More Advice Needed

We only have six weeks until the baby's due. Its creeping up so fast. Since I got so much good advice from all of you on my "mom panel", I've decided to utilize you again. I'm wondering what stuff I should bring to the hospital. I know there is probably a lot of personal stuff that may not be best shared in the comments sections. If you would rather, please email me your advice at suzysullivan@gmail.com.

If you also have any good advice about labor, or the days immediately after, I'm all ears as well. We've been going to childbirth class for the last few weeks, and I can no longer hide my head in the sand. Up to this point, I've preferred just to not think about it, but now the time is drawing near and that doesn't really seem like an option anymore. I'm just excited to hold her in my arms, and I'm sure whatever it took to get there will be all worth it!

Thanks in advance! ...oh and Merry Christmas.

2008 Christmas Letter

Yesterday we sent out our second annual Sullivan Family letter to our family and friends. I doubt that we have everybody's email addresses or have the wrong ones. If you would like to be added to our list, please leave your email address in the comments.

We hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas!

Click on the images to enlarge and read the letter.

Don't forget to vote about when Baby Girl Sullivan will join our family!

Time to Catch Up

On December 1st I had 9 papers to write, 5 presentations to give, and 1 website to create for school, all before the end of the semester. On top of all that, Suzy and I began our child birth classes and I had three reports to edit for work. Now finally it is all done and some sense of normality can return to life.

First an update on the pregnancy. . .

Suzy at 27 weeks

Suzy at 29 weeks

Suzy at 33 weeks

For Thanksgiving we decided that instead of staying in Amherst that we would take a short vacation and head north to Canada. We drove up to Montreal and spent three days there. The weather mostly cooperated with us, though it was not exactly warm, it probably could have been much worse than it was. During our short three days in Montreal we visited 8 museums! We bought a pass that allowed us entry into most of the museums in Montreal and included a 3-day metro pass. It was a great deal and we had fun flying through the museums. 

This is the Montreal Cathedral of Notre Dame.

This is the square in front of the cathedral.

This is the stadium that they built for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. I think the tower thing is where the flame was. Next to this stadium is the Bio-Dome, where they had four different climate zones inside the dome where they have animals running and flying around. It was one of our favorite parts of the visit. The first climate zone was the rain forest, which was a nice change from the cold of the outside even if we had to carry around our 8 layers of clothes.

This is a museum home that is across the street from the stadium. This house was cool because it is actually a duplex mansion owned by two wealthy brothers.

On our last day, the first one with blue skies, we drove up to the top of Mont Royal which overlooks the city. It is a great view. We took our lunch, a baguette and dip with us but since it was cold we ate in the car.

This past weekend we got our first big snow storm. Prior to this storm we had a nasty ice storm which knocked out power for thousands around us, including several people in our ward, but fortunately we did not suffer from that one. This past snow storm was really supposed to be two different storms, but it never stopped snowing from Friday afternoon to Sunday night. It snowed so mush that even Church was cancelled. In total we got probably close to 18 inches. This is the view past our three little Christmas trees out our window at all the snow.

Notice also that we have created a new poll on the right. Vote now to place your guess on when Baby Girl Sullivan will arrive!

Thanksgiving

This month has been very busy for us both and somehow the entire month has silently slipped past us without our knowledge. November has brought several highlights that we want to share with you, but our blogging has been found lacking. We resolve to do better and to catch up with our happenings soon. Stay tuned for pictures of our trip to Canada and news on everything else. . .

Family Pics

When my family was here in May, we had some pictures taken by some friends of ours who are photographers.  They turned out pretty good, so I thought I would post a few.  Only my mom has seen them at this point, so I'm sure the rest of the family would like to see them.

Of course, now we have a new niece and our baby on the way.  Its good to have some nice pictures, even if it is already outdated.
 

Aren't we cute?  

My mom was here this week and it was a lot of fun.  We bought a bunch of baby clothes so they baby is set for the first 6 months.  We looked at a lot of other stuff too and I am doing research to decided what to get for the bigger purchases.  Thanks again for all your comments.  They have helped a lot.