Getting ready

Well now that we know it's a boy we're starting to feel the crunch to get ready. We've been looking at nursery furniture and decor and are getting ready to make some purchases. I've put the link to the crib that we're looking at near the bottom....feel free to give opinions. I'm not sure how I feel about the bottom of the front of the crib.

We're going to decorate the nursery with an elephant theme for sure because I have a real elephant footprint from when I worked at the National Zoo. It's going to be cool to have in the room!

We're thinking that the baby's name is going to be Owen Robert McDonald. We're about 90% sure at this point and we've started calling him that just to try it out and make sure. It's fun to call him a real name. It makes him feel so much more like a person!

Owen has started moving around like crazy in the last week. He's especially active in the evenings and morning. Although, teaching kindergarten may mean that I'm too busy during the day to notice him moving so much :).

We went to our five month check up last Wednesday and everything is still going well. We got to hear his little heartbeat and he's measuring right at 21 weeks. We have two more monthly check ups and then we start going every two weeks. At this check up we got all the information to preregister for the hospital and sign up for birthing classes/hospital tour. We signed up for both during the month of January to make sure that we got through it before he's born (if he decides to show up early for any reason).