Fun Baby Showers

Me and Amy at the shower in OK



Me and Cheryl at the shower in St. Louis












This has been an exciting time as we've been showered with love and gifts from friends and family. I'm including pictures from our shower in Oklahoma, hosted by Amy Anthony and Martha Cole, and the one here in St. Louis, hosted by Cheryl Perlmutter!

This is a cute picture of me with my girls from college! They all came into town to celebrate Nathan's upcoming arrival!

Karyn, Diana, Me, Emily, and Katherine at the St. Louis shower

About 10 weeks and counting...

We are finally past the 30 week mark and are about 10 weeks away from the exciting event! We have been busy with lots of little details, namely painting the nursery, trying to get our crib together (we now have 4 sets of front legs...), and waiting on other pieces of furniture to arrive. We will be starting our childbirth classes at the hospital on Tuesday, so it should be both exciting and informative! Jeremy swears he won't watch the birthing video... we'll see about that! Overall, we are excited and anxious for little Nathan to arrive!

Here's my belly just shy of 31 weeks!!

27 weeks and counting...

We have had some exciting developments! Jeremy was finally able to see and feel Little Nathan kicking! We've also been able to feel his head, butt, and whatever else smash against my belly and make a really hard spot. It's not the most comfortable experience, so if I just push in a little bit, he moves! It's a bit surreal that this little man is growing into a real boy! How fun!

We have been busy trying to get the house ready. Jeremy and I have essentially cleaned out our entire house and eliminated all the trash and junk that we don't need! I can't believe we had so much stuff in our house that we never really even used!

As far as the nursery goes, we settled on wall colors and are working on ideas for incorporating fun animals and other pictures into the design. Hopefully we'll get the room painted and set up within the next couple of weeks. We received our crib in the mail, but had to get several replacement parts because of damage during shipping. Those new parts should be arriving in the next couple of days. His changer/dresser is on order and should be here within the next month.

This is the latest of my belly. I'm 27 weeks right now, and we'll be moving into our 3rd trimester next week! I can't believe how fast time has gone by!

Baby Update!

Little Nathan has been moving around like crazy and is growing like a weed! He is about a pound and a half and measures something on the order of 13.5 inches long.

I am currently 25 weeks along, so this picture is about 2 weeks old.

I will be taking my glucose screening test on Friday to determine if I have gestational diabetes (standard test every pregnant woman takes). I don't anticipate any problems with this, but I'll provide an update soon! After this appointment, we will be shifting down from one appointment every 4 weeks to an appointment every 2 weeks!

We have been very busy getting the nursery together. We've ordered our crib and dresser/changer. We are also trying to figure out how to paint the nursery in our Jungle Safari theme! Once we get it done, we'll upload pictures.

After a lot of prayer and consideration, I have also decided to go back to work. I am planning to take about 3 months off work, and then will head back to work for at least 32 hours each week. We have enrolled Nathan in The Goddard School, which is an early childhood development school located within our neighborhood. If you are interested in seeing what it's like or learning more about it, you can visit http://www.goddardschool.com/Schools.aspx?SchoolID=205&PageName=Locations.

Ok, that's all for now... more pictures are coming soon!

I felt the baby move!

Merry Christmas! What a joy to be able to feel little Nathan moving around inside me on such a joyous holiday! We are doing well in Oregon, although I have been suffering from a pretty nasty cold! The house is silent as people are still sleeping, but I'm looking forward to a great day! We hope you have a wonderful Christmas!

Ultrasound pics of Nathan!

Nathan with his legs crossed! If you look in between his legs, you can see that he's a real boy!

















Nathan's face!
















Nathan laying on his belly and curled up with his knees tucked into his chest!
















This is a picture of Nathan's foot!

Pics of Jess at 4 months

This is me at 4 months!

Welcome to our blog!

We will be using this site to upload pictures and convey information about Jess' pregnancy, important events for Team Sato, and of course, updates about little baby Nathan! Check back regularly!