Yet Another Doctor's Appointment...

Dondi went to the doctor again today, and got another clean bill of health. The doctor said that she sure is consistent. Jordan is developing on schedule (heartbeat was strong and steady) and Dondi is progressing normally.

Dondi has another doctor's appointment in 3 weeks, and from there she'll schedule her glucose screening test after that. The doctor says Dondi is about 23 weeks and 3 days through the pregnancy, so we're well past halfway for those of you not keeping track.

We'll keep you posted, and hopefully, we'll have some new pics of the nursery to share in the next week or so.

Nursery evolution

This is the old nursery look. Like the mint green ice cream color of the lower half of the walls?
copyright 2005, Roy & Dondi Hayhurst




Changing table in the nursery
copyright 2005, Roy & Dondi Hayhurst


This is the crib (with the bassinet in the foreground)
copyright 2005, Roy & Dondi Hayhurst


You never appreciate how much goes into making the baby's room until you undertake it. As you can tell from the first picture there, we pretty much used Jordan's room as a storage center until a few weeks ago, when the urge to paint, build the crib and move the changing table/dresser in took over.

We're finding decorations for the room we're going to add, and as we can, we'll post new pics of the nursery here.

More good news

Dondi had another doctor's visit today, and that went really well. Blood pressure was in the good zone, and the baby's development is on track. Although the doctor sticks with the due date of Oct. 20th, the sonogram from the other day shows a delivery date of Oct. 11th, which means Jordan is ahead of his development curve. Just like his mom and dad, he's an overachiever!

Dondi got to hear the heartbeat, which was recorded at a brisk (and healthy) 155 beats per minute.

This weekend was fun, with new clothes from maternal grandma (we'll work on better names later) and Aunt Wendy, who true to her post the other day has made purchases with purpose!

We'll have the pictures of the nursery up soon. I guess I'll have to get creative and read up on how to put pictures on here.

Shout out to our good buds at Quizzicles for the kind words about our little corner of cyberspace.

Hope everyone is well!

Sonogram shows it's a boy!

We found out tonight that we are having a boy! The sonogram went well, and all signs point to a healthy baby growing in there. We're pretty thrilled. Either way was fine with both of us -- we just wanted healthy -- but we're excited about the boy.

At one point during the sonogram, the technician pushed a little harder to try to get a better image of the baby, and he took both arms and hands and pushed back! The technician said something to the effect of "I think I've made him mad." (We think he has both Mom and Dad's personality of not wanting his personal space invaded!)

That's our news. We'll keep you posted as soon as we know more.