All in a week

Whew! I know that I'm not even 6 months yet, but my belly feels huge. I've already given in and purchased some slip on shoes :-) I'm posting a few of the pictures that I wasn't able to last week.
Oh, and also, Sandy felt her move for the first time last night. Now he asks me, "Is she moving now?" I'm enjoying feeling her move and so excited we can enjoy her together.
It's also exciting to feel about much she loves music. Today during the singing at church, she started dancing again! We're excited to see who this little moving, wiggling bundle turns out to be.

This is another picture from 22 weeks!

Sandy and I all dressed up for his concert!

Press The Buttons: FoxTrot's Chamber Music Hero

Press The Buttons: FoxTrot's Chamber Music Hero


This has to be the best comic I've seen in a while!

22 Weeks (5 1/2 Months)

Whew! This last week my belly has, as they say, popped! I can no longer "suck it in." :-) So far it's been fun noticing how these body changes affect everyday things. First of all, I have noticed that my belly is at counter height. So when I lean in to wash my hands or do the dishes, I squish her. It still isn't too much of a problem but I'm interested to see what happens in a month or two. I also am in the market for some comfy slip on shoes. My favorite shoes tie and that's getting a bit uncomfortable.
I've been noticing her kicks and movement more and more - which has been delightful. I am enjoying them as much as I can before they get uncomfortable - as I have been assured they will. For now, I smile when she moves around. So far she seems to like music the most. We're excited to see if that continues after she arrives. I have more pictures to post, but they are not cooperating. I'll try again tomorrow.

22 Weeks

Papa's Singing

Sandy had a concert last night called 'Poetry and Song.' (or poetry in song?) Sheesh, well whatever it was called, Sandy sang first. During his singing, peanut started kicking as hard as I've felt yet. I was just delighted and have decided that she knows her papa's voice and was dancing along. What a precious moment. I'm excited for more precious moments after she has actually arrived.
Several people have asked if we have a name yet. I have been saying that we have 30 names. This is of course an exaggeration. We do, however, have a long list of names. We'll spread the word when we have one. We aren't too worried yet seeing as we have a few more months. If we still have a list of 30 by June, we may be asking for help :-)

Diary of a Crazy Pregnant Lady

I have officially entered the weird zone of pregnancy. Actually, I think most of the things I've been experiencing would probably happen to me anyway - it's just now that I can blame them on pregnancy :-)
First, belts. I have recently discovered that women-belts are not nearly as cool as man-belts. First of all woman-belt buckles have a way higher chance of being really ugly. But the coolest thing is that man-belts can be reversible. Sandy has this great belt that is brown on one side and black on the other.....um, can we say amazing? Woman-belts don't do that. You just have to buy two belts. I have recently found myself in need of a maternity belt seeing as none of mine fit (another thing I'm blaming on pregnancy :-) Unfortunately for poor Sandy, his belt is perfect. Needless to say, Sandy still needed his belt and I am the proud new owner of a reversible man-belt. I may never go back!

Ok, so that's just a quirky thing. My week got weirder...or at least I did.

On Tuesday at about 1:30, I looked at my hands and realized that the finger joints and thumbs of both hands had turned blue...yeah...blue. So, being the social butterfly with hypochondriac tendencies that I am, I talked to everybody at work. "Have you ever seen blue finger joints? "I wonder why my hands are blue?" Nobody at school had heard of blue hands as a side effect of pregnancy. My OB's office told me to call my general practitioner. My general practitioner couldn't get me in and told me to go to Urgent Care. The thought of waiting at Urgent Care for six hours just to say, "Um, my hands turned blue today," was not all that appealing. When I got home from work, my hands were still blue, but seeing as they did not hurt I decided to wait until the next day just to see what happened. The next day? My fingers weren't blue anymore........oh what had I been wearing? A new pair of dark wash jeans. Yup, my fingers were blue from the pockets of my new pants. I'm a dork.

It's a Girl!!!!

Hurray! We had our first ultrasound yesterday - and we're having a girl. We would have posted these pictures, but the process of getting these scanned was making me cranky :-) We found out that she is growing perfectly and that every thing looks good. She's measuring about six days smaller, so we're going to do another ultrasound in four weeks just to make sure all is well. During the ultrasound, she was really active. She like to wave her little hand around, but kept her feet tucked up under her most of the time.

Her sweet little profile

I like to call this pictures, "Power to the people."
She had her hands up by her face during
most of the ultrasound.





Waving hello




Her two cute little feet.

We're excited to get ready for her. We're starting to realize that time is getting shorter and we have a lot to do. But, we're up for the challenge and have to remember that we don't have to have everything ready tomorrow :-) We'll keep you updated and hopefully we'll have more pictures in four weeks.

Snow and Fun Friends!

This is a belated entry about last week and this weekend. I have all of this glorious time because all the schools in Lane County are closed - which means no work for me! I should say all the schools in Lane County are closed EXCEPT U of O which is why Sandy is not writing this. Poor Sandy still has school :-(
Well, onto the report. The first big thing that happend this week was that I felt Peanut move! I was sitting at work and there s/he was. It felt like someone was gently poking my tummy from the inside. Since then I've felt P alot - usually late morning and late afternoon. S/he's just pokin' around in there having a blast. We're excited for this next week because on Wednesday we get to find out if we're having a girl peanut or a boy peanut. We'll be sure to let you know (hurray for settling on a pronoun!
The weekend began with our friends Brad and Jen coming to visit from Portland. We hung out on Friday night - it was pretty mellow because I am still recovering from being sick. They are two of my dearest friends and I love when we get to spend time together. On Saturday Brad went off to teach at a leadership conference while Jen and I went to Katrina's. We had a blast at her Arbonne party; my feet and hands are still so very soft :-) She made amazing goodies - for a recipe for her (now) world famous coffee cake muffins, please see the Henry's blog. After goodies and pampering, Jen and I went to the Glenwood to meet Brad and Jolyn. The morning was so fun and I was sooooo tired after lunch. Brad and Jen took off back up to Portland and I was lazy some more :-)
On Sunday we woke up to real snow! It's just sooo pretty and it reminds me of home! After church while Sandy was at work, I went over to Jon and Amy's for our annual snow day. We played outside and I took Amy for a practice drive in the snow.
Which brings us to today. I am thankful for a snow day as I will be able to get caught up on some much delayed paperwork and some things around the house! Hurray for snow!!!!

Me, Brad and Jen - soooo pretty!

Sunday Morning - Still Snowing!

Sandy and I outside (still in our slippers)
standing on the edge of our pretty, pretty snow.

Reading to Ethan and Macey!