Liam Beckett McLain Herndon

He arrived at 11:03PM, May 9. Mom and baby are both doing great. We promised pictures so here are a few. We are exhausted, but happy to finally meet our son.

New belly pictures

OK, so we've been busy with the boy's room and getting everything else we can possibly think of together and have been slacking on posting belly pictures. So, here are a few pictures from the last weeks of pregnancy. With only 12 days until the due date, here is where we are.


This is taken at about 32 weeks as we are about to head out to see Nouvelle Vague. The boy has "seen" a good number of shows already.

This is at around 35-36 weeks and is taken in front on the new Murphy Bed! Thanks George.

This was taken only a few days ago a day before D's birthday - I think this is 37 1/2 weeks.

Mom to be enjoying her new glider. The room is starting to finally come to together, more on that in the next post.

3D Sonogram pictures

The boy was not super cooperative for the sonogram, but we did get some great views of his face. Check out the jowls on this kid! He is all cheek.

The boy has a room....

....well kinda anyway. The room is finally painted and the fixins' for a nursery are arriving day by day. Todd helped us pain the room over the last weekend, here are a few pictures of the results so far.

The magic elixir in the cooler is called 'Sweetness' and it is absolutely essential to effective painting techniques. We also learned that rolls of tape make great cup holders!


This is a glimpse of room after its painted. The stuff on the bed are the boys clothes, bedding and other goodies waiting to be assembled.

The boys stuff is stacked so high you can barely see Darci behind it all.

Bell pictres - Finally!

We've just been too busy to get around to putting these up. So, here are teh last few weeks belly pictures.

I think this first one is 22 weeks - no we didn't keep very good track of these things.


Here is 23 weeks:

And 24:


25 weeks...

More to come!

Belly!

Just starting to show!

It's Official!

We've been cautiously waiting to make any sort of announcement - but after today we feel pretty good! Darci is officially pregnant and due May 15th. We had our last sonogram before the 20 week mark today and everything looks great. Darci is feeling pretty poopy still, but hopefully that should be passing soon as she moves into the second trimester.

Here are the sonograms - you can kind of see him or her waving in the first picture. The kiddo was really active, moving and kicking and waving all the way through.

Here is one of baby waving -- you can just make out the hands.

Here is a profile shot.

And one more...we think this is the least clear of the bunch, but maybe you see more than we do.

Preview of the mommy to be...

Love the bump!!!