It's a...

Today I had my 20 week ultrasound appointment, and the technician confirmed that our baby is a BOY!  (We already knew this since my friend Leah scanned me at 16 weeks, but still nice to have it confirmed since 16 weeks was a little early to tell...)

Unfortunately we couldn't get many good pictures, especially in 3D, since the little guy was moving around like crazy the whole time.  SO WEIRD that he moves so much and I can only barely feel it - and only sometimes!  The nice lady did try for a long time to get a good 3D pic, but Baby G wasn't in the mood for pictures (typical boy already????).

Baby G is measuring the same as last time, which means he is 4 days behind my due date.  My doctor won't change the due date, though, unless it's +/- 7 days.  I also found out that it took me so long to feel him moving because my placenta is anterior, or in front of the baby.  This is probably why I feel like it takes my doctor FOREVER to hear Baby's heartbeat at my monthly appointments.  But I guess now he must be really kicking a lot, because I am starting to feel him finally!

I'll upload the ultrasound pics another day - they're on my phone and I'm heading to bed!

Cooper Has an Announcement!

In case you haven't heard the news...

We are excited to announce that we are expecting our first baby in April!  Cooper isn't sure how he feels yet... :)

Packer Game!

On October 28, we went to the Packer game with Brad's uncle Larry and his brother Nate.  It was a noon game, so we left Oostburg around 8:15am so we'd have time to tailgate in Green Bay.

Once in Green Bay, we met up with Casey & Amanda, and Missy & Kyle to tailgate in the parking lot!  It was crazy to see how into it some fans get!!!  We even had a Packer band pass by us.

The game was awesome because we had such great seats!  Second row of the north endzone, which ended up being perfect because we were in the sun the whole time.  My poor sister and brother were in the south endzone and they froze!  We had our jackets off, and even got a little sunburned....

Then, just to make things even better - Donald Drive scored a touchdown!  It was Nate's first game ever and DD is his favorite- so let's just say he was a little excited.  :)

And the cherry on top was that Nate and I got on TV!  Yup - if you thought you saw us, you did!  The announcers were talking about the guy behind us, saying he looked like one of the other announcers.  It was right at the end of the game, and I think they were running out of things to talk about, because we were on for awhile.  Unfortunately, we weren't on the jumbo-tron so we had no idea we were on TV, otherwise we would have tried to look cooler.   :)  But it was still fun to have friends texting us saying, "I just saw you on TV!"

Thanks for taking us to the game, Uncle Larry!

Cooper Updates

Cooper has been especially sassy lately.  You think he'd be used to me being back at work by now.  I think it might also have something to do with how dark and cold it is earlier at night, so we aren't spending as much time outside.  But boy has this puppy been sassy!

We've been leaving him uncrated in the house (but bedroom doors closed) for over a year now, and he's always fine.  But lately, every time we come home we find that he's gotten into something else, despite our attempts to move every single object out of his way!  This past week, we started crating him again, but that is just disasterous - he drools and cries all day long and is soaking wet by the time we get home from work.

We're not really sure what to do anymore!  Today we left him out while we went to our friends' house for the Packer game, and he did fine.  Hopefully we can leave him out, as he really gets so worked up when he's crated!!!

Here are some pictures of just some of the sassy things he's gotten into lately:

Toilet paper, anyone???

My new VB bag-  Thanks Barb, for finding someone in O-town to fix this one!!! :)

Guess he doesn't love the hydrangeas...

Lint roller... (it was on the table - with chairs pushed in)

Not pictured: Bag of candy corn eaten off of the counter top, loaf of bread eaten off of the counter top, pumpkin candles chewed on from the table...

The other day, we yelled at him for getting the pumpkin candles off the table, and he ran right to his crate and punished himself.  We didn't even close the crate door.  Guess he knows the drill by now!

Late Update: Briana Louise!

Sorry about my blog-slacking lately.  I blame my being back to work!  :)


So, anyway...  Our good friends Alec & Laurel had their first baby about a month ago, just one day after her due date!  So far Brie is a great baby (at least in my opinion!).  She sleeps pretty well, feeding is going great, and of course, she's a doll!  We love going over and visiting baby Brie.  Cooper, well, he isn't so sure.  Whenever we go over there or she's at our house, he cries the whole time one of us is holding her.  He'll have to get used to not getting our full attention!!!

Here are some pics of baby Brie's first days in the world!  She is a month bigger now, but sorry, I don't have any recent pics!  Isn't she adorable???