On the move.....

Yes, you read that right... lots of moving is happening in this family.

First, Baby Maksim is quite the mover and kicker! His daddy is convinced he's going to be a soccer player... or a black belt in Karate. Every night we've been doing our kick counts and he completes all 10 in about 5-15 minutes (they want him to kick 10 times in at least 2 hours). Lately its begun to be a little less kicking and some more moving, I can feel him rolling and rotating all over. He's also apparently really likes to sleep under my ribcage - not my most favorite time. We love feeling him kick and move... makes us smile everytime. When we went to the doctor on January 13th we were able to see another sonogram of our little boy. Well I guess I shouldn't say little... apparently he's in the 63rd percentile for weight! at that stage the average baby is about 2 lbs and Maks was about 2 lbs 14 oz.... a growing boy! He also is still a boy.. confirmed! He decided he still didn't want a pic taken of his face so, we'll have to wait a little longer to see our little man. Ok so I guess its Baby Bump photo time... here's a 30 week photo shoot and proof of our little (big) boy's size....

As you can see, I've (we've) been doing some growing... getting off the couch has become a difficult task, bending over to pick things up is next to impossible and reaching my toes is a long lost dream. At least I'm lucky enough to have a fantastic Husband who helps me off the couch, to pick things up, and....paints my toenails. :) I'm a lucky girl!! We're in the final stretch... 31 weeks this friday, less than 10 weeks to go! Although we're thinking Baby Maks will be an early delivery, but we'll wait and see!!

In anticipation for Baby Huss's arrival we've been refinishing a dresser that was Mark's when he was little for our little man's room. We finally finished it today and we are very proud! Keep in mind that Mark and I are not handy and this is really our first successful project! we have one more dresser to refinish for his room, we'll start working on that this weekend.

So....what's the second move you ask? well, that's us. I've taken a new position in my companies Home Office in Hartford, Connecticut... so we're moving north! Although we will miss the fantastic North Carolina weather, we are so excited to be only 4-6 hours from our family and friends. Some family is even closer - my Aunt Bev, Uncle John and Rachel only will be about 1 hour away! We went up to CT last week and did 3 days of house hunting, and just like we did on our 3 day NC house hunt, we bought a house!! its in a little town called Bloomfield - which is only about 10 mins from West Hartford Center which is an area we loved!! We are really excited and should be moving up there and closing on our house on March 12th. We've enjoyed our time in North Carolina but are looking forward to our new adventures in Connecticut... with our little man Maks.