In the next three months I expect time to contradict itself…moving quickly at times as we race to get everything ready for Britt’s arrival, and agonizingly slowly as we wait for him to finally get here!

We’re going to pick up his crib tonight, so that’ll be exciting. We still need to paint the room though, pending approval from our landlord. The walls now are an off-white color, I think we’ll just paint one entire “accent” wall a pale blue. I found the bedding and decorations that fit my “vision” really well. It’s modern and cute without being too cutesy, and I can incorporate the turtle picture too. We’ll take a picture of it when his room is done.

So, we leave tomorrow for our cross-country flight. I’m kind of looking forward to this flight, since we’ve been anticipating it for 5 months now. We’ll definitely post reviews when we get back.  It’ll also be fun to see friends and family we haven’t seen in a really long time!

At Christmas time, I really love listening to ‘The Forgotten Carols.’ Since participating in a production during college the music just inspires me to get into the spirit of the season more than traditional carols. So, this year when I opened the case I was severely upset that it was missing! I have no idea where it could be. We looked through all the cases near it, and we’re pretty sure it didn’t get put in one of Mark’s binders either. But, with the sheer number of cds and cd cases in this house, there is no way we could go through them all. So, we went to Seagull Book and they had sold out of them the day before. Fortunately, they had the book (which I’d wanted anyway) and then we bought the album from iTunes. Crisis averted! We’ve been reading a chapter a night and it’s really fun to have time each night to focus on Christ.

Now, for the news you’ve all been waiting for–What’s up with Britt this week. Well, he’s great! I’ve noticed him moving a lot recently. I’ll be sitting at work and he just goes to town. I like looking down and seeing my stomach move. And, then sometimes he’ll push hard and I’ll feel an arm or leg.

At our prenatal appointment yesterday the doctor said I hadn’t grown as much as she would like, so she sent us to have an ultrasound. I wasn’t really worried, since I’d been feeling him all the time and I had gained 4 pounds! The Tech was really nice and she got a great profile shot.–see below– We haven’t had one of those yet, so that was nice to have. She said he’s perfectly developed and is in about the 30-35 percentile in size for his age. There’s nothing wrong with that given my size–I really don’t want him to be too big! So, below is an actual picture of Britt at 27 weeks! Yes, that is his head in profile. We think he’s pretty cute and can hardly wait to meet him. And yes, it’s confirmed once again that it is a boy…whew! We don’t have to return all the things he’s gotten =)

Merry Christmas everyone!