Much Needed Update...

So sorry for the delay in getting the info up on the baby. There are a lot of people out there hunting me down with torch in hand so I figured I better get this put up because I enjoy my unburned skin. As you can see, we got two sonogram pictures of our beautiful baby...I don't care if it looks like an alien. It is still beautiful. The sonogram lady said at that point I was 8 weeks along so now I am working on the ninth week and there is only one baby. This caused me to go to my midwife, very confused, and ask why I am ginormous and can't wear normal people clothes anymore and she said very simply, "Oh, you just put on a lot of water weight but it's normal and will go away." That is not nearly as much fun as twins but at least she didn't say I wasn't birthing a baby cow and to slow down on the food. Because seriously, if anyone told me to slow down on the food, I would probably eat their head. And I'm a pretty nice person. There is something about someone coming between me and the care of my child that makes me feel perfectly fine going loco. But anyway, we have one baby, folks. Count it: uno. And now to explain the pictures because I had no idea what any of it was either....

The top picture is an almost frontal view of the baby which I am going to go ahead and refer to her as a girl because that's what I feel like she is. The top of her head is near the top of the picture and her unformed feet are at the bottom. To be more specific, the big black oval in the middle is the amniotic fluid and the white lima bean shape on the right of it is the actual baby. Then start at the top for the head and work your way down. The second picture, our favorite, is a side view of our beautiful little girl. This time she is on the left side of the big, black, circle/oval thing but her head is still at the top with her facing right this time.

There have only been three times in my life where time seemed to stop and I could not hear the world around me (at least briefly). The first was when Hunter so incredibly proposed with about 20,000 people watching and caught me completely off guard (which is hard to do). The second was when I was walking down the aisle at our wedding and the third was when I heard my baby's heartbeat. That was the most incredible thing I have ever experienced. I forgot that I was supposed to be lying down and tried to sit up to see the screen better and I vaguely remember the sonogram lady telling me to try to be as still as possible. It was 152 beats per minute of incredibleness. I could never forget that sound....I don't even think the memory of it can fade at all.

That's pretty much it for right now. Except none of my shirts fit which is adorable so I am constantly shopping and I am REALLY looking forward to the end of first trimester (in about 3 weeks) so odd smells won't make me want to spontaneously vomit. That will be nice.