The Harris Family

Next in our parade of taken-but-not-yet-shared photos, here are some pictures from the trip Lynne and I took to Tokyo earlier this summer.

It rained much of the time we were there, hence the umbrellas you see us carrying towards the end of the trip. Krispy Kreme sure was popular there, with Japanese people lined up for hours to bring home boxes of warm donuts to their families and co-workers.

I’ll post pictures of our subsequent visit to Beijing soon, but for now, enjoy these!

Tokyo

Today, Lynne’s sister Laurie threw her a baby shower!

Lynne, Laurie, and a few of her friends had lunch at Purple Cafe in Kirkland. They had a lot of fun, and the baby got a lot of cute clothes, toys, and other gifts.

Here are some of the pictures from the shower:

Baby Shower

Earlier this week, we had a 32-week ultrasound to check to make sure the new baby was growing at a normal pace. (As it turned out, we don’t have anything to worry about yet, as she’s currently at around the 84th percentile.)

The place where we go to visit the perinatologist has a very fancy ultrasound machine that can do what are called “4D ultrasounds.” Basically, they use computer imaging to try to create a semi-realistic picture of what a baby actually looks like. At the end of the appointment, we got a DVD movie of the ultrasound, including the parts that were done in 4D.

The 4D ultrasounds can be a little creepy, but we got some good shots of what the new baby looks like. We caught her sucking her thumb, yawning, and generally moving around a lot. She was very active during the whole appointment, so it was hard to get her to stay still long enough to get a fully unobstructed shot.

Still, it was pretty interesting for us to see a glimpse of what she will look like!

Here’s a movie I put together of all of the 4D footage we got:

We’ve decided to create a web site so that we have a convenient place to share pictures and videos of the new baby with family and friends.

If you want to easily keep track of changes to the site, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed. If you don’t have an RSS reader, don’t worry, you can just refresh this page and always see the most updated content.

To try out the new site, I’m going to post some of the old pictures that we never got around to showing people. Here’s the first batch, from our December 2006 trip to Antarctica:

Antarctica

We hope you like the pictures and our new web site!