Baby Shower #1-Montgomery

We have been blessed with several baby showers given to us by our wonderful friends and family. The first baby shower was hosted by some of my best friends; Wendy Sampson, Nicole Hall, Lacy May and Kellie Henderson. The baby shower was at Wendy and her husband Steve's home in Montgomery, AL on Sunday, September 25. The ladies did such a wonderful job putting everything together! The shower turned out great and we came home with so many amazing gifts for Colt! Here are a few pictures from the Montgomery baby shower.

Cute Invitation

Carla aka "Honey" and Kim

Maw Maw, "Honey", Kim, Karen and Kallen

Megan, Wynston, Susanna, Lacy, Kim, Wendy, Laura, Nicole, Andi Rae, Kellie and Carly

Lacy, Kellie, Kim, Wendy and Nicole

Kallen and Kim

Kim with the HUGE cake!

Kim and cake....again!

Mom aka Debbie aka "DeDe" and Kim

Dede, Kim and Honey

Wendy cutting the cake

Cake!

Colt's Auburn diaper bag...so cute!

Cake

Delicious food

Food

Colt's gifts

Colt's gifts

More of Colt's gifts

Colt's gifts

Like I said earlier, the baby shower was perfect! We are so lucky and blessed to have so many people that care about us and Colt! We love you all! A special thank you to the hostesses!

Love,

Chase and Kim

10 weeks to go

Well I am officially 30 weeks and 3 days today with only 9 weeks and 4 days to go, hopefully!! We are down to doctor appointments every 3 weeks instead of 4! At our appointment 4-5 weeks ago we got a surprise ultrasound! Dr. Graham said Colt was breach right now, but she told us not to worry about it that he still had time to flip. She scheduled another ultrasound at 36 weeks to make sure he has moved where he needs to be! There isn't much to report right now! We are enjoying the start of football season and watching games on Saturday's right now!! We are still working on completing the nursery...we have the dresser, but we are still waiting on the hutch and crib! Each day I hope it will be the day we get the call that the furniture has all arrived! I am SO ready to finish the nursery. We have some baby showers coming up so the next several weeks will be pretty busy!! I will post pictures from each shower! Here is a picture of me at 30 weeks!

30 weeks

25 weeks and counting

We are down to 15 weeks until our due date!!! A few weeks have passed since our last post, but we have been super busy!! My last doctor's appointment, 2 weeks ago, went really well! We heard Colt's little heartbeat and heard/saw him kicking as he heard his own heartbeat! It was just amazing! I tried to download the recording we have of his heart beating, but I can't seem to figure out how!! Below is a picture of me at 25 weeks!

25 weeks

We have also been working on Colt's nursery....I will share pictures of that in a future blog! I want to have all of the furniture and bedding put together before we reveal the finished product...don't worry it should only be a few weeks!

We did have the privilege of having our friend Laura do a 4D ultrasound for us this past weekend!! If you have never seen one, it is truly amazing!!! He was measuring in at 1 lb and 14 ozs, 25 weeks 4 days (I was 25 weeks 1 day) and with a heartbeat of 141 bpm! He has some very long legs too!!! We got so many good pictures, so I will choose some of our favorites to share with you!!

Sweet Face

Smiling at us!

I think those are his feet up by his face!

Those are his hands...I think

This is his arm holding his leg!

It amazes me how clear the pictures are of his body parts and face!! He didn't want to cooperate at first...he had his back facing us for a good 20 minutes before he would turn around so we could get some shots of him!! :) We also got the entire ultrasound on a DVD!! Unfortunately I can not figure out how to get the video to download to the blog...when I do I will share with everyone!!

Our next doctor's appointment is next Wednesday and then we start going every 3 weeks!!

We are amazed at how fast the pregnancy has gone so far!! We look forward to sharing our completed nursery with everyone, hopefully in our next blog!!

Love,

Chase and Kim

Baby Bedding Dilemma!!

Okay everyone, Chase and I have narrowed our nursery bedding selection down to an astonishing 9!!!! (We will start looking for the nursery crib and nursery furniture next)!!!! We are having a little bit of a hard time cutting any more! We would like to get everyone's opinion as to what your favorites are too! You can post your favorite selection to the blog as a comment, you can Facebook either me or Chase, or you can send us an email to let us know what your favorites are.... chaseandkimdavis@gmail.com . If you don't like any of these and have seen some bedding that you like better, please let us know! We feel like we have looked at every website that is available! Since so many people are having trouble viewing choice #7, here is a link to the website!

http://www.nurserydepot.com/cribbedding/productdetails.asp?id=1-10001834-10001837-141592-4-2&id2=602-0-0-0-0&

Bedding #1

Bedding #2

Bedding #3

Bedding #4

Bedding #5

Bedding #6

Bedding #7

Bedding #8

Bedding #9

We look forward to hearing your opinions whether you like them or not!! Thanks so much everyone!


Love,

Chase and Kim

Baby Davis

A LOT has happened since I last blogged! I will try to start from the beginning! As you all know, we really liked our doctor a lot! Dr. Cooley has been my doctor since we moved here, she took care of us during our difficult time last year, when we had a miscarriage, and she has been wonderful during this pregnancy. So we were very shocked and upset when we found out two weeks ago that Dr. Cooley cleaned out her office and moved out of the state over the weekend....without any notice to many of her employees or any of her patients! A friend at work called me and asked if I had heard and I was stunned when she told me. Here is the link to the article that was published in the local newspaper. This is pretty much how everyone found out!!

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articles/fort-41176-notice-office.html

So needless to say we were on the search for a new doctor! We had visited Dr. Graham at Sacred Heart in Miramar Beach last year and several our friends and friends friends used Dr. Graham and loved her and the entire Sacred Heart experience! So we didn't really have to search too far to decide that we would transfer to her. I explained to them the situation (which they already knew about) and told them that Dr. Cooley wanted to see me 3 weeks from my last appointment instead of 4 weeks due to the Placenta Previa. They squeezed me in on the exact day I was supposed to go back for my 3 week check up! After days and days of trying to get my medical records from Dr. Cooley's office I finally got them 1 day before my scheduled appointment with Dr. Graham! As sad as we were about the entire Dr. Cooley situation, we were eager (and nervous) to visit with Dr. Graham. Once we were at our appointment we really liked the atmosphere and all of the staff!! The ultrasound tech did an anatomy scan on our little boy and everything was perfect!!!! His brain has developed beautifully, he had all of his hands, arms, legs, fingers, toes, kidneys, eyes, lips, ears, etc! She said he looked perfect! I signed up for a weekly update on my pregnancy from babycenter.com and at 19 weeks the "average" baby weighs about 8 ozs! Not our baby though....he weighed 12 ozs at my 18.5 week check up!!!! This is going to be one BIG BOY!! He has weighed more than the "norm" since day 1!!!  He also has some super long legs! He gets that from his daddy!! Dr. Graham also told me that my placenta has moved to where it needs to be (No more Placenta Previa)!! Praise God! She said I wasn't on light duty anymore and I could resume all of my normal activities!!! He was flipping around doing cartwheels! Chase asked me if I drank some caffeine that morning and I told him all I had drank was water!! Here are the pictures from our 18.5 week check up!

Two feet!!

It's still a boy! If you look to the left, you can see
his little butt and his legs coming out towards the right.

Head, Arm and Tummy

Flipping around!

Head and Body

So we decided on our little boys name. He will be known as Colt Evans Davis!! Colt is a favorite of Chase's and Evans is Chase's middle name and several generations of middle names in the Davis family. We finally got a waiting list for daycare and started looking for nursery furniture and bedding! November 25 is getting closer and closer!! Dr. Graham did say "So you are due at Thanksgiving, you want to have the baby before Thanksgiving, right". We just told her that was fine as long as we had him before the Auburn/Alabama game we didn't care!!

Here are a couple of pictures of me last night at 19.3 weeks pregnant and one of me and Chase!! We are 1/2 way there!! YAY! I have finally started to enjoy my pregnancy more! Sometimes I forget that I am pregnant until I look down! I have started to feel him moving around. I don't really feel "kicks", but I feel what I would compare to a wave!! At first, a few weeks ago, it felt more like a small thump, but now I will get "waves" of movement every now and then! I can't wait until Chase can feel him kicking!!

19.3 weeks

Me and Chase

19.3 weeks

My next doctor's appointment is July 29 and I will have my diabetes test that day! Wish me luck! Thank you all so much for your continued support and prayers! We are doing great and are so excited to welcome Colt in November!! :)'

Love,

Chase and Kim

Boy or Girl!?!??!

Before I tell y'all the answer to the BIG question I will give y'all an update! At my last appointment, Dr. Cooley told me to drink or eat something with a lot of caffeine and sugar so that the baby would be active and we could hopefully see what the gender was! When we got to our appointment the ultrasound tech said that she may not be able to tell the gender, but if she could did we want to know. "YES!!!", we said! So she did her measuring and the baby was moving around so much, like a little jumping bean, I guess it was from the Mountain Dew I drank 30 minutes earlier! It was so amazing and different compared to the last ultrasound we had! There was now an actual physical body and we could really make out all of the features! Amazing is the only word that comes to mind! I could see some movement out of the corner of my eyes and I looked over and Chase was fanning himself! I asked him if he was okay and he said he was just hot! When we got out of the ultrasound room he was dripping sweat!! He said he is blaming the antibiotics he is on!! Once she told us the gender he said he was fine though! Delivery should be interesting! Here are some of our ultrasound pictures!

Head to the right, body to the left and you can see the little feet!

Our baby!


OKAY, OKAY, OKAY......IT'S A BOY!!!! We are so unbelievably excited words can not express!!!
Below are the pictures to confirm! The arrows are pointing to his "boy parts" and the two things spread open are his legs and his butt in the air! So cute!

So when we saw Dr. Cooley at our appointment today she said "It's definitely a boy"! She also told us that I have what they call placenta previa. It is actually quite common and occurs in 1 out of every 200 pregnancies. Basically what she told us is that the placenta is currently covering the cervix. What this means is that if I happen to go into labor and have contractions, the placenta would be delivered first, however it is supposed to be delivered after the baby. So she said that I am not to do any kind of heavy lifting or exercise. Pretty much I need to take it easy. Years ago they would put women on bed rest because of this. Since ultrasounds are so high tech now she said that is not necessary. Best case scenario is that as my uterus grows and as the baby gets bigger the placenta will stretch up and eventually not be covering my cervix any more. Worst case scenario she would deliver the baby early at about 34-36 weeks by c-section. I go back for an ultrasound in 3 weeks and we pray that there has been some growth and movement! The bright side is that I will get an ultrasound and we will get to see our little man at every appointment!!

15 1/2 weeks...starting to show a little! I can see and feel it for sure!



We also received our first little boy gift today from our friends Jamie and Alisha! So cute!

It is starting to feel a little more "real" now that I am beginning to show and now that we know the gender of our little man! I can not wait to start decorating the nursery and getting everything together! First we have to get on a daycare list! AH!
Please continue to pray for our sweet little boy and for a continued healthy pregnancy!

Love,

Chase and Kim

"Hearts Apart" Fishing Rodeo



Skyler, Chase and Bryce

Memorial Day weekend we went with some friends to a military family fishing rodeo. The "rodeo" was put on by a military group for families who have deployed spouses. Our friend Lori's husband Den is currently deployed and so is our friend Sharri's husband, Steve...not much longer though, Steve gets to reunite with his family later this week after 15 months of being deployed! So Chase was filling in the role as father figure for Steve and Sharri's son Skyler and for Den and Lori's boys, Bryce and Blake. We had a really great time catching fish and just enjoying the beautiful day! Our "team" caught 13 fish, which was the most, AND we also won first prize for the biggest fish caught...I think he was 12 lbs and 11 ozs?!? We left all the fish unattended, on the stringer, in the water so we could go eat and so that the boys could go get their prize for the biggest fish. Skyler walked back down to the water to check on the fish and they were gone!! Somehow they had squirmed their way loose, but luckily were all still on the stringer a few feet away in the water. Chase hooked the stringer and pulled them back in! Whew! We also saw a BIG snake swimming right at the water where we were fishing!! We had such a great time! I have posted some pictures to share!!

Chase and Skyler fishing

Lori and Me

Lori, Blake and Bryce throwing rocks

Chase helping Bryce reel in a BIG fish



Skyler, Chase, Blake and Bryce