Shower Fun

Thank y'all for coming to our shower and making it a great time! We appreciated all of you coming and helping us celebrate. We are blessed to have y'all as friends and family.

At some point I need to figure out how best to share the photos from this weekend, but for now, I'll just post these 2 group shots. Click the image to click through to a medium size for downloading and viewing on your computer.

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It's a BOY!!!

So, we went to the sonographer this morning, and got some great news. First, Doc thinks the slightly echogenic abdomen falls within the normal range, and he didn't see any other indicators that something might be wrong. He thinks it's a healthy baby. Second, it's a BOY! The above picture is looking from the feet up between his legs where there is definately something showing. Like I said in the office, "He likes the ladies..." That explains why he was shy around our normal male OB Dr.

Here's a profile shot where you can see a little nose and forehead. It looks like he was sleeping, but he wasn't! There was lots of wiggling and jumping going on. Plus some stubbornness in rotating for the camera.

"Nature Walks..."

We were debating on the title of this picture. Perhaps "Not Carrot Top, but Carrot Bottom" or something along those lines. CP liked "Nature Walks", which I thought was cute. Then she came up with "Veggie Tails," which takes the carrot!

This carrot from our garden has some serious junk in its trunk. I think CP might use the term "truncal obesity." From the looks of the hairy legs, I'm thinking this is either a Hippie carrot, or possibly French (perhaps both!). Y'all come up with your own description and post in the comments...

Have fun!

Here's proof...

Cookie Pockets at ~18 weeks

Cookie Pockets' belly is getting larger!

It's impressive how much her belly is growing these days. I'll try to post some pics this weekend when we get a chance. We went to the doc last week and everything looked to be doing well. We had another ultrasound that I videotaped, but this one was a bit blurry since the camera doesn't auto-focus on the CRT very well.

I hope y'all are doing well!

Hurricane Ike in Austin

We went out to Lake Pflugerville for a walk and some kite flying on Sunday, the day after Ike made landfall near Galveston. Other than a nice cloud cover yesterday, this wind is about all that we received from the storm.

We go to the Doc on Thursday, so perhaps we'll have an update with more baby info soon. Oh, yeah, that reminds me...for future reference, I highly recommend taking along a camera with movie capabilities to the ultrasound. I wish I had for the 1st one, but I smartened up for the 2nd one last month. It is SO COOL to be able to watch the lil' guy/gal move around when you get back home!

"LFoD": NH's State Motto

Yea! The internets are working tonight, so and I can finally upload the pictures I found last night.

BTW, we go to the Doc on Thursday, and he's supposed to do a Doppler exam on Baby.


We saw many beautiful waterfalls! This is one from the Flume Gorge area.


This is in front of Jackson Falls about 0.5 miles from our hotel. Absolutely beautiful!

From the top of Bald Mountain, looking over at Cannon mountain (on the right). This was our first day of partial sunshine, and it got a wee bit warm (~80F) hiking up the mountain.