In addition to the Baby shower a few weeks ago, the folks at work put on baby shower at the hospital. It was real nice and casual. It was in between shifts so many people came in and out. Overall a very nice turnout and everyone was so generous.
Diaper Cake
This is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. Kathy brought this home from work.
A few of the nurses that she works with built this for Kathy? …it is amazing (ok, i’ve never seen one before so maybe I’m easily impressed)
It is called a diaper cake and it is made out of diapers! …and it looks like a cake.
So, what is holding it together? (my curiosity was killing me) ….Behind the diapers and flowers, in the center ….plastic baby bottles are holding it together.
Pretty cool. …john
Baby Shower
Kris, Rose and Barbara put on a great baby shower. It was here at the house, but the trio did all the work including great food and fun. Both Grandmas were here and the all-girls party was wonderful.
Too many nice presents -including a Coach diaper bag, (uh, from Grandma Rose no doubt) nice strollers, car seats, hand knitted outfits, booties from Italy and many many useful presents.
Barbara was nice enough to take some video and some of the baby shower can be seen in the video below:
We’ve got a bunch of pictures to go through, and when we, do we’ll add them to this post!
Thanks everyone for a wonderful baby shower. You are all too generous.
Breast Feeding Class
Last night was our “Breast Feeding Class”
It was kind of interesting and we learned a few things. Most of the stuff we either kind of knew or seems to be common sense -but the class was definitely worth while. It kinda helped with the reality that in a few weeks there’s going to be a new person on the outside of the tummy. That reality is kinda weird.
We expected to be the oldest people in the class, but there were other old people there! That was nice 🙂
The class was down at Renown South Meadows and the instructor was good. Amazing that breast feeding is like a specialized field -with specialists who coach etc etc. Who would have thought?
About half of the class time? was spent watching videos, the other half on lecture and questions/answers. People take this subject very seriously, there were a lot of questions! Most of them from the men! (maybe they’re just more curious?)
After the class we celebrated with Baskin Robbins -and caught it on 2-for-1 night so that was a double treat!
Tummy really showing!
Mom wears the baby very well ….and lately (aprox33weeks) the tummy has really uh, let’s just say made itself the focal point. -sometimes it seems bigger than others. Here is one of those times:
Front view; Side view; and the “Watch Out! -it’s coming at you get out of the way view!
(click images to see larger size)
When will the baby get here
So, medical science and math have calculated the baby’s arrival on Feb 26 (yes 2009 🙂 )
When you do think the baby will arrive Feel free to comment on when you believe the baby will arrive –and we can all come back to this post, read the comments and see who was the closest!
By the way –> Mommy-Kathryn says:? February 14th ? ; Daddy-John says February 28th
Baby Shower Announced
Grandma Rose, Kris G and Barb are wonderful enough to be doing the baby shower. !!Thanks Everybody!!
Invitations were mailed out last week.
Date:? Saturday January 17th 2009
Place:? The new house
Ultrasound pictures
We debated, but finally decided to do the new technology of: 3-D ultrasound images.
It is kinda of a bizarre technology as it takes and image and data from a traditional ultrasound and computer-generates 3-D images so that you can see facial definitions etc.
The window to do this is pretty narrow. Too early and the baby is not developed enough. To the contrary, past about 31weeks, things start getting pretty cramped in there -squished babies don’t look that good we’re told. So, the ideal window is around 28 to 30 weeks it seems. We figured one time chance so we did it!
It is kinda fun and we discovered when you look at other people’s results, you’re not too impressed. But when it’s YOUR baby, it is really cool. Funny how that works.
Make up your own mind, here are a few of the pics:
The first one shows the baby in 3-d ..as does the 2nd picture, Notice the feet and toes that baby likes to suck on. The third picture is a traditional ultrasound.
clicking on thumbnail will bring up a larger size.
Baby Shower / Gift Registration
The baby is registered at two different places. Target and Babies-R-Us.
We thought we had registered for everything we needed, but we keep getting coached by friends who have pointed out things we’re missing. 🙂
Anyway, the links to the items that the baby is registered for are below:
Babies-R-Us
Target
31 weeks …Christmas
20 weeks ….New House
20 Weeks ….moving into new house
Very exciting time as we move into the new house -it has been quite the orderal. We are so thilled, especially when realizing this will be the home that our baby will grow up in.
18 Weeks -Lake Tahoe
Here at 18 weeks we took a little day trip up over to Lake Tahoe?
