Me and Baby's excited Auntie Cristina

Baby brought in the halfway point with a bang . . . or should I say a kick!

Around 10:45 pm on Tuesday, December 6th a wonderful thing happened. I felt my little baby move for the first time! I had been waiting since the day that I hit 18 weeks (the earliest average time to feel fetal movement) and I was beginning to wonder if the baby was ever going to move. There I was, relaxing on the couch at my mom and dad's waiting for Scott to come back from James', when I felt a little whump. "Oh my goodness!" I cried out, unsure of if what I thought had happened had actually happened. But, sure enough, a few seconds later I felt another whump! I quickly sent Scott a message as quickly as I could before Mom and Crissi came back into the room - he had to be the first person that knew that our little baby was moving around inside of me! Then came flutter flutter - a few seconds of constant motion and I knew for sure: from now on the little person inside of me was going to make him or herself known. The woman who did my ultrasound said that the baby's growth was very healthy and normal - a whopping 9 inches from head to toe! Well no wonder I keep feeling all these taps and flutters! I chose to use the picture here becuase it reminded me of one of our baby "snapshots" below where our baby is also sucking on its hand. Ooh - it's just so cute and loveable!

Our First Baby Pictures

Yesterday was my 20 week ultrasound and it was so fun! I never expected that we would see so many little details! If you are able to make sense of the bottom picture, you'll see that the baby is sucking on its tiny little hand! We counted fingers and toes, and even saw little baby Siemens' mouth open up and the tongue sticking out! It was quite unbelievable. Only God could create such a miracle inside of me. The middle picture shows the baby's lips with an open little mouth - so cute! Also, there's a leg curled up over that big round belly. On the very top picture the baby is facing the "camera", but really all you see is the bone structure. The woman who was doing the exam was very fun - we could tell she just loved her job! She kept smiling and giggling and making pleased little noises as she described to me what she was checking for and showing us all of the different parts of the baby. It was suprisingly easy to recognize what everything was, but you can't tell from the pics. We either have a very shy or a very rebellious baby because we just couldn't get the baby to stay still for a single shot. The lady said that the baby was very difficult because it was moving around so terribly much. That's why she felt sorry for us and gave us three pictures for the price of one! See, who says babies can't save you money? (ha ha)

Bubble Belly

Well here is my four month picture! It's so exciting for me to think of this little person growing inside of me and I'm loving every inch of my pregnant belly. I'm still wearing some of my regular shirts (the ones that are long enough) but sticking mostly to maternity pants. I've had fun shopping for clothes for both me and the baby this month.

The time has finally arrived!

For all of you who have been patiently (or unpatiently) waiting to hear the news, I am about to announce which bedding I liked best and why. Drumroll please . . .
It's number 2! I like this one because it has bright "cirtus colors" (as the website described) and that it has stipes! I love stripes! Even the sheets are striped. This goes great with my color choice of orange, and it will match perfectly to do one wall striped. Plus, I love the cute little animals that match up with the letters of the alphabet (so educational). I think that the soft yellow would look so nice with the dark mahogony crib that we chose. If you want to check out more pics (which the color shows up better on) go to www.babygap.com. Anyway, sorry that this took so long. I wish I could blog more often, but our internet is so full of viruses that we can't use it so I have to squeeze it in when we're at mom and dad's.