16 weeks!!

Here was me this morning at our 16 week mark!  This is my first maternity shirt and WOW I didn't know I would love maternity clothes as much as I do!!!  They are tailored to fit so much better!  I will probably just post a picture of me every other week from now on, since not much changes visibly from the outside from one week to the next. 

Baby is the size of an Avocado this week!  They also told me in my weekly email that the baby can now pick up voices from outside.  He/She is growing eyebrows, lashes, and hair.  Taste buds are also forming.  Crazy!!

Everything is going well with me.  I feel great all day long until about 8:00, then I have a belly ache that lasts until I wake up in the morning.  I am just thankful that I have not thrown up and that I feel really good for the majority of the day!  Brian is doing well also!  He likes to see my belly get bigger!  Our next dr. appt. is March 2nd, so we are really looking forward to that!!  At that appointment we have another ultrasound and they will be able to tell us the sex of the baby!  Woohoo!

We were lucky to have some visitors this weekend!!!  Lin and Adam drove down here and were with us Friday morning through Sunday afternoon!  We had a blast and now I'm going through sister withdrawals!  Everywhere we went people asked us if we were twins and then which one was older.  This was the first time people asked which was older!  It was fun!!  Some people even asked if our husbands were twins...ha!  We had a great weekend!

Baby bump at 15 weeks...

My belly at 14 weeks...

15 weeks!

Today we are officially 15 weeks along.  The time has gone by really quickly!  My weekly email update says that the baby is the size of a naval orange and all four of his/her limbs have functional joints!  That means I'm going to start feeling the kicking movements in a few weeks! 

We had our 14 week doctor appointment last Thursday and everything went really well.  The doctor was able to hear the baby's heart beat with the hand held doppler this time.  He found the heartbeat instantly so he said that means the baby is developing at the right pace and is not smaller than predicted.  Our next appointment is Wednesday, March 2nd and that is the big ultrasound appointment where he can check developmental progress and we can tell if the baby is a boy or a girl!!!  Any predictions?? 

Brian gets more and more excited as the weeks progress!  He told his fellow teachers at his elementary school on Friday and they are all excited for us.  He is anxious to feel the kicking!  I'm nervous about the transition into parent life, but he says he's not at all!  I think he has been ready for this for a long time :)

As for me...my tummy is getting progressively larger!  I am able to wear my normal dress pants with a belly band and all my jeans still fit since they fasten bellow my belly...thank goodness!  I am still wearing my pre-pregnancy shirts, although some of them are getting stretched out in the belly region.  I will be online ordering maternity tops today!!  If anyone knows where to find cheap maternity clothes...please share!  I will have Brian take a picture of me tonight and post it soon so you can see how big I'm getting! 

I have my residency interview this Friday morning...kind of nervous about it.  Lin and Adam will be here real late Thursday night, so we have something to look forward to this weekend...YAY!  We LOVE visitors!!!!  We miss everyone and hope you all are doing well!!  Love you!

13 weeks along

We are now officially in our 2nd trimester!  As you can see from my ticker, baby is the size of a peach and about 3 inches long.  I am feeling much better throughout the morning and afternoons!!  I still have the stomach flu feeling in the evenings.  We are very excited for our next doctor's appointment, which is a week from this Thursday, Feb 3rd.  At that appointment, if all goes well and everything is looking good, we will start telling everyone our news!  I am still wearing my "non-pregnant" clothes, but the pants are very tight and I am in the stage where I just look like I've gained weight in my stomach.  Any ideas on where to find cheap maternity clothes??  All in all, things are going well for the 3 of us!  We are now on the hunt for the perfect daycare!!  We miss everyone and look forward to seeing Lin and Adam in February!!