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June 2012 Moms
GTKY: Husband/BF/SO edition
I always love reading more about you ladies so lets talk about our "other half"!
Age: 30
Occupation: IT Consultant-- SEO/Marketing, Webdesign and software developer
Hobbies: Golf, Video games
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He says he is excited but I think he is hiding some nerves and anxiety in there somewhere 
FTD should be a little nervous though!
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He does this weird thing where he pulls his lips back real far to slowly place the toothbrush on the very front of his teeth to start brushing. It is the weirdest thing and just makes me batty for some reason 
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Re: GTKY: Husband/BF/SO edition
Oooh fun!
Age: 28
Occupation: Project Analyst for a Gov't Contractor in DC
Hobbies: Working out/lifting, brewing beer (which smells funky btw!)
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He is super excited but wishes it was a boy. He is VERY happy for a girl though...but will admit he has no clue how to handle our sex
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He blows his nose a lot and then leaves the tissues in his pockets, then I do laundry not knowing they are in there...SO GROSS! And he also is very animated with his hands/arms when he talks...sometimes I want to pin them to his sides! But I love him!Age: 27 Although yesterday I he couldn't remember how old he was for the life of him and kept looking at me like I should know. I told him "Babe, I got a lot going on right now. I'm gonna need you to remember your own age ok?".
Occupation: Security Office at a state college and a student.
Hobbies: DCUO (Video game), reading comic books and watching movies
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He is really excited to be a Daddy but he grew up without a father and I think he worries sometimes about not having a good example of what a father should be like. I know he will be a natural at it as he takes good care of me and took great care of his three sisters and mother his whole life.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He is under the impression that our love seat is his coat rack! He comes home from work and immediatly puts his coat on the love seat along with a hoodie or sweater if he is wearing one!
Age: 24
Occupation: VP of Business Development for a small technology development business
Hobbies: Work! He does love playing hockey, although since we moved to Florida he hasn't had the opportunity to get out on the ice.
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He is so excited to be a Dad! He loves this little girl more than anything. I went to bed early last night so he slept in the guest room. This morning he said to me "I missed my girls last night. I missed cuddling with my Liz and my Ella". Awwww...
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He has a tough time picking up after himself. It gets on my nerves so much and I feel like I'm constantly nagging him. He gets into these cleaning rampages every once in a while and cleans everything, but in between those times... it drives me crazy! I wish he would clean as he goes..
Good idea for a GTKY!!
I can't get the ticker to work, but I have two sons:
Baby RJ, born 1/25/2014
Formerly Twilightmv
Age: 36
Occupation: Fedex Driver
Hobbies: Poker, Video games, golf
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He is nervous and a little worried. Once she is here and we know all is ok he will feel better. We have no reason to worry, we just know that not everything with pregnancy is always puppies and rainbows.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He purposely drops his dirty clothes on the floor instead of the laundry basket. He knows it drives me crazy and I can't let it sit there so I'll pick it up in a matter of seconds.Age: 20
Occupation: Apprentice Pipe Fitter (installing fire sprinklers)
Hobbies: Hunting, Fishing, Hiking, Shooting, Riding horses, pretty much anything he can do outside and I love it!
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He is a ball of emotions. At first he really wanted a boy, then we found out she was a girl and he was a little bummed and now he is totally anti boys. "They make everything into swords and guns!" lol He has spent a lot of time with our niece lately and is loving the idea of being a dad to a girl.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He lives to work. He has been working at the family business since he was 6 (no exageration). Sometimes he doesn't know how to just have fun. If he has a day off work and I'm not off work he will just go to the job site and "get ahead of the game". I wish he knew how to relax a little every now and then. But I do love that he has work ethic.
Age: 32
Occupation: Environmental Scientist for a consulting firm
Hobbies: working out, lifting weights and is an AVID hunter. He starts counting down opening day of bow season on the last day of rifle/fire arm season!!
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He is excited, nervous, overwhelmed, etc.... our baby was a surprise. We didn't plan to have a child together. At first he was a wreck, but now he is all about the baby. It's so cute. i can't wait to see him as a father.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He leaves stuff lying around all over the house. it drives me nuts!! not that I am OCD about being clean, but I HATE that his stuff is everywhere!!!!!!
2012: Running & Race Accomplishments:
2-12-12: Riverview Winter Fest 4 mile, 34:59 8:45 pace - 23 weeks pregnant
2-29-12: Leap Year 4 mile, 36:45 9:11 pace - 25.5 weeks pregnant
3-11-12: Corktown 5K, 28:33 9:13 pace - 27 weeks pregnant
3-25-12: Rock CF Island Half Marathon, 2:11:03 10:00 pace - 29 weeks pregnant
4-16-12 Boston Marathon, deferring to 2013
8-11-12: Run thru Hell 10 mile or 4.8 mile
9-30-12: Brooksie Way Half Marathon
10-21-12: Grand Rapids Marathon
11-22-12: Detroit Turkey Trot 10K
Age: 42 on Monday
Occupation: Former pilot; Captain in Army National Guard, and 4th year Med School student
Hobbies: Tennis, attending sporting events, running, drinking wine
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He is SOOOO excited! Sometimes I think he is more connected to this baby than I am. The baby goes crazy when he is near me talking. He is going to be a fantastic dad!
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He is very forgetful. He is the smartest (book wise) person I have ever known, but he had to have been a dumb blond in a former life; not a lot of common sense. I am learning to laugh at it, but it drives me up the wall!Age: 31
Occupation: Railroad conductor, but he's in engineer training now.
Hobbies: Video games, golf, reading
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He is really excited. I can tell he is getting more excited the bigger I get. He's also been way more excited since we had our 20 week ultrasound. Something about seeing the baby moving around in there.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He has a one track mind. If he gets his mind on something, he has to do something about it now...no matter what else is going on. If he can't find something he wants to find, he has to find it before he can do anything else...even if it means we'll run late. It drives me nuts because it's never important.
That was MH fear too so he is uber excited this is a boy. He kept saying "what are we going to do with a teenage girl?" Um hello? I was one, I think I got this...but I must say it is funny to laugh now because he has the tougher job making sure LO knows how to be a man/gentleman and have the sex talk with him haha.
Lizzy-- i prefer the term "persistent encouragement" to nagging
Occupation: Linemen for the power company here.
Hobbies: Anything sports related. Sports related video games.
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: I think he's nervous and excited.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He's loud and obnoxious when he's bored. Like a kid trying to get someones attention.
Age: 29
Occupation: Computer programming
Hobbies: Video games, paintball, watching football
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He's terribly excited. He talks to my belly all the time and puts his face to it so that he can feel the baby move. He wants to buy belly buds so that we can play music for him. He bought the baby a cup with his name on it (that he won't be able to use until he's 3) because he thought it was cute
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He makes up words to songs, even my favorite songs. And they're not bad, but come on, I just want to hear the song! He also has ADD, so when he gets really focused in on something, I could be naked, turning backflips with sparklers and I still would not be able to get his attention. And when I finally get his attention, if something happens on TV or in the room, he's gone again.
Age: 26
Occupation: Middle school English & social studies teacher
Hobbies: Video games, golf, hiking, playing basketball/soccer/baseball with his riends
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He is so freaking excited. He kisses my belly every morning, when he gets home from work, and before bed. We read to the baby, talk to him, talk about silly things we're going to do with the baby when he's here (yesterday we got a registration flyer for the youth summer soccer league and he got all excited thinking about coaching our little boy's team when he's old enough to play).
One thing he does that drives you crazy: Cuts his toenails in the living room while he's watching TV and doesn't pick up all the clippings. Gross!Age: 31
Occupation: Concrete construction foreman/finisher
Hobbies: None really... too busy for a hobby.
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He's extremely excited about and head-over-heels in love with our daughter already.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: Leaves the toilet seat up, puts dirty dishes on the counter NEXT to the sink instead of in it, drinks from the milk jug.
DS#1- 7/2002
DS#2- 6/2004
DS#3- 9/2007
Age: 32
Occupation: High School English Teacher (9th and 10th grade)
Hobbies: Video games, movies
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He is really excited as this is our first one, but he is also very scared about being responsiblity for another human being.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He bites his nails sometimes and I just think that is gross.
DS - Born 6/17/12
DS#2 - Due 2/11/15
I do too!! But I hate that most of our arguments revolve around "put your dishes in the dishwasher!" or "get your dirty underwear off the floor and into the laundry basket". I feel like my mother... not very sexy to DH
Age: 31
Occupation: IT Data Analyst/Modeler
Hobbies: Golf
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He's super excited and keeps telling me he can't wait for the days in the hospital and the birth and to introduce the baby to our DD.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He clicks his teeth. He doesn't grind them, just bites down. He does it when he's thinking and it drives me crazy. He also bites his nails and DD has started copying him. Grrrrrr!
Age: 32
Occupation: Instructor at the Power Plant
Hobbies: guns, hunting, golf, video games
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: Ahh!! We're outnumbered! Lol. He's excited to add to the family (we both come from big families).
One thing he does that drives you crazy: Does forgetting to tell me things count? He always thinks he tells me something but then when reminded I'm totally confused because it's the first time I'm hearing about it.
Occupation: Technician at a John Deere Implement
Hobbies: Anything that has to do with Farming he is there. He is also quite the outdoors mens.
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: I think he is very nervous about her arrival and very excited at the same time.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He picks at his toe nails and it drives me crazy!
Age: 30
Occupation: Adaptive Physical Education Teacher (Teaches gym to special education students at the same place where I work and we met
)
Hobbies: Coaches volleyball
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He is beyond excited. He talks about our LO all the time. I think he had more fun registering for gifts than I did!
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He is sick right now with the stomach bug, which I had in the beginning of the week. When he is sick he moans like crazy. Why does he do this? I have no idea but it drives me crazy!Age: 30
Occupation: Occupational Health and Safety Officer
Hobbies: Hunting, Brewing Beer
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He says he is ready NOW! I told him I'm not...theres still so much to do! He says he's not nervous at all but I wonder how thats possible with the first!
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He's an Aussie so he's very proud and very "confident". He argues everything to the very last detail and he is always right
Blessed with our beautiful girl May 30/2012 - BFP June 20th/2013 - Naturally MC June 30th/13.
BFP Aug 1/2013
Age: 34
Occupation: IT work - Application Developer (what this means I have no idea but he loves his job and that's all that matters so me!)
Hobbies: Golf, Skiing, and he enjoys working on websites
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He's very excited and has not really shown any nervousness yet but it's in there somewhere. He's got his hopes on a girl and we're team green. I think he secretly loves not knowing and not telling anyone our names we've picked out b/c everyone feels they should know ahead of time. Um no, BIL and wouldn't tell your names before your sons were born here's pay back!
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He is obsessed with skiing and since the weather is not cooperating it's annoying him. Plus he gets very lazy at night which drives me nuts but when I start to raise my voice he usually gets up and helps me with something.
Age: 35 in just one week.
Occupation: Runs IT for a finance company in NYC
Hobbies: Sports (Watching), Anything techy, and believe it or not he loves helping decorate the house
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He definitely excited but I am sure also nervous (he won't admit to that). He is a very positive person with a good outlook on things so he is the one always calming my fears. I know he can't wait until our son gets big enough to go to Yankess & Giants games with him!
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He makes an annoying mouth noise when he eats and leaves socks all over the place which in turn my dog eats if I don't pick them up for him.Age: 30
Occupation: Electrical/Optical Engineer. He works with lasers and fiber optics.
Hobbies: video games, random projects around the house (finishing the basement, putting in hardwood floors, etc)
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: I know he's excited but I think he's nervous about having 2 under 2 (even though having another one right now was his idea.)
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He leaves clumps of toothpaste in the sink and never rinses them out. And when he opens something (like an ice cream bar) he always leaves the wrapper on the counter rather than just throwing it away. And he always turns the captions on on the TV even when we don't need them. (wait, did you say just one? )
Age: 22
Occupation: Local Police Officer
Hobbies: Our puppies & shooting; used to play video games but doesn't have a lot of free time anymore
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: Same as the rest of you, excited but I think he's nervous. He's much calmer than me though.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: Leaves his stuff everywhere. Shoes & socks especially.I always love reading more about you ladies so lets talk about our "other half"!
Age: 32
Occupation: attorney
Hobbies: Hockey and golf
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He is very excited and nervous at the same time. I know he will want to teach the lo how to skate as early as possible
I can't wait to see him in dad mode.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He refuses to close drawers/cupboards all the way and it drives me nuts. I am constantly going behind him closing everything!
Age: 25
Occupation: Chief Software Developer
Hobbies: Working, Playing online games, grilling
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He is so excited to be having a girl! When we found out we were expecting the first thing he said was "I hope it's a girl!" And he has started to nest, he won't admit it
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He doesn't brush his teeth daily. I have to ask him "did you brush your teeth today?" He's gotten better but still doesn't brush daily :PAge: 27
Occupation: Director of Student Ministry
Hobbies: He doesn't have a lot of time for hobbies. He likes to read, and started playing this game called Minecraft with some of his youth group boys (it's their way of bonding). Other than that, he dedicates all of his time to us and the church.
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He is very excited, but also nervous just like any new dad would be! He is very interested in the baby and the pregnancy though, which is great!
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He always has to be right, which can be very annoying! Also, his snoring is horrible.
Age: 34
Occupation: Shipping and Receiving logistics for a local music company, Full time student
Hobbies: Video Games, Running, Movies
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He's been getting more excited now that he can feel the baby moving. He's wanted children for a very long time.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He is very flatulent and farts wherever he wants in the house. My family never did this, we went to the bathroom and shut the door when we had to fart. The most frustrating thing is that first thing in the morning when he gets out of bed is he lets a ton rip while he's walking out of the room. It's loud enough to wake me up and then it smells so horrible I can't get back to sleep.Age: 31
Occupation: Environmental Scientist for a consulting firm
Hobbies: watching tv, hockey, cooking, walking, sleeping (lol), being with friends. Golf when we have the time, wine tasting.
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He is excited, almost more than I am (I am more nervous I think than he is). I think he really wants a girl because he has 2neices that he adores and girls are what he knows.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He is addicted to WebMD and self-diagnoses all the time but won't go to the doctor about anything. And he thinks he always has tonsil stones to it sounds like he is gagging when he brushes his teeth because he is trying to clean them out. Super annoying, but he won't do anything about it to solve the issue long-term.Age: 26
Occupation: Cav Scout US Army
Hobbies: Video games,, snowboarding
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: I know he's excited about the baby but bummed he won't be here when the baby is deployed. I know he's also nervous that when he gets back the baby won't want anything to do with him.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He has this habit of coming home from work and stripping down to his underwear and leaving his dirty work uniform all over the place, same with his pt uniform... the stinky socks are the worst.Age: 25 (26 next month)
Occupation: Manager of an internet based floral company
Hobbies: Woodwork, cars, guitar, yo-yos (seriously), RC helicopters, the list goes on and on and on
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He is really excited, especially to be having a boy. He keeps telling me about all of the things he's going to do with the baby, and he's been making an effort to show me that he can/will help out.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He picks his nose. All the time. I call him on it every time I see him. I don't know how he can be picking his nose when we leave the house, and then be picking it again a couple hours later. How can he have that many boogers? What's worse is that he "sprinkles" then on the floor. Sometimes when I'm harrassing him about it, he'll toss them in my direction, or if I don't see him picking, he'll get my attention and then show me his booger. It makes me want to puke. I have dry heaved multiple times because of a booger incident AND almost drove off the road when he tossed a booger and it landed on my hand. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's boogers! Ugh, just typing it is turning my stomach.
Occupation: commercial pilot
Hobbies: outdoors
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: excited and scared
One thing he does that drives you crazy: snores!
Age: 26
Occupation: Fry cook at DQ, but he starts nursing classes in a couple of weeks.
Hobbies: Video games, LARP games, fishing
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He's excited. We've been together for three years (just got married in October), and has wanted a baby for awhile.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He leaves dirty dishes in the living room, and is kind of lazy (he admits it too).
Age: 32
Occupation: Customer Service Rep for a bank
Hobbies: Working out, playing soft ball, and watching baseball
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He has his moments...one day he'll have a look of panic and worry on his face and the next he'll be talking to the belly/baby and putting his hands on my belly to feel her kick with a big smile on his face!
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He farts alot..and it only seems to happen when I am only a few feet from him...within smelling distance! I'm sure he does it on purpose! lol! But I love him anyway...Occupation: IT help desk for a medical equipment company.
Hobbies: Video games, watching baseball
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He's excited.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: Says he will do something...then never does it.
Age: 28
Occupation: Plumber
Hobbies: Video games, Coin collecting
How you think/know he feels about the baby coming: He is so excited to be having a son. I love seeing him so happy.
One thing he does that drives you crazy: He snores really loudly.