Merry Christmas!

Well, we spent this past weekend with the Thornburg/Kutsch side of the family in town to celebrate Christmas. A special visitor came to see us on Saturday, and Nate seemed to really think it was fun - once he warmed up to him. Overall, I think everyone had a great time!

On another quick note - we have been staying warm and dry in all of our crazy winter weather. More snow is expected today/tonight/tomorrow. Good thing we have Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off of work, but Mark might have to come in to do some snow removal. Oh joy.

As far as new baby... I am now 23 weeks (as of Christmas Day). We also think we might have a name for the little peanut - Matthew Patrick Kutsch. While we know we don't want to get anything engraved/embroidered at this point, it seems to be the name peanut will have.

Here are some photos from this weekend. We will add more photos from Christmas morning as soon as possible. Enjoy!

Drew spent a couple extra days with us before the rest of the family arrived. He and Mark went on their first hunting outings together and had a great time.



A special visitor comes to visit! Nate loved having Santa at his house!









Nate playing with (and in) his new Mega Blocks from Papa and Grandma.



Watching Saturday morning Playhouse Disney with cousins Drew and Mikayla



Hanging out with Papa



The whole crew builds a gingerbread house.

Our ultrasound news...

We are having ...

A BOY!

OB appt went well - Nate slept through the u/s. I need another u/s b/c Baby Boy didn't want to stretch out enough to get good spine and kidney pics, but everything else looks good. Heartbeat was 160. He definitely wasn't shy about letting us know he is a boy - and the tech said if she is wrong we can call her and she will change the diapers for a year! (I'd say it is a very good bet then.) Found out the placenta is low lying (marginal previa), which is not a big deal at this point b/c 95% of the time it will move up on its own. If not, still not a big deal and we will cross that bridge if we have to with a c-section, but doc doesn't think it will be a problem at all. I loved this new doc. She was very cool with Nate and very sweet. Oh yeah - quad test came back good.


One more thing - my face is finally starting to not swell anymore from this nasty sinus infection I got. I think it is actually going down some! Yay!

That is the news and I will post pics from this weekend back in St. Louis soon!