Pearl Harbor Pictures Continued..

This is the Arizona marker.














This is a view of the Harbor. It is amazing how big the Harbor really is.














This is a dedication that can be found on the Arizona Memorial.















This is the famous memorial noting all the men that lost their lives on December 7th serving their country.










If I recall correctly, these are the Arizona and West Virginia markers.

Pearl Harbor 65th Anniversary

Today (December 7th) marks the 65th Anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor. They are saying this will be the last gathering of the survivors at Pearl Harbor. So, it is an even more significant day. I am such a WWII buff and love to hear stories about WWII, so I will have to find some WWII stories today. I have attached some pictures of when we went to visit Pearl Harbor in October 2005.








This is the Arizona platform/memorial.

Parts of the Arizona are above the water.





















I am standing on the Arizona platform looking down onto the Arizona.















This was a battleship (don't recall the name) that was docked in Pearl Harbor the day we went. I have a few more pictures I will be posting here in a minute.

Here are the belly shots as promised. Kelly currently doesn't look very pregnant with her clothes on, but I'm sure that will change in the coming months. I have felt the baby move several times now and it is pretty cool. Kelly will play this game with the baby where she will tap on a spot on her belly and then the baby will usually respond by kicking or punching in that area.




We went to the Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring the Rockettes at the Nokia Theater on Saturday the 2nd. Kelly said that during the show the baby was going nuts and moving all over the place. I think we need to start playing the Aggie War Hymn now to get her Aggie-fied early.

Updated Sonogram

Here is the newest sonogram picture that we had taken on November 28th with my text additions for clarity. We went to see a specialist to check for heart problems with the baby since she had a slight heartbeat irregularity on our previous check up. As it turns out, the initial irregularity was caused by a Dr. Pepper that Kelly had for lunch earlier that day. In Kelly's defense, this was the first caffeine she had drank in a long time. We failed to mention this drink to the Doctor when the irregular heartbeat occurred. Due to the irregular heartbeat, Kelly was on a strict no caffeine regimen for two weeks and scheduled for another sonogram.

We didn't get into the sonogram room with the doctor until an hour past the scheduled appointment time. Also, the nurses weren't even at the hospital until 15 or 20 minutes past our appointment time. We also had another lady there that had her appointment 15 minutes after ours, yet she got to see the doctor first. I wouldn't have been so upset about all this, but I had several important items going on at work that I needed to get back for. Once we got in the room, Kelly sat down for the sonogram, one nurse manned a laptop to enter information, and another kept messing with this goose-neck floor lamp. The nurse messing with the lamp kept trying to position it so that it was against the wall emitting enough light to see, but not so much as to prevent the sonogram screeen from being hard to see. She failed horribly in her task and they ended up just turning it off. This apparently caused the other nurse at the laptop to have difficulty seeing the screen and much squinting and frustration noises continued from that point.

The doctor found the baby very quickly and began checking lengths and looking at various sections of the body. We got to see the toes, fingers, and face in great detail during all of this. Everything checked out and the baby was as far along in development as we had previously thought. Next, the doctor checked the heartbeat. Everything was fine and the culprit of the previous irregular heartbeat was the caffeine as we suspected.