Bumping Bellies

A cute little photo of myself and Allison at her baby shower last Saturday. She was at about 32 weeks and I was at 22 weeks. We decided we needed a belly bumping photo :o) Thought I would share it with all of you.

Our Thanksgiving

Jason and turkey
Originally uploaded by becksfort.

Thanksgiving was nice and relaxing this year as we didn't do any cooking for it! We were fortunate to have wonderful friends invite us over along with some other friends to enjoy a Thanksgiving feast. Our friends Jason and Allison are among the most generous people we have ever met! And Jason is a wonderful chef! He enjoys cooking! So we couldn't turn down the opportunity to dine with them. Allison's parents were in from the D.C. area and it happened to also be Allison's mom's birthday! So we had a lot to celebrate. It was a great time with a lot of wonderful food and conversation. Becks and I got to sit with our friends Erin and Jeremy and their son, Preston at what we called the kids table as it was separate from the main dining room table :o) We had a great time! The boys all retreated to the downstairs after dinner to watch football and the girls stayed upstairs and watched tv and talked. Then it was time for dessert :o) Delicious! We hope that you all had a great Thanksgiving! For more pics from our dinner check out our photo page. Until next time...

Ezra Vander Becksfort

Ezra
Originally uploaded by becksfort.

Here is one of our first glimpses at our son as he is developing and growing inside! We had our ultrasound on Monday, October 31st! I didn't sleep well the night before dreaming that I had missed the appointment twice and that I didn't drink the water that I was suppose to. In real life we made it to the appointment in more than enough time and I had all the water that was recommended. Hopefully you will be able to make out this little image of Ezra. You should be able to see the profile of him and his face at the right hand side of the photo with his little nose, lips, ear, and his hand up near his forehead. Then of course his spine and belly and one of his legs. The little loopy pale gray thing between his arm and belly is his umbilical cord! Pretty amazing! It was awesome to see all of his fingers and toes and to see his little heart with the four chambers just beating away! We had thoughts from the beginning that our Little One was going to be a boy, so we only picked out a boy name. No girl names were discussed seriously. I didn't really even think much about girl names until a few days before the ultrasound thinking...gee, we probably should have one picked out just incase. But he is all boy as we were able to see in the ultrasound. After the ultrasound I had my appointment with the doctor. He asked us if we found out the gender and then looking at the chart said 'Congratulations on that little baby girl.' He paused and then said, 'Just joking!'