Happy New Year!!

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas. Nathen and I sure did. We had a wonderful time spending time with our families. It was great to see family that we had not seen for awhile. We are truely fortunate to both have such great, loving, and caring families. Okay sorry, for the sappiness--We just watched The Pursuit of Happyness. It's a wonderful movie, but bring a box of klenexes with you. I don't know if it was my pregnancy hormones or what but I started crying during the previews to another sappy movie and continued through most of the movie. Anyways, the movie really made Nathen and I appreciate everything we have. We are excited for the new year approaching us as well as all the changes.

My family threw me a babyshower Friday and we received a lot of cool items for Aiden, not to mention great company and conversation. And a start to what I hope will be an enjoyable hobby, scrapbooking.

Enjoying my sisters, and adorable niece Susanna!

Yummy Cake with Aiden's first pair of keys!!

Cheesy smiles for my other adorable neice Hannah! As for a baby update: I am now 6 months along (24 weeks and 4 days to be exact:)we had a Dr's appt. Weds, and Nathen was able to meet our Doctor. Everything is progressing well, and we are looking forward to our childbirth class in February. And Nathen is enjoying waiting patiently to feel Aiden's kicks, silly little guy seems to stop everytime Nathen's hand is on my belly.

Happy New Year!!!!

Jumpin Jack Aiden!!!

Hello, I know its been awhile since my last post, but at this stage there's not a lot of changes, that is until last night. Little Aiden must have been doing many jumping jacks, as I read on one of the prenatal sites I frequent often, is very common at this stage. (From Pampers.com "Waving my arms and legs is fun!" Jumping jacks may be your baby's favorite activity these days. Now that his arms and legs have reached their final proportions (but not their final size), he's exercising them vigorously—kicking, flexing, and clasping his hands"). Anyways, last night while Nathen and I were trying to go to sleep Aiden was getting quite a workout. He was jumping, kicking, and swinging his arms with so much force that Nathen was able to feel it. For the past month Nathen has been trying to feel little Aiden's kicks with no luck. My nurse said that usually outsiders can't feel kicks until 28 weeks or so. Earlier last night I was reassuring Nathen that there was nothing wrong with him or Aiden when he could not feel the kicks, and then last night when he wasn't even trying to feel a kick or anything, he said "was that a kick" and it was. I'm thinking Aiden is going to be quite onery as we were both almost asleep when he decided to give daddy his first kicking experience:)

It's a BOY!!!!

Yesterday was quite an anxiety provoking and exciting day (so prepare yourself for a longer than normal blog entry:) First at 8:30 AM, I had my appointment with the Family Connections nurse. Family Connections is a program located in my building that provides a variety of services, I'm utilizing the free prenatal services which includes monthly visits (30min-1 hr) with a nurse. This provides me additional information that I may not get in my 5 minute Dr. appts. Anyways, yesterday morning I heard the baby's heart beat which was good and strong (160 beats per min.), got weighed (no specifics on this, but my gain is in normal range:), had blood pressure taken, and received some reading information on breastfeeding, eating healthy, excersise and on labor/delivery classes. We are thinking of taking the classes with our friends Meltem and Travis who are expecting their first on April 5th. Then, we had to wait until 3:30, well actually 3:50 (Dr's appts seem to never be on time) to have our sonogram done. However, it was definately worth the wait, the sonographer took about 20 minutes with us, taking probably 30 poses of our little Aiden Samuel. We included the top few here in the blog. Also during the sono it was shared that Aiden weighs 13 oz, and has 10 finger, 10 toes, and everything is developing as it should. Nathen and I both think he smiled for us in one of the pictures, eventhough I know it's probably not possible, but Nathen is sure of it. We were also informed that our due date has changed to April 17th instead of April 18th. We hope you enjoy the pictures.

IT's A BOY!!! Aiden's first embarrasing pic

Doesn't it look like Aiden is smiling at us?:)

Aiden appears to be giving us his first High 5!