january belly photo

dang! and she's gaining weight at the rate of a half a pound a week from now until birth! YEOWZAH! i'm going to be serving drinks off of this thing before long. i definitely feel like i waddling duck these days.

progress of the nursery

Over Thanksgiving we were blessed to have some family visiting to spend the holiday with us. Jeff, Holly and Peyton were our final house guests to enjoy the PLUSH accommodations of our one spare bedroom in it's finale as our guest room. Guests, from now on, will be welcomed to crash on our very comfortable air mattress. Just ask Kimberly, she REALLY enjoyed the restful sleep she scored on it during her turkey-day stay!

Since we got back home to Denver after Christmas, with the beautiful baby furniture my dad built for us in tow, we've been transforming the spare room from it's guest-quarter status into a nursery for our baby girl. Renovations are still underway but here's a peek •

pink chandelier : my first purchase for the nursery • a find during my shopping day with Kimberly and Holly to the antique shops and boutiques in Old Town Littleton. as excited as jerry was about the first purchase being hot pink, he was even happier about installing it.

paint samples : we did agree on the paint color and went with the second from the right • benjamin moore's revere pewter

the crib : beautiful • built from a pile of walnut lumber that set in my parent's boat shed for years and years. my sisters and i discovered countless litters of kittens hidden amongst that lumber.

changing table : ready to be stocked with a changing pad, diapers, wipes, lotion and diaper cream.

it's still hard to believe i'll be spending time in that room every day in just a matter of weeks but it's starting to set in. peyson has taken to the room's new furnishings and we quite often find him laying about on the rug in the dark...establishing his territory and further declaring his supreme reign over the entire house. george has barely given it so much as a second sniff - a clear case of denial!

priceless

we had another ultrasound this past friday, they wanted to take another look at a couple of things from the anatomy ultrasound we had in october (more on that later). after taking all of the necessary measurements, the tech surprised us with a 3D sonogram. she didn't cooperate for very long but the tech was able to get the most amazing image of our baby girl's face. i've heard about the 3D sonograms but i didn't know that our hospital had the technology available. all of the previous images we've gotten at our ultrasound appointments have seemed pretty much standard issue, generic baby-in-womb snapshots - except knowing, of course, that she's our miracle. but this 3D image of her face brought tears to my eyes!

she's facing left with her face resting on her hand (which looks like a blob since it's not "in focus") • she's mostly in profile ::

uncharted territory

i'm entering two realms that are foreign and unfamiliar to me. the virtual realm being that of blogging so that i can share the occasions of my impending entry into the realm of parenthood. i'm 30 weeks pregnant with our baby girl - just a few weeks into the third trimester. i cannot believe we only have 10+/- weeks to go but it's really hard to believe that i've been pregnant since late june/early july 2008.

here's a look back at the revelation of the belly...so far.

september 2008 • just barely there ::

october 2008 ::

november 2008 • in desperate need of a haircut and just after cleaning house (gorgeous) ::

december 2008 ::