Made for baby Rowen

We are almost 35 weeks here. The belly dropped a bit the night before and can be seen in this picture. 
This is what daddy made for the baby. It is a beautiful dresser made of oak and purple heart. 
We are going to use it as a changing table for the first years.

It took us many trips to the hardware stores to pick out the handles. 

Trying to get a nice closeup picture of the purple heart. It is a beautiful wood.

Yep I already put the baby's stuff in the drawers!

What mommy made for the baby. A beautiful crocheted blanket.

Our baby boy

We are 34 weeks and 4 days today and our little boy is 5lbs 10 oz. We had an ultrasound to check on the growth of the baby today and he is doing great measuring 3-4 days ahead of schedule but on track for him. We did not know that we were going to get to see images of him with the new 3D technology. So it was a wonderful surprise when she flipped screens and showed us. The picture above is from an the standard style ultrasound and below are two pictures from the new style. They usually do not do the new style this late as the baby can look really odd all squished up against the side of the womb. You can see his cute nose and eyes, never opened them up during the exam. The object to the right covering part of his face is his arm. 

The pictures below are from our 21 week ultrasound. I just love the one of his spine just way to cool! And the one below explains why I said we were having a boy before the Nurse could get it out of her mouth. We did have conformation that it is definitely a boy today. All off his organs looked great. We could see him moving  his lips and  swallowing the amniotic fluid. It was just the neatest thing to get to see him and I really can not wait until to meet him soon (but not to soon). 

A good day to bake.

So the weather here in Nebraska has decided to change to cool over night. It was in the mid-50's last night and today's high was not out of the low 70's. So it was fitting that over the weekend I had promised the husband that I would make him zucchini bread this week. So with it feeling like fall I was ready to bake. Before getting started baking I had to make some lunch, I remember it was pancake Wednesday. These last weeks in pregnancy I have decided that I really like blueberry pancakes and have declared Wednesday pancake day so that I don't eat them all the time.  After eating 3 wonderful pancakes I got started with the baking.

The Zucchini bread recipe is from mom that I baked. 

Ingredients:

3 eggs

2 cups Sugar

1 cup Oil

3 tsp Vanilla

2 cups graded raw Zucchini

1 tsp Salt

1 tsp Baking Soda

1/4 tsp Baking powder

3 tsp Cinnamon

3 cups Flour

1 cup Walnuts or Pecans

Just beat the eggs, add the sugar, oil, zucchini, and vanilla. Mix lightly. Combined the dry ingredients in separate bowl. Add the dry ingredients to the wet a little at a time. Stir in nuts. 

Makes 2 9x5 loafs. Bake 1 hour at 350. 

 I have baked it at least five times this summer. Man can the husband eat zucchini bread. 

While this was baking I was assigned the task of picking the tomatoes from the garden. We had 10.5 lbs out there to be picked!!! Yummy! So tomorrow I will have to cut them up to put in the freezer if they are not given away to work. 

Feeling the bread was not enough baking I made some very yummy peanut butter cookies that I had made in August. Got the recipe off the Internet:  http://southernfood.about.com/od/pbcookies/r/30408b.htm

Ingredients:

1/2 cup margarine

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 egg

3/4 teaspoon soda

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 1/4 cups flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

Cream sugars, margarine, and peanut butter. Beat in egg, then stir in remaining ingredients. Shape dough into tablespoon sized small balls. Place on baking sheet and press dough down with fork. Dip fork tines in flour the fork each time before pressing a cookie. Sprinkle lightly with sugar. Bake at 350° for about 10-11 minutes. Makes about 28-32 peanut butter cookies.