About 1 month until gender identification

The ultrasound last Wednesday went great, I was on cloud 9 when I heard that boom boom pow. It's crazy to think that 7 days ago, Baby Mc was 3 mm long and grew to 5 mm since then. That's 60% bigger in just 7 days! This kid's going to be a lineback if he keeps that growth rate up.

Our next ultrasound is August 14th and we should be able to see the gender if he cooperates. I'm pretty confident as you can probably see from my use of "he" throughout this post.

Baby Mc's first drum solo

Andy and I made our way to the doctors office today for yet another ultrasound. I was a bit nervous since last time they couldn't hear our little peanut's heart beating. I plopped myself up on the table, the ultrasound was started, and we heard the technician say, "I can see the heart beating". YAY! It was crazy, we could actually see the little flickers, kind of like a fast lightening bug. We could actually see him/her this time too. Last time I had no idea what I was looking at. This time, we definitely had a peanut shape. Baby Mc's a grower! After a few more uncomfortable minutes, she turned the sound on and we could actually hear the drum solo going on in my belly. It's all very surreal. Andy was giggling like a little school girl, while I just tried to wrap my mind around the fact that the drum solo was going on in MY stomach, but it wasn't me producing the heartbeat, it was a little living thing. I still don't really think it's hit me that there's a child inside of me. Other than being nauseous all the time and wanting to eat only fruit, my life hasn't changed a whole lot. But yep, there's a baby inside of me. A real one. With a heart beat. Andy was carrying the photos around like a proud father, so cute. We scheduled the next two ultrasounds and from what they tell us, we'll most likely be able to tell the sex of the baby at our next one, which is August 14th. That's so soon! I was expecting 5 months. The craziness of technology I guess. When we came home, Lucy made sure to raid my purse and almost chew up our precious pictures. I can tell she's going to be jealous of the little one.

On another high note for the week, Andy bought me an iPhone, mostly because he wanted a new phone too, but partly because he realized we will never again be able to splurge on things we want. Better get it over with now.

We're incubating a theatre buff

Baby Mc had his/her first taste of the theatre on Friday night. Andy and I bought tickets to see Wicked at the ASU Gammage Theatre. Everyone said that the show was great and I was really excited to see it. They didn't lie! It was amazing! Andy even enjoyed himself. I was a little afraid that he wouldn't like it at all. For those of you that don't know, Wicked is based upon The Wizard of Oz, but it tells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. It's fun to look at such a beloved movie from a different perspective. Although our seats were all the way in the balcony, I thought we had a pretty good view and enjoyed every song that was sung throughout the night. Hopefully Mc will come out and enjoy the theatre as much as I do. I would love to have an excuse to see more musicals.

On another note, I think the morning sickness/nausea is hitting me. I have yet to throw up, but have ran to the toilet a few times, luckily there was no food in my stomach. I'm pretty much nauseous all day long and thinking of all foods (except fruit) makes me sick to my stomach. The good news is that new preggo symptoms is a good sign of a healthy baby Mc. The bad new is that I have to fly on a plane in a week and a half. I may have to ask for extra barf bags. Fingers crosses that this doesn't happen.

A bit of a scare

The last few days have been a bit of a scare for Andy and I. On Sunday night I found that I had been bleeding a little bit and immediately started crying. To me, bleeding equals miscarriage. I haven't had any cramps at all, but any blood to me is not a good sign. Since it was a weekend, I called a triage nurse on call and spoke to her about my fears. She was very good at calming me down. I wish I could remember her name so that I could call my the Dr. office and leave a nice message for her. Anyways, she told me that it was normal, I should watch the bleeding and if it continued to make an appointment with my Dr. It ended up stopping that night and I felt much better. Baby Mc was still making me extremely tired and the sore tata's continue. Tonight I wiped again and found some more spotting. Again, there is a little cramping, not too much, and it's just light pink, which, from what I've seen online, is normal. Even so, I think I'm going to try to schedule another appointment tomorrow. I would rather hear from a Dr. that I'm crazy then have to wait until Monday at my ultrasound and get yelled at for not calling. So, lets cross our fingers that everything is alright. Andy keeps telling me to think positively, everything will be fine.

This baby already runs the house

When we got the house, Rachel and I shared the little 4th bedroom as our office. She eventually got tired of my blazing typing speed because it bothered her during her paper writing. I figured if I moved into the empty bedroom that was going to be for a future baby, I could spread out a bit, watch tv more often, and play my classy music and video games.

I knew that whenever we spawned, I would have to give the room up and figure where else to go. Well today, we broke down my computer and moved me back into the small room with the Incubator herself. She came up with a great way to arrange our desks and now we are facing each other and I'm right under the AC register. I also have my back to a window so that I can look at the forest of weeds growing across the street.

My desk was a little too big for this configuration so it's going in the garage as a workbench. I need to clean out the garage and throw some junk away before that can happen. It's too bad because I enjoy putting that chore off every weekend.

The best thing about this move is cutting out the yelling across the house. We can both sit on our computers and carry on a normal conversation, which is nice.

And so it starts....

I have purchased the first piece of baby apparel for baby Mc. I couldn't help myself from driving down to Kids R Us and perusing the merchandise. It's pretty crappy that I can't pick out boys or girls clothes, I will most likely be whining about this until we find out the gender of our little one. Even so, I happened to find this cute little onesie...ON SALE I might add. I made sure to check out all the bedding and find that I tend to like girl's bedding, which in my mind means we're having a girl. Andy says this isn't enough proof for him. Blah. After my shopping excursion I managed to come home and take another nap, yet again. The joys of the first trimester. I do love to sleep though, I better take advantage of it while I can!

A good thing for once