Love the hospital!

We visited Mercy Fairfield's Family Birthing Center today and I have to say that I'm very impressed by the way they run their maternity ward. It seems very different than most other hospitals which I am grateful for! We really liked the jacuzzi tubs in every room, and that everything happens in one room. They call them labor, delivery, and recovery rooms, so it's good that it can all be done there. Also, they are one of the only Baby Friendly hospitals in the area, so we're just excited about going to the hospital now instead of dreading it.

The room in the basement is almost complete! And they are making progress on the bathroom too! So it's possible that we will be able to start on baby's room next week. I will definitely be posting pictures when rooms are done because it will be a big celebration in this house!

Dr.'s appointment

We had a doctors appointment on Monday and everything is going well! My measurements (of my uterus) are perfect and I'm feeling pretty good. My doctor will be out of town at the end of July/first week of August so here's hoping I don't go into labor that early. Also, I wrote a summary of this parenting book I read so that Ian could read that instead of the whole book. He's learning a lot about babies! He was a little freaked about that fact that it's normal for a baby to cry from 1-4 hours a day, but he'll be alright. We start birthing classes on August 4th. The most fun thing for me about that is how much I know it's going to gross Ian out ;)

Maine!

We just got back from our week and a half trip to Maine/Boston and it was wonderful! We're at 33 weeks today (that's a little more than 7 months) and we have a doctors appointment later so I'll probably post on how that goes. Anyway here are some pics from our adventures:

We'll do funny ones first. Here's Ian on our hotel bed in Boston, then when we went outside for the first time we couldn't have looked more tourist-y:

Here's baby's first time at the beach, then baby getting a kiss from Daddy:

Here is our Beckham family picture:

And finally, here's a good sign we found. I don't know about you, but I've never met any animals who can windsurf!!!

And here's a slide show of the nicer side of Maine and two Boston pics: