21 weeks 4 days - Christmas Day!

This is Jenn ~ Was just thinking that Little Squirt will be here this time next year! And I am so appreciative to be a part of such a wonderful miracle!!!

God Bless Us, Everyone :)

We're having a ...................

GIRL!!!!!

Today's appt was awesome! We got a DVD of the U/S. I don't really have the words to explain how I felt when she told us what we were having. It's not the "having a girl" part, it's just that now we "know" what we're having. Now we can say her/she when we're referring to her. :) So exciting. She was moving around so much, the active little sweetie.

Doug's mom went with us to the appt today as well. I was glad she finally met Jenn. We went out for lunch afterwards. It was a nice day, other than the pouring rain. :)

I can't wait until this time next year. Our little girls first Christmas. Awwww.

Todays news was the perfect Birthday and Christmas present. We couldn't be happier!

Allison - happy baby moma to a little sweet girl

Neglectful

Not of the pregnancy, but of the blog :)

This is Jenn ~ I don't really have anything new to report, other than recent developments with heartburn, but really...is that blog-worthy? Probably not! So, I will post a pic from last week, when we hit the 18 week point...which would currently make us 19 weeks 3 days (to be precise).

Next week will bring more news...much more exciting than my heartburn report I think :) Exactly 1 week from today, we will have our BIG ultrasound, which will tell us whether we should be buying pink or blue for Little Squirt! But I am thinking that Allison will be the one with that report...she is the Baby Mama after all :)

15 weeks!

Tomorrow marks the official 15 week point :) I'm doing well for the most part, still tired and having bouts of sleeplessness, but typical pregnancy stuff - nothing major!

Woohoo for progress!!!

And speaking of progress, we hit another milestone on Friday night - for the first time, I felt the baby kick - not just the typical flutter of movement that you feel the first few months, but real movement! It was all on my left side, which tells me Little Squirt is sitting on my left, which also explains the pains I'm always feeling on my left :) But it was exciting to finally feel REAL kicks! Of course, it was wasn't strong enough to feel on the outside of my tummy, but I'm betting we'll reach that milestone before too much longer!

Grow baby grow!!

One box at a time....

This is Allison

Well, I've been slowly (and I mean slowly) unpacking the boxes that we shoved into the closet of what is going to be the nursery. There's at least 25 boxes (that copier paper comes in) in that closet. I think I have unpacked about 8 of them. They have been there since we moved here 2.5 yrs ago. Geez, that's just ridiculous. To be honest, most of them were books, books and more books. Doug's books, my books and tons of kids books that I went on an Ebay shopping spree years ago and bought. I'm so happy I did that now. I got so obsessed with purchasing all of the Little Golden Books. Now I just need to find a small bookshelf to put in the nursery to display them.

Well, I'm going back to unpacking.....maybe I'll get done before May. :)

185 days?????

This is Allison

Wow, everytime I visit the blog, my immediate attention focuses on the baby ticker. So now we're down to 185 days to go. Really??? Wow. Seems unreal. In one sense, it seems like May will take forever to get here when I think of holding my little one in my arms. But on the other hand, when I think of all of the things we need to do......as in, baby room, buying things, going to parenting classes (yes, we need to do this), making decisions about childcare or not, just getting prepared in general..........it seems like we don't really have that much time. Kind of a scary thought. But, people have been doing this for quite a while, so I'm not the first, don't want to make it seem like I'm the only one. LOL. I almost feel like the real progress will start when we find out the gender. Then we can focus on names, theme (if i even have one) and start buying certain items. We should be able to find out the gender the week before Christmas. So, it will be a nice birthday and Christmas present. So very exciting.

I was just thinking the other day how a baby is going to change our lives. I know things will never be the same. But in a good way. A wonderful way. I'm so looking forward to it. Then I started thinking.....I wonder how our Thanksgiving will be next year. How will our Christmas be next year? It's going to be great and amazing. :)

Until next time.....

Little Squirt is Growing!

This is Jenn ~

Today was U/S #3 and, as expected, Allison's little baby is growing right along :) We are measuring 12w5d, which would give us a due date of May 1st - my hubby's birthday. The heart rate was 171 again (I'm still thinking pink) and all of the baby's measurements were perfect! Its still too early to say whether we have a baby boy or a baby girl, but the U/S tech said she saw a little "nub" and she thinks it might be a girl "nub", but we won't know for sure until our 20 week U/S - unless Allison can't stand it and decides we need to visit a stand-alone chain to find out earlier. I'm up for anything at this point - just so very relieved that Baby O is looking good :)