September 25, 2008 - Happy Birthday, Kristoffer!

So Kristoffer should be writing a blog one of these days about his climb up Kilimanjaro, but after taking a week off of work he has certainly been busy this week. Maybe this weekend! Anyway, today is Kristoffer's 31st birthday. It is also the first time we have ever celebrated his birthday together, as we were always in different cities or countries (even last year after getting married, Kristoffer was in Denmark interviewing for his job in Kenya on his birthday!). He doesn't LOOK any older (is it possible that he looks younger?), but of course impending fatherhood is an exciting prospect on his birthday.

In addition to birthday festivities, yesterday marked 16 full weeks of pregnancy for us. As you can see below, I am not the cutest pregnant woman to ever live, but yesterday I looked and felt particularly haggard after becoming extremely, extremely car sick on my way back to work from a meeting at the Ministry of Education. I am hoping that in the coming months future pictures will show me to be a glowing, radiant pregnant woman but for now, I'm working with what I've got :)



A much more amazing and exciting picture, however, is the one below of our baby at 14 weeks in utero. The doctor actually gave us 10 different shots, but this is by far the coolest one, taken when Simba was actively waving to me. S/he might have a future in modeling, I think.



If we had an ultrasound today, Simba might be doing a little birthday dance for his/her Far (Far = Father in Danish). Tillykke med Fødselsdagen, Kristoffer!

LMW