Zoo Pictures

Here are some pictures from our weekend trip to the Ft. Worth Zoo. Rebekah and Kade (our nephew) got to feed the parrots.

Ultrasound photos

Aunt Martha requested ultrasound photos, so here are what we have so far.


This is Little Bit at about 6 weeks gestation. See the big dark spot? Now look for the little smudge in the the dark spot. That's the baby.



This is Little Bit at 11 weeks. Now, it looks like a baby (sort of). L.B. is lying on its back at the bottom of the dark spot. The head is on the right, and there is a faint image of arms and legs. When I had this done, the baby looked like it was running, pumping its little feet and hands as fast as it could. The doctor had trouble getting the measurements because we were both laughing so much.

On November 13 we have another ultrasound at which we will hopefully learn the sex of the baby. Check us out here for an announcement!

Listening to the baby

We rented a baby doppler that allows us to hear the baby's heartbeat, and we've used it every day since it came in. We let Rebekah hear the baby, and she thought it was really funny. Then she wanted us to listen to her belly--since we told her that Mommy has a baby in her belly, she has insisted that she, too, has a baby in her belly. She says you can see it if you look in her "button." Of course, there was no sound in her belly, but we moved it to her heart, and she was amazed when she heard it beating. This is a wonderful way for us to all share the experience of the new baby long before I can even feel it moving. I can't wait until Rebekah can put her hand on my belly and feel her little sibling kick!

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So what is going on with us?

This past summer we moved to Navasota, Texas, a small town about half an hour from Texas A&M. We both grew up in small towns, so you would think it wouldn't be much of an adjustment, but we had gotten spoiled in College Station with shopping and restaurants right down the street. We're pretty much settled in now, though. We're still going to our church in College Station, and I still work at the university, so we're back and forth quite a bit.

Rebekah is going to a new preschool, and she loves it. She tells us every day about all the fun she has playing outside with her friends. She talks all the time, and she is always making funny observations. Yesterday she climbed into my desk chair and said, "Mommy, I need to check my email!" She also has gotten a little sneaky. We lost her toothbrush last week, and after looking all over the house, Shannon finally took her to the store so she could pick out a new one. As soon as she got home with her new Care Bears toothbrush, she went straight to the entertaiment center and pulled out her "lost" My Little Pony toothbrush, held them both up, and said "Now I have all of them!" She knew where it was all along!

Shannon is managing Pizza Hut here in Navasota and training managers for the Houston area. Soon he will be responsible for opening a brand new Pizza Hut in a nearby town, but we're not sure when (you know how those things go...first it was set for January, now they say May).

I am teaching Technical Writing online this semester. The totally online class has been an adjustment for me and my students, but we all seem to be surviving. I have different plans for next semester...more on that later. I passed my preliminary exams this summer, which means that all I have left to finish my degree is my dissertation. But don't get excited...that will take a while, especially with two kids. That's right--two kids! We're expecting our second baby in April.

That's enough for now. We'll be updating this regularly, so keep checking in.

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Starting the family blog

Our original family website is still up here. But I haven't been very diligent in keeping it updated in, well, the past year. So after using Blogger for several months in a different capacity, I thought this might be a nice place keep the family updated as we change and grow and, yes, expand! Updating this is much quicker than keeping up with our website, and it's free, which is even nicer. This post is just a placeholder until I can show the blog to Shannon for his input. And it can hold our dandy little tickers until I put them officially into the template.

Edited: I moved the tickers to the top so you can see them every time you log on.