OT: Wife Expecting our first!

[Cris]

Can you just hear the pitter patter of little fetts everywhere?

Good one, Scratch!  :lol:

[mwdbruno]

Congrats!!!    

[jangofett]

Just wanted to update everyone, we found out we are having a boy! Gretchen is doing well and at 20 weeks looks beautiful. I am very excited. The ultrasound was amazing and we have a video of it that we have watched a dozen times. Everyone have a good spring and safe riding to all. This board and everyone on it is great!

[Cris]

Woohoo!  A Jango Jr.!

[GRU]

congratulations....

don't listen to your wife when she sais "we need extra money now so you have to sell your bike"

hehe  

[Rich500]

Excellent news!!!
So howd you score on the kinky test?

[MstrsLilBrat]

Good Job, jangofett!!

*Congrats!!*  

[Rema1000]

The ultrasound was amazing and we have a video of it that we have watched a dozen times.

Congrats! Those ultrasounds are so cool... it's like watching TV (except the audience is more excited).

Now is a good time to test every surface in your home for lead, and then take care of any refinishing work: you won't be able to make any dust come summer.  The real kidproofing can come later, when he's able to move around.

Try and get organized: get a system to take care of bills and chores.  You're likely to forget little things like paying the mortgage once you get busy, unless you have a system that makes sure they get done.

[jangofett]

I do need to start kid-proofing the house. How does one test for lead in the house? We live in an older home and I suspect that some of the finishes might contain lead. Thanks for all the nice words everyone!

[pantablo]

there are specialists that test for lead...look in the yellow pages for home inspectors...

no need to babyproof yet. Baby will be a lump for a long time (a beautiful, giggling makes-you-want-to-cry-from-happiness lump). As baby gets older and starts to crawl and walk you'll know immediately what is in the danger zone. babies are all different. Mine has one drawer in the kitchen that's his favorite-its the only one he likes to open and close so we put rubber tupperware in there and havent had to worry about anything else.

Boys are great. Just wait till you get home from work and he comes running out yelling "daddy, daddy" with a big grin on his face. Happens much earlier than I expected and brought me to my knees crying happy tears. Mine's 19 months now.

You're going to be SO FRIGGIN TIRED but so ecstatic at the same time. It's magical. Congratulations.

[The Buddha]

Boys are harder to keep in line mostly I am told, however my reward system works better on boys... my 13 month old gets bike time and he loves it. Also when he'd out near the garage when I am fiddling with something... my wife gives him a stubby wrench as a toy... and yesterday he put his hand in a bucket of gas. I guess next year I'll have to get him a YSR50.
Cool.
Srinath.

[jake42]

All I can say is my three year old shares the same enthusiasm about bikes as I do.  Whenever I start up the GS he gets really excited and starts jumping around.  Which is exactly what I want to do most of the time. :mrgreen:


hope your little one feels the same way.

jake

[Rema1000]

there are specialists that test for lead...look in the yellow pages for home inspectors...

You can also get little "tester pens" at the hardware store.  They look like cigarettes.  You squeeze them, then rub the tip on a paint chip, and if the paint chip has lead, it will turn red.  They are supposedly inaccurate, but I got some nice red smears on paint that was later professionally tested to have lead, so they're a good place to start.

The problem is that your son's blood will be tested for lead at several points, and if the reading is a bit high, then the state requires that you have your house professionally tested, then correct any problems.  But with your son in the house, you can't make any lead dust, which means either send the kid to grandma's for a week while the work is done.   Our boy liked to teethe on a low windowsill that had lead paint under the newer paint, and had high lead levels for a while.  We pretty much had to wet the floor and walls (to minimize dust) then rip out the old window mouldings, but we finally got his lead level down.

Agree with Pablo:  all the kidproofing is done in stages later.  

You're going to be SO FRIGGIN TIRED

I thought of saying this, but figured that there's nothing you can do about it.  Though I suppose you might be able to save-up some vacation time at work, so that you can take the afternoon off and sleep now and then.  I know with ours, I took naps at work, 'cause it just wasn't going to happen at home.

[JohNLA]

A big congrats
(we need a cigar smoking emotion)

[AndyMC]

congrats jango!!!!!!!    when i move back to louisville in 9 months i will buy you the biggest cigar ever      

[jangofett]

Sounds great. I have a friend in pharmacy school at Lexington and we plan to ride in that area this summer. We will skip over to Louisville when we do, just let me know when you are around.

[AndyMC]

wellll since nobody else has said it yet


Begun the clone war has!       lol

[jangofett]

LMAO :lol: That was priceless! I never thought of it that way. Good one.