Pregnancy Update

Okay - so August was a good, but very long month, hence no blogging. Honestly, all spare time is spent sleeping if I can get it so blogging has dropped on my list of priorities. Now that I'm fully in my second trimester though I'm hoping that I'll get a bit more energy. I know - what does that mean?

Well, my first official dr's appt gave me the wrong number of weeks. For those of you counting, I'm actually only 16 wks this Tues, not the 18 or so I had originally thought. Really, I'm glad. That just made me look really stupid to not know for so long. Now, I'm only marginally wacky for not knowing until I was four months pregnant!

My next appt was good, but unproductive as a 10 min sonogram couldn't find the baby's heartbeat. So another ultrasound was scheduled. That appt was more productive than we had thought it might be. I took Evie this time so she could see the baby. With JC she was only 2 and with Lizzy she was a bit disinterested since she had a baby (and I mean baby) brother still sitting at home. This time she was super excited - more excited than I was! She loved getting to see the baby move and kick at the wand and loved the little nose we pointed out. She now asks to talk to the baby and has named the baby in "her tummy" every princess name she can think of. Seriously, her baby has about 10 names and she goes through them all!

Another exciting fact that some of you already know is that the baby's heartbeat was 161 bpm which says....absolutely nothing because of the two girls and one boy I have they all were in that same range. The over-productive part was that the ultrasound taker was having so much fun with Evie in the room that she took a look to see if we could tell the sex of the baby. It was 5 1/2 wks early so I wasn't planning on it, but we're having a....BOY!!!! I'm so excited. I'm finally getting what I want when I want it. With having a large family it was bound to happen eventually. I'm just glad we're having another boy. So far I like the name JAMES MATTHEW after the apostles of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. Chris isn't on board with that yet. He wants some weird ones that I don't like, but we have until Feb. to agree, right? Feb. 13th to be exact.

That due date may put our Christmas plans on hold this year though. I have an appt coming up that I'll discuss it with my OB, but with my history of babies coming a bit early, it's totally possible she'll say no. Wish us luck!