i decided to not post any of the ultrasound photos since none of them are that great–the little guy just couldn’t hold still for a good shot. but the technician said that my ob tends to order another ultrasound around 30 or 34 weeks (jan) so hopefully we’ll get another try. i was bummed that jonathan and bekah weren’t able to come with me since jonathan got sick the night before. i was hoping for a boy and jonathan had resigned/expected that it’d be another girl, but was ecstatic when i told him it was a boy. God is good!
i will mention that back in 2004, a year after we were married, we were on a camping trip in CO with my family. I don’t know if it was prophetic or not, but one day on that trip, as i watched jonathan hike down the trail with his fishing gear, i “saw” a little boy walking with him with his own fishing gear, maybe age 6 or 7, same hair that jonathan had when he was little. i’m sure now that i’ll see it for real someday and i plan on taking a picture of it!
Has anyone else noticed that it seems like whatever babies are born around the same time tend to be the same gender? last spring it was all girls, now this fall/winter (and now me) seem to be mostly boys–at least according to my circle, with only 1 or 2 exceptions. hmmm.
there was a time when jonathan swore he’d never own one , but then it turned out he was more for it than i was. i would’ve prefered a rav4 or a highlander (w/ optional 3rd row seating), but i couldn’t argue with the added room and comfort a van would provide, especially on those long road trips to CO. we considered getting a used one, but didn’t think we could find one with the added features we wanted (like towing package so that we can tow the tent trailer w/o having to borrow my father-in-law’s truck), and also, the way you drive a vehicle at the beginning of its life helps determine how long it will last and so we’d rather be the ones putting those first miles on it. and we’d like to have it for our CO christmas trip so jonathan started shopping around. all the ’09s were gone from the “cash for clunkers” deal so we ended up with a 2010 (toyota sienna)! we were able to sell jonathan’s truck for a good price on craiglist and then 2 days later the dealer finally had in stock the exact one we were wanting, and gave jonathan the price he wanted for it! talk about God’s timing! i wasn’t there for the whole deal, but it sounds like jonathan (armed with his new sales experience) had a great time haggling with the guy. so here it is!
don’t know if you can tell, but it’s a light green color, which i’m super excited about since it’s different. it has lots of fun bells and whistles (including a dvd player–we’re not telling bekah about it until we’re actually driving to CO), great turning radius, really quiet and really smooth drive. oh yeah, and it’s an 8 passenger, not a 7, which will help everyone fit in one car when we’re with family. bekah keeps asking to go play in it (jonathan got home late with it on thursday so we showed it to her on friday morning and let her climb around in it) and wants to “drive to christmas now”. i wish we could too!
i haven’t gotten around to taking any pregnancy photos yet, but i decided i’d post this survey now anyway. we find out the gender of our little one on november 5. tell us what you think it is!
last month we visited Big Bear and Helix tore open one of her dew claws while chasing a squirrel. There was really no way to repair it besides removing it so we had the other removed at the same time. since she’s full grown, it’s a bigger ordeal than if she was only a 10 day puppy. poor girl was in a lot of pain the following day, waiting for us to carry her from room to room because it hurt to walk. but she’s as good as new now.
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