Thanksgiving #1

This weekend we went out of town to visit some friends and celebrate Thanksgiving early with them. We had a great time being out of the city and eating wonderful food! We were able to go on a little hike to see some Nabatean ruins and enjoy the beautiful views.

Allen exploring

Unbelievable!

I am amazed at the great medical care I have recieved here for little Benjamin. We had our 20 week indepth ultrasound two weeks ago. A friend of ours came with us. She was an ultrasound tech in the states, it was great to get to share the experience with her. Thanks Tracy! We have almost 30 minutes on DVD of our little guy. He is moving a lot and looks very tall! I wonder where he gets that from? Not the Ostendorff side of the family!

Friday Market and Saturday Hunting...

Y'all, I just have to share my great news! I found three pairs of maternity pants yesterday and some great shirts the day before! Friday we have market in our city. Basically table after table of second hand clothes from Europe and the states. We see lots of goodwill tags on clothes and other second hand stores. Anyways, I went there on friday and found two great shirts to fit over my ever expanding belly and a red sweatshirt to wear around the house as it gets cold.

Then yesterday, Allen and I went down to Italian street where there is shop after shop of second hand clothes. Same thing as the friday market but here they are hanging up and a little easier to find. I was on the hunt for maternity pants. I had tried all the maternity stores and they were either ridiculously expensive or I would never go out in public wearing what they had! We thought we would give Italian street a shot. The second shop we went in had only one pair of maternity pants! They were khaki cordoroy. The cool things is that I had told the Father a couple of weeks ago how fun it would be to have a pair of cordoroy's during the winter to keep Ben and I warm. I tried them on and they fit perfectly!!!! YEAH! We went in a bunch more stores, one little store was like a dungeon with this little old man. I asked him if he had any pregnancy pants and he pulled out a pair of LizLange pants from Target. They are brand new! I also got another pair of jeans. So, with the pair of jeans Ashleigh sent and these, little Ben will be comfie and covered for a long while!!! Thank you, Father!

Allen has been wanting a hoodie sweatshirt. It gets REALLY cold here! Eventually we will be able to see our breath in our house 24 hours a day! Did I say it gets REALLY cold! So, Allen had decided that the best way to stay warm would be to have a hoodie. We have a friend in Cola that loves to wear hoodie sweatshirts at night. We thought there might be something to it. He found a big brown hoodie yesterday. We also found a Texas A&M sweatshirt but it was too small and had a whole in it. So Sad! But if we EVER find something from Clemson, we will definately buy it. I washed it yesterday and he was so excited to put it on last night!

Need Some Mommy Advice!

Do any of you mommy's out there recommend a certain brand of bottles or pacifiers? Or do you have any other "must have" baby items that I should know about.

Allen and I are coming home in December (just for Christmas, not for good!) and so I am trying to register for some basics for my family and friends. I talked to my sister about a lot of things but could use any advice you all might have. Everything here is pretty expensive so we are trying to get some good basics while we are in the states. A friend here gave me a bunch of clothes from 0-18 months which is GREAT!

So, if you have any thoughts I would love to hear them. I am registering at Target and Babies R Us, so if something isn't available at those stores let me know.

Thank you!!!