The Parr Family: February 2010

We are now 20 weeks pregnant! Yay for being half way done! I am so excited for Baby Parr to be here. We are now in the middle of the great name debate. We are set on Braden Allan for a boy. Braden being after Matt's dad Brad and Allan from my dad. The girl name has posed much more of a problem for us. I went through a book of about 3,000 baby names and wrote down some of the ones that would sound good with our last name and weren't names of former students or people we had known. That is when the name debate all started. Here is a little taste of what our world has been like.......I have always liked the name Kendall, but Matt never really liked it. We then moved onto Whitney, which Matt liked but I wasn't in love with. Then we went to Ashlyn which I really liked but Matt didn't like so much. So then we were on to Ryan which Matt liked, but I didn't like at all. While we were visiting with our good friends Alex and Melissa this weekend we were telling them about our great name debate and I was going through all the names I had liked at the beginning that were vetoed by Matt. I mentioned Madelyn (which was one of my favorites early on) and Matt thought about it and decided he liked it too!! We would call her Maddy for short, which was a nick name for Matt growing up also. At first Matt didn't like that but Melissa mentioned how neat she thought it was and Matt agreed with her! So I think we might have a girls name....we will have to wait and see though. Other than that things are going really well. I went with Matt out to the duck club today so he could pick up his decoys and the road was really bumpy. While I was sitting in the truck waiting for Matt I think I felt some baby movement. I told Matt when he got back in the truck either the baby doesn't like bumpy roads or he/she was really excited to be at the duck club. Matt decided that the baby was excited to be at the duck club! I hadn't felt any movement before today, so we will see if I continue to feel it. I am very excited to have Gage (our dog) back from spending 3 weeks with Alex learning some sort of hunting stuff. That is about it from the Parr residence. I can't wait for Spring and sun shiny weather!

Well, we are 18 weeks and 6 days pregnant! We had our Ultrasound appointment today and boy was it awesome! It started with my sister calling me telling me she was dropping something off at the appointment. Well, when I pulled into the parking lot I was driving right toward what I thought looked like my old car with my parents inside! Turns out, it was!! My dad's doctor allowed him to leave the hospital for a few days to visit with Brooke and I before his treatments begin. I could not have been more surprised and happy. So, back to Baby Parr. Our technician was amazing and after she was finished doing the pics she needed to do of the heart, lungs, kidneys, etc. she did some 3D pictures for us, which they normally don't do. It was so neat to see Baby Parr's face and watch how he/she moved around. Baby Parr even gave us a thumbs up!! I couldn't have asked for a better day! Here are some pics from the Ultrasound today. Enjoy!!