25 Weeks

Okay, I finally remembered to have Ryan take another picture of me on a rare occasion when we were actually both home at the same time. I know we haven't been great about keeping up with the weekly photos, but life gets amazingly busy. I think that I just need to get out the tripod so that I can just take them when I think of it and don't have to wait till Ryan and I are both home.

Anyway, here it is. Yes my belly is definately getting bigger and it would probably look even bigger than it does except that my boobs seem to be growing almost as fast and dwarfing my belly somewhat. They'd better not stay that way. :o(

Here is a belly close up to show just how big I've gotten in the last 5 weeks.

Photoshoots take even longer when you have to try to take a picture when our little camera ham dogs are out of the way. I think that Lucy was a little bit jealous and wanted to join in the fun too.

Snow

I woke up Friday morning to this beautiful sight. Thankfully, it was gone by the early afternoon and there wasn't a lot of it, but it was just thick and heavy enough to coat all of the branches in a fluffy white layer. Thankfully, just about all of our snow piles have melted now and our spring flowers are even starting to come up.

20 Weeks

Okay, I haven't posted in a while because I didn't really want to post this one because Ryan caught me with a totally stupid look on my face and then we didn't have time to take another and we never got around to it. But since that is the only picture I have and I didn't get around to taking one of 21 weeks, I figured that I better post this.

I noticed as I was posting this that the tie in the back of that maternity shirt makes me look a little bigger in this picture with this angle. Actually I didn't really look all that big at 20 weeks, but that bump is definately growing quickly now. I will have to be better about taking my weekly pictures from now on because I swear that bump gets bigger everyday.

Baby Ready Pets class

Because these two little sweeties are our first babies, we want them to be happy and well adjusted when our little bundle of joy arrives so we attended the Baby Ready Pets class at the Humane Society today to learn tips and basic obedience training to help prepare them. It was actually a really informative class and I would recommend it. Looking at this picture, it is easy to think "How could these two little sweeties be anything but perfect", but when in "high energy" mode, these two can be bounce off the walls (or off of doors in Lucy's case). We have a little bit of training to do to get them ready, but so far they are responsive. We also received a cd of baby noises and cries to help them get used to the sounds. We played it for them tonight and they were totally unfazed. Libby was a little bit interested in where the noise was coming from for about half of a second and Lucy didn't seem to notice it at all. Silly dogs.

Opera

Boy, is my belly getting big quickly. Well okay, I'm not really this big yet. While I was worried about looking too pregnant for this last opera, the director actually wanted to make me look pregnant, not realizing that I was already pregnant. So, this is the result of the costume bustle worn backwards. This costume made me thankful that women do not still dress like this today, I look like a house. It didn't help matters that I got the worst cold that I can remember (more than likely the flu actually) during the week of the opera and I wasn't even sure that I would be able to sing for the performances. Not a good thing when you are supposed to be singing in a quartet in the wedding scene. Thankfully the chorus part is very small and not terribly taxing in this opera and my voice came back enough to be able to sing. It was, however, the most miserable experience of my pregnancy thus far (the whole illness, not the opera itself). But enough of my pity party, I am slowly but surely feeling better everyday as is Ryan (my very wonderful husband who generously decided to share my cold so I didn't feel miserable alone). :o)

Well we went in for the first ultrasound. I will let Erin tell you more about it, but for sure there is a baby in there and for sure there is only one. The baby waved at the camera half way thru the ultrasound and then turned over so the nurse could not see anything but baby cheeks. Here are a few pictures from it.

Dad's perspective

So Erin set up this little blog to keep everyone informed and I thought it only proper to add my two cents. So far things have been going well. Erin has not been sick, but she has been tired. This has translated into Ryan taking over the cleaning of the house, now painting of the house, moving of all heavy things, and lets not forget the fact that Erin hasn't touched the snow shovel all winter. It just doesn't seem fair. I do all the work and yet when we see anyone its always "Oh Erin how are you feeling?", "Erin you are just glowing.", and then in a quiet serious tone "Erin, is 'he' helping out enough". Well I am hear to say that yes "he" is helping out and "he" is also excited. Perhaps more excited. I mean I did have something to do with this and I don't think that I should turn invisible whenever "she" walks into the room. I mean I have been doing so much to help out. I have even grown a sympathy belly, as seen in our other photos, so that Erin doesn't feel alone in this.
Now in a few weeks we are going in to have the first ultrasound. This means that I will know the sex of the baby. I also currently know what the baby will be named whether it is a boy or girl. So, next time we meet I will remember those who are nice to me and congratulate me as well. These will be the people who may have the chance of hearing me slip this information that I know. Its just a thought.

( You should all know that I am totally kidding about all that I said........ I'll never tell the information I know...Erin would kill me before I ever saw our child.)