It's A...

GIRL!!!!

She has started to be VERY active, as of yesterday. It surprised me yesterday at church to feel several bumps and pops, so much so, that it made me laugh during a "serious" part of the lesson in Sunday School. The teacher gave me a funny look. My mom went with me to the ultrasound today, and we were able to watch her move around, quite a bit. We could see her flexing all of the fingers. Here she is, probably practicing punching me, which she is getting good at.

I think its so amazing to see all of this stuff. My friend Kati, the tech, showed me every little thing about her, even her tiny little lips, eyes, and her little toes. This, clearly, is a picture of her leg and foot. Her belly is above that, and one of the 2 black spots is her stomach. Not sure which. I got to see her heart beating- it looked like a tiny little turnip, wiggling back and forth.

After the appt, we went to the hospital diner/gift shop and got something to eat. My mom bought a cute, soft little lamb, called Winky that has a rattle in it. I went to TJ Maxx later on, and had to stop myself from buying cute litte girl onsies!

So that's that! My next checkup is next Thursday, which is when the Dr will go over the whole ultrasound with me and let me know everything is going good.

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Week 18

I promised myself I wouldn't be posting fat pictures of me all over the Internet, but considering this is for family and friends only, I'll make an exception. I'm getting more excited with each week, and I think its really neat to journalize the whole thing. This is the first real preg. picture of me. As you can tell, things have definitely changed in the past month since I left Utah! Please excuse the hair and makeup...err.. and everything from the neck up. It was the end of the day, and anything goes for me at this time!

Anyways, tonight I was driving home from the store and suddenly felt like someone was flicking my stomach. It was crazy! The past couple weeks I haven't been able to tell the difference between gas and movements (TMI), but tonight was pretty darn clear! Today I met a good friend (Kati) for lunch at Panera Bread. (my all-time favorite lunch spot!) Kati is an ultrasound tech and works in the hospital I'm going to, and will be doing my ultrasound. How lucky! We went to Target afterwards, and she forced (I use that term loosely) me to look at baby stuff, which I've been putting off. It was a lot of fun! My next ultrasound is November 9th, next Monday, and I will hopefully get to find out what I'm having then. Its driving me crazy not knowing, and not being able to plan things out in detail! I can't wait, this is better than Christmas!

My friends and in-laws claim I'm having a boy, but I keep having dreams that its a girl. So who knows! I'm not picky, and will be ecstatic about either one.