So we leave for India in almost exactly 7 weeks.  So we are slowly getting ready for the trip.  We’ve bought Desmond new cloth diapers for the trip, but we still need to order him a couple of new covers, I’m think 6 or so.    We just got Dan a new carrier to use, since he doesn’t like mine, and since I will be almost 20 weeks pregnant when we go, he will likely be carrying Desmond a lot more then me.

I bought a memory card for my camera, but it wasn’t the right type, so I returned it, I want to pick up another one, so I won’t have to worry about not having enough space to take tons of pictures, since we all know I love taking tons of pictures.  We also need to get a few other items, small and large, and book K-line at the kennel.

We are trying to sort of slowly gather everything we need, so there won’t be a huge rush the weekend before we leave, okay let’s be honest there is no way to avoid that huge, “We still need xyz” and to pack frenzy before we leave, but we are trying to make it so that there are only a few items on the list rather then a ton of things.

Other then getting stuff ready though, we aren’t really doing much for India, Dan and I did take a Hindi class earlier this year, but it was kind of pointless and didn’t do what we were hoping it would do.  We do plan to visit the Taj while we are over there, but other then that, we don’t have any firm plans on touristy things, since honestly they will be a bit tough with Desmond anyways.  Our tickets are booked though so we are ready on that end, we do still need to fill out the VISA forms I’ll have to ask my father in law about them this weekend, I can’t remember how early we got them last time.

We are slowly but steadily getting ready for Desmond’s first big trip to India, anyone want to take my place on the plane for 15 hours with him?

Okay I think I am now finished with all the updates.  We are now on WordPress rather then our old blog software, I’ve changed the name, we have a new web address, and I have updated the theme.  I think I’m done with updates to the site itself for awhile now.

I will try to post some pictures of the short one tomorrow or Friday though, for everyone’s enjoyment.

I apparently just lost a filling there is a nice hole in my tooth, whine I don’t want to go see the dentist, but since I don’t want my tooth to rot and have to be pulled either I guess the dentist it is. Yay novocaine shot and filling always my idea of a “fun” time. Unfortunately the filling that fell out is in an really annoying spot too so it is really obvious to me that it is gone, so I have to get it fixed soon.

But I thought I would blog anyways. The house is a mess I should really start cleaning it some so that it will be clean by April. We had the contractors out last week, the hole in the ceiling is gone, the fixtures on the bathtub are changed and we have shutoff valves now, plus the toliet flange was fixed so all is well there. We still aren’t using the upstairs bathroom because they didn’t recaulk so Dan is doing it, or he may just call them back since it was on the contract, I don’t know if he is going to bother or not.

This past weekend Dan repainted over the squares in the baby’s room since we found the border we want to use, and he’ll probably repaint again the weekend of the 7th and then put up the border. We still need to call landscapers about the yard so we can get something done to the front and back, we have Claire’s (Noah’s (my brother) girlfriend) brother’s info we just haven’t called yet. We also need to redo the upstairs bathroom with next sink and toliet and put new closet stuff in our and baby’s closet (we’re doing K’s room too but that can wait a bit).

Other then that there isn’t much else going on, Dan is down to 3 days of work left at his current job, he starts the new one on Monday, it should work out well. He has meetings for about 4 hours on Monday to learn company policies and such. The Cobra payment is going to suck, we were hoping for around $650 a month, it is going to be $850 a month. Fortunately it looks like it should only be for three months, since the new health insurance should cover the pregnancy as long as we are covered the whole time before we swap.

This weekend we’re heading down to Richmond for my newest cousin Owen’s Christening, I’ll find get to see him. He is almost 6 months old. We got him a cool sketch at Disney which my uncle should like, it is of Eyore. In fact it was so cool we had a second one done for our baby’s room. I’ll see my Mom again and my sister, which will be nice since I didn’t see her when we stopped at the lake house on the way to Disney because she was working. Saw my other two sibs then.

Okay so apparently I can rattle on about not much. Anyways think that is all for tonight it is getting late so I’ll probably head to bed soon. I’m debating a third cupcake, but that might be a bit excessive.