25 Weeks....

I’m sitting at the airport in Calgary waiting to catch a flight, of course way too early and thought this would be a good time to write a blog update. It’s been about two weeks since the last update and we have hit some milestones, personally and with the baby.

Our baby shower was thrown a couple weeks ago and about 60 people gathered for the occasion ready to celebrate, eat, and of course talk all things baby. It was the most amazing day with family and friends and both Daniel and I realized how grateful we both are for the love our friends and family have for us and that our dear friends Leah and Bryce for throwing such an amazing party. The baby shower went throughout the day, and then turned into a party that moved over to our house and went until the early hours of the morning the next day. Good times had by all, and we are still organizing boxes, baby clothes, toys and baby “stuff” that now seem to be throughout our house.

Another big accomplishment that we pretty much completed is the baby nursery. Final touches are being made and now what seemed to be a disorganized mess in one of our spare rooms has now turned out to be one of the most beautiful baby nursery’s I have ever seen. Daniel’s painting is amazing and the time we spent on this one room alone is unbelievable, but well worth it. We find ourselves now just sitting in the room, thinking of our baby. Wondering what he is going to be like, how he will like the room, and can now picture him running around his room pulling all the stuffed toys out of the bins and making a mess, a mess we wont mind at all. 5 months ago we were in Panama, going through a procedure to hopefully get pregnant, and now we are sitting in our babies room preparing for his arrival. Such a big change in a small amount of time, and we believe with perseverance all things are possible…

Yesterday we received ultra sound reports from Panama, everything is perfect. We are 25 weeks pregnant and out little guy is about 798 grams, which is well within all normal ranges for a baby his age. We also saw some picture of our surrogate’s baby bump, which is now a full on pregnancy stomach and not such a “bump” anymore. Everything is great, healthy baby and healthy surrogate; this is all we can ask for. The ultra sound pictures still don’t look like anything recognizable when you look at them, but with imagination we both see our little baby boy and all his characteristics we picture his hair, eyes, and can actually start imagining what his personality will be.  We are on the last stages of pregnancy soon, and will moving towards the third and final trimester, where does the time go?

One final thing I wanted to share with everyone is that we have named our little guy, the process with picking a name for him was quite easy for us, once we found out we were having a boy it was almost an instant decision between Daniel and I what we would name him, a name that means something personally to us and our family and with pride I can now tell everyone our baby’s name is Layton…




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