Doctor's Visit #5 - November 2009

Happy belated Thanksgiving all!

We had our last doctor’s appointment on 11/20 and everything checked out perfect. His heart rate was a perfect 148 beats per minute and sounding strong like always. The doctor has started measuring my belly on each trip and we are happy to say it’s right on target. We’ll skip the part about getting weighed in on the old school, slide the blocks over scale. (Let’s just say I’m back to my old college weight and leave it at that.)

Our little guy is growing by leaps and bounds at this point and continuing to be quite active. What previously felt like butterflies in the stomach is starting to take on a much stronger feeling. He’s even caught me off guard a few times resulting in what I’m sure are some interesting faces. He is also waking me up fairly regularly with his movements in the morning.

In the week before Thanksgiving Lance was able to feel him moving around for the first time; which was a pretty cool experience for both of us!

I’m proud to say that we are making excellent progress on our baby preparations. Thanks to the help our great friend Brian, who can now add “mover” to his resume, we have been able to get all the furniture moved around and/or cleared out. The rooms upstairs are really starting to take on their appropriate future state.

Our Thanksgiving trip to WV was great as always and extremely productive. The pool table is stored safely in my Mom’s basement, we got to spend at least a little time with a lot of loved ones, our freezer has fresh deer meat, and we checked off some big items on our need for baby list. A big thanks to my family in WV (Mom, Dad, Petey, John, Shaunna and Ma), as we now have furniture for the babies bedroom and a good base of baby items to get us going. And if all of those things weren’t enough to be thankful for this month, we got to talk to my little brother on Thanksgiving day!

Still no final decision on the baby’s name yet. We are finding ourselves at a little bit of a stand still on his first name, but we should be able to come to a conclusion soon. We’ve still got 3 months and at the current rate may need every bit of that time. ;-)