Most readers of the blog will probably already know this, but we're having another baby! Marinda is 12 weeks along and is a having a...challenging...first trimester. The due date is April 1, 2015 (no, this is not an early April Fool's day prank). The baby is doing great - we had a chance to see it at our appointment this week. It was kicking and moving and thrashing around like nobody's business. If you're not on facebook, here's the picture we used for our big reveal!
Luke was actually a really good model and just sat there laughing at Amit popping out behind the wall repeatedly. We even tried some pictures outside and he did great until he ran away from us. He does that a lot now...hopefully he'll grow out of it.
Marinda actually told Amit back at five weeks in a really cute way. She tested herself in the morning and knew all day (which drove her insane), but she waited until Amit got home to tell him. How she did it is that she put Luke in the "No. 1 Big Brother" shirt she bought last June, and then got out the video camera to record Amit's reaction to Luke running up to him as soon as he got home. It was pretty priceless. Amit was excited at first, and then in a weird denial phase where he kept telling Marinda that she could very easily have drawn the second red line on the tests. When he asked what the due date was it didn't really help with the whole convincing him that things were real. "Oh, April fools! Got it!" "Wait, no, this is real!"
It has been fun trying to teach Luke about the baby that is coming. For a while when we asked him where the baby was he would point to pretty much any body part on Marinda - like her knee or shoulder. Now he's getting it that it is behind the belly button, but behind whose belly button is still up for debate. The other day Amit was giving Marinda her nausea meds, and Luke said he wanted some. We told him it was for the baby, and he announced that he had a baby and proceeded to lift up his shirt to show us his tummy. It was ridiculously cute just fyi. :)
The other piece of good news is that Amit has a job offer from Microsoft! Goodbye student-land, hello real world! He had an interview on Tuesday, and it was grueling. The night before at 6pm, he got an email saying 'By the way, don't forgot about your 30 minute powerpoint presentation on your research." Of course, this was the first he was hearing about this, and academics don't really have 30 minute talks prepared for general audiences, so he managed to throw something decent together in a couple hours before getting a good night's sleep before he had to leave at 7 am the next day. The interview started at 8 in the morning, but because of some general disorganization on their part it didn't really start until 8:40. After his 30 minute presentation, it was back-to-back one-on-one interviews asking nothing but technical questions until 2:30 (they did feed him lunch - while continuing to question him). So much for all that prep work on "what are your strengths and weaknesses?"
Towards the end of the last interview his future manager came in and asked if he could stay another 2 hours to meet with someone else at 5. This ended up being the hiring manager, and shortly after the start of the 'interview' Amit was told that he wouldn't even be in that particular interview if the team didn't want to hire him, and that this interview was about selling him on the position. So after that, he was feeling pretty good about the job. They had said they would contact him in four to five business days, but the next morning he got the offer! It's going to be in Bellevue just across Lake Washington and is a really interesting job position within the company where he'll have a chance to have a big impact on their products and services. And they made a really generous offer, so we're very happy with how things turned out. And it's a huge relief not having to worry about the future anymore.
We know some of you who have known Marinda and her family for years are like "Microsoft? Really? What about your blood vendetta against them?" Well, we did get Marinda's parents blessing before proceeding (ok, Amit and her parents were laughing at her) and honestly they are just happy that we have such a great job that'll fit so well into our family life style. But really, all of Amit's jokes about buying her a Surface are getting pretty old. It will be an interesting new adventure for Marinda, and hey, maybe Amit will actually help make the products not be some of the worst things on earth (yes, this paragraph was written by Marinda.)
So YAY! Big news this week! Now we just have to get Amit graduated and Marinda to the second trimester and we'll be good!
Luke was actually a really good model and just sat there laughing at Amit popping out behind the wall repeatedly. We even tried some pictures outside and he did great until he ran away from us. He does that a lot now...hopefully he'll grow out of it.Marinda actually told Amit back at five weeks in a really cute way. She tested herself in the morning and knew all day (which drove her insane), but she waited until Amit got home to tell him. How she did it is that she put Luke in the "No. 1 Big Brother" shirt she bought last June, and then got out the video camera to record Amit's reaction to Luke running up to him as soon as he got home. It was pretty priceless. Amit was excited at first, and then in a weird denial phase where he kept telling Marinda that she could very easily have drawn the second red line on the tests. When he asked what the due date was it didn't really help with the whole convincing him that things were real. "Oh, April fools! Got it!" "Wait, no, this is real!"
It has been fun trying to teach Luke about the baby that is coming. For a while when we asked him where the baby was he would point to pretty much any body part on Marinda - like her knee or shoulder. Now he's getting it that it is behind the belly button, but behind whose belly button is still up for debate. The other day Amit was giving Marinda her nausea meds, and Luke said he wanted some. We told him it was for the baby, and he announced that he had a baby and proceeded to lift up his shirt to show us his tummy. It was ridiculously cute just fyi. :)
The other piece of good news is that Amit has a job offer from Microsoft! Goodbye student-land, hello real world! He had an interview on Tuesday, and it was grueling. The night before at 6pm, he got an email saying 'By the way, don't forgot about your 30 minute powerpoint presentation on your research." Of course, this was the first he was hearing about this, and academics don't really have 30 minute talks prepared for general audiences, so he managed to throw something decent together in a couple hours before getting a good night's sleep before he had to leave at 7 am the next day. The interview started at 8 in the morning, but because of some general disorganization on their part it didn't really start until 8:40. After his 30 minute presentation, it was back-to-back one-on-one interviews asking nothing but technical questions until 2:30 (they did feed him lunch - while continuing to question him). So much for all that prep work on "what are your strengths and weaknesses?"
Towards the end of the last interview his future manager came in and asked if he could stay another 2 hours to meet with someone else at 5. This ended up being the hiring manager, and shortly after the start of the 'interview' Amit was told that he wouldn't even be in that particular interview if the team didn't want to hire him, and that this interview was about selling him on the position. So after that, he was feeling pretty good about the job. They had said they would contact him in four to five business days, but the next morning he got the offer! It's going to be in Bellevue just across Lake Washington and is a really interesting job position within the company where he'll have a chance to have a big impact on their products and services. And they made a really generous offer, so we're very happy with how things turned out. And it's a huge relief not having to worry about the future anymore.
We know some of you who have known Marinda and her family for years are like "Microsoft? Really? What about your blood vendetta against them?" Well, we did get Marinda's parents blessing before proceeding (ok, Amit and her parents were laughing at her) and honestly they are just happy that we have such a great job that'll fit so well into our family life style. But really, all of Amit's jokes about buying her a Surface are getting pretty old. It will be an interesting new adventure for Marinda, and hey, maybe Amit will actually help make the products not be some of the worst things on earth (yes, this paragraph was written by Marinda.)
So YAY! Big news this week! Now we just have to get Amit graduated and Marinda to the second trimester and we'll be good!
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