Ella's first pics

Hi Everyone, this is Ella Shea Althoff. We thought you might like to see her first photos. Isn't she beautiful??? Here are a couple things to help you see her better. She is facing up with her head on the right. In the first three pictures her right arm is at the top by her eye. On the very bottom picture, you can see her nose and lips. Her belly is on the left and the dark circle is her heart (we think).

Little Ella

Yesterday Shea and I were able to see our beautiful baby girl at our first ultra sound. She looks healthy and we are very thankful to God for that. She was moving quite a bit and of course we were overjoyed when they told us our baby was a girl. We've had the name Ella picked out for quite some time now and Shea's instincts were right.

Ella weighed 10 oz. yesterday and the most fun part was watching her mouth open and close as if she was trying to suck her thumb. Her arm was "waving at us" as she tried a couple times to find her mouth, but kept poking herself in the eye instead. I'm sure she'll get the hang of that in time.

We will be trying to post some sights and sounds pretty soon. We have a recording of her heartbeat from a while ago and will attempt getting the ultra sound photos up for you all to see.