If you have 20 minutes to spare

Along with our pictures we also got a DVD of our baby girl. It's awesome, you should schedule 20 min to watch it. If you don't have that long here are a few highlights:

• 0:35 She misses putting her thumb in her mouth. She takes after her parents (especially me/Drew) who often misses with the food he attempts to put in.
• 1:30 She finally gets it
• 5:45 We find out its a girl!
• 8:05 Showing off her biceps
• 13:12 You can see her heartbeat and she has the hiccups
• 14:23 Her strong muscular calves
• 15:10 Again, it's a girl

Unfortunately we couldn't tell whether or not she has Mal's curly hair. I'm hoping she does so Towona doesn't shoot me. She was serious too.

It's a Girl!

Because we didn't find out what gender our baby was at our first ultrasound and another one wasn't scheduled until April, we decided to get one on our own. We found a place in Columbus that specializes in 3D ultrasounds and went on Friday. I (Drew) was right, we're having a girl. Here are the ultrasound pictures. Any bets on who she looks like yet?

Mal's Growing Stomach

October 2008
Week 7 & 8









































January 2009- Week 22

Ahhhh! It's been forever since we actually gave a real update on here. I'm almost five months pregnant now and we still haven't found out what the gender is! Our due date was moved back to June 1 and we go back in on Monday to see about getting a second ultrasound done in the future.

We can actually feel the baby moving now, at least I can. Drew often imagines he feels the same thing and sometimes actually does. I keep trying to describe it as a pair of tennis shoes in the dryer moving around. It definitely isn't feeling like butterflies like many people say. I've finally got a little bump popping out and most people could probably tell I'm pregnant and didn't just eat too much this fall. If Drew has his way, we'll have a picture soon to prove it. Although I have to put my foot down somewhere and refuse to post a picture of my disappearing belly button.

Drew insists the baby is a girl since at our last ultrasound the technician told us she didn't see anything between the legs but couldn't be for sure because of the new due date. Apparently male Schlabachs would have something to be proud of.... if you understand his logic. So since the baby can only be a girl now, we went out and bought Texas size bows to make this mystery baby a "bowhead" when it finally arrives while we were in Dallas over Christmas. All you Texans out there can be proud.

As for other news in the Schlabach household, Drew begins guitar lessons next week with Tim Shue, our music director from high school. He's been playing my ear off with the same couple of songs, so I think we'll both be ready for whatever Tim throws his way! :)

We've also had the pleasure of being snowed in our house all weekend after a winter storm brought more than six inches of snow/ice/nastiness. We're still feeling the lingering affects of random snowfalls and insanely cold temperatures rendering salt and cinder useless. The temperature right now says its 1 degree but feels like -12. We can definitely vouch for that. It's times like now that we miss Abilene's unusual weather patterns.

Although it feels like we've done much, much more since we last wrote, this is all for our update. Hopefully more pictures will show up later tonight showing you the progress of the growing baby!

The promised airport pictures.

airport pickup

The sherwood family has a crazy tradition of dressing up to pick someone up at the airport. I don't have time to get into the entire background story since this is being typed on mal's phone. However there will be pictures of our costumes(nasty 80's style christmas sweaters). Phil is a wearing workout clothes, tights with boxers overtop, and towona is gangsta. I'm sure John David will be very impressed and hopefully embarrassed when he walks off the plane

This is for you, Megan

Since we already don't keep up with many of our friends from college and life is just going to get busier, we figured we might as well attempt a blog to keep everyone we care about updated with life at the Schlabach household. So thanks to Megan Randolph and her request for us to start a blog, here is our first post.

Now, where to begin?! Here's a brief update on our life since Abilene:

A year ago we moved back to Ohio for Drew to begin graduate school. I work for my parents' business doing marketing, advertising and whatever else they throw at me. Drew started Physical Therapy school at Walsh University in August and is just finishing his first semester.

We are surrounded by dogs and soon will throw a baby into the mix.

We have a chocolate and yellow Labrador named Bella and Gus, and if anyone knows us well, they know we seem to have a knack for picking dogs with brain disorders. These two are no exception and seem to be stranger than our previous pets. We'll soon post pictures.

In May, Drew and I will be parents! Yikes. What a scary, yet interesting thought. With the addition of a baby to our family, we'd like all of you to see how well we try to adapt to life.

We will TRY to keep this updated with pictures of a growing belly, (mine and Drew's), puppies and soon a baby.

We'd love to hear feedback from all of you about your life as well, so please feel free to comment.

With much love,

Mal & Drew