Photo By Courtney Fisk - Elle Photography

More to come! Here is one of the beautiful photos that photographer Coutney Fisk created with us last Sunday. Thank you Courtney! We are taking guesses for the record we are listening to... tell us whsat you think!

Kay - Game Coordinator Expert!

Kay coordinated games for the shower. This one got the guys involved before they split for the pub down the street. 4oz. bottles of PBR. Jason and Steve race to the finish. Jason was the champ here. Other games included identifying various food items in the lining of diapers - Kim was the winner by guessing Baby Ruth and strained peas. For the first hour of the shower no one was allowed to say the word "baby" and those caught saying the word would have to give up a clothes pin that had been distributed upon their arrival to the shower. Briana won this challenge. I lost when I was reminding myself out loud NOT to say the word baby. Go figure.

Baby Shower Set Up

Donita, Briana and the Steves get crafty with thrift store found decorations.

Daylight Savings belly

We skipped any belly pictures in Feb, so here is the first one from March. Our internet updates say she weighs as much as 4 navel oranges. She feels like 10 or 12. I have officially out grown my jeans and stick to skirts and dresses. We start baby classes tomorrow, March 15.

Incredible find

Steve and I found this super sweet high chair at St. Vincent yesterday. It has a folding action that converts it into a small table and chair! We are amazed by this engineering design.

Baby's room, almost done.

Baby room painted juniper green by Briana and Donita. Crib assembled by Steve Hood and Donita over coffee on a Sunday morning. Many thanks again.

Our family

A drawing for Steve who was in Guatemala on Valentine's Day.

Steve Out, Mom In!

Steve leaves for Guatemala/ El Salvador on Jan 31. Mom comes to Milwaukee for a visit on Feb 12! She and Briana can be seen here getting the baby room all painted up. We also bought the crib and Mom and Steve Hood put it together. Thank you family!

January 23

First trip to a baby store. We are much more thrifty than USA Baby is designed for. We'll stick with second hand.

The Big Visit

January 13th the doctor wrote the baby's gender on an index card and sealed it until Steve got to open it at home and reveal that ITS A GIRL! Its a whole new ball game knowing the sex of the baby.

New Year belly profile

January is 6 months already. Expecting a baby in winter makes the days go by much faster. Our internet baby updates say that the baby is the length of a spaghetti squash. I made a special effort to note the location of spaghetti squash in the grocery store.

Rewind to September

Rewinding... I found out about the baby in September while Steve was in California hamming it up with some sustainability committee folks. I kept it a secret until he returned home where he unwrapped his "welcome home" gift, a book called "The Guys Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth." After the inital shock wore off, he called his mom, as seen in the second photo.

Jack's Opinion on baby

We've asked Jack to describe how he feels about a new baby. He is at a loss for words.

Special Delivery

Baby's first postal delivery to "Little Bit Hawthorne" from Memaw and Bubbles.

More belly, more fun

A month later, in December!

A good start

In November, a sign of a good start.