16wk sonogram

Here is some amateur sonography of our baby at 16 weeks.  It's from a blackberry phone so it's kinda small.  Look closely and you can see hands moving around and the baby's body moving.  We have the official check up in a couple weeks.

Avocado Week

BJR or CRR is as big as an avocado this week. He or she should be able to pick up sounds by now. The first sound was very likely the fire alarm going off in the mall yesterday :) Sorry baby!

On a side note

As some of you may know, we have been looking to buy a house.  We tried last spring before the tax credit expired.  That didn't work out well.  We managed to find a home that fit the worst case scenario apparently.  This time we tried to avoid that.  We found a house nearby and put an offer it that looks like it's moving forward.  We don't have a house yet, but we hopefully will have one soon....keep you fingers crossed.

Navel Orange week

As you can tell from the title of the post, mini-Brad/Jenny is about the size of an orange.  Nothing really new going on in the baby front.  Jenny has been feeling better overall.  The frequency of the morning sickness has lessened quite a bit.  Also, food likes and dislikes have started to change some too.

On the non-baby front, we are still waiting on the house, to see if the bank approves the short sale or not.  It is being processed right now so hopefully we find out one way or the other very soon.

February update

Jenny had a visit to the midwife today.  Things are going fine.  The baby has a heartbeat of ~145 beats/min and  is about the size of a lemon right now.  Next month's visit will be about 17-18 weeks so a sonogram should show whether it's a boy or a girl.  That should tell us if we'll have a kid with the initials C.R.R. or B.J.R. (unless we decide differently)

Quick update

Sorry for the delay in getting this out there.  We haven't had this blog as a high priority.  Things seem to be going smoothly now so we'll take time to post things every so often.  We are at 12 weeks so the baby is supposed to be the size of a plum and working it's way to being the size of a peach and eventually a watermelon (The internet has some weird stuff).

Baby names

We've been working on creating a list of names we liked.  That process was about a couple months of work.  We finally finished and pooled the lists and started crossing things off.  There is now a boy and a girl name along with middle name.  We did decide to wait on the name announcement though until the birth.  We could change our minds...there is still quite a while left.  Sorry, but you are going to be left in suspense.

Here we go...

Since you are looking at this blog then you must have found out that there will be a mini Brad or Jenny sometime this summer.  Here is our first look at the baby.  This is the sonogram from around 7 or 8 weeks.  The big head-looking part is not a head, just the placental sac.  The baby is the little thing next to it.  So Yea!!!