Rocky making himself comfortable

Roc-a-fella is getting comfortable in the nursery. When Kari is upstairs in the morning he has found a place to snooze away in the mornings. Kari often finds him snoring away on the carpet as the day begins.













I think he understands something is happening. Although I'm sure he doesn't necessarily understand he's quickly going to become number 2 in the house. Although, I'm also confident he'll settle into his new role as a big brother. Some other bulldog owners in the neighborhood report that their bully won't let anyone touch his toys except the baby. We like hearing that and we're confident Rocky will be equally generous with his possessions when the baby comes.

Welcome Jack!

I am beyond ecstatic to welcome baby korfhage's cousin, Jackson Brian Treanor into this world. Little buddy arrived at approximately 5:00 pm on 7/20. Look at that kid, good genes!

KICK IT!

The nuge started kicking last night. Kari and I were enjoying a little tube when kari told me to rest my hand on her belly. Sure enough, the little sprout started kicking up a storm. After a couple of kicks, things started slowing down. Kari said she felt like the little girl was trying to move. Moments later the kicking stopped and the kid has moved down lower and settled down.

We'll see if she starts picking up the pace!

24 Weeks Update

Kari had her 24-week check up today. She got a chance to hear the baby's heartbeat again and apparently her little ticker is nice and strong. They also measured our little girl and everything appears to be on the up and up.

On the home front, Kari has started feeling the little one moving around in her belly. I haven't had the fortune of feeling any movement, but that should be happening pretty quickly.

Other notes

• crib purchased (I have a task for this week)
  
• bedding purchased
• scored tons of clothes at the Laurelhurst garage sale
• lots of stuffed toys are already in the nursery
• few books rolling in.

It's a Girl

The post is a little late, but it turns out that the world will be blessed with a baby girl! We got a 85% confirmation that we will be adorning our nursery with pink. That 15% leaves me a little nervous, but Kari says she saw the same thing as the doc, so I'm going to just agree with them and prepare to welcome our little girl into the world.

The funny part of it, we had plenty of boy names to choose from, but very few girl names. It looks like it's time to hit the baby books!

17 Weeks, 5 days

Kari and got a chance to meet her new OBGYN on Friday. Unfortunately, insurance issues forced us to use a different OBGYN at Kaiser for a while, but my insurance afforded us the opportunity to go back to Kari's preferred doc.

No big news to report on, although we did get to hear the heart beat and it was very strong! We scheduled an ultrasound for May 23rd. We'll find out whether the kid has nuts or bolts. It will be posted here as well (the outcome, not the physical parts!).

Kari is starting to show and she thinks she felt the baby move a few days ago. She said it felt like "butterflies". According to the stacks of books that are piling up on our night stands, she'll likely be feeling more movement in the weeks to come.