We had the big ultrasound today.  The tech told us that first she would check the organs and take all the pictures for the doctor, and then we could try to sneak a peek to find out if the baby is a boy or a girl.  After she took all her pictures for the doctor’s file, she started showing us different parts of the baby, starting with his head, brain, heart (you could see all four chambers!), umbilical cord, etc.  Then she showed us the baby’s "goods."  She asked if we wanted to make any guesses.  I tilted my head sideways and said, "I’m still gonna guess boy."  She said, "I think you’re right.  See this right here?  Little girls just don’t have this."   She said she’s pretty sure it’s a boy, and right after she said it, he moved and bam! his goods were really obvious on the screen.  We all laughed.  Then she told us while she was trying to look at his various organs, he kept flipping around and flashing his goods.  Well, he’s definitely not shy about being a boy!

Everything looks great.  His heart rate was 150bpm.  He measures at the same due date I’ve had all along, July 29th.  She even told me he now weighs 1 pound!  It was so good to see baby moving on the screen!

Here are a couple of pictures:



The profile with his head and spine.

Elbowing me right in the stomach!  You can see his little fingers where he's making a fist.

Proof that he’s a boy.  This is a shot from his bottom as if he’s squatting on the ’camera.’  On the left is his bottom and the two white lines on either side of the arrow are his shin bones.  The white arrow is pointing to his goods. 

We can’t wait to meet little baby Noah!

Nate is listening to sad music right now while he's working on a project.  It's making me think all these strange thoughts. 

The baby and I are doing well.  I'm 17 weeks 5 days today, and I can feel him moving all the time.  I say "him" because it is grammatically correct when you don't know the gender of the person to which you are referring.  We will more than likely find out whether we're having a boy or girl in about 3 weeks.  I kinda want it to be a boy at this point since I know 12 other pregnant people and so far everyone seems to be having a girl.  They're also stealing all the good girl names.

The other night while I was lying in bed I kept thinking of great things to write, but maybe they weren't really that great.  Maybe I was just really sleepy.  When you're really sleepy everything seems more than it really is.  My ideas for writing seem better.  Jokes seem funnier.  Annoyances seem more horrible! 

Last night I spent the first night away from my husband since we got married.  There was a bad ice storm and I ended up getting stuck at my parents' house.  It was too dangerous for Nate to try to drive all the way out there after he got off work at 10pm.  He couldn't even get his truck up in our driveway so he parked on the street.  Meanwhile, I slept on a couch in my parents' basement in borrowed pajamas.  And Nate slept in our bed alone.  I finally woke up around 12:30 this afternoon and drove home since the roads had been cleared.  Nate was still in bed!  After lolling around with him until 1:30, I had to get up and cook some breakfast and get ready for work.

Seriously, did the Cranberries write any happy songs????

A few samples of our wedding pictures. 

Pictures by Rachel Ide of Rocket Tree Photography.

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Our Wedding Photos

Isabella, Sarah, and Leah smiling for the camera

Shari and her daughter Lexi, the flowergirl

The bride with her mother

Isabella hamming it up with the flowergirl :)

Isabella, Leah and Nate