Childbirth School Graduates!

Ashleigh and I are very excited that we've graduated from birthing class! We received our diploma yesterday (Thursday June 25th) and we're looking into breast feeding classes at the general. I can't believe how knowledgable Elaine (our nurse) was...she answered every question with responses that covered every possible situation. We are very lucky that she shared her time and her very very dry sense of humor with us. Aside from the classroom, Ashleigh and I got the chance to visit the nursery, a recovery room, and a birth room. It was very interesting to be able to see the rooms before we actually go into the hospital for the birth of our baby. There is something comforting about being in those rooms and getting a feel for our surroundings.

On a separate note, Ashleigh and I visited Dr. Edwards yesterday and he gave us a clean bill of health. The baby's heart rate was great, Ashleigh's blood pressure was great, and she's measuring 2 weeks ahead of our due date...this doesn't necessarily mean that the baby will come early...it just means that we are going to have a big healthy baby! Lucky us!

Hopefully I'll have a video or two uploaded soon...

Love,

Ashleigh and Jarrod

Moving Day!

Today was moving day for the Brown family! We moved our bedroom upstairs and put in a little den area downstairs where our bedroom used to be. Abe and Auntie Courtney came over to help, and so did Papa, we had to shave a little off the top of the stairway to get our boxspring upstairs! As you can see from the picture, Adalayde is getting big! Mommy feels wonderful though and can't wait to hold her in her arms instead of just her belly. Daddy did a lot of building today; the lamb swing, the pack and play, and did a few other things around the house.

Here is a picture of the doorway that Papa had to skillsaw out!

60 more days and counting until our due date, 2 more birthing classes, and lots and lots of happy thoughts about meeting our new baby!

Week 31!

Hi Everyone...

Ashleigh and I have just developed this blog to celebrate the birth of our first baby! We are getting close and believe it or not, it's flown by! As of today, we are in our 31st week and we are soooo excited! To celebrate, we drove up to York, ME today and had a wonderful lunch at Goldenrod Kisses!

Then we spent a couple of hours at the Wild Kingdom!

It was a fantastic time and it was a little "wild" to think that it was probably our last trip to the zoo before baby Adalayde arrives! We are very excited about posting...hopefully it will be on a daily basis from here on out :) I think we will take some pics of mom tomorrow to see how beautiful she looks. Stay tuned!

Love,

Jarrod and Ashleigh