Harper Scores!

"Crazy" Aunt Heather is already spoiling little Harper. This was all the stuff that came in a BIG box on Thursday. Jon and I went through all of it together and oooh'd and aaahhh'd over all of it. TOO CUTE!! Thanks Crazy Auntie Hedder!!!!

28 weeks! (a little late)

My 28th week started on Thursday - Valentine's Day! Here's the latest pics!

And her name is...

Harper Belle Hanes

Feel free to leave your comments about if you like it or hate it. We've heard it all at this point, so nothing can really offend us anymore! Just so you know, we didn't intentionally choose a name that we didn't have anywhere on the poll - it just turned out that way!

Week 27

Okay, so technically I'll be 27 weeks tomorrow, but close enough.

Today we had our most recent doctor's appointment and everything went great! Blood pressure was fantastic: 110/60. Doctor White even gave me a high five! I gained 2.5 more pounds, which brings the grand total to 9.5 lbs. I'm humbled by one thing. I measured 30 centimeters, which means 4 more centimeters since last time - one per week, which is right on track from the last time, although I'm still measuring a little (3 centimeters) more than average. I had the glucose test today and we'll only hear back on that if something is abnormal. And I don't care what anyone says, that drink is nasty and does not taste just like orange soda. blech.

And BONUS!!! Because Dr. White wanted to rearrange my next appointments a bit and push my next ultrasound back to week 34 to get some accurate measurements, he appeased my irrational fears by doing a double (triple) look sex check!!! It was very quick, but yes, she's still a girl.

Reality check today: we booked the rest of our appointments today, all the way through my due date of May 8th. Little girl is going to be here before we know it!

Next appointment: February 28th.

New Registry

We've added one more store to our registry. A HUGE new baby store has moved in not too far away from us, and they have an online registry! Better even still, they have the stroller we'd really like to get. You can see it here and here. My sister has it and it should last us through two kids - and let us put them in the stroller at the same time!

We're so excited.

Belly pics - finally!

Here's a progression of the belly so far.

Belly @ 8 weeks

Belly at 21 weeks (Christmas)

Belly @ 26 weeks

Jon's new favorite song

Can you guess why? It's a country song by Rodney Atkins called "Cleaning This Gun". This is the second verse and the chorus:

Well now that I'm a father
I'm scared to death one day my daughter's gonna find
That teenage boy I used to be
Who seems to have just one thing on his mind
She's growing up so fast it won't be long
'fore I'll have to put the fear of god
Into some kid at the door

Come on in boy, sit on down
And tell me 'bout yourself
So you like my daughter, do you now
Yeah we think she's something else
She's her daddy's girl and her mama's world
She deserves respect, that's what she'll get, ain't it son
Now y'all run along and have some fun
I'll see you when you get back
Bet I'll be up all night
Still cleaning this gun