Meet the baby....

Baby Rodes' made it's first appearance today. We had out first ultrasound and got to see our little lemon! It's heart was beating at 183 beats per minute - as you can see on the third picture, it's got a lot of blood to pump. It showed us it could move it's head and arms too.... it's legs are still too little for us to see. Our due date is sometime between January 7th and 15th... as the baby's growth/size seems to put out a little further.

It's officially real, there is a little person with a beating heart growing inside of me!

A New Chapter...

Since we are starting a new chapter in our lives, we decided that with family everywhere we needed to create a one-stop shop, if you will of what is going on in our lives. Wednesday, June 16th, we get to meet this little lemon/lime/plum/tangerine - which ever fruit you choose to compare it to that has taken residence up in my stomach for the past 10 weeks 3 days and will continue to keep its self content for the next 30 weeks. Our current projected due date is January 7th, 2011. It seems so far away and yet we have made it to ten weeks quite quickly. Zeb and I are both taking Wednesday off to make a day of it all... I need some new clothes (imagine that) and we haven't had a lot of time to ourselves since we took our current foster care placement. So, as soon as we know whats growing inside of me, we will post pictures.... stay tuned on Wednesday for the newest addition to the Rodes' household...