Carrie's Weekly Appointment

Well on Friday we had Carrie's weekly appointment along with a bonus ultrasound. We had requested the ultrasound as we were a bit concerned about Jackson's size and wanted to get an update. Well things seem to progressing normally, Jackson's about 7 lbs 11 oz by their calculations and is measuring normally. They also hooked up a fetal monitor and checked the heartbeat and movement which all appear to be healthy and normal. Lastly, Carrie seemed to be about 1 cm dilated and I didn't hear if the doctor mentioned a percentage of effacement, so I'm assuming it's low.

On the preparation front, I have all my questions answered and only have a few more things to get ready. Our family has started making birth date predictions with Carrie guessing the 3rd, Carlos the 7th (Pearl Harbor Day for you Jeopardy types), and me the 11th (my lucky number). I may have to bite Katy's blog and put up a poll so my many readers can get involved on the guessing the birth date (I bet Sarah guesses the 10th and Nance (that's for you Sarah) the 15th).

Brady Visits WV

Corinne, Nancy, and Brady came down for a visit this past week and Brady was an unknowing participant in a test to see how well our home was setup for a toddler. The one thing I was worried about was whether the tenacious Tiki Barber Gonzalez would knock over Brady trying to lick him or if the benevolent Benny Best would inadvertently knock him down.

(A note to any would be robbers: They are much tougher than they look!)

Well Benny did great and Tiki was OK for the most part, especially when Brady started toting around the spray bottle that we use on Tiki when he's being bad. Other than that our house was in pretty bad shape safety-wise (we hardly did any prep) but we followed Brady around and picked stuff up as he got into it.