44 days, doctor and car seat!

Today we had another doctor's appointment - they are every two weeks now so they are keeping us busy.  Today's appointment featured our last ultrasound.  It was pretty quick - just to check that the placenta was out of the baby's way and the good news is that everything looked great!  We got to see the baby moving all around and hear her heartbeat and the doctor re-confirmed that we are indeed expecting a girl.   Good thing too, because we have acquired quite a lot of pink clothing and a boy baby would look kind of silly wearing a "daddy's girl" onesie :)

In other news, what is that in the backseat of my car?

It's a car seat base!!  (sorry, Blogger rotated the picture for me, so it is technically an upside down car seat base, but I can assure you that we plan on putting the baby in right-side up).  We are borrowing our car seat from our friends Geoff and Kristen whose baby outgrew it.  While they were here over the weekend, Geoff helped Jeremy install the base and make sure it was level and what-not.  Apparently the base is a pain to get in and out, so we'll have to decide if we want to get a second one, or if we will just always drive Bagel around in my car.  We'll probably try to stick with the one base at first to see how it works out.  Jeremy's car is a 2-door, so we're not super-excited about trying to wiggle a car seat in and out of it anyway.  In true engineer fashion, Jeremy and Geoff used wire ties to hold the end of the seat belt out of the way (they assure me that the wire ties are in no way being used to restrain the baby). 

Having the car seat installed is one more thing to check off the baby to-do list!  It sure makes it seem like Bagel's arrival is just around the corner.