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The Baby Belly

This is me 21 weeks pregnant! Now well into the second trimester you can clearly see that there are more than just a few extra pounds around my middle. People now stop me and ask how far along I am. I often get the response... "but you hardly look pregnant." I am confused by this, because I must look pregnant enough for them to ask. Perhaps they are trying to be nice and don't want to upset me since I'm pregnant? Pregnant women are known for their emotional outbursts. I'm just happy that he is growing well and was nice enough to pose for the amazing ultrasound pictures shown below. He is going to be one handsome kid, that's for sure! As you can tell the biased mom thing has clearly set in.

Thank you for all of your name suggestions. Scott and I like many of them, but still don't agree on the perfect name. It is such a huge decision to name a child! We have now expanded the search beyond C's.

Well Hello There!

Welcome to our newly established blog. We hope to use this as a means of sharing our journey into parenthood and beyond with those of you who wish to share it with us. At present time Crystal is 19 weeks and 3 days along in her pregnancy. This makes the expected due date April 20th, 2008 or 144 days from now.

We had a very encouraging ultrasound yesterday that told us the baby is progressing along wonderfully and that the baby is in fact a little boy! We will refrain from calling him "It" from now on and go with "He" for the time being as we have yet to decide on a suitable name for our handsome little guy. From the very first ultrasound 11 weeks ago I predicted that we would be having a boy, but since then we were only able to come up with a girl's name. If you have some boy name suggestions for us, please feel free to leave a comment. We are kind of looking for something with a 'C' as the start of the first name, but this isn't a hard requirement.

As you can see, we got some great baby pictures from the ultrasound. The first one is from a standard ultrasound transducer (fun word) and is the evidence that our boy is really a boy. Linda, the sonographer, was kind enough to point out the boy parts for us on the image. The second one is from a special transducer that constructs a 3D image of the baby by sweeping along the mother's belly and combining all of the 2D slices into one complete image. The object poking his left eye is actually his little foot. He appears to be a super-flexible baby (I think they all are though) and is kind of folded in half right now.

Please check back in periodically and see what else we have in store for you. Until then...