End of June...

Today, I had an appointment with Dr. Foster. Ben went with me. Everything was just fine. She decided to use the ultrasound to find the heartbeat because she said that it was sometimes hard to find with doppler at 13 weeks (they found it that early with Drew...but, I wasn't going to argue). She tried to get a "picture" of the baby. However, each time she got a profile view of the baby..."it" would move. "It" is apparently a wiggly little one. This is no surprise as Drew never cooperated for ultrasounds either. She kept apologizing about not getting a picture. I said that I didn't care as long as everything looked alright. All this and she didn't even tell me the heartrate...

We went to what was supposed to be the Balloon Glow tonight at Tri-State Aero (part of the Freedom Festival). Drew was disappointed when we had to leave due to the impending storm with 60-70 mph winds. He didn't understand why the balloons didn't blow up. Mariah told him that if they went up now that they would be torn up and he wouldn't ever get to see them again.

I will attach a few pictures of him getting his blanket ready, the red airplane that he loved, and him dancing...he is crazy!!!

Ultrasound Pictures...Actually at 8w4d

Drew's Fun at TeenPower's Burdette Swim Party

Drew's TeenPower Fun 2008

Drew's 4th Birthday!

Drew turned 4 on May 30th! He is really excited to be 4. We took the day off of work and took him to the "green slide park" for a picnic lunch and to play. While we were at the park, we let him open a present. It was his "I'm going to be a Big Brother" scrapbook. He didn't get as excited as we expected...mostly because he wanted to go play on the playground. We then had a party at the "brown slide park" with a bunch of family and close family friends. Drew enjoyed hamburgers and hot dogs with his special ketchup, all kinds of fruit from Nana, and special Mickey Mouse pasta along with special lemonade and sweet tea that Susan and Holly brought. He got a purple phone (the one that used to be Mommy's and Aunt Holly's when we were kids) that he really wanted for his birthday. His favorite color is now Purple instead of Pink as Pink is not in the rainbow! He even got a special present from GiGi that we found when we were cleaning out her apartment...she hadn't missed a birthday party yet! He couldn't eat his birthday cake. So, I attempted to make a Mickey Mouse shaped cake. Well, Drew will tell you that it broke into a million pieces. Luckily, Drew was happy with eating Mickey's feet for his birthday and eating the pieces for the next few days!

Official Announcement!

Some of you may already know. However, we haven't been able to tell everyone yet...we are expecting a baby with a due date of January 3rd, 2009! We found out that I was pregnant in late April. We decided to wait until after my doctor's appointment to tell Drew on his birthday. So, we only told our mothers on Mother's Day weekend (along with Kimberly's father, our sisters, Uncle Aaron, and Caleb). We slowly told others that were going to be a Drew's party (and a couple of others) when we knew that it was safe that they wouldn't see him before the party. We went to the doctor on May 28th, informed Kimberly's work on May 29th, and told Drew at the park after a picnic on his birthday, May 30th, by giving him a scrapbook to make about being a big brother! Don't think that we forgot any of you or meant to leave you out on the announcement. We have been extremely busy during the past few weeks. Kimberly's grandmother (Judy's mom) passed away unexpectedly on May 20th. We had a lot to deal with on that front (and still do). After getting through the funeral and Drew's party, Ben has been at High School TeenPower Camp this week. I will be in training in Evansville next week and Atlanta the week after. When I get back, Ben will be involved in Middle School TeenPower for half the week. We will then have a little over a week before we go on vacation to Florida. It has been a busy summer and we don't see a slow down anytime in the future! We will try to get the Ultrasound pictures scanned in this weekend so that we can post them on here.