A nursery preview! Finishing touches to come...

What a day!

Today was very productive! Natalie and her friend, Katie, came over and painted the nursery! Like angels, they have coated the walls in a gorgeous, girly shade of pink! Ken's already painted the trim a crisp coat of white, so now it's just time to move in some furniture and the "bones" of the nursery will be done! It just felt like Christmas to see the paint on the walls! 

Finally! Pictures of our baby girl!

Top is her profile. Middle is a close-up of her heart. You can see all 4 chambers. Her heart rate was 151 bpm. The bottom picture is also her profile, but she had flipped over and you can see the spine and legs. She moved around so much that these are the best stills I could get (other than her girly parts and, well, I can't do that to her!).  It was just amazing to be able to see our baby flipping around! 

I've felt her kicking even more today. It's so weird that it was nothing for so long & now just thump, thump, thump! I love it! 

We went for the ultrasound and they confirmed-It's A Girl! So, like good sneaks, we faked our surprised and enjoyed seeing our little baby girl move around! It is just amazing how much detail you can see. All of her parts and organs looked great and she was moving around a lot! They estimated that she weighs 13 ounces but couldn't really tell how long she is because babies are too curled up at this stage.  I think she must have pretty long legs because I am able to feel her kick more and more:) 

Of course Ken and I went straight to the paint store after we left the doctor's office! Poor Ken, he's having to do all the hard stuff to get ready for baby-but I think he'd do anything for "Daddy's little girl"! Natalie is coming over Saturday to volunteer her painting skills. In return, I will play with Anderson; a pretty good trade if you ask me! If anyone else is in the mood for some painting, feel free to drop by. I'm sure I can round up plenty of brushes or rollers...

I'm new to all this blog stuff, plus I can still hardly figure out my mac, so bare with me trying to post a picture or video of the baby! For now, we are just the oh so proud parents-to-be!

A few pictures from the 4th of July

I was able to get in for an early ultrasound a couple of weeks ago...Kristin called in a favor at DCH, and all signs show "It's a Girl!" I go for my 2nd "official" ultrasound July 24th. We are going to pretend to be surprised-that is, unless it's now a boy & we really will be surprised!!! I am going to get it on DVD, so hopefully will get that posted on here soon!