3-D/4-D Ultrasound

Today Mom, Dad and Jason joined me to enjoy the wonderful experience of the 3-D/4-D ultrasound. We went back to Baby Pictures in Bellevue to get a glimpse of our daughter before she enters the world, but found she did not want to cooperate this time around either. She was very comfortable and sound asleep with the cord in her hand in front of her face. A couple of times she sucked on either the cord or her thumb. She moved a little bit, but it was very difficult to get a really good shot of her. The owner asked me to come back next week to try again at no cost, which is fine with me, it is just another chance to see my little girl! :) Hopefully she won't be so camera shy next time around though...she always seems to want to have the cord right where we want to see every time!!! Anyway, I have posted a couple of pictures, but if I get some better one's next week, I will put those on here as well...enjoy!!!

Work Shower

Last week, everyone at work held a shower for three of us who are due between July and August. We all had a great time and all of our wonderful co-workers gave us some great gifts to help get ready for the babies-to-be! Two of us are having girls and the other one doesn't want to know what she is having, so there was a lot of pink flying around! What a great time I had spending time laughing and sharing stories with my co-workers...thanks for everything!!!

Kimmy, Julie, and Shanna

Opening the gifts!

Cute cake!!!

All of the wonderful gifts!

Isabella's Room

Well, I finally did some more to the nursery and I am very excited to share some pictures! I painted the room awhile ago and let me tell you it was a lot of work, especially the dots in the green, but it was well worth it in the end. We just put the rest of the furniture in yesterday and I finished painting the knobs for the dresser today...yes...I hand painted the knobs!!! I tried to find some to buy, but I just couldn't find what I was looking for, so, off to the craft store I went to buy some paint to do my own. I tried to capture what I could in the picture, but I think they look much better in person! I hope you all enjoy the pictures...it is still not done, but these capture most of it!

Greenwater Adventure

Since it was such a nice day yesterday Jason and I decided to take a little road trip up to the Greenwater area to see if we could find any decent areas to go camping in the near future. We had an awesome day and really enjoyed the sunshine! Miley also had a great time, she just loves going for car rides to new places, especially when we let her get out to explore. We did stop a few times, but at one point we stopped at the river to let her get out to play and took some pictures of our adventure. I am not so sure we found the camping situation we were looking for, but overall the day of exploring was fun and relaxing. Something I really needed after all of the stress from the federal review we just had at work.

Kimmy and Miley by the river!

Where's Miley???

24 week appointment

On Friday I went in for the 24 week appointment and everything looks great! Isabella is growing at a rate that is pleasing to the midwife and she had a very strong heartbeat. It was pretty funny when she had the doppler on my tummy to hear the heartbeat, Isabella kicked it pretty hard about three times, to the point you could actually see it move...very cute!!! Although, I am sure I won't think those big kicks are so much fun as she gets bigger and they get stronger.

On another note, a few weeks ago we made the purchase of the bedding for the crib and then later the paint. I am really looking forward to painting the room, but finding the time to focus on it seems to be a problem lately. Hopefully I will be able to get to it soon and then I will post pictures so you can all see it.

Pink or blue???

PINK!!! It's a girl! We had another ultrasound done today at Baby Pictures, which is a place that does them for fun! The ultrasound tech/owner was awesome, she answered all of our questions and made it a very enjoyable experience (unlike the day before). We chose the gender identity package, so of course, she told us within minutes that our baby is a girl and she also printed us a whole bunch of amazing pictures to go home with. We will definitely be going back to her to have the 3-d/4-d ultrasound done around 28 weeks! We both were hoping for a girl, so we are both very excited, not only to get the girl we wanted, but for the fact that she is healthy and everything looks great at this point! I am really looking forward to going shopping for all of that oh so cute pink girly stuff!!!

It's a....

We still have no idea. The baby had its legs crossed and the cord was in the way. Everything else on the ultrasound looked good. The head is measuring at 20 weeks and 5 days and the rest of the body is measuring at 19 weeks and 5 days. We heard and saw a very strong heartbeat, but other than that, not much activity. I found it kind of funny, considering the baby was VERY active all morning up until about 20 minutes before the ultrasound. I will post the pictures once I am able to scan them!