Baby Shower!

My friends Cat, Rachel, and Charity threw me such a perfect baby shower this past weekend. They took the rockets theme of our nursery and really ran with it! There were star and moon filled trays of delicious gourmet food, there were moon pies for dessert and cute little cupcakes that said "Beth is over the moon excited!"

Rebecca hand-made this cute bunny and rocket blankie!

Rachel made a really cute three layer diaper cake with a rocket on-top and Charity even hand-sewed fabric banners to go with all the streamers and balloons!

We played the "name game" where I scored a fantastic 1 out of 15 (I got my name right!). Cat won with over 7 correct I believe.

After opening a ton of gifts (all of my friends were overly generous and thoughtful for our little boy!), the ladies all made pages for a baby book for us. I really can't wait to see the final result! It was such a great idea and I will really appreciate only having to pop pictures in when time becomes a serious delicacy!

I had such a wonderful time and I'm so thankful to have such great friends!

How much farther?

Not going to lie, walking was much easier 8 months ago. Especially long distances. Our weather has been so nice (mid 60s and sunny) and we just couldn't pass up the opportunity to take the girls out for a nice stroll.

We started at the dog park at Chatfield SP (the one by our house) and walked all the way to Aspen Grove along the Platte River. Dave had himself convinced (from the hundreds of times he's biked this route) that it was only 3/4 of a mile or so. That seemed like a good half way point for my bladder, so we committed to that.

Two miles later (and one very uncomfortable Beth!), we made it to the restrooms. Not only were there 100's of walkers, bikers, etc out today; we happened to run into our friends Sarah and Alex JUST as we made it to restrooms. Seconds later, Dave's running buddy (and my coworker), Chris showed up! What are the odds?

After chatting with them for awhile (a nice break!), we made the 2 mile trek back to our car. We made it just in time as the sun went down. It was a fun walk even though I may have over done it just a bit. Not many more of these left where I'm carrying and not pushing baby!

Super Bowl XLV Champs!

After waiting nearly half my life for the Packers to make it back to the Super Bowl, both Dave and I were roaring and ready to cheer on Green Bay in this years Super Bowl.

Since it's a given that Thumper will be a Green Bay fan at least until he's old enough to rebel against us, I opted to decorate one of my maternity shirts with "Cheesehead on Board" (over using face paints on my tummy...). It turned out really well and I give credit to our little boy for the win! It was a nail biter and definitely raised my blood pressure, but it was a great game. Dave even did his famous happy dance! And best of all, the stress and excitement didn't send me into labor. Phew...

Fun Scan - Video

Here's a low-quality version of our Fun Scan. I couldn't make it great quality without exceeding file size constraints, so if you want to see it in high quality, email me and I'll send you a link to download the file. Hopefully you can still get the just of it.

Note: it's a 20 minute video!

Enjoy!

Fun Scan!

Yesterday we had our 3D/4D Fun Scan. It's a 30 minute ultrasound all in 3D (the 4D is time). We got quite a few good pictures and a nice video out of it. The quality of our pictures aren't as good as they could be because of the location of my placenta (tummy-side), but you can still see his features well! Here are a few of our favorite snapshots:

I think that's a smile there! In front of his mouth is the cord. At one point, he held on to the cord!

I love this one with his left hand to his mouth. I should also mention that she measured his feet because we were curious how big they were. Hard to believe, but they measure 7 cm (about 2.8 inches) already!

He was having fun with us-- he kept sticking his tongue out at us! Our tech kept chuckling; she doesn't normally get to see a baby do that as much as our boy did!

And one of him sucking his thumb... again with his left hand.

We think he's quite the cutie!