Welcome Wylie

I just wanted to get some pictures up. I'll post the whole story later. William Crane Ross, III "Wylie" was born on Wednesday, February 18th at 5:27. He weighed 6 pounds 12 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long. He has a TON of dark hair and a strong set of lungs. We came home Friday ad are doing well.

Friend Shower

Sharon Hulsey, Brandy Hale, me, Emily Roach, Crystal Brank

Crystal wanted to do a shower at her house. Brandy, Emily, and Sharon helped her. It was a mixed group of people that were a lot of fun. I thought the gifts would never end! I have wonderful friends!

School Shower

Malcom Bridge Elementary. Baby shower times three! All three of us are due within a few weeks of each other.

Church Shower

First Shower

January 17th was my first shower. It was family, given by my aunts. They have to have a theme, so since I'm using Eric Carle art in the nursery they went with The Hungry Caterpillar. Very, very cute. All the food was what they caterpillar ate in the book.

Changes

Although we expect many changes in the coming weeks, this week we had a very unexpected change. Our beloved cat, Herman, passed away on Friday. Herman was perfectly fine until sometime Tuesday when he started having seizures. Will took him to the vet Wednesday morning. There they ran many different tests on him and monitored him closely. None of the tests showed anything. He died in his sleep Thursday night or Friday morning probably from a seizure that he could not come out of.

Herman was found near the nursery in June 2005, about a month after Will and I were married. Will's parents kept him at their house while we were gone on our honeymoon waiting to see if someone would take him. We decided while we were gone that we would give him a chance. We brought him to our house soon after we returned home and he has lived with us ever since. Although we know that in less than six weeks we will be occupied with a new baby to take care of, right now our house seems very empty. Herman was a companion to both of us, a part of our family, and our house is not the same without him scratching at the window wanting in, keeping us warm on the couch, sticking his nose in our breakfast, or crowding one of us out of the bed at night. He is sorely missed by us both.

If you want to see more pictures of Herman you can go to my Picasa album at http://picasaweb.google.com/home?tab=mq

7 weeks to go!

Today we had a check-up and we had also scheduled an extra ultrasound just for fun. We had 30 minutes for the technician to just play around and see if she could get some good pictures of the baby. She focused on the face, hands and feet since we don't want to know if it's a boy or a girl. It was a little disappointing because the baby kept his face nestled in part of the placenta and we couldn't get a really clear picture. Apparently he's a nose picker! While we were watching him it looked like he was picking his nose. Very entertaining. Since he is moving around so much more than last time we had an ultrasound it was even more exciting to watch the screen. I know he will start moving less in the coming weeks since he's beginning to run out of space. I'm not looking forward to that so much because I like being able to feel him move around almost all the time. The estimated weight they gave us at this point is 5.8. It looks like he's going to be chunker!