Our fatty coconut

We had an ultrasound last week, and our baby is "officially" a girl! We're still set for early June, and our baby girl is measuring in at a healthy 11 oz.

I was on one of the parenting websites today, and I was looking at how big our baby is right now. Apparently she is the size of a coconut, and should weigh between 9-10 oz. Well, as I said before, she's weighing in at 11 oz. Alex started talking to our baby calling her our fatty coconut. I just keep picturing this huge baby, and that kind of worries me. At least I know she's not starving in there!

Mukluks

Mukluks or Kamik (singular: kamak) are a soft boot traditionally made of reindeer skin or sealskin and were originally worn by Arctic natives, including the Inuit and Yupik. The term mukluk is often used for any soft boot designed for cold weather and modern designs are often similar to high-top athletic shoes. (Wikipedia)


Alex lounging around in the mukluks he got for Christmas from Bryant and Heidi.

Holiday Trip to Utah

Alex and I got to enjoy the holidays with our family in Utah. And can we ever put the emphasis on FAMILY! It had to be one of the more crazy weeks of *bonding* with our long-distance siblings and parents.

My WHOLE family was in Utah for Christmas. Dan, Ashley, Josh, Jake, and Ben were in from Colorado. Nathan, Julie, and Mikka were in from Clearfield. Mark, Cat, Matt, and Ethan were in from Japan. Megan was in from Ireland. And Alex and I rounded out the bunch from good ol’ PA. There were always way too many people running around the house, way too many games played on the Wii, way too many late nights (those party animals Cat and Megan), and way too many pictures taken of us in our Irish wool sweaters. Couldn’t have asked for a better mini-family-reunion – who knows when the whole fam will be together again.




Alex’s WHOLE family was in Utah for Christmas, too. They all live in Utah (with the exception of us), so it was a little less distance for them to travel. But we had lots of fun with all of the brothers and sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles (there were family parties on both the Fillerup and Robertson sides). Alex packed our Wii with us so that his siblings could play it while we were in town. And, just as with my family, there were way too many games played on the Wii!

The highlight of the trip was telling our families that we are expecting a baby. We gave a present to both sets of parents on Christmas day. The present had bibs reading “I love my Grandpa” and “I love my Grandma” and included a bag of pink and blue m&ms with our due date written on it. Alex’s aunt was awesome enough to take us in to her clinic the next day for some ultrasounds so we could try to find out what we’re having, along with giving us about 50 pictures of our baby! Based on the pictures of our cute baby, we’re pretty sure it’s a girl!