Splendiferous Zeppelin Escapades

Just a quick anecdote: According to a recent commercial we saw, Advair (new drug to treat both causes of asthma) has an interesting side effect. It said that it may increase the chances of asthma-related death. Not too enticing to me, but hey, if that’s your thing…

(This is the first of a series of newsletter entries that we’ll post on here. We do these every month, buy well start posting them here as well.)

Hi family,

A good month. We started it out with a really nice 4th of July. A big dinner at the in-laws, a nice fireworks display at a friends, and our dog actually being sociable with small children made it a great day. Lucy has always had a hard time with kids, but we’re not too worried about how she’ll interact with Spencer.

We went to Dallas one weekend to find maternity work clothes for Jessica. You may not have known, but it’s hard to find not-expensive clothes of this type in a city like Oklahoma City. Anyway, we went to some stores that had a maternity section, but we still weren’t finding anything not outrageously expensive.

While we were leaving one store (feeling frustrated), the clerk told us about a maternity store nearby. We decided to try it, we’re glad we did. It was basically a maternity superstore with lots of expensive clothes, but LOTS of clearance racks of NICE clothes. We bought everything we needed there and were so glad we found it. We also saw Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3D, and that was pretty good.

We’ve started being able to see Spencer kick. It’s so crazy to see his little feet hitting that hard! His kicks are also easily felt now. He reacts REALLY well to music put on Jessica’s belly. He particularly likes the Bee-Gees.

Other than that, it’s benn pretty normal around here. We’re getting along pretty well. Have a great month!

Adam and Jessica and Spencer and Lucy

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We have been doing lots of reading about what the baby can sense in the womb, and this point, we have understood that his eyes are starting to open so he reacts to light shone directly on the belly. And he also reacts to the sounds he hears. So, we thought we’d try.

So, a couple weeks ago (we aren’t sure of the date), we got a flashlight and started shining it at the belly. He started kicking wherever we shined it! And we’re not talking the cute, “Oh, there he kicked” type kicking. We are talking as hard as he could, and we were literally watching my belly move like crazy whenever he kicked. It was nuts. He just went crazy. It was fun.

Then last night, we took Adam’s iphone, and started playing some fun dance type music. He started “dancing” to the rhythm of the music. This reaction wasn’t as intense as the one to the light, but he seemed to have a good time. Then we changed it to a song with a stronger bass beat, but he seemed to like the song with the faster, dance type rhythm. After we stopped playing the music, he just kept on going for about 20 or so minutes. It was pretty cool (except for the fact that I was trying to go to sleep).

Anyway, those were our fun little experiments. We’re excited.

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