First Peek at Baby Hartsell #2

I had my first ultrasound yesterday, October 18th. Baby's heart is beating away! What a special sight. A little life living inside of me. Baby looks great! Very tiny still, so it is hard to make out much in the ultrasound picture. The head is pointing down to the left. The baby is a little younger than we first may have thought, so the due date may be June 5th. So, May 30th or June 5th ... give or take. Either way, a little healthy beating heart was all I needed to see. Looking good, Baby! It was wonderful to see you.


Our weekend was busy and fun. We had a great time out at Notre Dame and ended the day with a win against Western Michigan! The weather was perfect. Anna enjoyed the band and clapped her hands to the ND fight song. So cute! Here are some pictures from our ND afternoon.


A funny story from the weekend ... Anna has a little stuffed monkey named Bongo. He is in two of the pictures above. Anna loves Bongo. She has several "buddies"....all stuffed animals of some sort. Her night-time and comfort favorites are Ki-Ki (I did a post on Ki-Ki a while back) and a little green and pink blanket. She has a little dog that she got for her birthday that she loves. She named him Patrick and he's climbing his way to the top of her buddy list. But, Bongo ... he's Anna's favorite take-along buddy. Bongo goes most places with Anna. Okay, he goes everywhere. She loves him and he has experienced a lot of adventures in his little monkey life. So, of course, Bongo went to Notre Dame with us. Anna's first time to campus and Bongo's, too. Well ... Bongo came up missing. He was lost! Notre Dame ate Bongo. Long story short ... we couldn't locate the missing and beloved Bongo. Quite a tragedy in our family and I'm not kidding! Tragic because he's BONGO and he goes everywhere with us. Tragic because we could imagine the tears and very sad question from Anna, "Bongo go??", once she realized he was missing. Thankfully, Grandma kept her busy and occupied so she didn't have time to miss Bongo much. And my dad ... the hero of the day ... found a replacement Bongo at the store. He bought 3 Bongo's that afternoon. Hahahaha! We have 2 replacement Bongo's now. My dad presented Anna the new Bongo and told her that he got a face lift, since the new Bongo is much cleaner and fuzzier than the first Bongo. She took to new Bongo right away - she didn't even blink an eye. So, to our first and very loved Bongo, lost somewhere out there - we hope someone picked you up and you have a new exciting home. Maybe someone's new tailgaiting mascot. And to the new Bongo, welcome to our happy home and you are in for a treat! Thank goodness we found you. And I noticed that your left foot is a bit dirty already today after playing outside this afternoon. You're going to fit in just fine.