First Ultrasound and telling Grandma and Grandpa Kerwin

 We had our first ultrasound around week 7 to check on the baby.  It was the first big moment for us as "parents".  Wow, that word is even difficult to type!  As the fabulous Dr. Kerr put the ultrasound to work, she told Russ to, "hurry, hurry over here and hold her hand, this is a real couple moment".  It was right then, that she isolated the heartbeat and we heard our little baby hard at work pumping blood through its already developing heart! 

The little bug

The heartbeat was 147 beats/minute (great said Dr. Kerr) and it was definitely a surreal experience.  You'll notice, I use the word "surreal" a lot because I can't think of a better word to convey the complete aw that we felt.  I also didn't know that once a heartbeat is established, the risk of miscarriage goes down from 25% to 3%, which was super comforting.  After the first trimester, the risk only goes down 1% more so we were feeling a huge relief.

The two littlel parrell lines in the middle of the picture are the heart.

As timing would have it, Russ' parents came down that evening after returning from a month in Seattle.  We weren't totally ready to tell them just yet but about one week later we broke the good news to them over wine (and non-alcoholic ginger beer) at one of our favorite places, City Sip.  We gave them a card that said something to the effect of "money leaving your wallets and grandchildren pictures filling it up".  When the magnitude of the message set in, Nancy cried her eyes out and kept asking, "are you serious" immediately followed by, "now we have to move here"!  Dave-O was also pretty excited and offered big hugs.  We also gave Nancy a little box with a bib enclosed that read, "Grandma Gives the Best Hugs". 

The moment we told Grandma and Grandpa Kerwin (not the best picture, but the only one we took)

Grandma's Bib