July:
We had a really busy month of July. I had our monthly doctors appointment on July 12 (my birthday) and it was pretty uneventful. It was too early to have a gender sonogram, but we were able to hear the baby's heartbeat on the Doppler for the first time. It was pretty surreal! I love seeing Dustin at these appointments - he always looks like a kid at Christmas. I don't think I could ask for better reactions from him! We scheduled our gender sonogram for August and the wait was awful! It is SO hard to find gender neutral clothes!
The end of July was moving day! We finally got to move into our house in Eudora. It was a dream come true for us. So much space and the puppies get their own room! We will be working on building a fence in the backyard this fall so it will be much easier to let them out - especially in the winter with the baby to worry about on top of everything. We had a pretty awesome moving crew that weekend and we were able to get everything moved, put away and organized really quickly! Thank goodness!
August:
Dustin started school and we are finally getting back into the groove of things. Summer is so chaotic for us! The shop has been crazy busy, but weddings have died down a little (they start back in full force in Sept).
Up to this point, I have not felt the baby kick at all. Dustin reads the baby a story every night and hopes every night he will feel something. I haven't felt a thing until we went to the movies to see The Help. Right in the middle of a fairly serious scene, the baby kicks!!!! I tried really hard to not scream and I thought Dustin was going to kill the baby for how hard he was pushing on my stomach to be able to feel something!!! It was really neat, but other than that one time, I haven't felt much of anything.
August 22 was our gender sonogram. We were both so excited! The doctor suggested drinking a lot of OJ before we came to the appointment - something about there being a lot of sugar in OJ and it makes the baby move more than normal. I am not sure if it helped or not, but Dustin was making me chug it! :) We got to the room and the first thing the sonogram tech said was that the baby was breach and had it's back to the "camera". Great. :) After some convincing by Dustin, who was rooting for it to move on the TV screen (so wish I could have recorded it!! It was HILARIOUS!) and doing some measurements, the baby turned. The sono tech asked us if we would like to know and asked us our predictions. I thought it was a boy and Dustin thought it was a girl. Dustin was right. Girl it was!!! I am not sure if we both stopped smiling the rest of the day! All I could think about was all the cute little girl outfits I could get her!! We are so excited! I can already imagine Dustin having tea parties and getting his fingernails painted! :)
Just so we are clear - we are NOT telling anyone the names. Sorry. I wish I could, but Dustin is adamant that no one knows. We have 2 that we can't decide on anyway! We love them both and it will probably come down to d-day before we are sure. Such a hard decision!
As of yesterday (Aug 26), I have started to feel Ms. Nibblet move on a more consistent basis. I hope that Dustin is able to feel her soon. He is getting anxious! The baby website that I follow says she will be the size of a cantaloupe on Monday. We will be 20 weeks then. Halfway done!! This is the last week that she will be measured head to rump. I guess they start to stretch out after 20 weeks and they are measured from head to toe. When we had our ultrasound on Aug 22, she said that she is measuring a tad big (10 oz) and that it may affect the due date down the road. I sure hope she isn't too big - I was my mom's biggest baby!! AHHH!!
Well...that's all I have for now. I will try to update more often. Next dr. appointment is Sept 26.
Love you all!
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| This is baby girl at 16 weeks! Getting BIGGER! |
