Baby Face...

So, we were having a nice fun day at our good friends Joe & Heather's house a few weeks ago. Well, Joe, out of the blue asks me..."Do you ever worry that you will have an ugly baby?". It is a completely honest question...but...HECK NO! That thought had never even entered my mind. Now, ever since that day...I worry, and wonder, and think, and worry some more that I will have an ugly baby! (I know that this topic sounds so shallow of me...okay, so I am a little shallow!) Thanks Joe! I want a cute baby! I want an adorable baby! I don't want the baby from Seinfeld that nobody can stand to look at...you know the episode right? There is no term to describe this baby...so they simply say the baby is "breathtaking"...and NOT in a good way! I DON'T want that baby.

Well, today I found the answer to my problems. A website where you enter in a photo of yourself, and your partner and...out comes a photo of your little baby to be. I thought this would be a great idea. I wanted to have the fear of an ugly baby washed away...because heck...we all know our baby is going to be so darn adorable!

Well...I am sorry Marc, so sorry! It turns out...my fear was there for a very real reason...again I say...THANKS JOE!

So, cover your eyes, look away, whatever it is you must do...but below lies pictures of our new "breathtaking" baby. Before I display the pictures I wanted to mention that I did this photo test over and over again...trying to come up with a cute baby...and of my many, many attempts...they were all about the same...I am so sorry baby! Here are some of the outcomes.

Baby Boy #1...

Baby Girl #1

Baby Boy #2

Baby Girl #2

Baby Boy #3

Baby Girl #3 (Is this a girl or a boy???)

Well, there you go. I am not sure where the red hair came from. All I can hope is this online baby making machine is not accurate...please, please, oh please!

Please, let us know what you think about our "breathtaking" babies to be!!!

Baby Due Date Update...

So a quick baby update for those of you keeping track. We had a doctors appointment yesterday, and baby is coming along just wonderfully. We were able to hear the heartbeat again, which is so fun. You could hear baby moving around in my belly...it is amazing that baby moves so much, yet I can't feel a thing.

One great thing that we found out yesterday is that baby is further along than anyone originally thought. Which means, baby has a brand new due date...JULY 12th, 2009!!!. That means as of today I am 15 weeks and 5 days along!!! I love being moved up...it feels like I am being moved to the front of the line! Way to go baby!

While this is AWESOME news for me, Marc is a little less than thrilled. Not because he loves being around his pregnant wife's cheery personality, and wants it to last longer :), but because baby was already cutting into fishing season, and now baby is REALLY cutting into to fishing!

Marc has a fly-out fishing trip to the Nushigak River at the end of June, beginning of July. I kept telling him he was pushing it...well now he is really pushing it. He has a plan though...a sat phone, a friend with an airplane, and me with a list of phone numbers to call in case I go into labor. Now, I just have to laugh at this, and for those of you who know Marc and his trips you are probably laughing too. Marc is the KING of getting weathered in during fly-out trips. He is constantly getting stuck somewhere because of weather, and not getting in until days (or even a week) later. However, somehow, in his mind, he thinks this "plan" of his is going to work.

I don't think he is taking into account that your last week of pregnancy is supposed to be the worst, most uncomfortable, scary week of the whole thing. So, I am trying to explain this to him...but it hasn't sunk in yet :).

Well, that's it for now. We love you and miss you all!!

Let's Talk About Baby...

We had our first real ultrasound today...YEAH! It was so exciting. Marc was running late and almost missed our most appointment...I was literally freaking out...and the ultrasound technician refused to wait for him. Luckily...he made it just in time to see the important stuff...baby!

It was so fun to see little baby swimming around and kicking and hiding. Oh my gosh...I know I sound like I am just gushing away...but it was AWESOME!!! Baby was quite shy today, and kept trying to hide from us, so we didn't get any face pictures, but it was still fun. Baby was twisting and swimming so much...Marc is convinced we have the next Michael Phelps growing in my belly! Marc was so cute...it was just so exciting for both of us.

It looks like baby is measuring at 14 weeks instead of the 13 weeks we thought...but we'll discuss that with our midwife next week.

Here are some pics of baby!!!

Face Profile...

Baby facing down...3D Image of baby all snuggled up...

Baby It's Cold Outside...

It's cold! Actually, cold wouldn't be the word I would use to explain the extreme freezing temperatures we are living through. Miserable, unbearable, horrible, would more describe my unhappiness with the weather. Yesterday it was -36...that's right...not a typo! You walk outside at it takes your breath away. We take the dogs for a walk and they end up limping home it is so cold. So, we all bunker in the house at night, because leaving the house for any other reason than work just isn't happening. So here we are, all snuggled up at home staying nice and toasty warm and...DUN DUN DUN!!!

As if the cold weather isn't enough, our furnace goes out. Why, of all times, does our furnace go out during the longest cold streak in years? Is it Karma? So, Marc fixes it, and it goes out again...and Marc fixes it...and it goes out again...fixed....broken...fixed...broken...over and over! So every morning for a week we wake to a FREEZING HOUSE! And every evening for a week we come home from work to a FREEZING HOUSE. Thank goodness we didn't get frozen pipes is all I can say.

Why don't we just call someone to fix the furnace...bright idea...but we aren't that bright. Do you know how much a heating company will charge to come after hours...which is the only time we are smart enough to think about calling a heating company? And, if I have a handy husband...well, why pay a heating company to come and fix something he can fix himself. Well, my husband couldn't fix it...not this time. So we lived through this...for a week! Every morning before we got out of bed, we had the same discussion. I would nudge Marc and say..."Honey, the furnace is out again". He would grunt. I would nudge him again and say..."No REALLY honey, it is out again...my nose is FREEZING". Then Marc would stir and say..."Oh no, it isn't out, I think we really fixed it this time" Finally I would do the manipulation tactic of..."Alright then, I'll go light the pilot myself...you just sleep in." That does it every time. He would jump up in the freezing cold house, and light the furnace. It would just be getting up to temperature by the time we would leave for work.

So, finally, our good friend Sherman came and bailed us out last night. He was my savior. He fixed the furnace...really fixed it this time. (I hope!). It hasn't gone out since yesterday evening before he came...which is a record. Thank you Sherman...YOU ARE THE BEST!!!

Cross your fingers it stays fixed!