Keith & Martha Crawford

3/31/07 I got a chance to do some work on my controls today

This is the dual stick and bell cranks with a control arm in the middle.

Check out my home page to see my new QC he should be on the job soon.

http:martha@simerson.net

Today’s up date, Martha and Levi cuddling.

Dr. Aurand releasing us. 

All is  good here;  we should be going home Tuesday.

Here are a couple pictures to enjoy

Grandpa and Grandma simerson saying hi for the first time

Grandma  Stanley  saying  hi  for  the  first time

Grandpa Doug and myself trying to tie a shirt on Levi.

Quiet and beautiful all in the same picture.

Every body welcome Levi Nathanael Crawford

Born at 8:45 a.m., 3/25/07. 7 pounds even, and 18 1/2″ long.

We did a totally natural childbirth, thanks to the encouragement of my Wonderful Husband and our Birthing Doula who kept reminding me that that was what I wanted.

Directly after birth, cleaning him up.
Tummy time right after birth. He latched on like a champ.

Our family

Levi all cleaned up.

Our Doula, Julie, and Levi

Where’s the post telling us more about your little boy? Tap. Tap. Is this thing on? Enquring (and nosy) siblings want to know!

Had my 39 week appointment today, and as you can probably guess by the Title line, I am 2 cm dilated and 70% effaced! Yay, since I haven’t had contractions at all that I can positively say are contractions, I expected to be told that I wasn’t dilated at all. So though I know this means very little and I could be sitting here at 41 weeks still 2 cm dilated, it is progress and I find that exciting.

Thought I would share with you all a last belly photo or two; don’t know how many more of these I’m gonna have. So here is me at 39w2d (today):

And here is the nursery. It is about 95% complete. Keith needs to finish the trim, and I need to make the curtains and hang a couple more things on the wall, but I wanted to get these pictures up for now. So, first we have the curtain fabric. Then two pics of the nursery, then a quilt that Aunt Brenda made that I am using as a wall hanging and then a growth / height chart a friend made. Enjoy!

I know it’s been forever since I posted anything. It’s been pretty hectic here lately, getting the nursery room ready and everything else done. It’s getting very close. We need to finish a few things but it should be pretty much done by the end of the week. I had two lovely showers and got just about everything that we need for baby’s arrival. Here is a picture of the baby’s room as it is now… still have some stuff to do, obviously. There is an armoire that needs to be brought upstairs and painted, and stuff put away.

That was taken with our new digital camera. It was time for an upgrade. As my brother said, “You still have that Nikon? It’s a dinosaur.” Yep. I agree. So, on to a Canon A710. So far, we love it. We got it in the mail on Thursday afternoon and Keith has been playing with it ever since. Seems to take good pictures. Upon arrival, the tripod that we bought as part of a package deal had a broken leg. So, we called the manufacturer and a new one is on the way.

My friend Amy came over yesterday and we put together the bassinet. That was a trip – the instructions said explicitly not to take the ruffly thing off of the base for the bed, so we didn’t. We put it all together, only to realize when we attempted to attach the mobile that the ruffly part on the base that we did not take off was put on backwards! Silly manufacturers. So we took it apart and put it back together the correct way. Here is us putting it together – told you Keith likes his new toy!

Not much other news to report. My doctor doesn’t do internal exams until week 39, unless you are contracting or having other complications. We are not, so if the baby comes earlier than 39 weeks, it’s going to just be a surprise. He did offer to do an ultrasound for us so we could find out the gender when he read that we didn’t know (for those of you who don’t know, we’ve changed doctors due to insurance reasons). We told him we didn’t know because we didn’t WANT to know, not because the baby didn’t cooperate. So none of us knows, because they have not sent over the US techs files yet. No chance of anyone spilling the beans. The baby has dropped (about 2 weeks ago), though and is in head down position.
My friend Megan is due on March 19th and for her shower, I made her a quilt. She is having a baby girl, and I knew her nursery was lavender and Pooh themed, so here is the quilt I made about a month ago. First, quilt top. Second image is zoomed in on one of the squares, and the last is the back. It’s a log cabin quilt.

And last but not least, here are some more belly shots. Haven’t shared in a while, but we’ve been taking them still. Last one I posted was at 27w1d, so here is: 29w4d, 33w1d, 34w6d, 36w, and today, at 37w5d. Enjoy!