Simpson's Journey

Here are three pictures of me and my belly. I don't see a real difference between the first and second picture but the third is definitely noticeable. The first one was taken at 16 weeks, the second at 20 weeks and the third at 25 weeks.

Today Joe and Todd went to Fogcutter and watched the Bears game while Kim and I went shopping. We meet up with the boys and went to dinner at On the Border, a great Mexican restaurant, and then back to downtown Chicago to go see the Blue Man Group. We had a fun time there at Briar Street Theater and the show was very entertaining. At the end of the show they had everyone pass tons of streamers from the back of the theater to the front and through all of the paper I briefly lost my engagement ring. Luckily a girl found it who was sitting right behind me! I thanked her a million times and thanked God for letting us get the ring back. After wards the Blue Men we out in the lobby and we were able to take pictures with them! What an enjoyable night!

Our great friends the Shoemakers came to visit and we took them to Chicago! How can you be in IL and not go to Chicago! First we parked at Navy Pier and grabbed a bite to eat. Then we did the tourist thing and went to the Sears Tower, went back to Navy Pier to walk around and shop, had a great meal at Mike Ditka's and finished the day at Navy Pier watching the fire works over Lake Michigan! It was a wonderful time with an ample amount of walking! Dinner was fabulous and the company was awesome!

This dresser was a hand-me-down from Joe's grandparents. It was spray painted a cream color. Well Joe and I wanted to spray paint it something more in the brown family to go along with our theme in the nursery. We are going to use this as a changing table and dresser for Cameron. So we got to work on striping the paint off so that we could repaint it the color we wanted. Joe and I hard at work spraying on the striping agent and then cleaning it off once we waited the 15 minutes. Nice stripped down drawers. The finished product. Another project that Joe and I never tried before we accomplished. We feel like we have done more with this house than the previous one in Greensboro. I guess it does help that we have Cameron on the way to make things look a certain way!

My 24 week appointment let us do another sonogram! It was awesome to see better pictures of Cameron this time around. And yes, she is a girl! Cameron weighs just over 1 lb and she is as strong as ever. Cameron's bones look good and healthy, we were able to see the brain, stomach and heart. The heart is beating around 146 beats per minute. Cameron is growing by leaps and bounds! It is truly amazing to see how much our little girl has grown since the last visit! My doctor says everything looks fine and my weight and blood pressure are good. Cameron was still a little shy when it came to really seeing her, as far as showing us that she is a girl but Joe said that it is good because she is learning to be modest!  I go back on Nov. 11th for my 28 week appointment, which I get to do the glucose test, then I start going every 2 weeks. On my 30 week appointment I will have another sonogram done and that will be my last unless complications arise. I am glad that we got ...