So close I can see the light!

What is this weird feeling.....oh, it's called free time! It has been far too long since I updated the goings on in the Miller household. Nicole, as most know by now, is pregnant and we're expecting June 21, 2008! Mark your calendars! Nicole has had a bit of a rough first trimester with the nausea and her body basically doing everything it can to make her want to vomit or feel like she should be vomiting. Needless to say Nicole has been mostly out of commission unless she is working. Thus far my adventures as a father, which seems a bit weird to type, have been exciting! Mostly an excess of cooking, cleaning, and other assorted household activities that surprisingly enough now make Nicole gag. ;) I'm sure many can relate to this. Normally, I thought dishes a pain in the ass but now because I'm the one to do them because Nicole is "with child" I don't mind so much.
The Fall term is FINALLY coming to a close, which means I have a month off! I'm looking forward to successfully completing a lot of nothing with some occasional holiday travel thrown in. I might even crack a book for leisurely reading. What a concept. What is it about school that makes you want to do anything but it??? Any thoughts? I would gladly add some updated pictures but I'm at school so it's not an option. Until next time....

Some of Nicole's perspective

I haven't posted on our little blog, so I thought it was about time. Sandy and I have different styles of writing which you will soon find. He is significantly more eloquent with the written word - you'll have to bear with me :-) I will agree with him about the surreal nature of getting ready to welcome a baby into the world. If I wasn't experiencing so many of the pregnancy signs, I would probably forget I am pregnant. Maybe that's why we experience so many changes in our bodies - to remind us we're already mothers taking care of these little lives.
So far we've been calling the baby "peanut." Baby Wolf and Baby Jemimiah are also names that have been suggested. We're sticking with peanut for now, but if anyone has a name you feel needs to be in the running, please let us know. We will enter it in the running.
Starting yesterday, I am getting to partake in another pregnancy joy......having a cold without the ability to take any medicine that actually works. Yup, Tylenol it is...oh, how I miss NyQuil. It's alright really. I keep telling peanut that s/he is worth it.
I should have known I would get sick. I'm getting to do a job I absolutely love - working with kids again. I had enjoyed two years of basically being cold-free when I was working with adults. I have been sneezed and coughed on more in the last month than the whole two previous years combined. Yummm!
Sorry to leave you on that note, but I've got to go lay down. Peanut and this cold are making me feel woozy.