Numerical Data for the month of September

Here are the Kennedy numbers for the past month:

• 4 baby classes
• 1 ten year High School Class reunion-Kevin
• 3 guests to use the new guestroom
• 1 Palm Tree removed from our backyard
• 2 baby showers
• 29 years Kevin has spent on this earth
• 5 English classes Misty taught at night
• 1 extremely overpriced bill to check blood pressure
• 7 trips to the Frisbee golf course
• 1 Frisbee Kevin owes Keith for throwing his in the lake
• 4 trips to College Station for Aggie home games
• 1 first haircut for our nephew Owen by Misty's mom

• 12 pounds gained by the expectant mother (ahhhh)
• 5 loads of laundry for the upcoming baby
• 1 can of red paint for the nursery
• 3 pillows Misty uses every night, leaving little room for Kevin in bed
• 2 friends from Dubai visit Houston
• 1 book completed for this months bookclub
• 4 quilting classes
• 3 times we borrowed a friends t.v. to watch football
• 120 minutes on average Kevin spends in traffic a day
• 45 barks of warning Maggie provides daily as she looks out the window guarding the house from evil neighborhood cats, large trashcans, and blowing leaves 50 yards away.

Continuing Education

We are in our final weeks of 'Baby 101' at our delivery hospital. The classes have definitely opened our eyes to the joy and blood of childbirth. While most of the class is done with an instructor teaching, she does play videos from time to time. I find most of the videos I have my eyes closed asking Kevin what is happening, only to find out he has his eyes closed too...so I'm not so sure how this is going to work out come delivery time. Two weeks ago I may have had a slight emotional breakdown in class when I learned the baby wasn't the last thing I have to deliver. Between fits of crying and laughing, I managed to scare our instructor and embarrass Kevin (who of course stood strong by my side, letting me wipe my tears and snot all over him!) I think it was more of the realization that our baby is actually coming, and won't stay in my belly forever, and I REALLY need to get the nursery ready! Tonight we take a tour of the labor and delivery rooms and starting Friday I begin visiting our doctor on a weekly basis.

Continuing on the topics of the baby. We had a wonderful weekend full of baby showers! My mom flew in for the events and spent the weekend with us. On Saturday Kevin's family had a dual shower for his cousin and me. She is expecting a girl, while we are having a boy, which made a for a very pink and blue shower. We got some amazing gifts and it was great to see so many family members. Kevin's Granny always makes a quilt for the new great grandchild, and if you look closely at the picture you will see that in her wonderful sense of humor she put little 'accountants' all over the quilt to honor our baby's CPA Daddy! On Sunday the ladies of our church also threw us a shower. They were so kind to put it together quickly so that my mother could attend while she was in town! I was amazed at what a wonderful church family we have, when half the women in attendance were ladies I have only met upon our return to the states in July. Needless to say, this weekend definitely made us feel extremely loved and special.