22 weeks + 3 days - Let it snow and carseats

I had a prenatal appointment yesterday. All went well and baby is growing rapidly. Baby is now up above my belly button. He's very active and has a good strong heart beat. I've gone to look at infant car seats as it seems JP's younger sister is expecting her 3rd child in May 2008. This means we won't be able to borrow their infant car seat as they'll be using it :). There are going to be lots of little babies around. Lord have mercy.

Anna has been at JP's parents for the past week as our regular daycare lady took the week off. We'll go pick her up today. Hopefully she won't harbor too much of a grudge. She tends to get upset with us if we're away from her for too long. I'll be glad to get my wild little monkey back. I miss her when she's not around to make me smile/grimace. At least it's been snowing nicely and she'll have had plenty to do outside. Fall is always kind of boring around here as it gets dark and the ground frozen so there's nothing to do. At least when the snow falls Anna has something to do. Snow and stars were a big discovery for her this year as she didn't remember them from last year.

I've added a nice little application you can see spinning on the right side of this page. It shows how the baby is growing and what week I'm in just in case you forgot or something :) It just looked like fun.

21 weeks 3 days - It's a boy ya'll!

Well...I have had that ultrasound I told you about. The baby is healthy and has all of the organs in the right places. Ten fingers and ten toes and is very active. He looks to be a healthy little baby boy.

Yes, it's a boy! Of course there's always some risk that they saw wrong but the doctor did say that it was 99% sure that it's a boy. JP came with me and seemed rather un-phased by the whole thing. I'm sure under that tough quiet exterior he was grinning like a fool :).

I'm sure I'll be grinning like a fool for a while. Now I can start thinking about names and getting out clothes that are fit for a boy.

20 Weeks and 3 days - hanging in there

Here we are in the 20 week zone. That means I'm half way. Shall we celebrate? The picture on the right was taken at exactly 20 weeks. I've got quite the nice belly at the moment. At least people are definitely noticing that I'm pregnant.

It's funny how people look at you when you have the pregnant belly thing going on. Either they look at me with that warm squishy adoring look or they just stare at my 3D belly as they walk by. I've scheduled myself for a thorough ultrasound on the 9th of November. They'll check all the organs and make sure there aren't any heart problems, etc. If we're lucky we'll see the gender. I personally am just dying to know. I hope the baby cooperates and positions itself correctly so that we can see. I'll be sure to keep you updated. Maybe I'll have another ultrasound picture to put here.