Exciting News!!!

My sister and I had been playing phone tag for the past week and finally were able to get a hold of each other last night. She had left me a message that she had something exciting to tell me so I was of course dying to know what it was. Well… because she’s pretty much awesome and was accepting into the sonography program at Grand Valley a couple months ago, she just found out that she has access to all the lab equipment including the ability to do not only 3D but also 4D ultrasounds whenever her heart desires. Are you kidding me?! I swear I was so excited I didn’t know if I should start shouting or crying. Kevin and I have wanted to get a 3D ultrasound done this entire pregnancy, but of course it’s not available at our doctor’s office yet. Needless to say, we pretty much lucked out. I’m absolutely thrilled about it! I actually get to see little monkey again, and again, and maybe one more time :) The plan is to go up next Friday (Sept 18th) and do the first (I’ll be a little over 26 weeks), then probably head back up to Grand Rapids again right around 30 weeks, and then just play it by ear from there. She will be able to print pictures out and everything… I seriously cannot wait!!

Kevin and Denny are starting a new project this weekend… putting up a fence in our backyard. Some of you may be thinking, hmm that’s exciting, but what’s the big deal?! Well, I personally cannot imagine having to bundle up not only myself, but also our little man in the dead of winter to take the dogs outside to go to the bathroom. It’s going to be so nice to be able to just open up the back door and let them do their business. It’s going to make such a huge difference even in our day to day lives right now prior to baby’s arrival. Anyone that’s been around our male dog (Mookie) knows that he likes to mark his territory at every opportunity he gets and Bella just likes to lay around outside, so the fence is going to be such a good thing for us all.

One final thing… for all those wondering minds out there curious as to what names we are thinking about, we’ve finally decided. He’ll always be little monkey to us, but we figure we need something besides that to put on the birth certificate. He seems to like it, always moving around when we call him by it. Our little man’s name is going to be Jaiden Carter Combs.