I must start off by letting those who are still visiting know just how embarrassed I am, having neglected my little space here on the Web for the past 3 months.  Was it laziness?  Was it severe writer’s block?  Maybe a little of both?  Or maybe something I don’t even know about?  Whatever the case may be, I’ve neglected it.  Big time.

So much progress has been made over the last 12 weeks.  Comforting test results, not so comforting test results confirming recurrent UTI’s, great ultrasound pictures, weight gain (albeit more than I’m happy to admit), and so much more.

Being 25 weeks pregnant is incredible.  Yes you read that right, I’m 25 weeks already.  And every day that goes by that I feel his or her kicks, punches, tumbles and turns packing more intensity is another day I am oh so thankful for.

I have so much to fill you in on besides the above mentioned items.  There’s the not knowing what we are having, besides the fact that it’s a baby; There’s the registry; The nursery; The names; The pictures.  And so much more that I’m leaving out at the moment.   I promise to catch you up on everything.

I also plan on updating the look and feel of this blah blog.  It is so “new” looking and maybe that’s part of the reason I haven’t been involved in it in so long.

I’ll start by posting a picture of the little guy or girl from our level II at 20 weeks…I’m going with guy…I think.  Not becuase of the picture, but because of premonition.

The 13 week Ultrascan Tuesday night was unlike anything I could have ever imagined.  It was phenominal to see every little part of our little baby moving around like, well, a baby.  Every tiny little finger and toe, his foot already looks like a little tiny foot, perfectly shaped.  His arm stretching up as he reaches to put his hand to his mouth.  Amazing.  Surreal actually.  When he calmed down a bit and we wanted to see some more movement before the scan was over, the tech simply prodded my belly with the transducer ever so genltly, and there he went, bouncing around and kicking and punching right back at us.  Truley one of the most amazing experiences I’ve ever had.

I know these pictures aren’t too clear, nothing is better than seeing the screen and picturres in person.  But look at his little chin and tiny nose!  His hand up to his face.  His perfect head and rounded belly.  His spine.  We saw his well formed brain, each tiny leg and arm.  I can go on and on about how amazed I was.  And too peel my eyes away from the screen to take a peak at Eric while he was watching in aww jsut made the experience 10 million times better than as wonderful as wonderful could be.

 Hi!  I’m 12 weeks 5 days old!  I’m watching you…..

I can’t wait for my next appt.  May 6th seems so far away!

This isn’t the best picture.  It’s actually a picture of the actual u/s.  This will have to do until I finally scan the pics!

In this shot the head is on the bottom.  It is jsut amazing how much he grew from last week!  He measured .9cm last week and this week 1.8cm!  Crazy.

You can also see a litte leg sticking out of the top, towards the middle of the sac.

Isn’t he or she so cute already!!