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Well the kids are at Grandma Cheryl's house for a few days and I am debating whether or not I want to drive over to Yakima or not with the threat of snow so I figured I should hop on here and update my intriguing blog. We had a wonderful Christmas and the kids got way too many great gifts and we got to see a bunch of family and I haven't thrown up in a few days so we are all doing great. Shane got to take yesterday (Monday) off so we had a nice long weekend and ended up getting a stove and chest freezer at Sears. I guess those long hours at UPS literally do pay off. We have almost stopped using credit cards (thank you Dave Ramsey, one day we will be debt free) so although it was painful to hand over that much cash, we don't have to pay a single cent of interest on our purchase. The stove we have before was probably around 20 year old and a nice off-while/yellowish color so this new sleek flat top while one sure brings the kitchen up to date. Who knew getting new appliances could make me so happy?
As for the baby we had some interesting news at my ultrasound. No, we can't tell the sex of the baby yet, but according to measurements I'm not quite as far along as I thought and my new due date is now 7/7/10. Back to week 13 I go. Everything looks fine I just get to be pregnant for a little longer than I thought. So as a refresher they say the baby is the size of a peach now, about 3 inches and almost an ounce in weight. In the ultrasound picture it looks like the baby's head is about as big as it's body but supposedly now the head is a little more proportionate and about 1/3 the size of the body. Man this little guy or gal is growing fast!!

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  1. Is the baby waving in the ultrasound or does he/she have a pinnochio nose? LOL

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  2. That is an arm and on the original ultrasound you can even see little toe bones. I can't wait to see the next ultrasound, the baby should look like a real baby then!!

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