34 weeks 4 days

A fun Belly Draw!

More Otis Pictures!!!

Our Tiny 8 month old puppy =)

33 weeks 1 day

Andy and I were having some fun in the snow with Otis! and then took some belly progress shots...
getting bigger EVERY day =)

32 weeks 3 days

7 weeks to go!! Woo Hoo... I can start to see why women pray for the baby to come sooner then later =) I am not itching to get her out or anything, I just can imagine by the time she is due I will be for sure! I feel good...My back hurts some times but nothing worth complaining about! But she will come when she is good and ready, and I will let her have the time she needs! (yes even if that means I go two weeks late...or longer!) Come on baby though, Dont make us wait THAT long!! =)

Love you all!!

Baby Shower Save the Date

My good friends at church are throwing me and "baby girl" a shower on Sunday Jan 18th at 1:30pm it will be at the church! More details and formal invite to follow!

Nursery

So we got our furniture last week and we love it! The bedding we originally bought and picked out (an organic ivory) didn't fit the crib very well so we exchanged it! Here is what Andy and I picked out! it should be here this week! I'll take pictures once our nursery is All set up!!

A Prayer for "Baby Girl"

"For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way" Colossians 1:9

Belly Draw

I had a prenatal today and we did a silly little belly draw to show the position the baby is in! Soon she'll take up all that empty space!!

26 weeks 4 days- 3 months to go!

Baby Girl is growing so fast! she is moving around a ton and making my belly bounce!

We cannot wait to meet her

Such a Bad Blogger =)

Sorry! I will try and post some new pictures tomorrow! We have been so so Busy! We are packing and moving next Saturday the 25th so our house is crazy right now! We wanted a place closer to the church so Andy could be near home and me and the baby even when he is at work! And...so he can ride his bike which he has been dying to do for the past couple years but we just haven't lived somewhere where what was possible! We are living within 2 min of like 6 of our friends too! Which will be so fun and nice once baby girl arrives....about 3.5 months left!!! She is moving a ton and Andy can feel her too...which is very fun! I like it that she makes her presence known! Love you all!

Registry

I have had a bunch of people ask if I am registered for baby girl- the answer is, Kinda =)
I have a small registry started at segals in beaverton (www.segalsforchildren.com) and an online wish likt with Kate Quinn Organics (www.katequinnorganics.com) and I really love all the home-made items at www.Etsy.com! they have very cute girl things! I am anticiapating a healthy size girl since I was almost 9lbs and all the babies in my family are big- so if you are buying clothes not too much 0-3 months! =) Love you All! Oh and I am starting to have more distinct flutters! she is alive and moving around in there!

20 weeks- halfway done

Growing bigger by the day....I am feeling flutters but still no major jabs yet! Come on baby girl
Kick Mamma!! Though my dad did say...once she starts kicking she'll NEVER STOP =)

It's a.........GIRL!!

Here she is!!!
**The one on the Top is her head at the bottom of the screen then she is tucked up with her feet
to the right of the photo! can you see!!
**The Bottom photo is a sweet profile shot....her tongue was sticking in and out!!
She is so cute and perfect!
She has a name (had one for a long time...) But we
are holding it hostage until the birth =)
There has to be some suspense for everyone!
The pictures are not that clear because I actually
took a picture of a picture....but as soon as I can get
near a scanner I will send out the good ones!!!
We are elated =)

Dream....

I had the scariest dream last night...I went in for the ultrasound and there were two babies....two boys....Then I had a another dream....I went in for the ultrasound and there were two babies again but one boy and one girl!! Ahhhhhhhh It really was frightening!! I was very distraught in my dream and did not know what I was going to do!!! So I was so happy to wake up and find that it was all a dream!!! One Baby please =)

Tomorrow

tomorrow we go in for our ultrasound at 4pm! We will let you all know soon what this
little baby is....I have had a girl feeling for awhile but a lot of people think it's a boy! So we
shall see soon enough! The wonderful thing is....We would love either one....so we are already stoked!!!

16 weeks

Here is baby Z at 16 weeks....growing fast! 2 more weeks
until we find out what we're having!

13 weeks 5 days

Here is Baby Z at 13 weeks 5 days....
I was at at OMSI last night and
was looking at the fetus exhibit and was
absolutely amazed at the size of our baby!
I keep thinking "where are you hiding baby?!"
with it being that size you'd think I would
feel it! Soon enough though, soon enough!

Ultrasound...

I just scheduled it for Thursday September 4th! thats just 4 weeks away!
I still have mixed feelings about finding out the sex but I know how much
Andy wants to and well, since he IS letting me have this baby at home and
I pretty much get everything else I want regarding the birth, I can give
him this much! =) He is such a good man!

13 weeks

So I feel bad for posting that I have a blog and then I don't post much!
So baby is doing great- 13 weeks today, and I promise to post pictures next week
(I have been waiting for there to be be something to see- and there appears to
be a tiny bump stating to appear!) -Love Echo

our Lime has a heart...

So we had our first appointment last Tuesday the 15th..... When we tried to hear the heartbeat it registered on Doppler but baby kept swimming away (they don't often like the heat that is transmitted from the sound waves) but we could not hear it audibly.....So today I tried again (working in a birth center makes this very easy!) and baby couldn't get away this time! Our baby has a sweet little heartbeat.....very cute!

...a Lime...11 weeks and 3 days

So for any of you who have ever been pregnant you realize that many of the silly books like to describe the size of your baby by the many odd shaped and sized fruit we all so love to enjoy. Well my baby is now a Lime! Hey, that's not too bad, especially since not that long ago it was a olive!!

....and baby makes 3!!....

on May 30th Andy and I found out that after 5 years of a fun and exciting marriage, life was about to get a bit more interesting....we're having a baby!!! we are due Feb 6th (which means I'll have a baby by march, right? =) I will do my best to keep everyone updated on the progress and pictures and then before you know it....Baby Zielinski will be here!!!

More Photos... Day 2

Day 2- NYC

After Breakfast we took the subway to the lower east side to find a bike shop Andy heard about... we then explored Greenwich Village, Chelsea and the surrounding areas. In the afternoon we rode the subway down to see the Statue of Liberty (from afar) and then walked up to ground zero and all through SoHo and Union Station and back up to Time Square and around Rockefeller Center- It was a LONG day with so much walking

More Photos...

More Photos from our first day in NYC

New York City- Day 1

the flight went great and when we got in to NYC there was a snow storm! It was Beautiful! we rode the subway from JFK to a few blocks from our hotel- quite the New York first experience...
We Met up with Stephanie and Luke our friends who live in New Jeresy and had a nice dinner at a fancy sushi restaurant and then went and saw "A chorus Line" on Broadway

#1

We wanted to start this blog since both our families (with a couple exceptions) are living so far away (Seattle,Grants Pass and beyond!) Just a fun way to keep everyone on the loop about whats going on in our lives!