George

I went down to Yuma, AZ to visit my parents and grandparents for a few days in the end of January. They didn't know it yet, but I was going down to tell them that I was carrying their first grandchild (my grandparent's 7th great-grandchild!). I told my parents by giving them a card that read "Dear Grandma and Grandpa, I'm so excited to meet you. I love you already. Love, your 1st grandchild". My dad got a little confused and thought I'd given them the wrong card after reading "Dear Grandma and Grandpa" but my mom got it right away.

Next I told my Gma and Gpa that I was carrying their great-grandchild. My Grandpa Marlin immediately named it "George", and s(he) has been called George by my family ever since!

First comes love, then comes marriage, then....

Welcome to the blog for Baby Verboort! Jerod and I are excited to announce that we will be welcoming a new member to our family in late September. We had an ultrasound today and he/she looks healthy and is moving around a lot. (S)he even waved at the camera to say hello to mom and dad!

I'm feeling really good so far. I made it through the 1st trimester without any major sickness. Now that the 2nd trimester has arrived I am definitely feeling a lot more energy...which is good timing for my office opening on April 1st.

I haven't had any funny cravings...except for chicken nuggets and cheese. Not together. So the baby is getting plenty of protein and calcium!

We are going to find out sex, but not until 20 weeks, so we have about 6 weeks left until we find out. I'm too much of a planner to be "surprised". We figure that we'll still be surprised to see what (s)he looks like! As you can see from the profile picture this is already a beautiful child (not biased or anything!). :)

We've been talking about names a little bit, but we'll put that on hold until we find out what we are having.

I'll keep posting pictures as we get them. I would post some of me, but I don't look much different. The baby bump is pretty small...but I'm working on that one chicken nugget at a time!