8 weeks

Here is a post for Erika's request. She said she heard I was getting a belly and wanted to see pictures. So here is a picture. I am now about 8 1/2 weeks and I feel huge already. I feel like I have to have the biggest 8 week baby ever. I don't think anyone looks as big as I do at this early!! But I guess I could be wrong :) I think the best way to describe how I feel now, is, bloated...all the time. Lovely, I know. I just can't suck my stomach in anymore!

There is really nothing new going on with us. I have been trying to think of things to post on, but there really has not been much excitement in our lives!

(Oh, if someone can tell me how to get the pregnancy ticker that I have at the top of our blog, readable, that would be great! I have been messing around with it, and you still can't read the words underneath!)

our baby.

So we had our first appointment today, and we are now totally excited. Not that we weren't excited before, but now we have seen the little guy or girl and heard and seen the heartbeat!! Dr. Kauffman said that it looks like everything is going great, and the baby is growing as it should be for this stage. According to my last menstrual period, my due date is June 7th, which puts me at 6 weeks and 6 days today. According to the sonogram he got me at 7 weeks and 1 day. Since it is very little difference we are sticking with the due date according to my LMP. So the official due date is June 7th, of 2008!!
So we wanted to share our sono pictures with everyone. In the first picture you can see the little peanut in the black sac (in the lower left corner of the sac). In the second picture you can see the baby in the same spot (the little sac to the right of the baby in this picture is the yolk sac, that is where the baby is getting its nutrients from right now). The lines at the bottom of this second picture is the tracing of the babies heart beat. It was 139 when we listened :)....oh...and there is just one :) Thank goodness!

psalm 23

Ok if you guys have not seen this video it is worth watching. This little girl is SO adorable!! I only hope Jeremy and I's child is this cute! :) I have watched this video over and over again.

baby stuff...

Ok so I promise not all of my posts from now on are going to be about baby stuff, but I'm sorry it is just really exciting :). I wanted to post a picture of some of the stuff people have already given us and I have bought. I know I am still so early, but I just can't help but look at baby stuff and want to buy it all up! In the picture above, I bought all the cute little outfits...I went to Von Maur, and they actually have decent sales on newborn stuff! So I couldn't resist. Notice all of the colors in the outfits are neutral. That would be because, we are not finding out what the sex of this child is. Jeremy really really wants it this way, and I keep trying to convince him otherwise, but he isn't budging. I always thought I wouldn't want to find out, but now that we are actually pregnant, I kind of want to know, but Jeremy really doesn't, so it will be a surprise!
The wall hanging is from my mom. I just love it, it is so cute. The quote on there is an Abraham Lincoln quote and it says "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." Which I have to keep reminding myself since every day I just want to be further along than I am!! Also, the Baby Einstein CD is from my mom. She said we should start playing it now. I told her, why don't we wait until the child actually has ears :).
The beautifully crocheted blue blanket and the cute pink bunny are from my grandma butch. I just love that blanket. It is so soft, and I don't even care if we have a girl, she will just have to have a blue blanket :)
Well nothing else too exciting going on. Time is still going by very slowly ever since we found out, and every day I think it sinks in a little more that we are going to be parents...scary. I have started not feeling too great. Just nauseous and tired...and I feel like a have a bladder infection because I pee all the time! All of this just kicked in this weekend. It is definitely hard to drag myself out the door and to work, but I just remind myself why I feel the way I do! I am not a huge fan of the way the first part of pregnancy makes you feel, but I don't really know who is :).

new baby

Now I think it is safe to put it on the blog, that Jeremy and I are pregnant! We are so excited! It was not exactly planned, but evidently not prevented well enough :). So, I know that we are really early, but we cannot help but tell everyone. I am somewhere in between 4-5 weeks, which puts my due date at the beginning of June....which is SO far away!! This is going to be the longest pregnancy ever!! Ever since we found out on Friday, each day has crept by. It has already been the slowest weekend ever...only 35 more weeks to go. Wow. I need to stop counting. So far everything is going really well. I am starting to dread the next couple of weeks, because that is when I hear the morning sickness kicks in. I have not been very sick yet, occasional bouts of nausea, and being a little more tired. So far so good! We are really excited to go to our first appointment which will be in the next couple weeks. Then you can expect pictures of the little bean on the blog :). Because I am pretty sure that is all it looks like right now. I know once I see the heartbeat it will put my mind at ease. Being in my profession I can't help but worry about every little thing. So I guess that is one thing we could use prayer for. I know God has this baby in His hands, and that is what I keep telling myself :).
It has been so much fun watching Jeremy tell his friends over the past few days...he is completely ecstatic. Two nights ago, I had him pick up a couple things at the grocery store around midnight so I would have them for work the next day. When he got home, he said he got really excited when he was at the store, because he thought of all the nights that I am going to crave something and send him to the store in the middle of the night. I thought that was really cute...whether that will really happen or not, who knows, but if it does, I wish that I had recorded what he said, because I am thinking he will not be as enthusiastic about it at that time :).
Well below is video of the reaction my mom and sister had when we told them we were pregnant. We were at my grandparents house, and wanted to tell them then because we knew it would be one of the only times we saw grandma and grandpa for a while. In the video you will hear us talking about Mexico, and that is because we started out by telling them that we will not be able to go to Mexico at the end of May with the rest of the family.