Whew...

        I feel like one of those blog "slackers".. but my excuses are good! Promise! :)

        My work schedule is finally getting back to normal. My position at work is that of a "float", I have a set 3 days that I work (tues-thus), and then if someone is out sick or on vacation.... I'm expected to cover. With working more and finishing up school I have been very busy! Yes, I just said "finishing up school".. I am DONE with this chapter.. and proud to say my overall GPA is 3.56.. I'm just sooo glad to have all this hard work and time, locked in! :)

        Last weekend Ryan and I began to clean & purge! We both will have 5 days off coming up and are looking forward to getting a lot of little things done that we have been meaning to do.. as well as get the room that will be the babies.. thoroughly cleaned out! 

        Speaking of baby.. baby is doing great! We are 23w3d and kicking, punching, jumping.. like a champ! :) Seeing that my OB office and my work are across the hall from one another, I stopped over last week to see if we could try once more to get a better profile shot and this babe didn't fail me!

Profile.. with the lovely placenta above.. (love how u can see the "soft spots" on the head)

Profile with chin tucked!

My Fav... the "hey mom!" .. I love how u can see every detail of the left hand .. <3

         During the quick ultrasound we also discovered that the baby had flipped! Which explained my cramping and weird sensations I was feeling "low".. it's lil legs were just a kicking away at my cervix! My cervix was also measuring 4.07cm.. which at this point pretty much takes away the concern of it being, or becoming, incompetent! My 24w appt is next thurs... I get to do my sugar test again.. and i'm confident everything will be fine! Crazy to think that after my 28w appt, I'll be starting my bi-weekly appts! It's all going by sooooo fast.. everyone keeps saying.. just wait, the last weeks will feel like an eternity.. so far I'm not believing it! :)

Last weeks photo!

Hiccups!

      I do believe that at this moment ... the babe is experiencing its first round of the hiccups. The repetitious movement at my belly button and above my pelvis.. is far to repetitive to be the morning kicks and rolls we normally expierence! I personally hate getting the hiccups! Though the feeling of the babe having them feels neat.. I still feel bad for the babe! It can't being any fun to be jolted involuntary! As always.. There's a first time for everything.. :)

21 weeks... for real??

       Well, we had our 20week appt. on 11/29... it's was everything I had hoped and expected! My Dr. told Ryan and I that we did a great job.. and that we have a "perfect" baby on our hands.. as well as a perfect pregnancy... it was the best compliment I think anyone has ever given either of us! The baby was pretty snuggled up, but it's legs we just a going... future runner or soccer player? :) We did NOT find out the sex... Ryan looked the entire time.. mainly because he has no clue what he's looking at, and the lady was not pointing out it's "parts". I did glance for a sec. to see what he was looking at.. and thought there was a possibility I saw girl "parts", though it was literally for a split sec. and who knows what I was ACTUALLY looking at. Ryan stated that he thinks it's a boy... I said well did you see a penis? and he said he didn't know what he saw.. but he saw "something"... Who knows what that something was.. heck.. It could have been the umbilical cord! ;) So just as we wanted.. we are perplexed on the gender of our lil being.

Profile.. baby was facing down and back... so the image is a lil blurry!

Baby kissing or sucking wrist.. :)

Baby was facing down (cervix is to the R of babies head) and it's lil butt and legs are kicking me in the belly button! :)

      
          Yesterday I happened to be browsing through Erica's old US pics of her first child Addy.. and I found this!!

My baby.. and Ericas.. in the exact same postion!! :)

        I am feeling a lot more movement. The baby seems to be awake around 3am-4am.. and then sporadically throughout the day! I LOVE 3am-4am.. though it's makes for one sleepy momma! I can tell the babies head is down most of the time.. and I get nice strong kicks at the top of my uterus.. right around my belly button!

This belly is getting bigger by the min! I am told i'm in for a major growth spurt in the next 4 weeks! watch out!!

          Well that's all the news for now... I am now just patiently waiting for my mothers frame to come in the mail.. so I can ship it out! Once she knows.. I will finally be able to spill the beans to the world.. it's now becoming more of a chore to keep this a secret!!