20 week ultrasound - it's a...

I had my 20 week ultrasound on Tuesday. We got to spend some time watching baby wiggle around and kick in there.

It very much reminded me of my ultrasound with Ethan. Baby was in the exact same spot, and we had a hard time getting some of the images that the ultrasound tech needed. Ethan never moved from that spot, requiring another follow up ultrasound to see some of his heart. So she had me go to the bathroom and move around a bit and baby moved too, and we finished up pretty quickly. The last thing she did was check the sex of the baby. Took a few minutes of pushing and prodding, baby was scrunched up and legs locked together. I made the comment that it was beginning to make me think it was a girl, with Ethan it was pretty easy for even me to tell he was a boy. She agreed with me, that she was starting to think it was a girl too. Then we finally got a good shot and confirmed that it looks like a girl!!

We're pretty surprised, and getting used to the idea of dresses, ruffles and bows invading our house :) Ethan's been saying that it was a girl all along, so I don't think he's as surprised as mommy and daddy. We're all pretty excited to know!

18 weeks

Ethan always has lots of hugs and kisses for baby. 

17 weeks

Feeling plenty of kicks and nudges. I'm really curious as to the gender of this little one. This pregnancy has been really different in many ways, so lots of people keep telling me it's probably a girl. Ethan wants it to be a girl. We hopefully will find out mid December. 

Christmas started a little early around here

This weekend we got out our Christmas tree! Ethan was so unbelievably excited to set it up. After the decorating work was done on Sunday, we popped open a bottle of sparkling cider and let him have a wine glass along with us to drink from. We all said "cheers"... a lot... we gave a few toasts, and he did as well. His toasts turned into prayers, which was really cute, telling God what a wonderful day it was, asking for health for me and baby, telling God how old each of us are, etc. Before bedtime we turned off all of the lights and sat in front of the tree with a snack. He was absolutely beaming all day long. What a fun time of year for little ones :)

Then today he pulled a dough ornament off the tree that we made together a few years ago, and asked if we could make more ornaments like that one. So we did, we made 6 ornaments this morning and then painted them after rest time. I told Steve that at this rate we will run out of Christmas activities long before Christmas gets here. Steve didn't think that would be a problem.

15 weeks

Happy Halloween!

Excited to be dressing up as a dragon

Ready to be done with pictures and heading out to the candy

names

Ethan just told me that if the baby is a girl he thinks we should name her Helfin. If it's a boy then he would like to name him Peetin. I told him we'd keep those under consideration.