Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving in Rye and Jeff and Judy's house. Matt and I were able to stay in Rye four nights and we had a lot of fun hanging out with family and relaxing. We got to see Amanda, in from San Diego, on our way to Rye, which was a highlight of the weekend. Other highlights included celebrating Liz's birthday, going out in Portsmouth, many meals together and a girl's afternoon! It is always so nice to be around both of our families.

Our little girl continues to thrive and grow. I can definitely tell that my belly is getting bigger, and every day it seems like she is kicking in a new area (yesterday she reached my ribs!) She is starting to be more responsive to pressure on my belly, when Matt puts his hand on it she seems to find him and kick his hand. We love her so much already and can't believe that my due date is just three months away!

This weekend we are looking forward to spending time with some of the Sonneborns to celebrate Henry's (grandfather name still to be determined) birthday and Nana and Pop-pop's 70th wedding anniversary! The next weekend is our baby shower in Syracuse, and after that we head to Kiawah! We have so much to look forward to and plan to enjoy every moment.

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We missed those of you we weren't able to see and look forward to seeing more family very soon.

Some of the incredible spread!!

25 weeks!

I started this post yesterday but never finished it, so it quickly turned from our 24 week update to our 25 week update. Time seems to be flying by, it's hard to believe that we will be meeting our little girl in just over three months!
Baby girl and I had a check up with the OB yesterday and everything continues to look good. Her heart rate was 130, although she was moving all around making it very difficult for the OB to count the heartbeat for the full minute. I can tell she is definitely getting bigger as in the last couple days I've felt movement higher and out more to the sides than ever before. I have one more visit at the every three week frequency, and then I move to every two weeks since I'll be entering the third trimester!
Later today we are going to pick up the nursery furniture!! We are lucky to have such good friends here, Melissa and Christian, to let us use their SUV and help us move it too.  I am so excited to start getting things set up, although that probably won't happen just yet as we need to move furniture around in her room to make space for all of her beautiful things.
Otherwise we are hanging in there, I'm fighting a cold and cough that left me with absolutely no voice for two days, but I'm starting to feel better so hopefully I'm over the worst of it.
We have a lot to look forward to in the upcoming weeks, celebrating Thanksgiving and Elizabeth's birthday next week and our Syracuse shower in three weeks!
Hope everyone is doing well, sending lots of love to you all.
-Hannah, Matt and Baby Girl

23 week update

I figured since we are nearly 24 weeks now I should post our 23 week update. Things continue to go well for me and Baby Girl. She is definitely an active baby and it feels like she is constantly on the move.
Matt and I picked out our nursery furniture this week. It should be here any day, then we just need to figure out how to get it from the store to our house. I can't wait to see it in her room! Here is what we picked out:

 Here is this week's belly picture. It's definitely getting bigger these days, though I am still not in maternity clothes yet.

I spent this weekend in Syracuse celebrating Ella's first birthday. Matt had to work but I couldn't miss such a big event. It was such a sweet party and Ella had a BLAST hamming it up for everyone. It was so nice to spend time with the Solomons and Thorntons.

We hope everyone is doing well, and to see you all soon. Xoxo