World Cup at the Zollingers!

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought the last world cup was last year, however there seems to be a soccer player growing inside of me. This weekend marks 24 weeks for Baby Z who now has a name, Lily Laursen, and she is quite an active little bug. I can feel her moving around all the time and all day long. It's so great. Ben and I started doing yoga and I think maybe the stretching and increased oxygen is perking her up! I was so impressed with my husband yesterday as I watched him perform the "Crane" pose. I had warned him that there was 1 pose in this episode I record off of Fit TV that was a little challenging and we will just do something else. I said it's that tripod move where you balance your knees on your elbows. Without missing a beat I watched him bend down do the pose, hold it and say, "Oh this is how I learned to do a handstand." It appears this is easier for those that have more upper body strength and are not almost 6 months pregnant. Way to go Ben! (I think it's pretty obvious, but don't worry I did NOT perform the crane just in case anyone was thinking I might. Actually I did bend down and after a brief realization my arms would snap like toothpicks under my new 15 lb increase I decided it was a bad idea!)

Here are the ultrasound pics I had taken last week in Williamsburg. I was there for an Anatomy scan. Basically it was an hour long ultrasound looking at every angle of the baby and then all of those pictures are sent to a radiologist for interpretation. As of last week Lily was 1 lb 3 oz and in the 58th % for growth. Above average! Yay! I like the picture at the right because it shows off her giant hands, or hand in this case, right hand to be exact. The fingers all appear the same length, pretty funny. Hi Lily! The next one is of her yawning or yelling either way I think it's precious. We are so excited to see her on the outside. It's time to start clearing out the office that is going to be the nursery. We're going with a princess theme from JC Penny for the crib. I'd wanted to do Noah's ark and the animals, but there are not very many girl looking Noah's ark sets. I guess it will have to be princess with animals in her kingdom. Pink and Sage green are going to be the colors. I don't want too much pink. No pepto rooms in this house please! The pink is pretty hard to avoid when having a little girl and with 1 grandma who's obsessed with pink I'm sure we'll have our fair share. Thanks Mom! Please, we don't need the pink Chiefs clothes.