It's A Boy!!!!

Well after a very exciting ultrasound they were able to tell us that it's a little boy! Everything looked great, length is good, he is weighing in at a solid 10 ounces, lots of movement, heartbeat, etc...


He clearly got my flexibilty as he kept grabbing his foot and putting up by his mouth!

Alive and close to kicking

Yes we are alive! Sorry for the lack of posts, it is amazing how much more time you have in the middle of the summer than once everything gets going again. But we are doing well and the baby continues to grow. We are heading to the doctor in a week and a half to find out the sex of the baby! That will be a big day obviously.
Katie continues to do well and we heard the heartbeat again on Monday. Katie seems to be finding all the good sales, like i mentioned in a previous post she found a great day on some stuff in ATL and this week Me and Mommy to be had a big sale. So she is getting ready! Unfortunately most of the stuff she is buying is fairly "fallish" and it's 100 degress, but surely it will cool down eventually.
I know she is excited to be going to the beach later this week for a long labor day weekend with the Neely family at Wild Dunes so she can wear her new maternity swim suit!
Katie is back in the swing of things with YL and things at church are going pretty wild as well. So there you go an update.
Pray that Katie and I would use our time wisely in preparing for the child- both in preparing for the child and enjoying one another.

Where the playas play....

Katie and I had a great weekend in Atlanta. Katie wanted to go down there and just shop, spend some time, look at baby stuff, etc... It was a great weekend.
We did end up getting some things for ourselves and luckily we did not know the sex of the baby, because otherwise we would have bought a LOT of stuff for the room. But just a couple more weeks and we should know!
You would not have know that we lived in Atlanta for 3 years though if you watched our driving this past weekend. I did 4 u turns, got lost a couple of times, and were 45 minutes late to dinner with Ty and Sara Pattison!
But overall we had a great time.
This is the 15th week- At around 4 inches long, crown to rump, the baby now weighs about 2 1/2 ounces. It's busy inhaling and exhaling amniotic fluid, which will help develop the air sacs in it's lungs. the legs are growing longer than the arms now, and it can move all its joints and limbs. That means its hands are more functional, too. Sweat glands are appearing, and although its eyelids are fused shut, the baby can sense light. If you shine a flashlight at your tummy, it is likely to move away from the beam. There's not much for your baby to taste at this point, but the taste buds are beginning to form.
Keep praying for wisdom in raising a child, finances, what to do when, etc... And of course continue to pray for healthy development.
Peace Up, A-Town Down

14 weeks and a birthday

Well it is the 14th week. The arms will grow pretty substantially this week, beginning to be in proportion to the rest of the body. And due to brain activity the little face will begin squinting and frowning. This week the baby could begin to suck it's developed fingers!
Katie continues to do well and celbrates her 29th Birthday on the 7th. Last night as we were celebrating her birthday(early) it was crazy to think at her next birthday she would be the mother of a 6 month old! Oh how things are a changing.
We think we know how we want to decorate the nursery and will keep you up to date with pics, etc..."Pray w/out ceasing."

Lost Post

Sorry for the delay in posting. Katie had a funny, whimsical, entertaining post all composed and as we went to publish it, the computer froze! So needless to say she didn't feel like rewriting it, so here is a recap:

Katie is feeling great and feels like eating anything now! For a while some food didn't sound good to her, but now it is on like Donkey Kong! Saturday morning she woke up craving poridge from Gourmet Market and so off she went.

But all is good!

Heartbeat!

Today we had another doctors appointment and everything is going well. The craziest thing for me was that Katie LOST a pound?!?!? We think it was all the walking I made her do on the frisbee golf course at Windy Gap.
But the nurse said everything looked good and SOUNDED good! We are able to hear the heartbeat for the first time today and it was truly amazing. The little heart was beating 3x as fast as Katie's. At first the nurse couldn't find the heartbeat because the little one was moving around so much. She said it was hard to find something that moves so much that is the size of a big peanut!
So all seems well- moving around and a good heartbeat! Please pray for the continued healthy development of the vital organs. Hearing that heart today amazed me that something so small, yet so miraculous, was developing within Katie. Surely we can't take this for granted!

pick your nose!

Well, it's a big week. The 12th week. The end of the first trimester!!! They say that can be the most difficult trimester and once your through that the baby is much "safer".
This week the baby's face becomes more defined as the chin and nose become more refined. (Just a side note Katie is hoping the child get's my nose- a weird thing to hope for, but there you go!) This week also marks the arrival of fingernails and toenails- pick away little one! This week the baby will also be at around 3 inches long and the heartbeat could increase a couple of beats a minute!

We are at the end of Katie's assignment at Windy Gap and it was an incredible month. It's hard to believe it could go so quickly. We both head home tomorrow and I am sure that much of her life will consist of sleeping, resting, napping, and going to bed. Katie deserves it, she's worked hard this month and created a child all at the same time.

We go to the doctor on Tuesday for the first ultrasound. We should be able to hear a heartbeat, definitley have updates on how that goes.

Pray that all goes well at the doctor and that development looks normal and healthy.