29 Weeks

Here are some pictures of our little guy from the ultrasound I had today. The first ones show his face and the second are profile shots. The face ones look a little weird because the umbilical cord was floating in front of his face, especially in front of his eyes. I think he's pretty cute, but of course I'm biased :) I could see him making faces and moving around in there, so cool!

They estimated him weighing about 3.7 lbs right now, which puts him in the 67th percentile. So he's just a tad bigger than the average. He has a pretty large head though.... I blame Wally...

I've been feeling pretty good. Finding a comfortable sleeping position at night has been a little difficult and my sciatica has come back, but not nearly as bad as it was early on. I'm trying to stay active and keep up my exercise routine, but finding that I get tired more easily now. Other than that, I don't have much to complain about, I'm actually really enjoying being pregnant! I love feeling the baby kick and punch, even if it keeps me up at night sometimes :)

Below are a few pics from my shower at Maureen's house this past Saturday, including a belly pic! (I know, I'm way overdue for one.)

Nursery photos - Phase I

Well, its still a work in progress, but here are some pics of the new nursery. I owe it to my Mom, Aunt Linda and Wally for the painting, thanks guys!!! I still need to add the forest animal wall decals above the crib and we are hoping to get a few more accesories to complete the room. But just thought I'd share what we've got done so far.

Trying out samples...

Gotta have the appropriate attire, LOL

Halloween Festivities

Happy Halloween! Hope you all had a fun and safe weekend.

Here's us at our friends Ray and Lynns' party on Sat night. Our costume was Wally's idea :)


The girls...




The great sorting and trading of candy. Very serious business...

It's a..................................................................

BOY!!!!!




And more importantly everything looks nice and healthy!

We are both SO EXCITED, especially Wally!! I would've been really excited either way, but I was kinda hoping it would be a boy too.

It was such an amazing experience to watch him moving and kicking around in there. He kept moving his hand toward his face like he was trying to suck his thumb - so cute!! We could even see that he had the hiccups, haha!

We're still deciding on a name... We have a few ones in mind, but we're keeping them secret until we've decided for sure. :)

Quick Update

We were supposed to find out the gender of the baby today, but unfortunately I had to reschedule our appt for next week due to having the flu (didn't want to infect any other pregnant ladies.) Don't worry everything is fine, I am on the road to recovery at this point. I came down with a fever on Sunday night and called my doctor first thing Monday morning. They gave me a prescription for Tamiflu right away since H1N1 is so rampant here in AZ and they are giving it to all pregnant women with any type of flu symptoms due to the high risk that's been associated with swine flu and pregnancy. I was feeling pretty bad on Monday and Tuesday but after a full day on the tamiflu my symptoms have been pretty mild. Wally's sick too, but so far it hasn't been too bad for him. He got the H1N1 FluMist vaccine a few days before coming down with it, so we think that he might've built up some immunity to it already.

Anyway, I've been getting plenty of rest and taking care of myself. We've been checking the baby's heartbeat with a fetal heartrate monitor and it still sounds just as strong and fast as ever. I'm not crazy about taking the tamiflu since its in Category C and wasn't recommended for pregnant women before H1N1, but I know how dangerous this flu could potentially be for me and the baby so the benefit of taking it outweighs any risk there might be. I just can't believe I caught it after being SO paranoid about getting it. I washed my hands constantly, used hand sanitizer everywhere I went.... but I suppose there's no way to fully protect yourself short of walking around in a plastic bubble.

Sorry I don't have a updated belly pic this time, just haven't felt up to it. I'll try to get one posted by the end of the week. I added another week to our gender poll, so if you haven't cast your vote yet for boy or girl there's still time!

17 weeks

Holy cow, I can't believe I'm almost half-way there!

I've been feeling great, really no complaints. And a big plus is that the weather is really starting to cool off around here, it actually feels like fall - so nice!! Which is good b/c none of my shorts fit anymore, LOL.

But I'm still wearing most of my regular clothes, thanks to the belly band and all those peasant-flowy type shirts that happen to be in style right now. I can still wear my regular jeans and work slacks using the band, and I hope it stays that way. Yeah right, like that's really going to happen - HAHA! I've bought a few maternity shirts, but they're still a little too big at this stage.

Nursery Theme

I started looking at nursery bedding as soon as I found out I was pregnant and fell in love with this "enchanted forest" theme.



Aren't I a good decorator? LOL, j/k - its just the manufacturer's pic... I love the little forest animals, it reminds me of all the forest characters from Bambi, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White. I originally looked for something like that from Disney, but the only thing they make is Mickey and Winnie the Pooh stuff. I also like that its gender-neutral, although we have decided to find that out at our next ultrasound in a couple of weeks. So stay tuned... :)

We also found a rocker/glider last weekend that was on sale for a really low price at Burlington Coat Factory, so we grabbed it. The color of it is fern, so it will go perfect (I hope) with the forest bedding. Right now its in our room, since we haven't converted the guest room yet and there isn't enough room in there for it now. Its soooo comfortable, I can't wait to rock our baby in it!