The Rookie Dad

So I have decided that my wife and I don’t really have any photos albums documenting our relationship.  We have wedding photo albums and that is it. Everything is done online now but I remember being young and looking through actual photo albums of my parents and thinking it was neat.  So I have found about 45 photos of my wife and I throughout the years and I am having them printed to make a little “Us” photo album.  It can be for her to enjoy and maybe one day our child can look back at how we were once young and fun too.

I tried my best to timeline them by date just by using my memory and I hope I am close.  

It is really neat because I used The Wal-Mart online photo center. I uploaded the 45 photos, selected that I wanted 4x6 (they made some other recommendations for better quality photos that was no extra cost) and I had a price within 2 minutes. For 45 4x6 photos it was 7 bucks total including 1 hour photo option! They also let me use some promo code and saved me a little over a dollar. 

So I guess if you are thinking of making an album for yourself, Wal-Mart online is a great easy way to do it! (Wal-Mart now owes me royalties).

So we are about three months away from the big day so it is time to start getting some of the bigger stuff accomplished.  My wife has looked at every single wall decal that exists on the internet. Some are a lot better than others. I think we are close to deciding on which one we want.  Definitely lots of zoo animals. The room we are turning into the nursery is already yellow, so we are going to keep it that way because it will flow really good with the decals. 

We have also signed up for birthing education classes in June. Who knows what kind of weird stuff I will have to smile and nod my head at there. I do hope they teach baby CPR though….that is something I would like to learn.  My dog is also being educated in baby sounds. Each day when I leave the house to go to work I play my iPod for her. It plays various baby noises so she can get used to them. Crying, laughing, cackling, and whatever the other noises are called, she will be ready. (I honestly don’t think she even notices them).

Since we are no longer going with Avery (turns out we have a close relative with the name, duh) we have started a quest for a new name. My wife and I don’t agree on much, so a name is very hard to pick. I got this really cool book called ‘Bring Back Beatrice’ that has all kinds of unique names. So we are making a list of ten names that we like and seeing if we have any that cross (I doubt it). 

bujnik asked: My son's name is Avery. I absolutely love his name and it suits him so well.

Excellent choice! I am pretty excited for it!

So, as you all can see, we are having a boy. Do me a favor and completely ignore my previous post about wanting a girl more than a boy. It was just a joke ……. Hee haw……..

I also stated in an earlier post that we like the name Daniel Lee. We still like Daniel, but we decided that we like Avery more. So, his name will be Avery Lee (subject to change).  

Avery was the name of my favorite person ever, my Papaw. 

Papaw always went by Arliss, which I think was his middle name, but we like Avery a lot better. It was never important to me to name our child after a family member, so this was based more on the name Avery than the fact that is was my Grandpa’s name.  You don’t see a lot of kids named Avery. At least not as common as Daniel, or Mohammad. As much as I wanted to tell me son he was named after the greatest actor of our time, Daniel Day Lewis, and the my favorite kickboxer, Daniel Ghita, I will be more proud to tell him he is named after the best friend I ever had. 

Or I can tell him that he was named after Avery Johnson. Whaaaaaat?

For those of you asking how my wife is doing. She has good days and bad days, but she is feeling better on the nausea front. Her feet are starting to swell more often since she is a hair dresser. We are in the process of finding her the perfect shoes and possibly some maternity support hose. She is still beautiful. 

Anonymous asked: A King Diamond onesie? You're going to make an amazing parent!

Hahahaha. Thank you so much! 

I took this today! like father like son.