Happy Birthday Uncle Mike!

Happy Birthday to my Uncle Mike who is 12,037 days older then me!!! I can't wait to meet you next weekend!

FIRST VIDEO!

This is obviously the first video we took of Bennett. Enjoy!

Bennett Buritto

At the request of Gramleenie!!!

Funny Faces :)

Guard dogs for Bennett

Dickens came over to check out the scene on while Mogley stood post!

Hiccups & Home

We are at home!! Ali is resting and doing great. Bennett is sleeping. The dogs already love him, although Mogley first thought he was a toy, then got scared, and now is cuddling with the baby. Here is a video of some Hiccups. More pics to follow!!!

Bennett Charles Smith

Karen's Baby Shower

Karen's baby shower was actually almost a month ago now, but I just found the very few pictures that I have of the event, so I thought I would post...I am in the background of the first one:-)

Note to the group--don't play baby bingo at baby showers in New Jersey--it was total madness! The competition was fierce and cheating ensued...only in New Jersey:-)

After 40 weeks...

As many of you have likely guessed because of our communications blackout and the fact that the baby countdown at the top of this blog is still counting down, Baby Smitty has decided not to make an appearance as of yet. We are only 4 days late at this point, however, the frustrating part is that we were told that we were going to be induced last week and now we are still hanging out! The plan from here is that we have a doctor's appointment today at 315pm at which we will see if there has been any progress. If there is still no progress, we go to Norwalk Hospital tomorrow for this gel stuff (which is rumored to really be ineffective, but that is the next step) and then check on Friday to see if we can induce. If we can induce Friday, then we will, but if not, it will be next week.

We very much appreciate all of your thoughts and messages--as you can imagine, being the control freak that I am, this has been a challenging time, but I guess it gets us used to not having control:-) We will send out a text message to all once the little guy comes and then post something here shortly after.

In the meantime, we are living as normal--see pics...we went out on the boat yesterday after going to the Memorial Day parade in downtown Fairfield. I figured that if he was going to come, giving him a crowded parade and an isolated boat ride might trigger him to make an appearance:-) It was a gorgeous day and we were happy to take advantage of it...check out the pic of the baby's first ride on the boat and me driving at 40 weeks and 3 days preggo!