22 weeks and a visit from my sister!

Everything is going really well, I'm feeling the baby move a LOT but unfortunetly no one else can at this point.  George is dying to feel this little one and I can't wait for that too!  Thanksgiving was good, just George, Chance, and myself but lots of yummy food!  I picked my sister up from the airport yesterday and we went and saw New Moon, did a little shopping (she helped me pick out a new outfit, yay!) and went to dinner.  It is so nice having her here.  We're also going to paint the baby room this weekend, just the base color for now, a really cool blue and then my mom and aunt are going to come down and help me do the tree and owls.  That's all for now, I've included a few new belly pics, it's really sticking out there now!

                                            

It's a.... SURPRISE (until Christmas at least!)

Here are the rest of the pics...

The envelope with the goods inside!  We even had her staple it shut:)

This is Petri looking at us.

George's favorite... flexing muscles!  Little fist and all, right after she got this shot the little stinker punched me! LOL

20 week ultrasound!

Okay I wasn't able to upload all the cute pics that I wanted to, stupid blogger!  I'll try again when I get done posting this.  The ultrasound went great!  When we first went in little Petri was literally folded in half, it was so cute!  By the time we were done he/she was sprawled out with hand behind his/her head laying just like mama was!  It was adorable.  The tech was sooo sweet and we were in there for about an hour.   She explained everything as she went and told us that everything looked really good.  We saw all 4 chambers of the heart, both sides of the brain, fingers, toes, arms, legs, EVERYTHING... EXCEPT the goods:~) LOL!  We were strong and held out, the tech had us turn away twice so she could check, then double check and says she's 90% sure of the sex.  She wrote it down in our envelope along with a "money shot" pic!  I did find out that my placenta is in the front, nothing harmful but that is why I'm only feeling small movements down low, probably punches since the head is down.  Baby is measuring great, and we couldn't have been more happy with what we saw.  Can't wait to meet our little one!  I've posted a couple of profile shots below and hope to post more later. 

17 weeks, waaaay cuter picture! LOL

Okay, so I made George take another picture today before I went to a wedding shower. I looked much better and not quite as bloated:)

Slacker here...

I know it's been awhile since I've updated but there's not much to talk about but I'm VERY busy with my class! So here's what's going on with us... I'm actually starting to show, about 3 weeks ago I started to notice my clothes fitting a little more snug but I now have an actual "baby bump" I've gained about a pound so I'm happy with that! I've decided that I HATE maternity clothes, especially pants, but I need something comfy, luckily my mom found these amazing knit pants at New York and Co. that just slip on, no buttons, snaps, zippers or best of all huge panel! LOL!



I ordered a heart doppler so we can listen to the baby's heartbeat each night, George thought I was slightly crazy but he thinks it's really cool to hear as well. And it's EXTREMELY reassuring to know this little one is safe and sound! I am starting to feel some movements but it'll be nice when I can tell the difference between baby moves and gas:) I guess that's all for now, I'm posting (against my better judgment:) a belly pic below, I was trying to wait until it looked more like baby and less like chub! haha I think I'm close!



And a note on the photo... I look REALLY rough BUT I had been at parent teacher conferences so it was a VERY long day!!

12w5d, baby is growing!

Well we had our appointment today, got another u/s, it was awesome! We were really able to see a lot. Fingers, toes, elbows, face, big ol' head! We loved it! We went to a different doctor today, this is the one we'll be using. We both really liked her, she was very thorough and George loved her middle eastern accent LOL! Anyway Petri was measuring well, heartbeat looked great and I still haven't gained any weight, YAY! I might try to scan in some of the pictures later but they were pretty crappy. Thanks for all you're prayers, I feel like now that I'm in the 2nd trimester I can finally breathe a little easier!

9 1/2 weeks, new doctor, awesome ultra sound, GREAT DAY!

Well my appointment this week was AWESOME!! We were there forever but the nurse was amazing, so sweet and funny and the Dr. was totally goofy but we both really liked him. The u/s was the most wonderful thing! Little Petri actually looks like a baby! We saw big head (takes after mama) and tiny little arms and legs. The Dr. was so great too as he was doing the u/s because he said at this stage the baby is moving around so he just held the u/s wand in place for awhile until the baby moved!!! We were so shocked to see that, even George was like WOW! We also got to hear the hb. I forgot to ask what the rate was but he said it was a nice strong hb so I'm guessing that was a good thing. Baby also measured right on date, 9 weeks 4 days. We didn't get any still shots because the camera was broke but we did record it and they told us if we take it to Walgreen's they will put it on a disc and we can print out pics. I have another appointment next week with another Dr. at a different hospital. I would cancel all together because I liked this one so much (plus the nurse said he's really easy to talk into doing extra u/s!!) BUT this office doesn't take my secondary insurance and the other place does. Once we get the quotes from the insurance company we'll be able to better decide where we're going to go. But the good thing about that is another u/s next week! LOL!