Oh Yeah...The Due Date!

I first want to thank everyone for taking time to stop by and visit our new blog. I had no idea so many people would be interested in following the journey Amber and I are on as we prepare for the arrival of our first child. Your comments here, in email and on Facebook have been great and we're very excited to bring you updates as often as we can. So excited in fact that I neglected to provide one important piece of information. The due date!

Baby Peanut is expected to arrive on February 2, 2010, otherwise known as Groundhog Day. This can either mean that our child will wake up every morning with a crazy sense of de ja vu or will have the best excuse for a "do over" for the rest of his/her life. (Thanks for that idea Shelly!)

This past weekend we've started packing up the home office in preparation for the conversion into the nursery. Remodeling...here we come. When Scott and Sharon (Amber's parents) called and said they wanted to take us furniture shopping for the nursery we were both speechless and excited at their generosity. Furniture shopping is always fun, but when you do it with your in-laws it's an entirely new experience! Thank goodness we all have a sense of humor.

My first few steps inside of the store were both exhilarating and shocking. Furniture, strollers, cribs, diapers, bottles, monitors and pumps. "That pump is for what?!" Yeah, this shopping experience was like none before, but I know that it's one I'll never forget. Amber found the perfect furniture for the room and picked out the funnest themes for either a boy or a girl. Me...I picked out the most rockin' stroller I could find. Huge wheels, pockets, compartments and cup holders! Yeah, yeah I know we won't need it right away, but man is it cool.

So out with the old and in with the new.

This brings us to week 14. "Welcome to the second trimester! Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his/her thumb. Thanks to brain impulses, his/her facial muscles are getting a workout as his/her tiny features form one expression after another. His/her kidneys are producing urine, which are released into the amniotic fluid around him/her — a process he'll/she'll keep up until birth. He/she can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him/her sucking his/her thumb. In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he/she measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and weighs 1 1/2 ounces." - BabyCenter.com

WOW!

From here on out we'll be adding belly photos on a weekly basis. Here is a shot of Amber tonight in her full beauty and grace. The baby bump is showing and we're on our way!

Thanks again to everyone for visiting and please, please, please feel free to leave your comments below.

Have a great week!