Drake is Here!!

 Click here to read his birth story.

Maternity Pictures

We got our maternity pictures in the mail today (we bought the rights to all of them) and I am so pleased with the way they turned out.  Chloe was definitely not easy to photograph; it was the first nice day in a long time and all she wanted to do was run free.  But the photographers managed to capture some great shots and I can't wait to add some to the nursery (once we start on the nursery that is...yeah, we still haven't done that yet).  Here is a small sample of them, and then a link at the bottom will take you to all of them.  There are nearly 100 pictures!

 Click here to see the rest of the pictures.  Then click on "proofing" and the password is "maternity." I'm not sure how long these will be on the website, but I know they are there now.

3D Ultrasound

We decided to splurge again with this pregnancy and have a 3D ultrasound done.  We ended up going back to the same place we went with Chloe because they have some of the newest technology in the area.  The lady is really nice and thorough, but apparently we have stubborn kids.  Both Chloe and this boy did not cooperate in the least!  Chloe had both her hands and her feet in front of her face the whole time, and baby boy had his feet in front of his face, which also meant the umbilical cord was in front of his face.  He did start off with the very first view of him with his legs way up in the air, letting us know he is 100% boy.

We didn't get the best shots, but the ones we did get were pretty amazing quality.  Here is a sample picture of what the ultrasound pictures looked like from just two years ago with Chloe...

 And here is a small sample of the ones we got with baby boy...

 Sweet face - think he looks like his sister? :)

Foot in his eye

  I see you!

 Little smile

 Poking himself in the eye with his ring finger

Kind of hard to tell here, but he's biting his lower lip

I know it's sometimes hard to know what you are looking at, hopefully my brief descriptions are clear enough.  I still questioned a few of the shots she got when she'd say, "see here's the stomach, foot, leg" and all I was seeing was a blob.  But, she's done this for 35 years and obviously knows her stuff.

Even though we didn't get as many face shots as we wanted, it was still cute watching him for an hour.  He liked to keep his hands behind his head, and kept poking himself in the face with his feet.  The ultrasound tech he has very little hair.  The best thing that came out of our appointment was learning that he's head down!  Yay!!!  He is laying on his left side with his head down, butt up towards my left ribs and his feet down on my right side, if you can picture that.  A little triangle.  Now I'm even more anxious to meet this little guy and kiss those sweet cheeks.