Week 25

We are now officially past the 25 week mark! :)  I am very excited there are only 15 weeks left until we meet our little girl.  We have demolished the baby room (check out the pics to be uploaded soon) and Brian is in the process of re-building the room to fit our needs.  Three windows have been replaced and sealed completely.  We are also building a closed in the northwest corner of the room, so the two windows that were in that spot are now completely closed up and the outside will be stucco-ed when the weather turns warm.  Brian has completely insulated the bedroom, re-wired the electrical and begun the sheetrock process.  We hope the room will be done around Valentine's weekend so we can assemble the crib and begin the decorating process.  :) We are also happy that this is our last remodel project at our home for at least a year!   

Baby Sampson is a relatively active fetus--especially in the evening!  It is the strangest, most wonderful feeling having the baby moving around and poking my different organs.  Not much else to report-we have our next doc. appointment Wednesday February 11th, the morning after we arrive back from Aruba.  :)

Well...

We had our first and probably only ultrasound December 18th, 2008.  The baby is in perfect health, growing totally normally, all the fingers, toes, heart chambers, etc. present.  The ultrasound tech also confirmed my suspicion that it is a girl!! :)  We saw pics of the bottom and there was no "third leg" present! :)  I have heard stories of people being told they were having one gender and it turning out to be the other, so I HOPE we are not going to be one of those.  Brian just started the demo on the baby room this past weekend.  The room is now down to its studs!!  There are just under 30 LARGE construction type bags full of plaster and lathe.  What a project!!  We plan to remove 2 of the 5 windows and use that spot to build a closet, making the house now a 3 bedroom!! :)  Hopefully the room will be done beginning or mid February...but we all know how construction goes!!  We have our next appt. on Wednesday, Jan. 14th, and I am expecting it to be as uneventful as the rest.  Wednesday marks the completion of my 24th week of pregnancy, and the beginning of the 6th month.  Time sure does fly!  I am very thankful that I have had no sickness or nausea and hope the remaining 16 weeks are as uneventful.  :)  Brian and I are also getting excited for our trip to Aruba Feb. 5th!!! :)  I will post a few pics of the baby, room, and belly soon!