What else can we say? We are SO EXCITED!!! I have always thought that boys come first simply because I have an older brother. So a little Crockett boy is on his way.
The ultrasound was fun. It was me, Rob and my mom. At first I had no idea what I was looking at and was worried I wouldn't be able to tell what anything was, and then I saw this little hand reach up and it took my breath away. I said, "Is that a little hand?" The tech confirmed it and I was thrilled. We can't believe that he is moving around inside of me as much as he is and I still don't feel anything. Patience.
But then she went through everything with us, explaining what everything was, showing us the head and face, arms and legs, heart and kidneys, spine. It was so amazing and so reassuring to hear that everything looks as it should. When it came time to find out the gender, our little guy had his legs plastered together. He didn't want to budge. We gave him a little baby earthquake and when he finally opened up, there was no denying it! We've got a little boy on our hands! "You are going to have a son," she said, and both mine and Rob's eyes filled up with tears.
It is funny, because we would have been thrilled either way (although Rob said he was secretly hoping for a boy). The thing is that it feels like we are closer to our little one now that we know he is a he. We can start to imagine what he will be like a little bit more and what life will be like with him around. We just can't wait to meet him!
Pretty exciting! Pretty wonderful!
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Celebration of Love
This weekend was fantastic! Since it was Valentines Day and our anniversary, and I have gotten sick of saying Happy Valentines Day AND Happy Anniversary and wondering if what we were doing was for Valentines Day or for our anniversary, I have dubbed this weekend, for me and Rob at least, just LOVE weekend. And so this was our celebration of our love:
Rob got me tickets for us to see Ballet West perform Swan Lake. We went on Saturday evening. It is always fun to get a little dressed up and go out on the town. Capitol Theater is beautiful and Swan Lake is an absolutely beautiful ballet. Rob feigned interest really well, wanting to know what the storyline was and watching attentively (I only caught him sleeping once). But it was really fun to be together and to go out on a real date.
Sunday after church we packed up and went to spend the night at Grandpa and Cheryl's condo up in Midway by the Homestead. We highly recommend doing this because we had a great time. It is a beautiful and very comfortable place, fully stocked with anything you may need. It is really an enjoyable getaway. We made dinner together, a really yummy chicken curry over rice dish that I learned to make when I was staying in England with friends. It was really yummy. I couldn't find all of the exact ingredients but we improvised and it turned out well. It was fun cooking together and we had sparkling apple-peach cider to compliment the curry. After we cleaned up dinner we watched some of the Olympics and then made cookies together. It was a little frustrating at first because it was a recipe for homemade Oreo cookies that we had never made before, but through Rob's persistence they turned out great. We watched a movie together and snuggled and cuddled and talked late into the night. It was wonderful. We talked about what it is going to be like to have a little baby. We are both so excited for it!
Today, our anniversary, we slept in and then went out to breakfast at the Homestead. It was yummy and relaxing and just really nice. We went back and cleaned up the condo, washed the sheets and remade the bed. Rob worked a little, I read. We drove home, stopped for frozen yogurt. We ordered our shutters when we got home and I am so excited about that! I can't wait to get those up! They will look so nice. Tonight we will just eat at home, Cindy will come watch the Bachelor, and we'll relax. All in all a wonderful weekend.
Tomorrow we have our ultrasound in the morning!! We will know what we are having in less than 24 hours!! We can't wait!! I went shopping with my mom last week and we went into some baby clothes stores...we can't wait to know what we can start buying! There are some really cute things out there for babies.
Bringing up the shopping leads me to a side note: Shopping for maternity clothes freaks me out! I put on that little fake baby bump thing they have to make sure clothes will fit me when I am eight months pregnant and it really sends me for a loop. I cannot believe my body is going to take that shape and look like that! Yikes! Crazy!
Anyway, back to the original theme of the post: Rob, I love you. You are my life and my everything. Thank you for being so incredibly wonderful and amazing. 2 years down, eternity to go. All my love -
Whit
Rob got me tickets for us to see Ballet West perform Swan Lake. We went on Saturday evening. It is always fun to get a little dressed up and go out on the town. Capitol Theater is beautiful and Swan Lake is an absolutely beautiful ballet. Rob feigned interest really well, wanting to know what the storyline was and watching attentively (I only caught him sleeping once). But it was really fun to be together and to go out on a real date.
Sunday after church we packed up and went to spend the night at Grandpa and Cheryl's condo up in Midway by the Homestead. We highly recommend doing this because we had a great time. It is a beautiful and very comfortable place, fully stocked with anything you may need. It is really an enjoyable getaway. We made dinner together, a really yummy chicken curry over rice dish that I learned to make when I was staying in England with friends. It was really yummy. I couldn't find all of the exact ingredients but we improvised and it turned out well. It was fun cooking together and we had sparkling apple-peach cider to compliment the curry. After we cleaned up dinner we watched some of the Olympics and then made cookies together. It was a little frustrating at first because it was a recipe for homemade Oreo cookies that we had never made before, but through Rob's persistence they turned out great. We watched a movie together and snuggled and cuddled and talked late into the night. It was wonderful. We talked about what it is going to be like to have a little baby. We are both so excited for it!
Today, our anniversary, we slept in and then went out to breakfast at the Homestead. It was yummy and relaxing and just really nice. We went back and cleaned up the condo, washed the sheets and remade the bed. Rob worked a little, I read. We drove home, stopped for frozen yogurt. We ordered our shutters when we got home and I am so excited about that! I can't wait to get those up! They will look so nice. Tonight we will just eat at home, Cindy will come watch the Bachelor, and we'll relax. All in all a wonderful weekend.
Tomorrow we have our ultrasound in the morning!! We will know what we are having in less than 24 hours!! We can't wait!! I went shopping with my mom last week and we went into some baby clothes stores...we can't wait to know what we can start buying! There are some really cute things out there for babies.
Bringing up the shopping leads me to a side note: Shopping for maternity clothes freaks me out! I put on that little fake baby bump thing they have to make sure clothes will fit me when I am eight months pregnant and it really sends me for a loop. I cannot believe my body is going to take that shape and look like that! Yikes! Crazy!
Anyway, back to the original theme of the post: Rob, I love you. You are my life and my everything. Thank you for being so incredibly wonderful and amazing. 2 years down, eternity to go. All my love -
Whit
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Pants That Don't Fit
So I am four months along and my pants are now just starting to not fit. I learned the rubber band trick (looping it around the button, through the hole and around the button again). That has helped. I still haven't bought maternity pants. I am holding out as long as I can. But my bump still kind of comes and goes. In the morning it is not very big, but by the afternoon, I have a definite belly. I am coming to terms with it. I saw an old friend at a restaurant last night and she said she was HUGE at four months so that made me feel a lot better. I know it is just going to get bigger from here. . . Rob asked the other day, "Wow, so your skin is just going to strrrrrreeetch over your belly?" I told him never to say the word stretch like that again.
Our friends Brad and Nancy were here for the weekend from California with their daughter Lia. It was so fun to have them here. Brad was able to take advantage of our perfect location and hit the slopes that are literally only 15 minutes from our doorstep. Lia is 1 and so cute with the cutest little laugh. It made us excited. But we are also going to enjoy these next 5 months of peacefulness and spontaneity.
I am going to get better at this. Our ultrasound is in a couple weeks and we will know what we are having. BOY? or GIRL? You can give your opinions and we will let you know. Then all the fun can start! Planning the baby room and shopping for stuff!
Our friends Brad and Nancy were here for the weekend from California with their daughter Lia. It was so fun to have them here. Brad was able to take advantage of our perfect location and hit the slopes that are literally only 15 minutes from our doorstep. Lia is 1 and so cute with the cutest little laugh. It made us excited. But we are also going to enjoy these next 5 months of peacefulness and spontaneity.
I am going to get better at this. Our ultrasound is in a couple weeks and we will know what we are having. BOY? or GIRL? You can give your opinions and we will let you know. Then all the fun can start! Planning the baby room and shopping for stuff!
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