Monday, May 14, 2007

Ohio


During the final weeks before I can no longer travel in my pregnancy, I decided to take one last trip to Ohio to visit John's family! Rachel flew in from Seattle so that the three pregnant sister-in-laws could be together. We had so much fun sitting around chatting about pregnancy and all the different, crazy phases you go through. It's always so much fun to talk with other pregnant women. You can imagine the amount of hormones in the house over the weekend, but fortunately we all remained pretty level-headed!!
In the picture from left to right: Rachel (17 weeks pregnant), Misty (24 weeks pregnant), and Amanda (31 weeks pregnant).


It was great to get to visit with John's family. This is the last time for a LONG time that this trip will be easy to make. Once Caden arrives (and other children down the road) it will be much more difficult to just hop on a plane and fly to visit family!


The girls all took a little road trip in to Pittsburgh on Saturday. We went to Once Upon a Baby and Babies-R-Us! Pam (Grammy) bought all of the grandkids clothes!


Isabella is just as cute as ever. She is toddling around the house now getting in to everything! Of course, Misty and I did pictures. I don't think we'll ever get together again without doing them now that we both enjoy it so much! Misty took some maternity pictures of me and I took some pictures of her and Isabella, and her little bump as well. She and Josh are expecting another little girl, Adalena, in September!!


During the trip we found out what Rachel and Khasha are having: a little BOY! They are going to name him Cyrus and he is expected in October.


Thursday, May 3, 2007

3D Ultrasound



Today I had a 3D/4D ultrasound done of little Caden! Mom went with me to the appointment. I decided to drink a Mountain Dew before I went in to give him a little more energy. It apparently didn't work because about the only thing that moved the entire 40 minute ultrasound were his hands, feet and mouth!

It was so amazing to see his little face! I've seen 3D pictures before of other people's baby's and I've thought that they were pretty cool... but it was incredible to see my own child's face on that screen! I was so captivated by the details: his chubby little cheeks, his dominant chin, his long fingers...

I think my favorite thing was seeing his little mouth open and close. I saw him yawn, get the hiccups, stick out his tongue, and I even saw him (we think) suck his thumb. I am more in love with my little man than I ever was before and I can't even begin to imagine the depth of that love when I meet him face to face.