It's a....

GIRL!!!! We think :o) Haha! So at the ultrasound yesterday everything looked great and when asked if we wanted to know the sex we both quickly responded...yes, that's why we're here at only 16 weeks...hehe...we're so bad! She did some looking and started typing on the screen "I'M A GIRL." I started kinda laughing...that kind of giddy excited laugh that you just can't control...a little girl, oh my! What a blessing! She pointed out the 3 lines that indicate her girly parts (it just looked like 3 little lines to me...these ultraound technicians are amazing...I really don't know how they do it!!). Anyway...she started looking at everything else, so I proded her some more and was like, "so would you say you're about 75% sure it's a girl" (cause I've heard with girls, they sometime's get it wrong...if it's a boy, it's a pretty obvious thing)...she replied "we'll go back and check again at the end." Which we did after trying to get some other pictures of her...she didn't make it easy though because she was sitting up with her feet tucked neetly under her butt...it was the oddest position! The tech kept shaking the wand on my stomach to try and get her to move around...I think she was tired though b/c I chugged a glass of OJ on my way to the appointment at my sister's recommendation to give her a little sugar high so she would be active during the u/s for this exact reason. It kinda backfired though when we had to sit in the waiting room for over 30 minutes...so needless to say, I think we got her coming down OFF the sugar high...haha! We were able to see the 3 lines a couple more times though and the u/s tech confirmed...she pretty much positive it's a girl...and even recommended painting the room.... When we talked to my OB after though he said he definitely agreed with her assessment, but that at 16 weeks there is still a possiblity that it could just be a late developing boy...and that all babies "look" like girls at first. So he said we could start shopping, but recommended we hold on to the receipts :o) We get to go back in 3 weeks on January 11th to see her again because they couldn't get a good look at a few of her organs, so by then they said they should be able to confirm it. So for now, I'm thinking girly thoughts, picking out girly bedding, etc...but will not be totally going crazy until we get the official thumbs up that our little June bug is in fact going to be an Autumn!

Wishing you all a Very Blessed Christmas and a Miraculous New Year!!

The weeks keep on flying by...

Once again it's been a busy week and finding the time to post obviously didn't make the list of priorities...it is the holiday season though so I'm sure you all understand. I have to tell you the week started off last Sunday with a Baptism for my niece Sophie. And unfortunately, what started out with a nice little ceremony with family and friends, turned into a priest telling everyone just what he thought about the practice of in vetro fertilization. I think his exact quote was something like "It's so wonderful to celebrate the life of little Sophie, especially when the world is filled with such blasphemious things as abortion and in vetro fertilization" Um, what?? The fact that he's going to group abortion and in vetro fertilization into the same category!?! I'm sorry, but I don't think he understands that the first of those things is destroying life...killing innocent little babies that have no chance at the life they were meant to lead. And the second, is creating life...creating little babies that might have otherwise never made it to this earth. And if you ask me, just like all babies, in vetro babies are a special blessing from God and his opinion can in no way take away from the fact that the baby I'm carrying IS a gift from God!! I understand that there are people who abuse the medical practice of IVF...and make embryo creation more of a sport, where they pick the ones they want and discard the rest...or do selective reduction because they aren't prepared to carry multiples. But for most of us, it is not like that at all! The creation of an embryo is the creation of a baby...and not one single one is destroyed...they are all given the chance to grow and mature into what will one day be our children!! And I'm sorry that his mindset is too narrow to understand that, but maybe it would be different if he had to walk in the shoes of an infertile for awhile!

Ok, I will get off my soapbox now...phew! Thanks for letting me vent! In other news we had our OB appointment on December 10th...and everything looked and sounded great. My dr. didn't have time to do an ultrasound, but we did get to hear little june bugs heartbeat on the doppler so that still made for a great visit! AND...he is letting us come back in this coming Monday to hopefully find out if it's a boy or a girl!!! We'll be just over 16 weeks so it's a little early, but I know plenty of people that found out that early, so I'm just hoping and praying we'll be able to as well!! That would be a great Christmas present...to tell everyone the baby is healthy and that it's an...Autumn or Noah!! I'll definitely let you know if we find out!!

The 2nd trimester is here!

So as of Saturday we are 14 weeks and officially in the 2nd trimester!! Woohoo! And to celebrate we bought the nursery furniture! Here is a picture of it...although we actually got it in the espresso color which you'll see in the picture below with the full size bed. The crib actually converts into a toddler bed and then the full size bed you see below. Pretty cool!! We got all the pieces you see in the two pictures except the hutch. So we have a crib, a dresser/changing table, a nightstand, and a tall 4 drawer dresser! We are all set. All we need now is a rocker of some kind, the bedding, and some decorations!! They will likely be delivering it in the next few weeks since it was a floor model so it's time to clean out the office to make room!!




Besides furniture, so far the second trimester has brought with it some naseau...which to me seems very strange since the second trimester is when all this is supposed to end, but I guess everyone is different. I'm finally starting to understand what the other girls have been talking about this whole time. Up until a few weeks ago everything smelled and tasted amazing to me! It was like my nose and taste buds had a whole new life!! I loved it! Now half the things I smell make me feel sick and eating has become more of a function than an enjoyment. Hopefully it will pass, but if not I will surely live with it.

Lastly I've been busy be-dazzling myself some shirts. I made a "body by baby" shirt to get me through this transition of..."is she pregnant or just getting fat" and a "what's kickin" shirt for when I get a little more round and hopefully start feeling the little one kickin around in there! Here are some pictures of those as well.



We go back to the OB on Thursday and I cannot wait!! It seems like it's been forever!! I'm going to try and talk him in to doing an ultrasound to see if we can tell if it's a boy or a girl yet...and just to be able to get another peek at our little june bug! I don't know if he'll agree, but I figure it's worth a try. If not, our BIG ultrasound should be the first week of January...so we'll know soon if it's going to be Autumn or Noah!!