More pictures of a very cute little boy!

and so it begins...my very biased view of the boy! =)

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Mommy is doing VERY well. Noah wants McDonald's french frys about 18x more than he should. He's a VERY lucky boy, b/c his mommy only feeds him those when I insist that he gets what he wants. We're workin' on fixing that "give 'em what he wants" thing before he gets out, as I know that's not a good thing. BOY God sure knew what he was doing giving me a boy first. If it was a girl...oh man... I don't think I'd ever learn how to say no! =)

TENTATIVELY, mommy and daddy are scheduled to enjoy a "Babymoon" on Hilton Head Island, SC. We're stayin' @ The Hilton Oceanfront Resort for the first 2 days. Following that, we're going to try out a priceline trick or two to see if we can't score some 5 star stuff (The Westin) for under an Uncle Ben.

Summer has come and gone. For those of you who receive the Journal, you know all too well how busy this summer is ALREADY! ;) I believe that this is the beginning of the end of the gone for 2 months @ a time summers. W/ Noah on the way, and Mommy unable to chaperone everything, I'm just not about to be away from the family for 2 months at a time. Although, I must say, we really enjoyed being able to spend that much time w/ students and others in ministry, that sorta life will just have to wait 30 more years. Hopefully, at which point, we can beign children's ministry again, with our grand kids! =)

Still trying really hard to track down some 4-D ultrasounds. I'd LOVE to get pictures of little Noah INSIDE the mommy...but so far everyone seems to want you to be a patient first. hmmm...how to "fix" that? :)

Well, bed is calling! Time for SLEEPY!

The Smallest Little Heartbeat.

The little boy's heartbeat is so small. I bet some day his heart will beat for some crazy woman (or so we'll think) and he will fall all in love with her. I just hope we have the patience to watch him get hurt and try again someday. Bleh, don't wanna think about that too much today!

Well, anyway, he's got a healthy 148-150 in this recording, and I think toward the end you can hear me sayin' "...48..." and the doc confirming that :) Check out his little heartbeat here.

Breastfeeding Class

"the butt is the rudder"

pain - initial 7-10 days for 1st 30 seconds

begin feeding @ birth

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It is SUCH a boy! =)

For those who are staring at that like any normal guy might... to the left of the "BOY" is his stuff. Our ultrasoundologistlady said that he is a very good boy b/c he showed us first thing that he was a boy! Ya Noah! I hope that's not the last time he behaves. Although, I hope even moreso that he's not as eager to show his stuff in the future...but somehow I'm pretty sure that's not gonna happen. ;) "Nature-boy"ism sorta runs in the family. My parents LOVE telling those stories =) More pictures to follow!

It's a Noah Gage Tanner! Ya for boys!!!

Mommy has to pee really bad! Still waiting...

9 votes boy
4 votes girl

well...we're about to find out! =) In another hour and a half we should know! Pray that we'll be able to SEE the gender and that it's HEALTHY!!!! =)

Man, I totally felt the baby move again this morning! :) Andrea was asleep and didn't feel it, but I'm pretty sure it was a ninja kick or a sumersault or something really great like that. We get to SEE the baby move in another 3 days! We'll be sure to post the gender here as soon as we find out! :) Wednesday, around 4pm EDT should be the time!

I FELT THE BABY MOVE! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

Lastnight, before we fell asleep, I put my head on the baby to try to hear it's heart beat and it kicked me in the head! yay! =) WAAAHOOOOOOOOOOO! FINALLY, felt the baby move! WAHOOOOOOOOOO! Yay BABY!

7 days until we find out whether it's noah or grace - be sure to vote a few posts down on the poll ;)

Halfway done?!?!

I still can't believe that today marks the halfway point for Noah-Grace!!! And, only 8 more days til we can start calling the precious one simply Noah or Grace!! I'm still feeling great and enjoying people noticing my protruding tummy for the first time. Getting ready to give us some exercise--a walk on the treadmill and try out my new Yoga During Pregnancy video.

Andrea and I find out Noah-Grace's gender in 10 days! =)

Is Noah-Grace a Boy or Girl?
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Look @ that tired mommy! Andrea carried Noah-Grace all over the campus of GCC as she showed people where to paint and where to draw rocks and oh boy... so much stuff :)

Be sure to check the GCC Blog for pictures of the biggest castle in Georgetown! =)

The Labor & Delivery Room

Yep - that's it, all of it - not quite a hampton, but hardwood floors are a really nice touch! Andrea said Western Batpist's was way bigger (requires use of the eVIL browser, internwebconnect explorer) - ah well :)

Andrea said that honestly, she doesn't think she's really going to need a room much bigger for me a couple nurses and a doc...even though the doc won't be there too much =)

We got to see the labor/Delivery rooms following our "baby class" tonight, and we also got to "hear" the baby's heart beat! YAY FUN! =) We were supposed to get a little print out, but our little secret agent baby twin in there has quite obviously taught Noah-Grace most of his/her little heartbeat masking tricks. We DID hear SOME heartbeat - just not enuf 4 this 2 sound really gr8. Oh well, maybe in 2 weeks we'll get a good recording! :)

Clothes crisis

Spring cleaning has a whole new meaning when it involves taking all the clothes out of the closet that are in the category called "Don't even try on right now unless your ready for a laugh!" Of course the rubberband trick has worked great for pants, but I am going through a lot of rubberbands lately as they keep breaking. Maybe it is time to actually start wearing my maternity clothes. Not that I mind! I have been ready for that since, um, the day I found out I was pregnant.

 

Lately, I have had more and more realizations that I am growing, even though to look at my stomach, it just doesn't seem that much bigger. I was so proud of myself to have an outfit picked out last night to wear today that I was sure would fit. But no, either that shirt shrunk in the last two weeks or I grew. I am loving watching all the changes. Now if Chris could just feel this baby move, he would be a much happier Daddy.

AWESOME parents!

So, Mom & Dad Tanner (the real Mom & Dad Tanner, the ones that made me), offered to sell us their van and take my sweet ghetto-sled as a trade (knowing how awesome it is and that no dealer in the world would understand just how incredible sweet of a ride it is). So, the younger Tanners get that beauty of a van up there!

Now before you get all carried away w/ all the names and all the profiling that my driving a mini-van will instigate...you need to know that this is incredibly thoughtful on my parents behalf! You also need to know that this is just not even possible...and that it can't really be happening...I can't possibly be getting a mini-van...that's just not even possible... I can't even be that old...there's just no "flippin'" way!

So, since it's going to happen...I'll just kick it off w/ the name calling and racial...I mean, automotive profiling, so here goes...


The BABY-mobile, or the all-too-obvious, california rasin, the soccer-mom(or dad)-mobile, yuppie wagon, Tanner's tAxi, go ahead, let 'em go...might as well get 'em out of the way

I just can't believe I'm old enough to get a mini-van...this just has so many implications...uh...I can't bear to think of it! =)

Sure is thoughtful of Mom & Dad though! =)