Youth's revenge

Well I think my mischief as an adolescent has already begun to come back and get it's revenge!
Saturday night we had a fun evening with our friends Shonna and Andy Craigo. We had dinner at the most expensive Sushi and Chinese food Buffet I've ever been to. It cost almost as much as the amazing buffet at the Bellagio hotel in Vegas. Although I do have to note, we received a free meal courtesy of an old colleague who I worked with on a hospital project in Lewisville a few years ago...so I can't complain about the price of the buffet ($27each). After dinner we met up with Courtney & Fred at 300, the home of a bowling alley, laser tag, game arcade, bar, billiards, and a private club which you can rent out for $100/hour for a private bowling party.
Anyway, enough of the first half of the story and back to the revenge part...
So we leave the bowling alley just after midnight, which by the way is the latest Leah has stayed awake since New Year's, and we arrive home to see that our house has been WRAPPED or TP'ed (Toilet-Papered). We don't know who and we don't know why, but Leah thinks it was a random act of some kids because we have a perfect tree for wrapping. I disagree and I also feel that it wasn't nearly as good of a job as myself and my cohorts had done in the past! I believe our best achievement was for Sabrina's 17th birthday when we bought almost 100 rolls of toilet paper and wrapped her house while her parents watched us from inside...of course we didn't know it at the time. They later confessed to Sabrina that they didn't want to interrupt artists at work.
So I guess those one or two times when I snuck out of the house and went 'wrapping' have finally caught up with me. I really thought my mischief would take a lot longer to enact its revenge.
-Ryan

Video from 2nd sono

Here's a couple of video clips from the 2nd sonogram.

This first one shows the measuring of the heartbeat at 176 bpm.

This one show's him really arching his back and moving around.

3rd Sonogram

We went back to the doctor yesterday (Feb. 2nd) and saw the baby for the third time. She was moving and grooving!! The doctor said everything looks perfect. The baby was even arching its back and neck, which is a very good sign. We were able to see the baby’s fingers and toes, which was amazing! She also looked right at us and we could see the face, it was so cool! The heartbeat was 161 bpm and is almost 2 inches long. We got back the test results and everything turned out great, so we shouldn't have anything to worry about. We are truly blessed.

We got another video but it didn't record the best parts when she was kicking and pushing herself around.


I go back to the doctor later this month, but we won't get another sonogram until the end of March which will be when we find out the whether it's a boy or a girl.



-Leah
The picture above is the one that Ryan thinks looks like he's smoking!

2nd Sonogram

Well, this is a little late getting posted, but here it is.

We went for our second sono on January 26 and the little (and I mean little) baby is really taking shape. He (I'll refer to the baby as a 'he' and Leah will of course say it's a 'she') was 37mm long, which wasn't long enough to measure the neck in order to determine any risk factors, so we get to go back on February 2nd and get another sono. His little heartbeat was 176 bpm which is very fast but very normal, and good during the 10th and 11th weeks.

We got a great DVD of him squirming around and kicking his feet. It's so amazing that at a little more than 1.5 inches long he can be moving so much and developing so fast (growing approx. 2 mm per day).

Anyway, that's all for now. Enjoy the pictures.