Childbirth Class Begins

Tonight was the first class of childbirth prep. We learned some breathing techniques which I find hard to believe would actually work! :) I learned a few exercises to start stretching my muscles and to help with lower back pain. The best part was when Dan learned some massage techniques to help with lower back pain and was told by the instructor to do them EVERY night. So...I think I will like this class.
It will last 5 weeks and ends the 2nd week of Sept. At that point we will be 30/31 weeks!! I can't believe how the time is flying! We'll keep you updated on the progress!
Courtney is going to do another 4D ultrasound this week, lets hope Tessa will cooperate and we can get some face pics. I will try to post them on here if I can figure it out!

Baby Girl Has a Name

Most of our close family has been calling the baby Tessa now for a couple of weeks so I thought it would be o.k. to go ahead and make it official and announce our daughter's name!
After much discussion and debate between Dan and I after finding out we were having a girl we both agreed on Tessa. We think it is a sweet name for a little girl but also a name that will grow up with her into adulthood. Her middle name is Rose in memory of Dan's Grandma Rose.

Tessa Rose Oliver

A Visit with Grams

We drove down to Grams' house today to have brunch and visit for a while.

It was really nice to see her and we had such beautiful weather!

She gave me some of her china and cut glass dishes that I will always treasure forever.

We thought we'd take a picture by the good old Indiana corn fields!

4D Ultrasound Attempt

I call it an attempt because our stubborn little girl did not want to move into the right position to have the 4D pictures taken! Courtney (my cousin) offered to take some 4D pictures for us so Dan, me, Mom, and Dad went to Community East where she works to do it. We still had so much fun seeing the regular ultrasound again. I think we saw a lot more of her facial features which was awesome. So far we are thinking full lips and chubby cheeks!
It showed that she is weighing in now at 1 pound 14 ounces (I guessed 1 13) which means she is measuring 26 weeks and 2 days, but should have been 24 weeks and 5 days. So...either she is going to be arriving early November or maybe she will be a big baby! Yikes...I'll hope for the first option! She gained 1 pound and 3 ounces in 5 weeks time! We are going to try again in a few weeks to get some 4D pictures and hopefully she feels like cooperating more!

Painting Her Room

This is a before picture of the baby's room. We used it as a guest room but didn't usually have too many guests anyway. Dan and I searched for a bedding set that we both were in love with and then ordered it online.

Once it came in I debated for a while about what colors to paint the walls. I didn't want something to bright or bold because it is a pretty small room. So I decided to go with a dark taupe color on the bottom part of the walls and a light lime green on the top part of the walls. Then we will do a pink/fuschia stripe in between the two colors. I am planning to post some pictures once it is all done, but thought I'd show some of the painting process.