Baby update!

It's been awhile since I've written an update on the baby's progress.  In the past month and a half we've had several ultrasounds (pictures below).  Everything is looking exactly the way it should.  All of our screening tests have come back in the normal or better range.  He's growing like a weed and kicking me throughout the day to remind me he's in there.  We're still working on a name and still planning to keep it a secret once we have it nailed down. 

We're making progress on the baby's room.  We've decided on an underwater/Finding Nemo theme.  The room already has blue walls so I don't think we'll have to paint.  It took some time to figure out if we were going to buy new furniture or not.  We decided to use what we have except get a new dresser/changing table.  We're going to donate our double bed and replace it with a twin.  I've been having a heck of a time finding cute bedding for that twin bed!!  Who would have thought!?  There's all kinds of crib bedding available, but apparently once you graduate to twin bed status you only like loud, gaudy, awful ocean bedding.    We're working on it.  We're still in the beginning stages but I'll post pictures once it starts coming together.

A couple of weekends ago my mom, John, and I went to Babies-R-Us and set up our registry.  Talk about exhausting!!  It was fun and I loved having both of them with me, but there's just so much stuff!!!  I had spent hours and hours and hours beforehand doing research on what we really needed and what would work best for us.  I can't even imagine how awful it would have been to show up at the store and not have done all of that.  Having a lot of the decisions already figured out really made a difference.  Getting the registry created was one more thing we could check off the to-do list.  Woo-hoo!

So things are going well.  We're truckin' right along.  It's going to be October before we know it!  That's a little scary because we aren't anywhere close to being ready, but we have time.  Here are a few ultrasound pictures from last month and this month.

Here he is, just hangin' out in April.

 

We got to see him opening and closing his mouth .... so cool!

In May we saw more of him opening his mouth PLUS he was sticking out his tongue!  You can see a little of his tongue in this picture, plus his spinal cord and heart.

The very very very cool part about this last visit is that John took some video of the ultrasound while we were there.  You can definitely see the tongue action and his heart beating ... so amazing!!  Click here for video.