First Night Home

So the first night at home was fun and by fun I mean we didn't sleep much. We are still getting used to Carson and his noises. He managed to keep us on our toes all night and he didn't really sleep much until the next morning. Here is a video I shot the next morning of Carson finally getting his beauty sleep.

The Journey Home

So finally Jennelle and Carson were released to go home on Tuesday. Carson's glucose levels were a little low for a while so they kept us an extra day to make sure that everything was OK. He is good now. We have two doctor's appointments tomorrow, so if anything is out of the ordinary we will find out then. He has been acting fine, so I think we will be good to go. He has been a real joy so far...as long as we are not changing his diaper!! Here are a few pics of the journey home. Enjoy!

Getting Dressed

Jennelle and Carson

Getting Buckled Up

Oreo and her little brother

I love you Carson!!

And it all begins...

A New Post for a New Addition

Carson Edward Berger has arrived!! He was born Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 5:05 am. He was two weeks to the day early, but good thing because he came out at a whopping 8lb 3oz and was 20.5" long with a full head of hair. Both Jennelle and Carson are doing well. We are going to be in the hospital until tomorrow, because yesterday Carson's glucose levels were low and they wanted to watch him an extra day to make sure that everything was OK. Here are some pictures of our little man! If you want to see more, they are posted on my Facebook page.

Our newest addition

Mamma and Baby

The Happy Family

Celebrating 4 Years

No worries pregger police...it's non-alcoholic wine called Fre...tasted like grape juice. The actual day of our anniversary we celebrated with a quiet evening at home with this mommy-to-be friendly wine and Salt Grass take out.

The beautiful flowers Greg got me

On Friday night we went out for dinner at Silo. It was delicious! And thanks to Greg's phone I was able to enjoy yummy crab cakes...gotta love being able to verify food do's and don'ts!

Afterwards we played a round of mini-golf and I totally kicked Greg's butt ;)

It looks like I'm sleeping...but it's really the intense concentration

I got a kick out of this pun filled sign

Who needs a coffee table?

The beginning of this week marked entrance into the third trimester! Seems to be flying by...December will be here before we know it and there is still so much to do!

Growing Belly: 28 Weeks

This week we also celebrate another milestone: 4 years of marriage!

Birthday Celebrations

Based on the amount of get-togethers to celebrate, you would have thought I was turning the big 3-0 this year. Just shows you I have some great friends :) I guess 29 is pretty significant seeing as it's the last year of a decade when lots of important milestones happened and will happen. It definitely is strange to think that this is the last year I will be in my twenties but I have been feeling more grown up lately...what with expecting a baby and all ;)

Greg treated me to a lovely dinner at Maggiano's and his gift to me was a certificate for professional prenatal photos...very sweet and thoughtful of him!

Since we don't have a lot of photos with Greg and the bump...

Baby Bump Ready for an Evening on the River Walk (26 Weeks)

The girls at work know how much I love "The Office" so they decorated my office with character photos and fun quotes. (I almost didn't post these due to the messiness of my office...there is a method to the madness and it just proves how busy I am!)

These are two of my favorite quotes they put up:

They founds tons of fun "The Office" themed gifts...I especially like the "Today I'm feeling..." magnetic board. Currently it's stuck on the "Stressed Angela" photo...

The girls also know I have a crush on the character Jim/actor John K. so they created this cute/funny photo...I think it's hilarious how it looks like he just absolutely adores me.

Less than 100 days! (At what point do you lose the tail?)

This past Friday marked 100 days until Baby Berger's due date! We can't wait to meet our little man!

He's growing fast and kicking up a storm. In addition to Greg, my parents and sister have both felt his powerful little movements.

Baby Belly: 25 Weeks

Never heard about this side effect of pregnancy ;)

Guess it's better than morning sickness!

Labor Day Weekend 2009

Another fun weekend at the lake! Oreo got a new lake toy and had fun breaking it in.




The dogs all got along except for one incident. Maddie had a great time licking up the drippings from the chicken Dad was smoking and didn't seem to notice that they continued to drip on her head. This made her smell really good to Oreo who then tried to sniff Maddie's head which she didn't like one bit and showed it by going all Mike Tyson on Oreo: the tussle resulted in a small puncture wound on her neck and a small slice out of her ear. Here's our little Evander Holyfield playing the pitiful card after being cleaned up.

Needless to say, she got over it quickly and the next day was ready for a boat ride.

Happy dogs on a boat ride

We attempted to have all three of us ride on the jet ski. We lasted about two seconds and then went overboard.

What's wrong with this picture? Oreo's like "why y'all in the water?!"

Getting the hang of it...

Baby Belly at the lake: 25 Weeks

Greg trying to feel little man kick

Baby's First...

Still in the womb, our little one has already experienced some pretty cool, fun, and significant “firsts”.

First Concert: Coldplay (12 Weeks)

First Live Musical: Wicked (13 Weeks)

First Movie (at the theater): Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (18 Weeks)

First Photo with Shamu at SeaWorld (21 Weeks)

First Katy High School Football Game (23 Weeks)

(don't let the empty stands fool you...the stadium was packed! People were sitting on the grass along the sides...thank goodness my parents have season tickets!)

Another significant "first" at 23 weeks was I definitely started to feel our little guy kick...and Greg was able to as well! A few of them have been so powerful that I could see my belly spasm just ever so slightly where he was moving. It's such a fun, amazing, and incredible feeling...we both love it! :)

Here are some Baby Belly photos at 24 weeks. The bump has definitely turned into more of a hill and has grown a lot since the 20 weeks milestone. See for yourself by checking out some earlier blog posts!

(gotta love the swollen ankles...badges of honor)

Here's my door at work. Suzanne and CJ came up with cute idea for the "Baby Belly Meter"...we've been marking it every two weeks. Deb (who heads up our design department) created the cute "PCI Reproducible" sign for all the ladies in the pregger posse (there are 4 of us now!). It's a play on something from our products...if teachers are allowed to photo copy a page from one of our books it has at the bottom a similar little icon (but with an "R" inside) and the words "PCI Reproducible".