Clarification

Hello all! I thought I needed to make a clarification about Baby T's name. Jooyoung will be his/her middle name. Their first name is still yet to be determined. That's all!

30 Weeks!

Only 10 more weeks to go! We just had our 30 week appointment and these appointments have become somewhat uneventful and disappointing - but I guess I'm not complaining because it means that our little one is doing just fine. Basically we go in for our appointment, end up waiting for about 20 - 30 min, see the doctor for 3 minutes and we're outta there. The most exciting part (or most dreadful - whichever way you look at it) is checking my weight. i've never weighed myself so much that a pound a week GAIN is a good thing. So far I have gained about 16 pounds which is on the lower end of the recommended 25 - 35 lb. total weight gain by the end of the 40 weeks. Another exciting part of the appointment is hearing the heartbeat. This week, JooYoung's heartbeat was around 130 bpm. Since I can feel Jooyoung wiggle around so much, I'm never *really* worried that something is wrong, but it's always reassuring to hear the heartbeat of the little thing living inside me. According to my weekly updates, Jooyoung is about 15.7 inches long, weighs about 3 pounds and is approximately the size of a head of cabbage.

Since we're keeping Jooyoung's gender a surprise until we deliver, we've been getting people's guesses on what they think we're having...what do you think? Here are some more pictures in case you make the call based on the shape/size of the belly!

My Growing Belly!

I finally figured out how to paste pictures together to create a strip. Although it's not a very good comparison since the pictures are taken from different distances, you can kind of see my growing belly. :) i have yet to take my 29 week pictures, but will definitely update the blog once I do so...enjoy!

Grandpa's Job!

I've been getting questions about how the name JooYoung came about so I thought I should explain this in a post. In Korea, it's tradition for the grandfather of the baby to give it a name. When Jake and I asked my dad to give our baby a Korean name, he was very happy and took this duty VERY seriously. At one point, he told us he had a name in mind, but when we asked what it was, he said he was still praying about it and didn't want to announce it until he was SURE. :) (yes, pretty sweet of my dad, isn't it?) Finally, one day he sat us down and said he was ready to tell us the name he came up with and that's when he told us it was JooYoung. When the name is chosen, they don't just choose any random name, but they consider the meaning of the name. Our baby's name means: Joo (which comes from JooNim) = Lord, Young (which comes from YuongGwang) = Glory. So our baby's name means "the Lord's glory".

28 Week Update

We just had our 28 week appointment and everything is progressing well. JooYoung had a heartrate of 135 bps - a little lower than we've heard it in the past. JooYoung has been very active lately, kicking a lot after Jen eats and right before she's about to go to bed. JooYoung says everyting is "A OK!" (See him/her giving a thumbs up?) :)