Bluewater by Betsy

It’s Sunday afternoon and my perfect husband, John, is busy cleaning bathrooms (I told you he was perfect!) so I decided to sneak onto his blog and post an update. Here’s the latest:

Last week we took some photos of John for his professional use and had MUCH to much fun snapping away. Here’s a sampeling of my photography skills and of John’s “photogenic-ness.”

Of course, while we had the camera out, we had to snap some belly pics as well. I’ve been feeling pretty good but I”m definitly feeling all of the things that go along with the third trimester. People definitly know I’m pregnant now when I’m out and about, which is actually pretty new. This is a nice size to be but I’m pretty scared of how much bigger I’m going to get! So these photos were taken around week 27 of my pregnancy.

So our nursery is almost finished with just the closet shelves to finish painting and to hang. We also need to prep and paint the closet doors as well. However, the painting I did of the 20 by 20 inch canvas for the nursery wall is complete. We painted an accent square on the wall to “frame” it. We still need to hang the three wall hangings (canvases covered in fabric) on the wall as well.

We also had a beautiful shower thrown by my mother and sister last weekend so I photographed some of the baby items we received.

We got our mobile too, but it clashes too much with our nursery to put it up just yet. : )

One of John’s co-workers found these little slippers with a King on them! How sweet! (I’m sure they will stay on a toddlers feet for about 3 seconds…)

Last, but not least, we recieved a Bumgenius cloth diaper we had ordered online in the mail on Friday. We have done a bunch of research on cloth diapers and we think we really like these diapers called Bumgenius. They are adjustable so they fit babies from 8 lbs. up to 35 lbs. and from what we have read are really easy to put on and work really well. We tried out the diaper with some water, and it seemed to be ok, but otherwise, I guess we’ll figure it out this winter when Baby King breaks it in. ; ) So far we are happy with our educated, yet unexperienced opinion and have created an online registery for cloth diaper stuff at www.cottonbabies.com. If you have a baby at home or might someday, you should check out the website. It’s amazing the advances they have made in cloth diapers just in the last few years.

Here’s how they work:

Here’s a Bumgenius diaper in it’s smallest size.

You open it up, load it with an insert (or remove the insert to clean) and there ya go.

Here’s a Bumgenius diaper at it’s largest setting.

This past weekend John and I went to Indy for the Band of America Competition. It was my first band show experience and it was really cool to finally get to see more of John’s world.

John’s done cleaning, so I better go!

~Betsy

The Ultrasound!

I’m just going to come right out and say it:

We’re having a…

I can’t give it away yet! Here’s Betsy getting ready for Baby King’s closeup. To see the pictures better, just click on them.

Here we go!

Before I tell you the gender, I’m going to tell you a little bit of the story. So Betsy had a routine appointment today with our midwife, Andrea. Now, from day one, Andrea has suggested we wait until 28 weeks to have our ultrasound, but this past week we just couldn’t take not knowing any more, so Betsy called and scheduled her ultrasound for this afternoon.

As we’re sitting there in the exam room and told Andrea that we wanted to do the ultrasound today, she started again talking about waiting, how the pictures are better, etc. Of course Betsy and I trust her, so we started to wonder whether we were going to go through with it today or not. Andrea proceeded to measure Betsy. A confused look crossed her face as she measured. “Hmmm. A little bigger than expected…” She’s not a woman of many words, by the way. She she got out the doppler and started poking around listening for the heart beat. And poking around. And poking around. Now I’m now doctor, but even I could tell she was looking for another little heart in there.

After ruling out twins, she agreed that today is a good day to do the ultrasound afterall, just to make sure everything’s ok.

So after a brief lunch at the Bagel Station, we headed back to the hospital for our ultrasound.

Betsy got on the table, exposed her cute little belly, got jellied up and before I knew it, little images were flashing on the screen. Literally 10 seconds in, the tech declares “It’s upside down, see there’s the head” and in the same breath, “boy!”

Ok what? Did that really just happen that fast? Sure enough, we are lucky enough to be brewing a little baby boy! He weighs in at 1lb and 13oz. (Which some of you may know is only 3 lbs under what I weighed when I was born.) He’s about 1 week ahead in size, and everything from his spine to his heart to his lip to his toes looks good. We’re so blessed. Oh, and he has long legs, so said the tech. That trait he gets from me.

The tech was great, after taking a host of measurements, she spent as much time as we wanted showing us our baby head to toe. Then she switched to the 3D ultrasound and did it all over again getting us the best pictures she could of our little boy’s face. I have to admit, the most magical part of the whole experience was watching our little boy open and close his hands and open and close his little mouth. It was just amazing.

So I wanted to share a few pictures of the little guy. These are all 3D pictures. They give you a pretty good idea that there really is a baby in there. The bumpiness in the picture is actually caused by motion by the baby. He was getting his exercise during the process.

He was like this a lot, covering his face. I think he’s a little shy.

How cute are these little feet?

Thanks for letting me tell our story. Betsy and I are both delighted to have a healthy active little baby boy on the way. And thank you to all of you who have been so supportive along the way.

With love and another 4 months to go, John and Betsy

One more thing…

Check out this trim:

Betsy and I stumbled on a great little technique to give you beautiful crisp lines when taping, and it doesn’t take much longer to do. If you want details, just fire me an email and I’ll explain.

I’ve got to go get ready for our first baby shower!

Be Metta,

John

No more blue!

I’m finally done painting the nursery, or at least the trim, the door and the walls, AND we’ve our crib and furniture in, so I thought while there was a pause in the action, I’d take a moment to do a little documentation.

Without further ado:

And finally, just for grins, a face only a mother could love. Actually, a face both the mother and her husband love. This pic is of Whisper, who gets just a bit spoiled, but how could anyone resist a mug like this?

Much Metta!

John