Sunday, January 31, 2010

23 Weeks!

Hello friends and family!

Here are a few more details about the recent milestones including the baby's 20 week ultrasound, finding out the gender, telling our families, and having Jonathan feel her moving in the tum.

Our ultrasound and check-up went fantastic! She is measuring a week ahead of schedule, she has long legs, every little piece of her is hand-knit by God to perfection, and she has beautiful feet. :) She did some fun things, like sucking on her fingers during the majority of the video debut.
She also covered her face with both hands when the ultrasound girl was trying to get a good pic of her facial profile! Sneaker! She hiccuped, and yawned, and even threw a few more gang signs our way! She signed the letter "K" and she even gave a thumbs up. What a character!

So guess what - she's a girl!
We had a blast telling family and friends! our favorites were having a pink
margarita delivered to Nick and Autumn at a restaurant in Moscow and having the waitress say, "Nick - here's a BIG PINK margarita because Courtney and Jonathan are having a girl!". Oh, that got a bunch of screams and holla's from Nick's dinner
group at Casa! We also threw a pizza party for the fam that Friday night. We
gathered everyone together as we took the pizza out of the oven, and in toppings we had spelled "girl". Well - everyone was saying "I knew it, I knew it!" and then we pulled out the next pizza that said,
"boy"! Oh man, that was priceless to see everyone's confusion. We made them vote - yet again - dragging everything out as dramatically as possible (hee hee hee). Then Jonathan finally made the official announcement, and once again, sheer pandemonium! :) Just how we like it.

We've been hit hard with some major colds this past week and weekend - so the baby's been trying to lay low and not squirm too too much. But we still get a kick out of each funny little yoga pose she strikes in there. Jonathan still is singing, dancing, and saying hi to the baby every chance he gets. Mom and Amanda and I went baby shopping for the first major look at what's out there in girl world. A heck of a lot of pink and frills. We're still hoping to go with a nice earthy green. She'll like that! :) As always, thank you for the love, support, prayers, and even the fun quick notes here and there letting us know we're not nuts. We love each of you so so much! Have a blessed week...

2 comments:

Kelly T said...

WOW! I can't believe ALL that you saw...with both of my pregnancies I never saw all that during an ultrasound. SO fun! Sounds like you have an out-going little one already, haha.

And I LOVE the way you spilled the beans! We found out the day before we moved from CA back to OR that we were having a girl and it KILLED all the grandparents, but we didnt tell them and I wrote on about a 1/4 of our boxes what the gender was and then they had to look for one while unloading our truck! My dad grabbed one, but didn't see and my mom screamed and then yelled 'GIRL!' and then...the room when crazy:)

CONGRATS!!

Amanda S said...

Congrats CRUSH!!! I loved seeing the pics of your little girl. I can't wait to see photos of your little family once she joins you!
Mandie S