Thursday, January 29, 2009

Mal's Growing Stomach

October 2008
Week 7 & 8









































January 2009- Week 22

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Ahhhh! It's been forever since we actually gave a real update on here. I'm almost five months pregnant now and we still haven't found out what the gender is! Our due date was moved back to June 1 and we go back in on Monday to see about getting a second ultrasound done in the future.

We can actually feel the baby moving now, at least I can. Drew often imagines he feels the same thing and sometimes actually does. I keep trying to describe it as a pair of tennis shoes in the dryer moving around. It definitely isn't feeling like butterflies like many people say. I've finally got a little bump popping out and most people could probably tell I'm pregnant and didn't just eat too much this fall. If Drew has his way, we'll have a picture soon to prove it. Although I have to put my foot down somewhere and refuse to post a picture of my disappearing belly button.

Drew insists the baby is a girl since at our last ultrasound the technician told us she didn't see anything between the legs but couldn't be for sure because of the new due date. Apparently male Schlabachs would have something to be proud of.... if you understand his logic. So since the baby can only be a girl now, we went out and bought Texas size bows to make this mystery baby a "bowhead" when it finally arrives while we were in Dallas over Christmas. All you Texans out there can be proud.

As for other news in the Schlabach household, Drew begins guitar lessons next week with Tim Shue, our music director from high school. He's been playing my ear off with the same couple of songs, so I think we'll both be ready for whatever Tim throws his way! :)

We've also had the pleasure of being snowed in our house all weekend after a winter storm brought more than six inches of snow/ice/nastiness. We're still feeling the lingering affects of random snowfalls and insanely cold temperatures rendering salt and cinder useless. The temperature right now says its 1 degree but feels like -12. We can definitely vouch for that. It's times like now that we miss Abilene's unusual weather patterns.

Although it feels like we've done much, much more since we last wrote, this is all for our update. Hopefully more pictures will show up later tonight showing you the progress of the growing baby!

Thursday, January 1, 2009





The promised airport pictures.