Any day now!

Well Katie has passed the mark where she now goes to the doctor once a week until Davis comes. It has been neat seeing Katie be pregnant around Christmas time. We were reading an advent devotional the other day and talked about how often waiting time, is preperation time (the coming of Christ and pregnancy).
Here are some pics from Christmas where we hung out with family and celebrated her belly!

Teddy Bear U

So today, Saturday the 17th of November, was devoted to Teddy Bear University. From 9am till 5pm Katie and I were in a class with 14 other couples at Parkwest hospital on being pregant, hopital terminolgy and procedure, etc... We found out about contractions and when to come to the hospital. We found out about different types of labor, how to change diapers, take care of the umbilical cord, and the list goes on.
It was pretty interesting overall and I am glad we enrolled and took part. We had videos, handouts, questions and lecture. Katie's favorite part was finding out about the pain meds and mine was playing with the baby doll all day.
Katie says, " I can't wait to swadel and bathe Davis at 2:30 in the morning!"
The one complaint I had...they thought it was appropriate to show a birthing and then dismiss to lunch--sort of ruined Jason's Deli.
Feel like we are getting closer and closer!

Around the House

So everyone keeps telling us that if we have any projects to do around the house to do them before Davis comes. So today I tried to knock one off of the list. Our driveway was in pretty serious need of resurfacing (it could probably be recapped, but for now resurfacing will do). So on this beautiful Saturday I resealed the driveway. Hopefully the little guy will like it when he falls and skins his knee in a couple of years!
Before


After


More pics



So there you go.
We've got a bunch of showers planned starting in December, Katie has started going to the doctor every two weeks now, and in less than 12 weeks we will have a child.

Crazy

heading into this holiday season there is too much to be thankful for.

26 Weeks

Wow. 26 weeks down. and only 14 to go. what does that mean? it means katie and i should nap all we can in the next 14 weeks.
here's a little info on little davis.
this week he probably weighs in at close to 2 pounds. but he will begin to plump up quickly now- the main reason for the baby fat is to adjust to the temperature difference once he is born. the nerves in his ear continue to develop more rapidly now, so he can respond more and more to sound- so you had better believe i'm going to be talking, singing like crazy, and of course telling some hysterical jokes.
katie's back is a little sore, but that just means her hormones are kicking in to losen up her joints and ligaments.

(i put this picture- because who doesn't love Dwight! Baby Einstein, the wiggles, heck no! Davis will be learning from the Office)

Baby Boy

So clearly finding out we were having a boy completely distracted us from the blog! I mean it's been a month for crying out loud. Much has taken place, Katie continues to "show", John came and knocked out the bead board in 3 hours (some call him Superman), i painted the beadboard, got a crib and changing table, completely unrelated we went to Bermuda, Katie's been back to the doctor and all seems well.
Only 16 more weeks! Are you kidding.
So here are some pics for those of you that can't swing by and see. Baby Davis is getting ready. It's neat to have an actual bed to pray over that he might be safe, sleep well, etc... Katie and I were in there the other day and there is a cross over the bed that mom gave us that simply says, Jesus Loves me. What more could we really pray that than, may Davis KNOW that Jesus Loves Him.

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.