Seamus has "seen" a lot of weather....

Since I have been pregnant with Seamus we have had bad tornadoes (hitting a mile from our house), felt an earthquake, and now a tree landed on our house from the wind gusts of Hurricane Irene....eventful!

Nursery

Pictures are taken on Seth's phone so couldn't zoom out....the room is bigger than it appears.  Nothing on the walls yet but at least our furniture is together and beautiful!  More to come once we put finishing touches on it.

Follow up ultrasound....

Busy day today.  Had my glucose screening test, fingers crossed everything comes back normal, my regular 4 week check up, and our follow up ultrasound from our 18 week u/s.  Everything looks great!  Placenta is where it's supposed to be now (that's what they were checking on), fluids are great, heart rate 134, even the cysts on his brain are gone!  He is breached for now...but he should move in a few weeks they said...it just made it difficult to get any good pictures of him :(.  The "biggest" surprise was how big he is!  He is measuring in the 84th percentile for his age!!  They said as long as he stays under the 90 mark it's ok...just a big boy!  The biggest part was of course his head....measuring about 2 weeks ahead.  The ultrasound tech asked us if we were sure on his conception date....which of course we can nail down to the hour since it was IVF.  Now begins the every 2 weeks appointments so we are hoping for smooth sailing until November!!!

New Nephew/Cousin #2!

8 days after our first nephew was born, we have nephew number 2!  Seth's sister and brother-in-law Brad and Cortney had their 3rd child today...but first boy: William Brooks Walker.  Seamus now has two boy cousins to play with.....now we just have to wait for him to get here....only 10 weeks or so...hopefully.

28 weeks....

When I tell everyone I still have 3 months left they look at me like I've lost my mind and tell me they think he may come a week early....

New Nephew/Cousin!

Seth's brother Zach and his lovely wife Laura had their second child yesterday evening, August 15th.  The first of 3 grandsons coming along.  Should have nephew number 2 a week from today and then Seamus will make 3 in November.  Holidays are sure to be crazy once the cousins are running around in a few years and plotting some trouble to get in to...can't wait!

27 weeks....

And baby makes 3.....or is it 6?

After almost 4 years of trying, it's no secret now that we are expecting our first child!  We couldn't be more thrilled.  At 27 weeks I am approaching the final 3 month stretch....just as school is starting back.

For those unaware of our journey...just a brief recap.  It has been a long and expensive journey to get here.  After 6 months of fertility drugs, two IUIs, and 2 IVFs we were successful and are expecting little bit to arrive around November 12th.   Needless to say, it's been a long time coming and worth it all!

We found out we are having a little boy, which we are thrilled about.  Both Seth's sister and brother are expecting boys any day now....so he'll have cousins his age to play with.  We have decided on the name Seamus Michael Steele ("shaymus).....it's the Irish form of James and I have no doubt he will be correcting people his whole life....but it's an awesome name.  We finally feel like our family is whole....although we are hoping for more kids....we may be adopting a few years down the road.  We are going to have a house full with the new baby, a dog, and two cats....but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Thank you to everyone who has been there for me and Seth and all the thoughts and prayers....we know Seamus will be very loved....and hopefully not too spoiled.

Our living room after we found out we are having a boy.  Our friends came in while we were at work and decorated.