Almost 20 Weeks...Halfway There

Because Laura and I will celebrate our 29th birthday tomorrow, she, Chris, Wesley, and Alex came to visit us for the weekend. We've had a wonderful (and exhausting) time. A true preview of how our lives will drastically change (for the better of course) in 20 weeks. Aunt Laura bought Baby Garrett a Diaper Gene, some onesies, some bath items (including an adorable hippo towel), toiletries (nail clippers, brush, comb, etc.) and has brought several sleepers that Alex has grown out of for us to start the Baby Garrett clothing collection. Here are some photos of our weekend.

Andrew and Wesley picked up sticks in the backyard.

Andrew and Molly take a break on the couch.

Andrew holds Alex while we try to get lunch together.

Wesley and I take a photo op in the living room.

The girls take a photo.

As for this last week, the biggest change of course knowing that Baby Garrett is a girl. Now we're trying to mentally prepare for raising a little girl.

Today's weight = 127 lbs.

It's a Girl!

We found out this morning that Baby Garrett is a girl! She was moving around quite a bit. We saw all four chambers of her heart, a nice long spine, some good curled up legs, her cute little bottom, and of course her "taco." This means we'll need to do a little more thinking about the name. Even though we both thought it was going to be a girl, we hadn't really found a good name yet. I guess we still have about 21 weeks to make that decision. Here are the images.

Here you can see her nice spine.


This image shows her "girl parts."


This is a cute shot of her bottom and hands.

Is This How Baby Garrett Will Look?

Our expecting friend Victoria, showed us that on the Volkswagon website, you can "make a baby" based on a photo of the mom and dad. (Thanks to Brooke Shields' commercials for the Routon.) Here is the composite made of Andrew and me. It's a little creepy. (We didn't exactly follow all of the criteria for the photos, so the next time Andrew shaves, we'll try with new photos.)

Almost 19 Weeks

We're getting very anxious to find out whether Baby Garrett is a boy or a girl. The search for a name has taken a hiatus until we find out. I have felt great this week. Some mornings I wake up with a huge headache, but it ends shortly after walking Molly. I did find this past week one change that I wasn't expecting to take place so early. While teaching labs, I spend the three hours walking back and forth down the rows of benches where the students are working to assist them. I found myself not fitting through the same spaces that I normally do and bumping students with my belly. They weren't too bothered by it. Their cell biology professor is 8 months pregnant.

Today's weight = 127.5

Welcome the Newest Chirhart to the World

Our friends Scott and Katie Chirhart were expecting their second child on November 18th, but had scheduled a C-section for Friday, November 7th. So much for planned C-sections...Kyle Ryan Chirhart was born Saturday, November 1st at 2:00 am. It must have been the trick-or-treating the night before that got him so excited he wanted to make an entrance. Here are some photos of us visiting the Chirharts in the hospital. It made our pregnancy even more real because we will be in the same hospital on the same floor in March or April. Andrew was wondering if they have king size pull-out couches.

Here's a photo of Andrew and Kyle.


Scott and daughter, Samantha, read a book together.


Katie read a book to both Samantha and Kyle. As one might expect, Samantha (20 mo. old) didn't want much to do with her new brother.