The Big Ultrasound...

Yesterday we went in to have our big, most important ultrasound. We appear to have a healthy baby. I say appear because of how speedy the ultrasound tech was. It took her no more than 5 minutes to look at everything she needed to see. It was the fastest ultrasound I've had, and the most disappointing. She wouldn't let us look at the screen while she scanned all the anatomy. With Madison and Juliana, we got to look while they checked everything, and it always took a little while. This time, we only got to look for a few minutes at the end, so I hardly got to see anything. Oh well....We did get to see that the baby liked having his/her hand up by his head. I hope that changed because Juliana was like that, and she came out with her hand by her cheek. I'd like to not repeat that LOL.

Madison came in at the end and she was very good. I'm sure she didn't know what she was looking at, but it was fun to have her there.

I was very tempted but we did not find out the sex. I'm very excited to have another surprise!The baby measured right on for my due date, with long legs that measured 2 weeks ahead, just like his/her sisters did LOL. The approximate weight was 12 oz, which is 70th percentile. The machine made an estimated weight of 8lbs at 40 weeks so we'll see. I think it will be more just judging from the girls weights. (Madison 7lbs 10oz at 40 weeks, 4 days, and Juliana also 7lbs 10oz but at 38 weeks 5 days). We'll see in 20 weeks or so!

Here are a few pics of baby #3!

Foot

My Little Chefs!

My mom made these cute little chef outfits for the girls, so I thought I'd share a picture. Enjoy!

17 weeks...

I'm now 17 weeks along, well out of my 1st trimester, which is a good feeling. The morning sickness is gone, which is a huge relief. Other than being tired and my back already starting to hurt, I have no real complaints. The other night at work, we took a peek at the little one on our ancient US machine. Always fun to see baby, he or she has grown so much & was busy sucking his/her thumb. I will have my big US in about 3 weeks, but no we are not finding out the sex. We are going to have a 3rd surprise!

It is amazing to me how many people think that we are having another baby because we want a boy, and will actually make comments to that effect. So no, I don't wonder if this baby is the boy we've been hoping for, and please don't say things like that in front of my GIRLS. Anyway...I guess I should be used to the rude comments people can make when you're pregnant but it never ceases to amaze me. All right well I'm just a cranky pregnant lady I guess LOL.

Here are a few pics we took today. As you can see I am still stuck in the fun fat stage, where I don't really look pregnant. Oh well, I'll get there soon I guess hehe.

I think Madison is actually getting a little excited about the baby, it took a month but she finally spilled the beans to her preschool teachers and friends. Juliana, I'm sure she doesn't really get it, but she likes to talk to my belly, it's really cute.

Great Wolf Lodge 2010!

Last week we made our second annual trip to The Great Wolf Lodge. We had so much fun! We picked the perfect time to go because there was practically nobody else there. We even had the toddler area all to ourselves for a good while. This year was even more fun than last year, just because the girls were bigger of course. Madison was able to swim by herself with the life jacket, which she thought was the greatest thing ever. Juliana was big enough to wade through the water without me having to hold onto her so that was really nice. I wasn't able to go on the big slides this year but Rich did so that was good. Madison still refused to go on the little kid slides, but maybe next year :-) Juliana fell asleep while riding with Rich in the wave pool, it was very cute. I can't wait to go back!

Coming attraction...

Expected in early July 2010...yes that's right, baby #3 is on the way!!

Christmas 2009, part 2

A few days after Christmas, we headed over the mountain to celebrate Christmas with my side of the family. The night we got there we had a great dinner and opened presents. The girls were of course spoiled rotten! We spent almost a week there. I got a fun day of shopping with my mom and my aunt while the girls stayed with Grandpapa. We spent lots of time with my brother and his wife and just had fun in general.

The night before we were supposed to come home, Rich, Madison and I unfortunately all got the stomach flu, which was horrible. Luckily Juliana escaped the torture and got to have fun with Grandmama all day, making duplo towers and baking jelly rolls yum!

Christmas 2009

Christmas is my favorite time of year and this year was especially fun with both the girls being old enough to understand. They were very excited about all the Christmas things in the store, and all the Christmas lights everywhere and just everything in general. Christmas Eve we spent most of the afternoon and evening at Rich's grandmas and then over at my inlaws. We had pizza and opened piles and piles of presents. It was a lot of fun. Christmas morning we woke up, opened presents, (which didn't take as long this year so that was nice) and then made our traditional Christmas breakfast, which was yum. Later that day we went to Rich's aunt and uncles for dinner, which was another great meal. After that I went to work, which was sort of a welcome relief from all the nonstop festivities. For most of the night I had no patients anyway so I actually got to relax.