Nursery in Progress

Here are some more pictures of the nursery under construction. Our furniture arrived yesterday just after I got back from Kelowna and we assembled the crib last night. This is all starting to feel so real!

Me and the Nursery

My wonderful brother put up our wallpaper border in the nursery today! It looks SOOO good. Now we're just waiting for the furniture and the baby! Today is two months until the due date. Here is a picture of me from tonight and a couple of the nursery without my big belly in the way!

Our Long Weekend

Hi everyone! I know it's been a really long time since I've updated, but it's been busy. Now I just have to make it through July and then August should be a lot slower! (Hopefully) Anyways, our exciting news is that we painted baby's room this weekend! Now that the garage sale is over and we've cleaned out the former guest room, it was time to get in and get a few things ready.

Jeffrey and Tia enjoyed the painting process (a little too much). They discovered that once we took the cold air return cover off, they could get into the space in the floor!

Eventually Jeffrey came out on his own. Tia had to be bribed. Who knew she liked Nacho flavored chips?

The room itself looks awesome. We kept the top half of the walls the color they were and painted the bottom part a dark brown. Our next step, once the paint is good and dry, will be to put up the border, but I kind of doubt that will happen before we leave for camp on Saturday.

25 weeks

I can't believe how fast this is going! Less than 4 months and baby will be here! Wow - is there ever a lot to do still! We've been working on cleaning out the guest room and I'm trying to get all of my church stuff organized over the next few weeks so it's ready to hand off for a few months.

Baby is kicking me a lot - especially at night. And I haven't been sleeping so well because of the heat, but we'll make it through that too! Here are a couple of pics from this weekend:

And here is our handsome puppy after getting all his fur shaved off for the summer. He was sure thankful for it this weekend!

I bought paint!

I know - the small things in life are exciting. We can't start painting the nursery yet, but I bought the paint! (I had to feel like I'm doing SOMETHING!) We also bought our stroller this weekend, but I'm not taking it out of the box until some of the garage sale clutter is gone. We're having a garage sale on June 16 if anyone wants to come buy our stuff!





The ultrasound on Thursday went really well. The technician was so much nicer this time and I was so much more comfortable. I have pictures, but I don't know if I'll get around to scanning them in. Our boy once again proved that he is a boy - no modesty here! Anyways, all looked good and we got a couple of nice face side shots too. He was playing with his eyebrows.





I have to show you this too. A friend of mine who has also struggled with infertility made this for me. (She's due in June). In case it's hard to read, it says "God hears our prayers".

Last night we got to meet our new little neighbor - Patrick and Melanie had their baby on Saturday morning and last night we popped over to meet little Nathan. What a cutie! I'm so excited that there are going to be a bunch of boys the same age on this block!

Tomorrow we meet our midwife. I'm really looking forward to switching over to a midwife's care. As much as I've liked our doctor up to this point, I know that we'll be getting a new doctor anyways in another few weeks, and I'm just so tired of the whole medical system. Why treat pregnancy like it's a disease that has to be treated and managed? Shouldn't this be a natural process?

This is why

You don't camp or plant your garden on or before the long weekend. I woke up to Byron saying, "Wow - look at that snow." Seriously - isn't it almost the end of May? Not that it's really a long weekend for either of us. Byron works today and so I figure I might as well get some stuff done too. I'll take a day off later this week when Byron has one too. Maybe Thursday when I have to go for another ultrasound.

And a few family pics - because they turned out really nice!

Last week Byron's family came to visit and we made them all have family pictures taken. Except Andrea and Calvin . . . . we're still waiting for those! Anyways, here are the ones we took:





We also went to the zoo. This is the newest giraffe: "baby" Richard.

Victoria

OK - so we've been back for two weeks now and I still haven't gotten the pictures up. Here you go:

It's a boy!

OK - we've talked with all of the grandparents-to-be and we're safe to put this on here now. Today on the ultrasound we saw a healthy baby boy! He waved at us and then stretched and went back to sleep . . . .

Baby's first pictures

Here we go! The ultrasound this afternoon went great. Baby looks perfect (although the feet were hiding, so I'll probably have to go back for another one), and weighing about 12oz., which is about a week ahead of where we should be, so baby is definately healthy! We know what baby is too . . . . but we're waiting for our parents to call up back before I post it, so stay tuned. Meanwhile, here are a few pictures!

Doctor's Appointment today

Just got back from the doctor, and wanted you all to know everything is going very well. Baby's heartbeat was loud and easy to find this time and was going at 140 bpm (babys' hearts beat much faster than ours). Tomorrow is the big ultrasound where hopefully we'll be able to find out what we're having! Now I'm off to have a nap before our class tonight!

Go Canucks Go!

18 weeks

Well, it was nice out today . . . for about half an hour! Long enough for us to BBQ some burgers for lunch and sit outside, though by the time we finished, I was ready for a sweatshirt and Byron was asking for his touque. Actually, I can't complain, though. The last couple of days have been sunny, and the snow is gone! I'm still expecting at least one more good snowfall before spring offically hits.

I'm now 18 weeks, and I've been feeling baby move a lot more this week. Here's a picture from yesterday:

We are really looking forward to going to Victoria next week (We leave a week from tomorrow). We've finished all of the projects we had to do around here before we go, so it's just one more busy week and then we're free! Yesterday I finished writing my last paper for school, and my last class is on Tuesday.

Here's another picture I'll post just because it's cute. How can you resist this face?

My new Sling

Ok - for those of you who are wondering, yes it is still snowing. Ick. No - I don't want to know what the weather is like in Kelowna.

This morning I went out and bought the sling that I wanted - I figure I can get some practice with it with the kids at church who like me to carry them but are getting a little heavy for me. So I thought I'd get some practice, and to my suprise, Tia loved it! She purred and purred and almost fell alseep on me. Hope baby likes it as much when it's his or her turn!

This morning

Are we sure it's April? Doesn't this look a lot like the picture I posted in November? Anyone know of a church looking for a kids pastor in the Caribbean?

And a few more Preggo Pictures

So when people see me now it's not a question of "Are you pregnant?" It's "When are you due?" and "Are you sure there's only one in there?" Byron and I went to the Mom and Tots fair this week and got all sorts of great information on products and services and stuff. We even found a great source for organic cloth diapers here in Calgary! Byron was very excited about this one. (He's even admitted he'll probably end up doing most of the laundry, and he's still ok with it!) We started out baby classes last week, and our second class is tonight. We're taking a course called "The Bradley Method" and it's very focussed on husband-coached, natural childbirth, which fits very well with our way of thinking already. Here's more info: www.bradleybirth.com Anyways, here is a picture of me that Byron took last night and a couple of our sweet kitties:

Kananaskis

Hi everyone! I know it's been a while since I've updated this (3 weeks), but it's just been SO busy. The current project is writing a paper that's due in 8 days (I haven't started yet). Then we need to get our taxes finished, our house cleaned up and in 21 days we leave for our Victoria holiday! We are so looking forward to getting away. Hopefully I'm feeling alright. Anyways, the week after our anniversary, Byron booked us in to the Delta Kananaskis for a couple of nights for a quick getaway. Here are a few pics from that:

13 weeks

Hi everyone - today marks 13 weeks. Here are some pics we took this afternoon.

Yay!!!

I finally figured out how to make the countdown thing work on here! So yeah - 12 weeks. Time is flying SO fast! I can't belive I'm already considered to be in the second trimester. Supposedly this is when I feel better and have more energy. Well, maybe, except that I've come down with a horrible cold that has had me on the couch for days.

Things are good around here. Jeffrey is slowly regaining his outside priviledges. (Mostly because it's getting really annoying to listen to him cry at the back door.) Tia found her way up into the heating ducts in the storage room, so now we need to figure that one out. And all three cats are generally enjoying the time on the couch these last few days. Tia comes and lies with her head on my slowly growing belly. It's pretty cute.

So - not much new around here.

More details . . . .

Ok. I left you all with that teaser long enough. If you haven't heard yet - yes, I am finally pregnant. (Can you believe I'm in tears even typing that?) After 7 years, lots of drugs and a lot of disappointments, the IUI just before Christmas worked, and we found out four days after the accident that we're going to have a baby! I'm due in mid-September, making me almost 10 weeks right now. I'm feeling pretty good most of the time, though there have been rough days the last couple of days where I can't even think about eating. but it's all good! We're just so thankful that I'm not about to start complaining now!

I did have an ultrasound already to make sure everything was ok, and there was one little heartbeat, and it was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!

For those of you who are curious, at 10 weeks, baby is about the size of a small plum, has fingers and toes and eyes and ears. Almost everything is there already - it just needs to grow.

So please keep praying for us. We're pretty nervous that something won't go exactly the way it should - my body doesn't exactly have a good track record when it comes to working properly - so please pray for our peace of mind and that baby would grow healthy and strong. Thank you for those who have been praying already for us - both in the last weeks and the last years. It's been a long journey, but God is good and faithful and does care about what we're going through.