Pizza party

According to the weekly emails I get, our baby is now about the same size as a slice of pizza...and he weighs about a pound. I don't think I've ever seen a 1 lb. slice of pizza, but whatever.

We're now in week 22! Next week I need to not wear a black shirt for this picture because I swear that I'm showing more than it looks like:

This past weekend my parents and brother & sister-in-law and my nephew & niece all came to visit! It was a fun weekend. My dad and Jason stayed at home while the rest of us went out for a little shopping, and when we returned home we found a huge hole in our kitchen wall! That's what we get for leaving those guys alone together - they get bored and start destroying things. Actually the hole is for our pantry, and the guys did make a lot of progress on it! They got it wired so that we can put in a light, and then they created the hole you can see here. Then Jason spent some time on Sunday adding the last sub-layer to the floor and putting up sheetrock on one of the walls. We're hoping to get more sheetrocking done this weekend, and to install a door. Maybe one day we'll clean up all the sawdust, but not today.

Here's another fun picture from the weekend!

Loving the 4 day work week

We hope you all had a great Labor Day weekend! We have been busy this week! This weekend we literally re-arranged our house. We are now sleeping in the kitchen because there's no room anywhere else in the house. Ok, so it hasn't quite gotten that bad yet, but things definitely seem to be headed in that direction. We moved the office upstairs into our bedroom, and moved the guest bed to the old office, and then moved the baby's furniture into his room! We haven't set up the crib yet, but I'm sure we'll be doing that soon.

We had a doctor's appointment today (week 21!), and she said that everything still looks good. The doctor measured my stomach for the first time today which was a little weird. The number of weeks along you are should approximately equal the number of centimeters in her measurement - and it did! It's amazing how that works out. We have an appointment in October, and after that we start going every 2 weeks. It's going by SO fast. My weekly email is telling me that the baby is now the size of a large banana. I think that's just his length because I'm sure he's much plumper than a banana!

Also this week was my 30th birthday (yikes, I'm getting old). Thank you to everyone who sent me a card or e-card, called or texted, sent me a beautiful rose bush, or took me out for dinner and ice cream! I am so blessed to have such amazing and thoughtful friends & family. Can you tell that pregnancy has made me super emotional???

I HAVE to go get some sleep! For some reason this keeps deleting my paragraph breaks and I'm too tired to figure it out- sorry!!! Drop us a line and give us updates on how everyone out there is doing!

Alexander - don't you have some homework to do??? :)

Insanity

It has been an insane week!!!!

Jason is back in school for the semester and trying not to be too distracted by football. Luckily it's still the pre-season.

On Wednesday, I left work and walked out to my car and noticed that I had a flat tire (it had 4.5 lbs. of pressure in it). I called Jason and he said he would leave work and come help me change my tire before he had to go to class. Then he called me when he got to his truck to let me know that his truck wouldn't start! So, I attempted to change the tire on my own - in my work clothes of course. I called AAA as a backup just in case I couldn't figure it out! Jason was able to get his truck to start and came to help me. By the time he got there I had gotten the tire off (I was very proud of myself) and called off AAA. My friend Heidi did help me - it was pretty comical with 2 pregnant women trying to loosen lug nuts. When Jason picked up the spare tire to put it on, he informed me that it was also flat! So we took the truck across the street to the gas station and aired up the spare. Anyway we finally got both the vehicles in operational condition and Jason was only a few minutes late to class.

Tonight the baby kicked his daddy! I had been feeling little kicks, but today they were much harder and Jason was able to feel one so that was very exciting!

Here's me at 20 weeks - we're 1/2 way there! The baby is about the size of a coconut this week!

Ask again later

Approximate size of our baby (week 19):

Big Spenders

So we dropped our 1st big wad of money on the baby this weekend! The hole in our pocketbook prediction you guys made was right on. Actually we did get a really good deal on this literal truckload of furniture. We got a changing table that sits on top of a dresser, a huge armoire, a glider rocker, and a crib, all used from a friend of a friend. The people we bought it from also decided to throw in a Little Tykes playset - that's the colorful pieces you see in the truck.

Many thanks to Joyce for helping us carry the armoire into the house - and to Nate for helping us move it around within the house after we (Jason) cleaned it up - that thing is heavy!

Here's some of the furniture where it is currently sitting in our dining room waiting for us to clean out the baby's room...

Here's me at week 19! I'm starting to get mad at all you people who think I'm not showing, because I don't have very many clothes left that still fit comfortably! :)

You were wrong!!!

Danita at Week 18, it is still hard to tell that she is with child but wow is she beautiful!

So the majority of you told us we were going to have a girl, and we're here to tell you that you're wrong! We went to the hospital today and had our first ultrasound. It was amazing!! We got a really clear picture proving that it's a boy! The radiologist said that everything looks great. Our little baby boy is about 10 oz. right now, and is measuring at 18 weeks, just like he should be. We got to see all his organs and everything is developing nicely and is where it should be (despite the fact that my dad works at a nuclear power plant). And no indentions that we can see from all of my baby poking.

Here is a link to the Week 18 video, from our sonogram. http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=15840445

The Alien Head:

The "turtle":

The other reason we know it is a boy, he's got his dukes up ready to fight:

Dimplehead

So I didn't gain quite as much weight as I thought I did last weekend, but the doctor said that everything looks good. We listened to the heartbeat again - man, that baby is getting loud! The current heartbeat is around 150 bpm - a little slower than last month which the doctor said is normal. While we were there we scheduled our ultrasound - it's this Tuesday afternoon and we can't wait. My stomach feels weird, so one of my favorite new hobbies is to poke it. Jason gets mad because he doesn't want me to poke his baby. So, one reason we are especially excited to the baby is to see if he or she has a dimpled golf ball head yet due to all the poking. We'll let you know next week!