Future Linebacker?

Yesterday we had a regular checkup with the Dr. She read the sonogram results to us and our little guy is right on track! We were very pleased to hear that he has no cleft lip or cleft palate, that all body parts look right, spine looks good, etc. Some news we were completely shocked by was Baby's size! He is in the 98th percentile and based on measurements, will arrive a week earlier. The Dr. didn't make a mistake in our original due date and she has not officially changed it, his size just means an earlier arrival...a week earlier at this point.

The biggest surprise was that his estimated birth weight is 10.5 - 11 pounds! That really shocked me! Of course, time will tell what will actually happen and everyone has all kinds of stories about people who measured a certain size and the baby was significantly bigger or smaller at birth. I guess we'll just see what develops!! The most important thing is that he's healthy.

Nursery Move-In Day

Yesterday was a big day around here - lots of changes! We switched bedrooms so baby will have the room with less noise from the street, DirecTv came and changed the TV stuff around for the new rooms, and we moved in the nursery furniture. It was a long day and we're so happy that my Dad, my brother Caleb, Nick's Dad, Brandon, Melanie and Red were able to help us out with everything. The furniture all looks really nice in the new nursery and I am extremely pleased with how it all turned out. After all of the heavy lifting and moving was done, the guys went hunting and Melanie and I stayed here and put A&M and hunting things on the walls in the baby's room. It was a fun but tiring day! I am really happy with the finished product and now all we need is for Baby and all of his things to move right in!

By the way, if I have not already mentioned, the nursery theme is camo/hunting and A&M...anyone surprised?! :)

After 20 Weeks of Waiting, the Verdict is...

On September 17, 2005 at 4:30 in the afternoon Nick and I were running around like crazy, getting to the church and getting ready to walk down the aisle to say "I Do." Four years later, on the same day at that same time, we found ourselves in the waiting room of the Sonogram office waiting to find out whether we are having a boy or a girl. It's just so amazing all of the things that have happened in these four years and that we are preparing for the birth of our sweet baby.

And now, after 20 long weeks of waiting...it's a BOY! We're very excited about our new addition and knowing the gender and seeing the new sonogram pictures makes it all the more real. I have lots more sonogram pictures and will upload them soon [when I am not so tired!]

We will share the name as soon as it is finalized, so stay tuned...

Let the Nesting Begin

We had a really great, busy, and productive Labor Day weekend. We just stayed around the house for the most part and did some organizing and moving around of things. We made alot of headway and have a few more things to do before we can move the baby furniture into the house. We found baby furniture last weekend and as a surprise Nick's parents got it for us as a baby present!! What a an awesome present! It was such a welcome and wonderful surprise and I can't wait to get it into the room! In a few weekends we will be emptying out what will be the baby's room and moving the furniture in. I'm so excited! I can't wait for the nursery to start coming together.

The picture is of me at 4 months and 3 weeks, taken this week. Baby is starting to make an appearance more and more!!I still love it every time I feel baby moving around. Next week we find out the gender, then it will get even more exciting!!

Two More Weeks...

Two weeks from today we will have our appointment to find out Baby's gender. Finally! It's the longest 20 weeks ever!! It's going to be really awesome to find out if we're having a boy or a girl. I've been doing alot of browsing online to find the 'perfect' bedding for whichever we're going to have. My co-worker, Mary Jane, is going to custom make my diaper bag and I get to pick out the fabric! [These are the exciting fun things that I like to do, not sorting out insurance and icky stuff like that.] I'm really looking forward to that. She does beautiful work and has wonderful ideas, so it's going to be really fun to design the bag with her. It's kind of funny because I've had a really easy time finding boy things that I like and hardly any girl things that I like. Strange.

Baby is still moving around all the time and sometimes he/she can really kick, punch, or whatever is going on in there! It's so exciting each time I feel the movements.

Something else I didn't really think about because I am so looking forward to finding out the gender is the fact that once I hit 20 weeks we will already be at the halfway mark. That's both exciting and scary all at the same time!! It's still a bit surreal that we are going to have a real live baby in a few months. We've been looking forward to this so long that it's hard to believe it's really happening now!