Belly pic

Don't have too much time to craft a post, but my mother told me I was falling down on the picture posting job. So, Mommy dearest, here you go!! (I promise I looked a lot cuter than this picture indicates, but at least you can see the belly here...)



22 weeks and 4 days

Pumpkins, Retreat, Freak Outs, OH MY!

Last week was insane. I get breathless just thinking about it. Let me just put this out there- Never, EVER, start a business if you can't afford to have someone else do all of your accounting and tax prep. It's not worth it. That is all I'll say about that.

In other news, I went with some of our Life Group gals and their kiddos to the pumpkin patch last Tuesday, and had so much fun. Can't wait to take Bean again... you know, when he's not inutero.



Here are the kiddos. I just love this picture!! No one's looking at the camera, exactly, which cracks me up. They're all staring at Madison, who's trying to obey as we all yelled at the kids "Look at the camera!!!", while she was yelling back "The sun's in my eyes, Mommy!!" Poor kids.

There were animals to feed, a hayride, a pumpkin patch where you got to select your own (tiny) pumpkin and plenty of photo opportunities. So much fun!

On Thursday, my mom arrived and we spent Thursday and Friday shopping for maternity clothes and doing some initial baby shopping research. I just wanted to get a taste of what was out there, and I'm so glad I did because I practically hyperventilated when we walked into BabiesRus. It was completely overwhelming, and I can't imagine just walking in and registering. Whoa. So.

Then, on Friday afternoon, we left for camp!! My church was hosting a Women's Retreat at Pine Cove down by Tyler, and Mom came along for the fun. When we got there on Friday evening, she decided she wanted to do a zip line, and when I asked the people if I could zipline too, they looked at me like I was high. Maybe next year.



Here's Mom on the zipline! She's so cute!!

By Monday, I was EXHAUSTED. I'd had a decently relaxing day until around 4pm when I realized I hadn't felt Bean move all day. I called the nurse and they had me lay on my left side after drinking some juice. Still not feeling anything, they had me come into the office for a sonogram.

There was Bean, happy as a clam, sleeping away. The sono tech had to poke at him a bit to get him to move around, and once he was moving quite a bit, asked me if I could feel him. I still couldn't, and the tech pointed out that how my placenta is positioned is acting as a pillow between me and the baby. I'm really not feeling any of his small movements yet. Rather, he pretty much has to be doing jumping jacks for me to feel him. (Which he must do regularly, because I normally feel him quite often throughout the day.) I did get to see him "drink" (or at least that's what she said he was going.) He was moving his little jaw- so cute.

Anywho, 2 sono pictures and $180 later, I felt like an idiot. It's amazing how overprotective I can be while I don't even have a kid to be overprotective of yet!!! (Well, I do, but not anything I can really do while he's in there baking...) The sonogram tech asked me if this was my first pregnancy. Um, yes. Was it that obvious??

Hoping for a quiet week this week!! Just found out that the crib I thought I'd found has been given an "F" safety rating, so back to the drawing board there!! So many things to figure out...

IT'S A.......!!!

BOY!!!!!

I have to tell you, I was kind of shocked. I somehow got it into my head that it was a boy- about two weeks ago, my mom noticed that I was calling the baby a "he" all the time in conversation. She stopped me and pointed this out, and since I apparently "thought" it was a boy, when the sonogram tech said the words "It's a boy!" I was surprised, thinking that there was no way I would be right.

So. The appointment went really well- actually, I could see the bean's two little legs and bottom, and there was nothing in between them! So, I was sure at that point that it was a girl. Then the tech said "Whoops! The legs are crossed, let's see if we can get it to uncross those legs." She poked me a bit with the sono probe, and all of a sudden, there was something between those legs! It is VERY obviously a boy!

Everything else was checked with the sonogram and looks good. The baby is about 10 oz. right now, and was measuring about 3 days ahead of the due date. (This doesn't mean that they change the due date, but rather the baby's growth will probably even out somewhere down the road.) The baby's size is in the 75th percentile; he's a big boy!

We got to see the heart, the kidneys, the brain, the umbilical cord, and everything looks great. The only thing we didn't get to see was a really clear profile picture. He was holding his fist up to his face, so you can see the forehead and nose, but he's hiding his mouth. Sweet baby- I just want to kiss him!!