My goodness I am falling in love with this little guy. His lower lip quivers when he cries. His little mouth turns itself into a heart shape after a yawn. His feet are so large that socks can’t contain them.
Thanks for the great week Jack, I’m looking forward to hundreds more to [...]

Jack Danger Plouzek.
20 March 2009, 3:48pm.
8 pounds 3.5 ounces.
20.5 inches.
10 fingers, 10 toes, and the biggest feet in Florida.

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Garth and I are heading to the hospital tonight for some medical intervention to get little Jack born. I’ll be induced this evening with the hopes that he’ll be born sometime tomorrow, so I’ll be signing off here for a little while- but I’ll still try to tweet.
love and peas,
elle

Mom was planting a container garden on our porch.

Dad was painting Jack’s crib lime green.

Garth was sorting computer parts.

And I was hooking a t-shirt rug with my feet up.
It is so great to have my parents here. It would be even more splendid if Jack decided to join us. =)

Visited labor and delivery and they hooked me up to the monitors. Jack is healthy and happy. My Doctor plans to induce on Thursday if Jack doesn’t make an effort to join the world by then.
xo
elle

After several years of web hosting with a really unprofessional and unreliable company, I’m switching to someone else. Please excuse any hiccups or outages while this only-slightly-computer-saavy-one-week-overdue-with-visiting-parents lady makes the switch.
ps. Jack is taking his time. He’ll be arriving sometime this week though, regardless of how he feels about the matter!
xo
elle

This is the waiting week. I am just not able to sit around and prop my feet up- I need to be doing things! So I’m still working on the list….and to make myself feel better about my progress, here’s the updated list, with some modifications, and pictures!

The bassinet set that I made [...]

Dear Jack,
In case we forgot to tell you, we’re ready. We have diapers (enough for a month or two), and a bassinet (with custom-made-just-for-you-sheets!), a few lasagnas frozen for dinner ready to go in the freezer, and our hospital bag is packed and waiting by the door (with a loaded ipod and nilla wafers!). [...]

There is a stranger in my belly. We invited him over, but it still rather surreal to have him take up so much of my personal space- especially when we haven’t even been properly introduced! In striving to make a connection with the little person inside of me, and to ease the overwhelming [...]