Thanksgiving 2009

For Thanksgiving this year, my parents, brother, and grandmother came to visit. They were here from Wednesday night until Monday morning. We had a nice visit and did tons of eating and shopping! Since we just found out the gender of the baby, my mom took full advantage and took me shopping. She bought the playpen, bassinet, tons of clothes, and the bedding. It was so nice of her to do and one less thing Kris and I will have to buy.


Our table all set for Thanksgiving. We spent all day long cooking! It only took about 30 minutes to eat it all! It was sure was delicious though!

My grandma makes it a rule to make a pie for every person present at dinner. We had these 4, but also had a cheesecake in the fridge!

We took my family to a Hibachi restaurant on Saturday night. We had a great time watching the chef do all of his tricks. The food was delicious too. This was yet another time that we were stuffed!

Mom, grandma, and I at the Hibachi

It's a boy!!!

We had our 3D ultrasound today and got an excellent report. The baby is developing right on the schedule. The heart and brain look perfect! He is even in the right position. Everything looks really good with me too. We were pleased with the reports.

We did find out the baby is a boy! We are very excited, but most excited that he is healthy. I actually had a dream the night before our appointment that he was a boy. So, when I woke the next morning the first thing out of my mouth was, "Kris, it is definitely going to be a boy." The only thing was in my dream, the baby had hair like Jonah's...hope that doesn't happen!


In this picture you can see the baby giving you the thumbs up sign! I guess he's doing okay in there.



Here is one of the 3D pictures. He looks a little like he has a mustache for some reason. I am not sure what's under his nose...

Here you can see that the baby is really a boy! He is a flasher and we have several pictures that confirm his gender! He is definitely not shy.

18 weeks and counting!

This is me at 18 weeks. Kris has been very good at reminding me to take pictures of myself. It is getting hard to find clothing that fits. Maternity clothes really look ridiculous because I have only gained in my tummy area--the hips and butt on maternity clothes are huge. For now, I am using my belly band and wearing skirts and dresses as often as possible. It's a good thing it's warm in Houston!

I did start to feel movement today. I woke up at about 7 a.m. to put the dogs outside and then went back to bed, but couldn't sleep because the baby was very active. He or she kept me awake for about another hour and a half.

My wonderful husband painted my toenails for me the other night. I am still able to do it myself, but we were "practicing" for when I can't. I think he did a great job!

New Room

Kris and I went about setting up the baby's room a few weeks ago. What a job! We had to move the current furniture into another room, combine our office with an existing room and furniture, move pictures and curtains, then we had to put together the bed. It's finally done! The crib is a convertible one, which means it will convert from a crib, to a toddler bed, to a full-size bed.

The dressers pictured were actually Kris' baby furniture over 30 years ago! We changed out the handles because the old ones were rather tarnished, but other than that, the set is in awesome shape!

We will add a changing pad to the top of the dresser and this will become the changing table.

This bed took awhile for Kris to get put together, but he did an awesome job!

This is another dresser...my kid will have to have lots of clothes!

We will find out the gender in about 2 weeks. We are so excited to know! Once we find out, we will paint the walls and choose bedding--it's really hard to wait!

Baby Update

Kris and I had our 16 week appointment last Thursday. Everything is moving along smoothly. We didn't get an ultrasound, but they did hear the baby's heartbeat. It is beating 159 beats per minute. Pretty fast! We will find out the gender at our next appointment-November 25th. Be sure to check back for updates!

Halloween

I know, I know, we are crazy, but yes, our dogs did dress up for Halloween. Molly was a witch and Jonah was a devil. We thought their costumes fit their personalities pretty well! Jonah hated his and pulled his cape and horns off immediately. Molly on the other hand, is a typical girl--she loves dressing up. She wore her hat for about 3 hours and I was the one who finally took it off of her! We are looking forward to next year when we will be able to dress up a baby instead of our dogs!