Still have not found a chance to copy over the old posts and videos, but we do have two new videos of Ethan.
This one is of us trying to feed him for the first time with real food, rice stuff of some kind. It didn’t go well, lots of spitting out.
Ethan has recently found his toes. Apparently he has not figured out what to use them for, so he has decided that they are used the same way his thumbs are used, for sucking on. Kristin calls this his “blackmail” video for when he’s in his teens to keep him under control.
I took a video of Ethan this morning when I woke him up. I’m trying to figure out a good way to post this video, so it might change at times or not work at all.
Ethan’s doing good and getting bigger. He’s also growing a lot of hair and will be surpassing Daddy soon on amount of hair. We’ve had a ton of pictures lately, but haven’t really put them up. I managed to get three different days of photos up in our gallery and have a ton on cd I still need to put up.
We’ve also decided that it’s a good time to move this year, so we’ve been cleaning the house constantly. That’s one of the reason posts have been scarce lately. We’ve decided we want to move up to the West Chester or Mason area. Hopefully we’ll be able to get the house listed next week and sold soon.
James Ethan Whitt was born on Sunday, 10/4/09 at 1:35PM weighing 7 pounds and 4.4 ounces and is 20.5 inches long. Everybody is happy and healthy and doing good.
After a long labor, there were complications which required Ethan being delivered by c-section. Kristin is in very good spirits currently.
I think we finally for the most part got the baby registries together. We’ve registered at Target, Babies “R” Us, and Baby Depot (which is in Burlington Coat Factory). I’ve included the links on the right site of our blog to that leads directly to our registry. We ask that you print out the registry and take it with you in case your purchase anything. This helps so that the numbers are updated so that multiples aren’t purchased.
Besides that, Kristin is doing fine. We are going to Becoming Mom Spa tonight to get some ultrasounds done of our own. They have one of those 4D Ultrasound machines (don’t even get me started on how it should be called 3d), so we’re going to get more detailed images, which I will be posting on the site.
I was laying in bed this morning trying to wake up and Ethan started moving a bunch. I haven’t felt him moving on the outside yet so I thought I’d put my hand on my stomach and see it if I could feel it. I could! James came over and after about 30 seconds Ethan moved again. James got a quizzical look on his face and said he thought he felt it. Then Ethan kicked again and we both felt it. James’ response – “That just feels creepy…” haha. I’m super excited that James can finally feel him now!!
We had a regular doctor’s appointment last week and everything is fine. Ethan’s heartbeat sounds normal and the doc said he’s doing good. We set up my next appointment for five weeks from now. I’m supposed to drink the yummy drink for the glucose test for that appointment. I should also get my rhogam shot that day too. Two weeks after that we have another ultrasound so the technician can check a few things she couldn’t see well before.
I just finished up scanning the ultrasound pictures. I’m barely able to see anything, kind of looks like tv static to me. You can click each of the images to see the larger picture of them.
We went to the doctor this morning to get our ultrasound (21 weeks) and find out if we’re having a puppy. (Inside joke..sorry..haha) Soooo…we’re having a BOY!!! James Ethan looks healthy and everything is growing normally. We are getting another ultrasound done at about 30 weeks to see if the placenta has moved up from where it is. There’s a chance I may have to have a C-section if it doesn’t move up.
James is going to be putting up our pictures soon so you can see what Ethan looks like so far. He was laying sideways so it was a little harder for the technician to see everything and get good pictures, but you can see his face and feet in some of the pictures.
We had a regular doctor’s appointment last week where we thought we’d get our ultrasound and find out the baby’s sex. Turns out it was just a regular checkup so the earliest we can get in because of schedule conflicts is going to be Thursday, May 21.
I’m starting to show a lot more and am seriously going to have to go shopping for maternity clothes in the next week. Rubberbands are almost not working anymore and only t-shirts fit now! We’re going to put some pictures of the baby bump up very soon.
We had the 19th week doctor visit yesterday and everything is looking good. The heartbeat was in range with what it should be. We also got back the genetic tests done on Kristin to screen for any potential issues and everything came back clear and good.
We did find out (or atleast I did) that because of something with Kristin’s blood, she’s going to need some kind of shot because if not it could cause issues with the baby. I’m not too sure what that was all about, but Kristin will probably leave a comment on this post explaining it a little better.
We thought we were going to find out the sex this visit, but it ended up that it wasn’t part of the doctors visit and we needed to schedule a seperate ultrasound for that. We couldn’t get in Monday because they wanted to wait until week 20 (and next Monday is only 19 1/2) and then the Thursday after that Kristin has meetings after school. We’re trying to plan to go on May 18th if they have something available, but we’re waiting for them to call back to let us know.
Besides that, nothing really has changed. Kristin is planning on going to the Gap Outlet down in Kentucky somewhere on Sunday to finally buy some maternity clothes. Her rubber band trick with the pants isn’t going to last much longer since she’s now using the large rubber bands.
(Inside joke..sorry..haha) Soooo…we’re having a BOY!!! James Ethan looks healthy and everything is growing normally. We are getting another ultrasound done at about 30 weeks to see if the placenta has moved up from where it is. There’s a chance I may have to have a C-section if it doesn’t move up.