Update!

This past weekend has been a very busy one! It started off with our second ultrasound on Friday. It was definitely a better experience than the last one (I think my midwife called him and told him to be nicer...haha). I drank a lot of orange juice that morning and half a mountain dew (I seriously was on a sugar high the rest of the day....I was shaking), hoping this little one would move! They did move a lot more......but still not enough! The doctor said he thinks it is a girl......and he hasn't been wrong in 6 years so that was a little comforting...but he thought we probably shouldn't go out and buy stuff right off the bat until he was sure. I wish he would give me some pictures because it is hilarious....they will move everything but it's legs! It's feet (which are not small...they are large) are crossed and the Dr. kept saying it looks like the baby is doing yoga. It is so cute! He still had trouble finding that third vessel in the umbilical cord so he wants us to come back in another few weeks when the baby has grown a bit more to make sure it is there. You can probably guess I was very frustrated! But luckily I have some great friends and sisters who made me feel better about it. A couple of the friends have been to this Dr. before with their babies and they said that he is the type of Dr. that would have told me if something was really wrong and he just wants to make sure and he also doesn't like to be wrong so he probably wouldn't have told me it was a girl if he didn't really think so. So I have to wait another long couple of weeks to find out again.....but it is fun to see the baby each time.

Saturday J and I headed to Chicago to shop and see some friends! We went to pizza with Matt, Christie, and their cutie baby Gage and it was great to see them and chat (also have amazing pizza!). Afterwards, we experienced our first IKEA adventure ever. Going into it I thought Jason was going to go crazy, but he loved it! I was the one going a little crazy at the end....too many people! We got a lot of things for cheap and I can see why so many people go there! After almost three hours there we went to some outlets and walked around.....I only got one thing which is amazing if you know me well. I usually walk out of Gap Outlet with bags but I didn't get anything there! It was a fun day to get away and enjoy something different!


I know some of you want me to put up a picture of my baby bump, and I probably will soon. To me, honestly it just looks like I got fatter! Jason can tell and I think people who see me everyday can tell, but I feel like I look the same! In the next week or two I will probably put one up for all of you dying to see! :)

Sorry!

I feel really bad because I re-read my ultrasound post and I hope I didn't scare too many people because of the way I titled it. I am sooooo sorry! I probably would have thought the same way too if I was reading it that way. Everything is fine, we only have one more week!

Sad Day!

Unfortunately I have some bad news and some good news regarding our ultrasound!

Good news:

We saw our baby today! It was so cute! It waved it's little hands all around at us. It was hard to tell what everything was (the Dr. that did it wasn't that great...he didn't explain anything and we kind of left his office going what did we just see?), But we obviously saw the little head, feet, heart, and legs. It was amazing to see and kind of made it all more real!

Bad news:

It looks like our baby is modest just like me! It would not spread it's little legs! Come on! I was a little sad afterwards when the Dr. told us we would have to come back....I was looking so forward to this and I am dying to go shopping! We go back next Friday to get the results! The Dr. also had to get a little more views on a few things that he wasn't able to see today.

I kind of had a negative attitude this morning about the entire situation (my pregnancy emotions finally came out-I haven't had really bad ones) but then I thought about it more all day and I am grateful I was able to see the baby! My mom didn't have an ultrasound until the last kid and still didn't know what she was having so I am glad I don't have to go through that! I just pray that we will be able to see next week because I don't know if we will be able to have another one for awhile. I am planning on drinking lots of orange juice that morning.....with a little spike of Mountain Dew!

??????

A week from tomorrow Jason and I have our ultrasound and I am so eager to find out! Honestly, I have no idea what we are having. Jason thinks a girl, my dad thinks a girl, but I am not guessing. I do keep having dreams about little baby girls, but I don't know! It will be so neat to kind of see a little bit of what they look like in the ultrasound and see if there are any features resembling either one of us yet, if not it will be so cool to see them though!

Will it be a boy and look like Jason?






OR

A girl and look like me???






Yesterday I watched "How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days" and I absolutely love that movie. Some of the best one-liners ever....anyway, I love the part where Kate Hudson uses photoshop to put her and Matthew Hottie's baby pictures together to see what their children would look like. I don't know if you can really do it or not, but I am kind of scared to see. Maybe I can get Conan O'Brien's little gadget where he does it with celebrities.......

I think the baby heard me talk to a lot of people about how great I was saying this pregnancy was because this past week I have really felt pregnant for the first time. I am sure my belly has grown in the past seven days through my layers of fat.....while I am sitting here writing I have to sit up super straight because I can feel something jabbing into my ribs if I slouch. I have now had the opportunity to visit the bathroom like 5 times an hour and I am pretty sure my feet are swelling up while standing for eight hours a day at work. I am not complaining at all....it is just crazy how a body can transform so quickly! I don't think I have felt the baby move yet, I am still waiting for it! Sometimes I think that it is it but I don't know. Jason is in Michigan this week visiting his dad and I am going crazy! I like being alone sometimes but I miss him still. I thought I would get a lot done this weekend because I had it off but really didn't do anything.....just hung around the house.

Well, I am sure next time I write it will be next Monday with some news!