Big News!!!

So today was definitely a very anticipated day to say the least. We were headed to the doctor's office this afternoon to find out if Baby Heine was going to be a boy or a girl. Needless to say we were extremely excited. We have both been dying to find out ever since we knew we were pregnant! The sonographer got a bunch of awesome pictures of our beautiful baby and everything seems to be going well. Just about every measurement you can think of was taken on our little one, and everything is right on schedule.

So it's officially a GIRL! The doctor was very confident in that assessment. :) Here are a couple snap shots that were cool too...

In this one, she's kinda upside-down...you can see her head and spine on the right and her legs pointing left.

This one is a little harder to make out, but you can actually see her little face here. The two dark spots in the middle are her eyes and you can see her right hand just to the side of her head!

It was unbelievable sitting there watching these images on the screen! You can hear the doctor in the video say how contorted she was sitting in there, and at first she wasn't sure we would be able to tell what the sex was. But it didn't take long before she had moved just enough to get a clear shot. :) Like I said, everything seemed to be progressing well. There is one item they want us to look at again though...the umbilical cord it what they called a 2-vessel cord, meaning that it contains 1 artery and 1 vein. Typically the cord will be a 3-vessel one. With a 2-vessel cord, there is a slightly higher risk of other abnormalities. The doctor says that from everything else they saw today there doesn't appear to be anything being affected by this, but we are going to be getting a level 2 ultrasound done next week just to be sure. It sounds like that will be pretty neat actually because they will go really in depth with everything and we will really get to see every aspect of our little girl. We will definitely give an update on mom and baby's status after that takes place. That's all for now!

20 Weeks...and much more!

Here it is! The 20-week photo. I can't believe we are really half way to our due date! Jess and I get to go to the doctor in exactly one week to find out if our little one is going to be a boy or a girl. We are both so incredibly excited it's getting hard to wait any longer!

This past weekend was a busy one. On Saturday, I spent a few hours finishing up the "deconstruction" of our hall bathroom. I think I finally have it ready to start the rebuilding process. Hopefully it won't be too long before we will be posting the "after" pictures for this project. (At least I know Jess hopes it's sooner rather than later) Ha!

On Saturday night we went to a wedding for our friends Kim Freed and Quincy Wiley. It was downtown at Club 1000 which was really a cool place to have something like that. It had a really cool atmosphere and we got to see a bunch of friends from K-State.

Jack Schwatken

One of my great friends, Kelly Schwatken had a baby boy on Wed, 9/9/09. Jason and I were fortunate to be able to visit and see the happy mom and dad. Jack is adorable and seems to be a very low maintainance and happy baby.

17 Weeks!

As promised, here is the latest baby bump picture. You will notice that I have always just come back from the gym when we take these pictures. I think workout clothes show off the belly the more than anything else!