20 weeks - almost 21

We went in on Monday for our 20 week ultrasound and then had the follow up appt on Wed with the Dr. The ultrasound on Mon took about 30-40 min - they did a lot of measuring and taking pictures of the baby. It is so amazing what all can be seen. WE could see the heart beating, the valves working, the blood flowing, all the organs (at least they said so, that was harder to tell). And the ultrasound tech did a good job of not letting us know the sex of the baby! I'm not sure if he even looked down there sicne he never told us to look away, or he did and we were too naive to even know what was on the screen! Either way, it's not written on our file or anything, so no chances of finding out - this baby is still a secret to all but God.

These are a couple of pics from the ultrasound that we got to take with us - so amazing the technology that they can see the baby with. Baby was very active when he was doing all the measurements, and then when he went to 4D for us to see the face and all more baby turned and buried his face into my back, and covered up their face with the arm, which was pretty cute too! HOwever, we did finally get to see the face! Definately makes me more anxious to think about holding this little one in about 20 weeks!

(this one to the left we decided is baby's Heisman pose) :)

We also found out that baby is measuring very proportionately and actually on the large size. Baby is measuring more like 22 weeks, rather than 20 weeks. So, either they dated baby wrong and I am really 22 weeks along, or they dated me right and I am 20 weeks with a large baby! So we have an average to large baby on our hands. But, they are leaning more towards the large baby and I'm 20 weeks, because that very first ultrasound they did at like 6 weeks is supposed to be the most accurate in dating. So, we'll see how big this baby gets. (does make me feel a little bit better about my weight gain, that combined with my short midriff, so the dr. really isn't concerned about any of that, which is nice).

Jeremy and I are trying to get out for a walk at least once a day with eachother and with Miles which has been great for me and I'm feeling better with that, and of course Miles loves it! We've even been waking up early in the morning to go! (early as in 6:30-7:00, early for us).

Other than those things, everything seems to be progressing very normally. Jeremy has been super great, helping with dinner in the evenings and around the house, my energy seems to come and go, so I do what I can when I'm able to, but the last few nights I've been exhausted. But, Jeremy can make tacos, pasta and hamburgers, so there's always at least something to eat and I"m not complaining! :) All right, well on to try and post these pictures, and hopefully they will come up this time!

My first collection of baby things!! :) - nope not eager or excited at all to meet this little one!! :)







These are the shelves that have been i nthe corner nook and I bought abskets to put on them and will be like the baby's dresser - since there's not room really for a dresser and i like this look better anyhow!!

The color scheme and materials that will all eventually find themselves in the nursery.




The changing table - I will still be making new colored liners for the baskets, but at least the baskets are bought.

















I need to hem the bed skirt still, but thought I would at least take a picture so y'all could see the colors.

Baby Belly

OK, sorry I didn't get it rotated, but it's a picture!!

19 weeks

Ok, so I'm even worse at this than I thought I would be!! But, after talking to Rachel last night I was reminded that I haven't been updating, nor have I posted a belly pic, so it is time for that!! And we made a deal, that we would each post, and she followed through like right away, so here I am.

I am 19 weeks tomorrow. I go in for for 20 week ultrasound next Monday, hard to believe we are almost half way there! People ask me how baby is doing and all I can tell is that our baby is definately growing and must be healthy! I have definately been feeling more movements in the last week which has been so exciting! We have also had record setting temperatures up here this last week, making life somewhat miserable, I had a couple of nights of getting home from work, eating dinner, showering and then plopping on the recliner, just because movement made it that much warmer. Granted, we were only up to 80 or so, but we aren't prepared for that here!! (no A/C) After a couple of nights of little to no sleep the temperatures dropped, thank goodness!! Jeremy of course comtinued to be supportive and got me cold washcloths for my head and my feet (which were wanting to swell) which all helped alot!!

I haven't gotten a lot more done on the baby room, we are looking at paint colors right now and probably won't start that until the end of August and into September. Other than that we have continued to be busy with work and also trying to enjoy our summer up here. Last Sunday Jeremy and my brothers and some of their friends played a "scrimmage" baseball game against my youngest brother's (Ben's) baseball team (they are getting ready for the all-stars tournament). So my mom and I sat outside in the bleachers all afternoon which was wonderful I even ended up with a decent sunburn which is now more tan. :) BUt it was fun to watch them all play. I will probably be at the ball fields this weekend again, as Jeremy has to work tomorrow, so hopefully we will have more nice weather!!

NOt a lot else going on here, but just wanted to write and post some new pictures!!

OK, I'm going to try and put the pictures in another post, thsi doesn't seem to be working...grrrr....