Week 16 Update..........It's a Boy!

Another Successful trip to the Korean Doctor. Everything went well. We didn't see Kelli's actual doctor this time because he was away. But the one we saw seemed very nice and knew enough English to work with. She showed us the face, arms, and legs. I was looking over her shoulder and actually saw something that made me pretty sure it was a boy. Then the doctor asked Kelli if we wanted to know and confirmed it was a boy! I sure was glad Kelli said "yes" cause I don't think I could've kept it a secret for the next 5 months! The top pic shows the baby's face.
This pic shows an updated check on the heart. Everything looks good so far. The next big thing is the blood test for birth defects. She had the blood taken today. So hope everything comes back good in 7-10 days. We are quite spoiled at this hospital. When we walk in the international clinic liason meets us at the door and walks us through the hospital. It is a very busy place and she cuts us through all the lines. It feels like being a VIP!

Free Crib!

Last week, we noticed our neighbors moved out. Being the opportunist that I am, I decided to take a look through their apartment to see if they left anything good. We found a crib in there. It is the exact one we would have bought from the PX in Daegu(because it is the only one they sell), so I went up and asked the landlord if we could have it. His wife said yes so we brought it into our place. It seems a little early to be setting up a nursery, but the price was too good to pass up! After our visit home we had already acquired a few baby articles and bought the metal rack to use for storage.

Kelli's Paper Dolls

Kelli has been going to the Apple Blossom Cottage at the Army Community Service building on base. They have many little craft classes there (like the cooking class from the older post about the pork bulgogi). This one turned out better than that one. She took once a week class for just over 2 months to make these rice paper dolls. They are made completely from rice paper and look really cool. When she first started them I was worried they looked like the state puffed marshmallow man wrapped in toilet paper, but they look cool now that they are done.

12 Week Update

The nice thing about going off base to a Korean doctor is that you get an ultrasound at every appointment. Don't worry the doctor is American Board certified and the Army referred us to him. As you can see the baby is getting bigger. The ultrasound moved the due date back 5 days to January 23rd. Notice the little face the doctor drew on the baby. He tends to do this to show us things.

7 Weeks Already

At Kelli's first doctor's appointment on June 12th we found out she was already 7 weeks pregnant according to the ultrasound. The picture to the right shows the Heartbeat! It also shows the tiny little baby. I call'em peanut for now. This was right before we went home on leave so we got to take these pictures home to show our families. The due date was set for January 28th.

Baby Time!

This is a little old news, but we wanted to wait till we got home on leave to tell our families in person. Didn't think the internet was the best to tell them. On June 1st, I finally got tired of Kelli complaining about her belly being upset and we decided she should take this test just to if this was why she hadn't been feeling right. It took less than 30 seconds to turn positive!

CARPET!!!!

Today we headed to Daegu to find some carpet. We had been wanting some to put in our living area as a break from the hardwood floors. The hardwood floors had been bothering both of our shins so we thought an area rug would help. We found a piece the size we wanted. The next task was getting it to fit under the bus. Andy managed to bend it a little and jam it under the bus. Once we got back to Camp Carroll is when the challenge really happened. Andy had to carry it the whole way home.





Doesn't it look nice???









My crazy husband carrying the carpet home to our apartment... about a mile!

Our old rug under our kitchen table