Flanagan Clan

Now that Patrick is a big boy, he has outgrown his ducky theme. Once we move into a new house, the new baby, whether a boy or girl, will be getting the ducky themed decor. (One of the reasons why we picked it was because it was gender neutral). Patrick will be soon ready for a big boy bed, and will need a new theme. I’ve been going over different new boyish themes for Patrick in my head, and I’ve looked at a lot of overpriced Pottery Barn Kids catalogs. I’d love some feedback on what you’d think would be a cute theme. Here are my ideas:

1)Sailboat beach theme- light blue, white and red sailboats and cute little crabs and other sea life to accent the main theme.

2)Airplane theme- light blue, dark blue, white, and maybe one other accent color. I’m thinking more of the antique looking planes over more modern day jets.

3)Dinosaur theme- lots of greens, brown and blue, maybe some red. Happy dinos are preferred for good nights’ sleep!

4)Trains- blues, greens, reds- a pretty classic theme. A classic Lionel train set would complete this theme.

5)Baseball- blue, red, white, brown- if we get Patrick involved in any sports, it will probably all start with Little League baseball.

I’m not big on doing any other sports, a car or a truck theme, but if anyone has any other ideas besides the ones here, let me know! I’m interested to see what people think would be the cutest for my little boy!

DaDa’s sweater is like a long gown for Patrick

Here are several pictures of Patrick. Most of them were taken the day I put up the St. Patrick decorations. Patrick was quite sick on his actual holiday, so we don’t have any really good pictures of him.

In one week from tomorrow we will be finding out the gender of our little one, and so if you have guesses as to the gender, birthdate or weight, please let us know by Wednesday, the 29th, at noon. After that, we will no longer be taking any guesses.

Unless we promised to call you after the ultrasound, if you’re interested in finding out the gender of the baby, we’d love for you to call us between 4-8PM our time on our cell phones that day to get the news!

When we first moved into our apartment I discovered a little plate (like a switch plate or outlet plate) that looked like it had some sort of speaker or microphone behind it, and we joked that the apt. complex was spying on us. Well, last night at 2:45 AM we found out what it was. A FIRE ALARM! We have some roudy young neighbors that live two floors above us, and they often have loud parties or have loud domestic disputes, and pretty much everyone in our building can hear them because they didn’t do a great job soundproofing everything. Well, last night we woke up suddenly to the shrill sound of a fire alarm and, in a dazed state, fumbled around the apartment trying to figure out what had turned it on. Then I realized that the sound was coming from the plate in the wall…. and it was REALLY LOUD. The alarm was going off in every apartment in our unit. We put some scotch tape over the holes in the plate to try to lessen the insanely loud and shrill sound, which helped only a very little bit, and proceeded to get ready to leave the building. After waking up Patrick, who is still sick (and didn’t even wake up when he heard the sound!), and trudging several feet out our door, the neighbors came to us and told us that it was a false alarm, that they had accidentally set it off, and that the fire department was on their way to turn it off. We went back inside, I changed Patrick’s diaper and gave him a bottle of electrolytes, and he went immediately back to bed. We, however, could not go back to bed because the alarm was still on. So we cleaned up our house from our little Irish dinner. I got through most of the dishes before the alarm went off. During that time you could hear angry neighbors outside upset that it was taking so long to get the alarm off. It took 40 whole minutes! After the alarm was off I tried to get back to sleep and got to hear, instead, the roudy neighbors (they’re a boyfriend and girlfriend) have a big fight and there was a bit of banging going on. Not too long after that, we saw flashing lights through our bedroom window. One peep showed two fire trucks parked out in front of our apartment, though we’re not exactly sure why they had come, now that the alarm was off. It was a long time before we were able to get back to sleep.

We really need to get our own place…