30 something years ago

My dad was there. I was scanning some old pictures and I ran across this one:

Check it out, 2007 I was there...

Baby Update 28 weeks

Jenny had her doctor visit yesterday, everything is going great. She is right on track with everything. We are now moving to Doctor visits every 2 weeks and we start child birthing class in 2 weeks...we will meet once a week for 7 weeks!

Here is a summary of what should be going on during this 28th week:

Baby:

Our baby measures about 9.6 inches (24.4cm) from crown to rump and weighs a little more than 2 pounds (907g). Hands are active and muscle coordination is such that he can get his thumb into his mouth. Thumb-sucking calms the baby and strengthens his cheek and jaw muscles. He also can cry now.

Jenny:

Has a stretch mark as her uterus continues to expand (see below the beautiful expanded uterus). Most women have gained about 16 (7.3kg) to 22 pounds (10kg) by now, Jenny has gained 16 at this point. Balance and mobility is changing.

We did some tests on our Son's reactions to light and sound last night. We played a few different songs which he really didn't react much to...but then I played one song that was the sound of soothing waterfalls and he immediately reacted! He actually reacted every time we played it! We then put a small pen light on Jenny's belly in different spots...he moved at the spots with light!!! It was so neat! We were both really excited at his reactions! 

We have a first name picked out by the way...just working on the middle now!

Not going to give out the name just yet...

Our Easter Weekend

Well we had a great weekend! Unfortunately without our family...we missed everyone! It was just the three of us...except for Saturday....

Saturday our Church put on a huge community celebration. Jenny and I were volunteers...We helped with the fun Jumps, Jenny helped with registrations, and I did balloon animals! Which is a new skill I have developed as of last Wednesday night, when a friend from church taught me how to make a few animals with the balloons (see pictures way bellow of some balloon animals I made).

We were having so much fun that Jenny got arrested:

They let me drive her down town for questioning, some questions were: Why is Pregnant Jenny so much fun?

Actually they didn't let us drive any police cars! It was for pictures!:

There was a motorcycle but I didn't want to take one with it due to comments like, "Look at Chip":

Here Jenny was busted being Pregnant by the Firetruck:

Scrumpy the fire dog had to stop her from pushing all kinds of buttons:

He then gave her a little fire hose doll to pose with!

Here is a shot of the big bunny kids were beating!

There were over 2 thousand people there...For just the egg hunts there were counted about 1 thousand kids! They had 10,000 eggs, plastic eggs, that we helped stuff with candy on Wednesday:

I made balloon animals for about 1.5 hours...There were about 4 of us making balloon animals constantly...the line never slowed...it was really fun...especially when little kids say that they want a snake...that is just a balloon pumped with air!

 Afterwards, Jenny and I went lunch at On the border in Allen...Which it was more like a Lunner....Then we went to party city and purchased some balloons so I could make some more at home(click to enlarge if necessary):
 
 
 

Sunday we went to church and enjoyed a really good service. We were invited to eat lunch with some of our church family but we decided to just stay home and eat some unleavened bread with hummus. Then just relaxed the rest of the day. 

Baby Update: 26 Weeks

Baby:

Our baby measures about 9.2 inches (23.4cm) from crown to rump and weighs almost 2 pounds (907g) now. His hearing is fully developed. As he reacts to sounds, his pulse increases. He moves and kicks visibly on Jenny's belly. He is even moving in rhythm to music. His lungs are still growing but are not yet mature. Patterns of his brain waves appear like a full-term newborn. He also has patterns of sleeping and waking.

Jenny:

The baby's constant movements have been reassuring to Jenny. Jenny only having gained about 15lbs will be putting on weight at the rate of about 1 pound (454g) per week now. Jenny has been feeling some rib pain as our baby grows and pushes upward on her rib cage. The pressure is said to even cause indigestion and heartburn but, Jenny hasn't yet had those effects. She has been feeling stitch-like pains down the sides of her abdomen as her uterine muscle has been stretching. Jenny also has been having sciatic nerve pain. 

Expired Plates

Saturday March 28th...4:15PM.

Jenny and I are driving about 1.2 miles from our house. I see a police car right behind me. I slowed to the speed limit (I was going approximately 3mph faster than the 40mph speed limit). Then I notice the car getting closer to me...so I changed lanes to let him pass...immediately after I change lanes the police car lights start flashing! So, I slowed and turned into a subdivision and pulled over.

The policeman comes up to my window (I already have my license and insurance card ready). He then said, "The reason I pulled you over is that your plates are expired." I then say wow we just purchased this vehicle November 22nd 2008 at approximately 4:47PM. That is weird. He then said, "Ok let me go check it again" he then took my drivers license and went back to his car. While he is doing that Jenny pulls out the registration papers out of the glove box.

He comes back and says that our names do not come up on the registration for the plates and those plates were expired December 17th 2008! He then shows us the name and asked us if we knew the person. We then looked at the registration form and it had the same name!

He let us go and said we needed to clear it up with the car dealer. It is now about 4:26PM. Jenny calls the Honda place and they give her the run-around for about 5 minutes...then she finally gets on the wireless with someone who could help us. The lady said, "Let me look into this and call you back." She called back at about 4:31PM. She said, "We have your plates and your registration here! If you can make it here before 5PM we can put them on and take off those plates." We arrived there at about 4:45PM. It didn't take long at all. They were very very sorry. We were out of there in 5 minutes!

So, apparently what happened...someone else purchased the same color CRV as we did, at about the same time, and the license plate had similar lettering. So, they put that person's registration sticker and papers and license plate on our vehicle...which the VIN numbers did not match...by accident...and when that person's plates never "showed" up the plates were canceled...and they got new plates and registration for their vehicle...............all the while we are driving with expired plates...wrong registration...wrong registration sticker...for over 4 months! We drove back and forth to South Louisiana about 3 times since then and one time to north Oklahoma...and back and forth for Jenny to and from work...a little over 7000 miles!

The only reason we got pulled over was because it was a random plate check! We may have not found out this problem for a long time!

We are once again totally legal! Thank you Lord!