32 down, 8 to go....

I love feeling him wiggle and jiggle inside me.

Baby Shower

My sister, Aunt Nancy, Mother-in-law and Cousin-in-law got together and threw me an amazing baby shower/brunch this morning. I am so blessed to have so many people who love me, Andy and now baby boy Dryden ;)



The shower was Fiesta themed, complete with a pinata, Mexican food and pastries... and hopefully will get me off on the right foot in speaking Spanish to Elias because I received a lot of bilingual books!

30 down, 10 to go....

9 more weeks! (above)



10 More weeks! It doesn't appear that I have grown that much in the past month.... But I guess another growth spurt is coming up. If baby has gained 3 lbs in the past 30 weeks... and he is going to gain about 4 more in the next 10 weeks, then that is A LOT of growing at the end.

26 weeks down, 14 to go

Its much harder than I had imagined.

25 weeks down, 15 to go....

Breaking the gender news

We had our detailed ultrasound on Dec 23rd, and we were very happy to be able to find out the gender of the baby. The first thing the ultrasound lady showed us was the growth between the baby's legs. Yep- its clearly a boy, unless she had her hand positioned just perfectly to fool us.
Since we found out so close to Christmas, I decided that we should wait to tell our families until Christmas. The Drydens dont like this sort of anticipation, but I love it. So Andy ended up telling his family over the phone, and I told my family at the end of a reenactment of the Christmas play at our family Christmas gathering.

Being the token pregnant lady, I got to play Mary in the play, with all my cousins children. I didn't look pregnant enough, so I wrapped up the balloon that said "Its a Boy" and put it under my shirt. At the end of the play, when Mary had the baby, I let my mom unwrap the present, and all my family and extended family, then knew... the Petersen girls have an 85% probability of having a boy.

Carinn-1 boy
Katie- 3 boys, 1 girl
Dayna- 4 boys, 1 girl
Heidi- 1 boy

23 weeks down 17 to go