A Spring snow, a crib, and a growing belly.

For those of you that don't know, it snowed in the Puget Sound area on April 18th. Yes, April 18th...almost a month after Spring started. We actually got snow on the 20th as well. Here is a picture of the snow coming down. After it was all done we had over 3 inches. It was terrible.

We have been working hard on baby Avery's room. We painted it, put together a bookcase, hung some shelves, put some wall decorations on the wall, put together a crib, took apart and sent back a crib because a screw was loose, and put together another crib. Here is a picture of the crib: Also here is a picture of Christine at week 24:
Lastly, a picture of what happens when you leave a 14 lb dog outside without supervision for 60 minutes, may this be your lesson from us to you, we obviously didn't learn the first time.

How cool is this....

On Thursday Christine and I went to Siemens Ultrasound to get another look at baby Avery Baker. Thanks to our friends the Van Gorkoms, who told us about Siemens Ultrasound, we got some great 3D pictures of her. Siemens pays you a little bit of money to come in and get an ultrasound done so then if the pictures are good, they can use the shots in their marketing material. We saw her heart beating, the blood flowing through it, saw her hiccup and she saw her moving her legs around all over the place. Here are pictures of the baby:

Her right arm is on the left and her face is in the center. You can see her eyes, nose, and mouth.

This is another picture of her face also in this shot is the unbilical cord (it's across her chin) she was playing with it when she wasn't playing with her toes.

This one is of her left arm and her leg. Check our that calf muscle!

Lastly, a short clip of Avery moving her fingers and giving you a sneak peek of her little chin and mouth.

Over half way there!

Baby Avery has now grown to about 10 1/2 inches - or the length of a carrot. She is moving around quite a bit more - sometimes I can feel her in a few places at once.

Here's a little perspective on the growth to date. The picture below was taken at my sister's birthday party the end of January.

This picture was just taken at 21 weeks 3 days. What a difference a few months makes!

We've started getting the nursery ready for baby's arrival in August. Yeah- that is still a long ways away, but considering we're over halfway there, we wanted to get started now and take our time. The bedding and colors we are using to decorate are pink, brown and white. The replacement crib is scheduled to be delivered on April 25th - the first one we got had a problem with the slider on the drop side (the taken apart crib is in the closet of the picture).

This past weekend we (ok, really Reed) painted the nursery. See the "in process" picture below.