The baby's room is even done and ready to go. Thanks to Bryan with doing all of the painting and cutting out all the decals in order to get them ready to be put on the walls. Can't wait for our new arrival only 3 more weeks until our due date.

The stress of the move is finally over. Bryan and I are all moved in and pretty much all unpacked in our new house in Red Deer. Attached are some pictures of our new house. Don't worry the dumpster is gone and we do have a garage door. Our new address is 132 Vanson Close, Red Deer, AB T4R 0G9.

Belly Pic

Belly Pic at 32 weeks, 42" round.

The Belly Grows

So here is a quick flip book as the belly of Shelley expands with a growing baby.




Those two are from August 4 or at 16 weeks depending on how you look at it.


That one is from 21 weeks and taken on September 8.



This is the latest one taken yesterday and now we are at 25 weeks and all the way up to 40 inches. We'll put up some more when there is more growth.

Ultrasound Pictures

This is the baby's arm.
Above is the baby's face with the right arm in front of the face.
This is the baby's face closer.
This is the baby's leg.

The Announcement

Hello Everyone,

Well for those of you who don't know we are having a baby. That's right the Thornton family will be growing by one little person some time around January 17, 2009. For whatever strange reason the announcement of our bundle of joy kept getting delayed.

Today Shelley had the ultrasound so it seemed the perfect opportunity to tell everyone, those who did know and those who didn't, about our great news. The ultrasound was exciting and all the doctor's appointments have been great. We are also fully in the business of shopping for baby items and having fun doing that. There sure is a lot to choose from. We have begun rearranging the house to make room for baby and for visitors. We have also decided to leave the sex of the baby as a surprise.

With all the cool things that happen with preparations for baby and when baby actually comes we have taken a cue from other people's books and are going to keep a blog. The address is:

http://chezthornton.blogspot.com/

We think this will help keep emails small picture wise. We are going to post the ultrasound pictures there tonight. We'll put one with this email. More stuff will be put up as it happens. The next big email will probably happen when we welcome the little one to this world or if anything else exciting happens.

We just wanted to share the good news with all of you.

We'll talk to you soon,

Bryan and Shelley

P.S. If you know of anyone who got missed here forward this on and let us know so we can include them next time