Carlton is Home!!

YAY!! It's been a long wait and the last week seemed to crawl by as we were waiting for our guys to finally make it home! We had a drawing to choose several spouses who would be allowed to go on one of the tug boats that goes out to meet the submarine as it pulls into port and I was one of the wives that got to go!! So I have some pictures of the sub as they pulled in and then some of the guys (including Carlton) came out on top as the sub continued its way into port.

Carlton waving

Offloading passengers onto the other tug

Pilot riding with the others on the sail

Getting the sub ready to be tied to the dock

Getting out the lei that the wives made

All lined up, standing at attention

The lei is out!

Getting the sub tied up

Waiting for the bridge to be placed

First hug and first kiss recipients

Each homecoming there is a drawing for a wife to receive the first kiss and for kids to receive the first hug. So those sailors are the first two off the sub so they can greet their  family.

Carlton finally gets to check out the baby bump!

I helped cup the fence this time!

Now that Carlton is finally home, we got to celebrate Christmas!! So we were able to sit down last night and open our presents to each other.  Carlton received several books from me...cookbooks, a book about the SR-71, and a book about the origin of the marathon.

Scuba diver tea infuser

New onesie for Baby Brinda

The flask he's always wanted

The onesie has a picture of a submarine and says "Sometimes I blow kisses to the bottom of the ocean." 

New clothes!

The Christmas Train

As far as Brinda baby is concerned, we are now at 32 weeks and things are still going well. We just had a doctor's appointment and everything looks good except that he is still enjoying the breech position. It's not really a concern until we get to about 36 weeks, so we are hoping that he will start to turn around. I plan to look up different methods that can be used to get him to move into the correct position.

He is now the size of a naked tailed armadillo and weighs about four pounds. 

He's kinda cute

Belly is definitely sticking out now!

We were very lucky in our shopping trip to the NEX over the weekend! I wanted to show Carlton the changing table/dresser they had in the baby section. Of course there was only one on display but we wandered through the other aisles and found a clearance section that had one other option. Not only did we get a changing table/dresser that we liked better than the one on display but it was marked for 50% off!! SCORE! Now we just have to rearrange our bedroom furniture to make room and then put it together.

In other baby related news, my friend Jessica is hosting my baby shower in a couple weeks, so we are definitely looking forward to that!! My baby registry is up and I have had a few friends look it over to make sure I didn't forget to include anything. Now we just need our baby boy to get out of the breech position!