Hey everyone, sorry it has been so long between posts, I have been telling Jeni she needs to blog stuff. I guess I could be doing that too, we are just slackers. Anyways, to appease the masses (all two of you) I have put up some pictures on the flickr account. You can use the links in the menu. Or you can just enjoy this picture of Brendan’s First Gator Game. He was just as upset as I was that UCF put on such a poor showing of 42 – 0.
New York post have been my mental block, so I am officially saying, sorry to all those who were actually reading my blog, and hoping I would finish posting about it, but feel free to emai lme and I will tell you all about it if you want.
That being said, I will try to make some new posts.
The first thing I said to Daniel when he woke up this morning was, “Today is baby day!” He just chuckled. Surprisingly the day did not seem to drag on even though in a matter of hours we were going to find out if it was a boy or a girl.
Our ultrasound appointment was at 3:45p.m. We sat there and waited as other patients were called in. While waiting Daniel made the comment, “If it’s a boy we will know it because it is a Roop.”
Every time the door opened we got excited only to find out it was someone else’s turn. Finally my name was called after waiting 45 minutes. Side note: I peed twice while waiting and right before we went in I had to pee again. This baby likes to push on my bladder.
We went in and waited for the technician to put our information in the computer. They had just started using a new system. She then said it was time to see how this baby is doing.
There Baby Roop was on the tv screen. Baby Roop looked like he had grown so much since our last ultrasound. The technician said, “There’s the baby’s heart pumping.” “He?!” I thought she had said he. “THE BABY’s heart is beating. We will find out in a just a few minutes what the sex is but first I got check to make sure everything is alright from head to toe.”
It was so awesome to see all the different parts of Baby Roop. We saw the heart, brain, spinal cord, bladder, and embirical (sp?) cord. Finally she got to the bottom half. “Oh well we don’t have to guess what it is. The baby is letting us know. Do you want to know?” Of course we did. “It’s a boy. See he showing off his penis.” I guess Daniel was right. Roop boys do show there stuff.
I couldn’t stop smiling. I was so excited because I wanted a boy first. It was weird because for the longest time I thought it was going to be a girl. But this past weekend I had a dream that we were at the doctor’s finding out and the doctor told us it was a boy. Then just last night I had a dream that Kye Lynn was having puppies and one of them came out blue. In my dream I wanted to keep the blue puppy and not give it away. Hmmm….Strange but funny.
It took a while to get a picture of the face. He kept turning his head. Finally he turned, looked right at us, and even opened his mouth. As if to say… Okay here’s my face now will you let me go back to relaxing.
And so the results are in—Baby Roop is a boy. Brendan Casey Roop has made his debut to us and all our wonderful friends and family.
Click on the pictures to get a better look at Brendan.
Hey everyone just a quick update that I just uploaded some jeni.pregnant pictures and some kye pictures, so enjoy.
The adventure continues. I will eventually get through this I promise.
Our first full day in New York was used mainaly for me to get a grasp of the lay of the land. We started our day by looking for a place to eat breafast. We decided after our very expensive hamburger experience we would look for a diner of some kind to try out. We ended up eating at the Brooklyn Diner. Great breakfast, still a little expensive in my opinion, but really good food. It seemed to be one of those places that tries to claim that alot of celebrities ate there. The showed this by placing name plates at each booth of the celebrity that ate at that booth. we didn’t have anyone really cool, but George Stephanopolis had sat at the table next to ours, which I thought was cool.
After breakfast we took a walk into cenral park. This was really cool, and you can see all the pictures in the New York photo set I setup on flickr (see previous post). The picture for this post was taken in central park. I was very excited about catching this moment, and I thought it ended up really well. Much better than an untrained photographer should be able to take.
Anyways, after central park, we walked down 5th Avenue. And we came to the greatest place in New York. THE APPLE STORE. Ahh yes, it was everything I had hoped it would be. Amazing. That is where I did my post from the apple store. In retrospec I should have titled that entry…The Big Apple…but I didn’t oh well.
Moving on, the Apple Store was fun, but since I wasn’t buying anything it kind of ended there. But I will say this about that. I have a theory about the proposal to buy the land to build the store went like this.
Corporate Building Owner (CBO): Oh what a boring foyer area my building has.
Steve Jobs: Hey I want to build an Apple Store in New York that will be Awesome. Hey CBO you think I can buy your foyer, and build a store under ground?
CBO: Um, I guess so ,we aren’t using it for anything.
Steve Jobs: Great, don’t worry the store will look great, and it will be glass so it won’t block your building. Well It won’t block the first 4 floors atleast.
CBO: Sounds good
Steve Jobs: Oh BTW when the lease ends, I want the the cube back.
CBO: Okay, weirdo.
And that is pretty much how I think the conversation went. From there we went to FAO Schwartz cause it was right behind the Apple store. This was a pretty cool store. Both Jeni and I had been there before, but it changes all that time so it is cool. We walked around a bit, bu the hilights of the trip was, me playing DDR (and doing quie badly), Jeni having me ake a picture with a giant Yu-Gi-Oh statue, Jeni aking a picture with a Lego Hagrat, and me taking a picture with Lego Darth vader and Chewbacca. After we were done walking around FAO Schwartz we got the most giagantic milk shake I have ever seen in my life. It was a lot of fun.
At that point Jeni and I were begining to wear down so we went back to the hotel and rested a little bit. Later that night we went out to find another diner to get some food at, and we discovered our breakfast place, I will talk more about that in the next post.
So all in all Day 1 was very fun, we did quite a bit of walking, and saw some really cool stuff.
Hey everyone. I know Jeni and I haven’t been posting as much as some would like. So I decided to allow some user interaction. In honor of our ultrasound to find out the sex of the baby on August 2 I have put up a poll for the sex of the baby. As soon as we find out we will anounce the sex and everyone who was right can feel good about themself and everyone else can feel stupid.
So this is a little delayed, but I figured I would go ahead and do some posting since I am having some issues sleeping. New York was alot of fun. We did a lot, but there was so much we didn’t do. I will just highlight my impressions, and I am sure Jeni will touch on hers on the baby blog.
First thing when we arrived I immediately noticed that JFK is no where near as nice as MCO (Orlando International Airport). I later found ot this is a trend in New York because LGA was just as unimpressive. After we got to the airport we collected our baggage, and when to find out how to get a shuttle to the hotel. I had to call the company because there was no attendant at the transportation booth. I still am not sure how, but for some reason Super Shuttle has my name as Nathan Daniel. Both drivers got on to me for not answering but they had my name wrong, why would I respond to Nathan.
The hotel was all about the location. I liked it, and I am not a pickey person, but for the money we spent I was expecting a little more than a poorly maintained howard johnson. Know I don’t want to give you the wrong impression, I was happy with the accomidations, but I noticed it was a little rough around the edges. We were however on 56th and 7th which is relatively close to a good chunk of manhatten so location was worth the money.
Day 0 was not so eventful. When we got to the hotel we found out 7th avenue was blocked off, which was cool cause there was an art festival of some kind going on, but it was not cool because we had to carry our luggage a block and a half to the hotel from where the taxi could drop us off. After we got situated we ended up walking down 7th ave to see what all was for sale in the art festival. There was some neat stuff but nothing that we decided to buy. The only other really exciting thing about Day 0 was that we paied 50 bucks for 2 hamburgers, fries, 1 soda, and tip at the Hotel restaurant. Now if this was a decent burger I wouldn’t mind. But this was a realy CRAPPY burger. It was on a kaiser roll, and it was not seasoned at all. Later that night we had our first experience at a local restuarant. We went to Ray’s Pizza. I had pizza Jeni got spaghetti. They were both very good, and I marked Goal 1 off of my list (Getting a Slice of Pizza).
That being said, I am going to save Day 1 – 7 for another restless night. I am going to start to have to blog shorter more frequent posts, otherwise I don’t think I will ever catch up.
For those who don’t want to wait for the stories here are the pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielroop/sets/72157594200433563/
Just wanted to make a post from within the apple store in New York. It is pretty school. However it makes me a little sad since my Mac Book Pro did not make it before we left yesturday. Other than that our flight was good, and the hotel is right in the middle of everything which is nice. But I will post more about all that later…maybe while were here if I can convince myself to cough up 13 bucks to use the internet in the hotel.
I was going through my photos from the wedding this weekend and I came across the best cake ever made. I never put it out fthere for the world to see so I figured I would put it out there.
Since my MOTHER is pushing me to get pictures up, here is a ultrasound image. This was a really cool experience, and I am thinking if there was any doubt in my mind that we really had a baby, they are gone now. Cause this thing is relatively easy to see. At roughly 12 weeks old it seems to be developing just fine. Ultrasound tech said the heartbeat was at 165.
When the tech first showed up the image, the baby was moving all over the place. And it even appeared to be waving at us. After that she started to try to get the hearbeat, but she was getting a little frustrated cause the baby would not stay still.
Jeni was a little discouraged from this movement, cause she remembers the story my mom tells that in the grocery store once I actually kicked and you could see my foot from inside. She is afraid the baby is going to do this to her.
Anyways, we will post some more stuff like how we found out etc later. And I am sure I will get Jeni to post her side of these things at some point, as always you can go to flickr to see our images at http://www.flickr.com/people/danielroop.?? And I set up a slideshow of the ultra sound images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielroop/sets/72157594160094254/show/.
