NKOTB with Jackson and Jaxon

Last Friday, a group of girls and I braved the heat to go see our favorite childhood boy band New Kids on the Block. The group of girls included our friend Candice that is also pregnant and expecting a boy, Jaxon. Here's a photo of the pregnant girls with Jackson and Jaxon in the bellies, of course we're sitting while everyone else stood most of the time, I think that we still had a great time.

We have still been planning for our Jackson and getting the nursery ready. I will go to the doctor again next Thursday just for my regular check-up, then it will be off to Possum Kingdom for an end of summer getaway.

Movement and Preparation

This week has been full of excitement. First of all, I have been feeling Jackson squirm and move all over the place, but the most exciting part is that for the first time Aaron has been able to put his hand on my belly and feel Jackson too.

We have also spent the past couple of weeks making the rounds at the baby stores and trying to figure out about furniture, bedding, and everything else that we will need to get for Jackson. We picked out the bedding that we liked and are trying to pick out paint colors so that Aaron can start on painting the nursery. The bedding is a dark red, kaki, and lite moss green quilt pattern with little boats spread over the quilt. While it's not your basic navy, baby blue, and white, we think that it is more us. If you're interested you can look at it online at Babys R'US, search "Nautica Quinten crib bedding".

The other adventure we had this week was going to Build-a-Bear Workshop for the first time. At our last doctor's appointment, we recorded Jackson's heartbeat, then we took it and made a little stuffed dog for Jackson. Since Aaron and I had never been to Build-a-Bear we didn't what a production it was just to make a stuffed animal, but now we know why kids love it so much!

For those of you that don't get to see us that ofter here is a picture of what I'm looking like during week 23. We have been taking a weekly "belly" picture for a book that I'm putting together called "The Belly Book", it has been fun to watch how I have been growing over the weeks and I'm sure it will be fun to look back after November.

Jackson Patrick Samuels

We found out on Thursday, March 5, 2009 that we were pregnant. Shortly after we shared our good news with family and friends. Now a few months later we have found out that we are having a boy, Jackson Patrick Samuels. Jackson is scheduled to arrive (around) November 13, 2009.

We decided to start this blog so that our family and friends could keep up with us and now our new addition. As we move closer to the due date we will keep you updated with everything that is happening with us and our family. Even before Jackson arrives we will have more exciting adventures, Jackson will have a cousin that will be about 7 weeks older, so we will include all our good news here.

The day we found out Jackson was a boy, was Thursday, July 2. He weighed approximately 15 ounces and was the length of a carrot. We was being a wiggle-worm at first and didn't want to let us get a good heartbeat, but the sonogram tech was persistent and she got a great sounding heartbeat at 158 beats per minute. We also got to see every part of Jackson, from head to toes. It was great to see how he is growing and developing. Then the big question, boy or girl. I was a little nervous that he wouldn't cooperate, but as you can tell from the picture, we may have an exhibitionist on our hands. The best part of the sonogram, was to know that he is healthy and growing.

I am starting to feel Jackson move around, especially in the mornings as we're waking up. He also apparently liked the music in the In Search (contemporary) worship service this morning at church. Maybe its in the genes, because Jackson's cousin Hunter always danced in her mommy's belly during church.