Kiddo Born..

Corey Maximilian Tarsha
Born August 28th 2009
8lbs 4oz

8/13/2009

This one was kinda funny, got to see him stick his tongue out, happens around 3 minute 10 seconds.

Ultrasound 8.6.2009

Welp he measured in at 8lbs today.. He is going to be a big baby!

Latest Ultrasound

Latest Ultrasound....

Little one's, little ones.

Targetted Ultrasound

well, we went in today for the targetted ultrasound. Our boy is very healthy, all looks well and he weighs a whopping 1lb 15ounces, yes he's a big baby. He is also very stubborn (wonder where he gets that from) he kept putting his hand in front of his face when we were trying to get a 3d picture of it, basically was like "Talk to the Hand". He definitely has my alien like fingers and nose :D Here he is..

He's got the Hiccups lol!

welp, next visit is the really cool one with the 3d etc, but our midwife hooked us up and took a few 3d shots for us today anyways. Heres the latest, he had the hiccups which was hilarious, and it was cool to see him move around. We're seriously stoked to see this little kid.

Updated Pictures

Cindee's Sister (who is am amazing photographer) caught this pic of Cindee today..

Belly Shots!!

Belly shots are about the only shots happening in the Tarsha family for the last few months, as opposed to tequila shots, or body shots. Just for the record, these pictures were taken two days apart, I thought winter was OVER!!!

Its Official!

We are having a baby boy, and we are SOOO EXCITED! I of course thought it was a girl, given the name Molly, and finding out on St. Patrick's Day. That will carve away a tad at my superstition.

We present Corey Maximilian Tarsha

She's Showing!

Well, Cindee starting showing about a week and a half ago. I havent seen her all this week because she was in Seattle. When she got home about 30 minutes ago she gave me a hug and there was something pushing me away from her. Unbelievable how fast they grow!

ITS ALIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!!!!!

So yea, last time we had the ultrasound done, it was pretty amazing but nothing like this time. I mean you could full on see a baby in there WHAT A TRIP! As you watch you will see it jiggle a little bit that's could be one of two things

A. The nurse trying to wake up the baby (she wanted to show us a hiccup).
B. Cindee Laughing (she could have waken the baby herself).

I was shocked to see the baby was a whoppin 47.4mm from head to bum tack on a few more for the legs thats a good 2.5 inches long, that moved our date up a little bit from 8/31/2009 to 8/30/2009.

We asked about the probability of determining the sex so young and basically what she told us is both the female and male have a little bump in the area where the boys goods would be, and since the testies havent dropped yet its a crap shoot. Our next appointment isn't for 5 more weeks because our nurse will be out of town in 4 (DARNIT!) so in 5 weeks we should know if its going to be a boy or girl.

Speaking of boys and girls here are a few name we are thinking of.

Girl

• Molly Renee Tarsha

Boy

• Corey Alexander Tarsha
• Corey Maximilian Tarsha
  
• Alex Joseph Tarsha
• Arthur Joseph Tarsha III
  

Distant Seconds

• Lincoln Joseph Tarsha
• Wyatt Joseph Tarsha

She loves me!

She finally loves me :D Just looking at her used to make her swell up and cry. I think she has taken the record for the most amount of "uncle Artie" said in a single day.

I look forward to going home, but man do I love spending time with these girls. I do hope they can come see Utah sometime soon. I think they will love the snow.

NFC Champions, SUPERBOWL here we come!

Baby Tarsha is a happy camper today.. We have quite the Super Bowl party to plan..

NFC Championship day...

Welp, todays the day Cindee and I have been waiting for all week. Not only is it the day that the Arizona Cardinals hopefully make franchise history but Im hoping to see the Eagles take a major hurtin (yea I dont like them). I love this picture of Cindee and neice Natalie (Nat), Cindee in her Cardinals jersey, and Nat in her Cardinals red routing Cardinals #1...

Cindee and I went to the store this morning to get some stuff for this little shindig we are throwing, and I made a rookie comment when she grabbed some valentines candy "Remember what the doctor said hun" I caught a glare that damn near left me bald, I should have known better. I guess thats a good sign of typical progress within a pregnancy, the raging hormone river my buddy said (he's going through the same thing right now).

We're looking forward to our party today, but we're missing our friends from Arizona something fierce. I almost feel like they should be here for this occassion (or vice versa for that matter). Oh well Im sure we'll be text messaging back and forth from kickoff to victory. Go Cardinals!

First visit to the doc..

Well, Cindee and I went to the doctor today to find out what the deal is with our little wonder. Turns out the rascal is ALMOST a centimeter long. You all know me, Im a tad on the aggressive side so when the midwife (or who I THOUGHT was the midwife) comes in she starts talking to Cindee and totally ignores me, Im thinking to myself "uhhh hello lady, the papa is right here you havent even introduced yourself wtf!". So in my aggressive manner I tell her as she's walking out the door "Mind if we get something out of the way, Im Art Tarsha, the father". She kind of looks back at me and is like Ohhh, Hi Im "so and so" the nurses assistant. Of course I felt like an ass.

Anyhow the midwife finally comes in, and immediately introduces herself "Im pretty sure the nurses assistant told her, hey Cindee's husbands a jerk, make sure you introduce yourself before he bites your head off". I was feeling pretty humble at that point so the introduction was cool =), She administered the ultrasound, and talked to us about the process. We asked her how she felt about epidural (sp?) she told us the pregnancy is yours, unless you are sitting on that babies head you can have one whenever you want. That was a relief to us because of a bad experience my sister Carli had with a hippy midwife in the past. The midwife had a very dry approach to her jokes which of course I can dig, I laughed at pretty much everything she said. She seems very helpful and we're happy she's the one overseeing this pregnancy.

So without further adeu heres the "her/him". Pay attention the left hand side when she moves the camera in you can see the heart beat. Our next ultrasound will hopefully be slightly more than a blob =)

How we found out

Well well we found out on December 24th 2008 at approximately 6:15am that we were going to have a baby.

Cindee had been sick for a few days with a wicked flu, and I had been sleeping on the couch to avoid the evil. She walked in xmas-eve morning and sat on the couch staring at me with these big blue eyes which had me a bit concerned. I asked what was wrong (no response) I asked again (no response), she simply handed me the pregnancy test applicator and asked "Do those look like double lines to you?". I was still groggy from sleep but I knew right away what that meant. I asked Cindee if the test was one of those cheap dollar store tests which she confirmed. I then told her to wake me up when she tests with a legitimate test (of course she needed to go spend 14$ on a test to convince me, I just wanted to be sure).

So there you have it, thats how we found out. We told her family that night when everyone was together. I waited to tell my family until Friday the 26th because I wanted to see their faces when I announced the news. They were extatic as well (as suspected).

We spent the last week in Arizona with family and friends, its been a good week though it was good to be home "in front of my plasma" to watch the 'University of Utah Utes' win the Sugar Bowl for a 13-0 season, as well as the Arizona Cardinals win a wildcard spot in the playoffs by defeating the Atlanta Falcons (Cindee and I are hardcore football fans)..

More to come!