baby bump!

Once we finally broke the news to the family, Carolinne (my sister in Arizona) asked for photo-updates of the expanding baby-bump. This is the first one we took on 5/5/2007.

The baby was VERY cooperative with our plan to keep the news to ourselves until the end of April, and Amy's belly popped out literally the day after the grandparents-to-be had been told.












We had these grand plans to take pictures regularly, but only managed three photo-sessions.

This is the second, taken on 8/2/07.










This is the third, taken on 8/27/07 - only a week or so before she was born!

Amy's belly button never popped out, which was a disappointment to Mark. At this point, she was just starting to have trouble with swollen feet, needing help to get up from the couch our out of bed, that sort of thing.

Katie-Bob's first pictures

Here are the sonogram pictures, taken at 20 weeks. The baby was declared completely healthy in terms of everything they can check this way. The doctor knows the baby's gender, but we are still waiting to find out whether we've got a Katie or a Rob growing in there :)



a little bit of thumb-sucking going on here...






both the doctor and the technician commented on how LONG the legs and arms are - fingers too. where might that come from, dad?






the baby seems to know we're peeking in and is looking right back at us

heart-to-heart

We heard katie-bob's heart beating today with a doppler device. It sounds like the old "Space Invaders" game shooting effect and it's good and strong according to the doctor.

We are still waiting to tell the family, and we kind of like having this great news as our own secret, but on a day like today, we're just bursting to share!

*(retroactive posting)