New shots

So this is about 35 weeks. She sure is growing. And I swear that I felt her drop on Sunday afternoon. It is probably just my imagination but things do feel a bit different. Feel free to scroll down and compare to the previous pregnancy shots.


And one just for fun. I thought that never seeing my face was a bit disturbing. With regular clothes on some people still don't realize that I am pregnant and others don't believe that I am due in early May. I think that I have been pretty lucky with all of that. But I have a sneaky feeling that she is going to be early - watch her be late now!!

Jazz Dance

On March 21st my jazz band put on our annual "Big Band Dance" at The Elks Lodge. A bit earlier this year than normal, but we did play for about two hours. I think that it was a great time and I was glad that I was able to share it with the students before I have this baby!

Hello, world!

This is Etta at 31 weeks and 2 days. For most of the appointment she had her face buried in mommy's hip but then turned just enough for the ultrasoundist (?) to get a clear face shot. Bob feels that the round little cheeks look just like mommy too. Less than eight weeks to go and we will know for sure! Time sure has been flying by. Grandma Cathy was able to attend the appointment with us which was extra special too. We now start to visit our local OB every week until the end.



And as we have done after every ultrasound appointment we finished up with lunch at Frank's Diner. We definitely recommend it to anyone who is going to be in Spokane. Or if you live in the area and have never been there it is completely worth it. Since this was our last official appointment to Spokane (as long as everything keeps looking good) we got a few pictures and a t-shirt for Etta when she is a bit older. She can see where mom and dad pigged out back in the day!

Smiles and Zzzzzzz's

I think that this is the first official pregnancy photo of me, and of Bob and I together for sure. I mean, I have been taking my belly shots for awhile, but then realized that I don't have any plain old pictures of what I am looking like. This was taken by our friend Christine after choir practice at the church on Wednesday. We are dressed up because we had our jazz night concert earlier in the evening and then also went to dog obedience class. When it rains it pours I guess. But I think that we are both looking pretty good - and not as tired as we are both feeling. I know, I know...we are going to be tired for the next twenty years...



This photo is from some lounge time that we had this weekend. The little dogs have been particularly fond of being with mommy lately. Don't know if it is my extra body heat or what. But letting sleeping dogs lie is ok, it's when they wake up and decide to play that they have to go with Bob to work off some of that extra energy.

Weeks 25 and 27

Seeing it day-to-day makes it seem like it is not getting bigger - but taking periodic shots makes it pretty obvious.

Week 25


Week 27

A Couple of Great Views

If any of you have been following the weather in Northern Idaho/Eastern Washington, you will understand why we left Lewiston on Wednesday afternoon to drive to Coeur d'Alene so that we could make our Thursday morning ultrasound appointment. The weather cooperated and driving conditions were fine going up. We hit great weather on Thursday and decided it would be the perfect day to capture the view from the skywalk between the parking garage and the doctor's office. This is looking North across the Interstate toward Spokane.



The other great view we got to witness was baby Etta. She is currently breech and folded completely in half. Even though we were very excited to get to see another 3D view of her face she was blissfully unconcerned and spent the whole appointment playing with her toes right in front of her face. So no spectacular pictures to post at this time. The terrific news is that she is progressing right on track. So well in fact that next month will probably be the last appointment in Spokane. Unless something happens (which we are praying DOESN'T) then we will be able to do the rest of the appointments and doctoring here in Lewiston. It is wonderful to get to see her on a regular basis, but in less than three months we will get to see her all the time, so I think that we can be patient - for a bit...

First Public Scholarly Appearance

In January we traveled to Pocatello, ID to go to the IMEA All-State Music Conference. Bob presented a poster at a research session. It covered his thesis topic. It was very cool to see his work with other music professionals who are also doing indepth research. He was asked to write an article for the Montana music teacher journal. Stepping up to getting published!