I Figured it Out!

Here is the picture from yesterday's ultraound. It's not the best quality but you get the idea!

Ultrasound Report

Today Pat and I were able to take a rare look into our little man's world with our 3rd trimester ultrasound. The last time we saw him was almost 3 months ago at 19 weeks. As soon as we got settled and all jellied up I had them verify that he was still a boy. This was just to ease my paranoid sense that as soon as i wash all these blue baby clothes that we will find out that oops, it's a girl! The technician was quickly able to identify all the bits and pieces that make a boy...phew!
Then we took a look at his profile. At the last ultrasound he was being a bit shy and hiding his face behind my hip bone. But he really came out of his shell today and let us watch him open and close his mouth, blink and then kick himself in the head. He has hair already and big chubby cheeks. They didn't give me much info about his size as they will leave that to my doctor to talk to me about but i can already tell that he has daddy's features including his head circumference. He was super cute though and being quite playful, kicking and smacking the ultrasound wand whenever it got close. If i can figure out how to get a clear picture of him i will post it soon. But in the meantime he told me to tell everyone Hi!

Best Shower Ever!

So my lovely sisters Emily and Bettilyn threw me my very first baby shower last weekend and I had such a great time. There were lots of family and friends over to celebrate the impending birth of this little guy and eat a sampling of my favorite things. There was Swedish meat balls, cheese platters, plenty of fruit and 2 kinds of cheesecake...truly a pregnant woman's heaven. Here is the spread:

Thank you everyone that was able to come up/down/over for the best shower ever! If you missed out, sorry there is no more cheesecake.

Poor Jason!

So let me start off by saying no one was hurt in this accident! Pat got into a little fender bender this week on his way to work. He ran into a Volvo which suffered very little damage, unfortunately our poor Jason took the brunt of it! Pat bought this car when we first met, over 7 years ago and in that time has suffered many times: 8 break ins, 3 acts of vandalism and many do it yourself car repair projects. Through it all he was nothing but reliable, never giving up and always ready to go on the next road trip. We aren't sure if he is salvageable but we are going to try, hopefully this incident will be just another bump in the road for our dear Jason.

PS- We have a tendency to name our belongings and Jason received his name after his first break in. Think of all the Jason's you know, they are great friends, adventurous and always ready to go out on a Friday night but attracts way too much trouble that usually takes you down too...don't lie to yourself, you know it's true!

In The Beginning

It was a goal of mine to start a blog to chronicle this pregnancy and beyond so I could share the progress with friends and family. Now that I am in the third trimester I figured I have procrastinated long enough. So here is my very first blog post, complete with a belly shot (taken almost a month ago so just imagine the belly a little bigger) and family pictures. Here are a few of my favorite family pictures.

Pat with baby Mavis. Every so often she tries to get into this position again but being fully grown and almost 15 pounds it has become mush more difficult. Mostly for us, she seems very content to make us suffer.

Cortez, climbing the curtains. Although he has never climbed them since this day, he still has a strange fascination with being up high and into everything! But when he is sleepy he is the best cuddler so i can't stay mad at him for long.