helped us think of boy names.
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| Dave and Chris with Grandma |
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| My belly is catching up to my butt. Hopefully the belly wins. |
So now we are at 22 weeks and we are getting pretty excited. We are discovering that baby items are actually gigantic and not small. That we have a little boxer in my belly, and if you are patient you can fell him practicing his moves. We are figuring out our he is going to fit into the studio and imagining all the cute things he will do with Oscar the dog. The morning sickness has resumed, which isn't fun, but maybe it will go away again. I've been able to resume working almost a full day. Things have been good. Hopefully we will start taking a photo a week for the last 18 weeks so you can see the bump get bigger and bigger!
