FINALLY HALF WAY!

We've got our 20 week ultrasound tomorrow, Wednesday the 10th. We are hoping to find out for sure if it's a girl so we can start decorating! woo hoo! If it's a boy, then we will be just as excited! I will definitely post it on here tomorrow after we find out!

17 weeks!!!

Today, for our date night, we went to the temple and did Sealings. It was the first time we ever did those besides our own sealing back when we got married! So it was actually really fun! While I was sitting in the sealing room, i felt this really hard kick but it was more like a fist roll punch. Haha It made me chuckle a little bit because that's the hardest "kick, punch" i've ever felt her do yet! I whispered to Ben of what just happened and he looked at my tummy pokin' out and just chuckled with me a little bit. I just can't wait to feel more of her! It's such an awesome feeling!

Cravings: I really haven't had any at all. Like I said before, it's hard for me to cook meat. I'll eat it every once in a while, but I don't really have a desire for it. I somehow am always finding myself eating a bagel with cream cheese if nothing else sounds good. And I definitely have a strong craving for any sweets. =)It's a tradition for Ben and I to go out for ice cream after we go to the temple, and so when we were standing in line, I couldn't decide what to get so I got ice cream AND a smoothie! it was delightful!!

Sleep much?? Not as good as I used too that's for sure. I usually get to bed between 10 and midnight, but lately it's been before then which has been nice, but the past few mornings I've been waking up every morning around 4:30 or so and i'll get this sharp shooting pain in my side, not only that i'll have to pee super bad, AND she's punching or kicking me like it's some kind of boxing ring! lol She won't go back to sleep for at least another half hour or so or i'll just move and because she's still small I can kinda move her around so that she can't kick me. haha But I end up staying awake anyways because I just enjoy every moment I can feel her. =)

It might be a GIRL!!!

Ok, so here's the story...

We had my 15 week ultrasound today, and I was really hoping that we could find out if it was a boy or a girl. So as the doc was looking around he said if it were to be a boy the "boy part" would be alot more prominent at this stage in your pregnancy based upon what he's seen before at this many weeks. So, assuming he's been an OB for a LONG time, I'm pretty sure he knows what he's talking about.

So my point being is that he thinks it's a girl! So, we will find out for sure at my 20 week appointment on February 10th. But as it goes for now it's supposedly a girl! =) Which we are very excited for! Ben of course would LOVE a boy and then once he gets his boy he doesn't mind what gender our kids will be after that. haha But a girl is what I have been feeling like it's been this whole time. So I was actually happy to tell Ben that there is a motherly instinct that is mostly right.

I will tell you one thing about this pregnancy is that I have not craved ANY meat. Which I thought was weird and even trying to cook ground beef just made me cringe. Not that it means anything, but if I were to be having a boy and he doesn't like meat?? I will go crazy!!! So in the end if it does turn out to be a boy (which you still never know it very well could be) the first thing daddy will feed him, will be meat! lol

Overall, if the Doc is saying that there isn't enough there for it to even be a boy, Ben still thinks that "something" out of no where will pop up with in the next 4 weeks at my next appointment and show us that our baby's a boy even though the genitals are pretty much determined by now. haha So I'm excited to know for sure when that day is here. And don't get me wrong, Ben is VERY EXCITED for his baby girl. She's definitely gonna be a "Daddy's Girl".

Anyways, enough of me blabbering on...Here are the sonograms of our supposedly SOON-2-BE BABY GIRL!!!

In this picture he said that she's just over 10cm so we're right on schedule and also that everything is looking good and heart beat was right on at 156. Which is definitely satisfying to hear...


Here you can see her cute little hands and arms. Cute little fingers too!!


Here are her legs which kinda look like they're bow and arrow legs right now and let me explain that white thing in the middle. So when i saw this on the ultrasound screen, i asked what it was and he said it's just part of her leg and if you look really closely you can see the dark shadow across her lower quads which is the umbilical cord wrapped around her legs. So it's supposedly just an odd lighting when this pic was taken and you can see it closer if you click on it for those of you who didn't know. lol but who knows, Doc could've been wrong. But I'm just trusting what he says!


And in this last one I thought it was so cool because she's facing toward us. So you can see both her eyes and the structure of her face(not very well in this pic but on the screen it was way cooler) and Ben said, "Wow! I can even see her skull!" lol I love him. haha So anyways, I just thought it was cool because she was looking out towards my tummy. At this time of their growth it does say that babies can sense light now. So maybe that's what she was doing. =)


I also have been feeling her kick me or poke me or whatever she's doing inside there. Sometimes if she's down low on one of my sides by my hip bone I get a sharp shooting pain there so I have to lay on the opposite side and push her down to the other side so I can actually breath. Haha. And I know all you guys out there who have had babies are saying, "Oh just wait honey!" Labor is worse than that! lol But it's all good. I'm nervous of course, but I'm ready. =) No turning back now!!!

Ok, so here are some pictures that i've been taking as the weeks go on. You really don't realize how big you get until you look back at the pictures because every day you wake up and you look at your belly and just think is the baby even growing at all? But, it sure is...=)

This first one is me at 7 weeks pregnant....


This was at 10 weeks pregnant...


And this is at 15 weeks pregnant which is how far along I am now. And my next ultrasound is this Thursday. =) We will see if they can tell what it is yet. But i doubt it.=( So cross your fingers!!!

Update

So I am now just barely 13 weeks and it feels like I've put on a FAT belly! It's at that awkward stage where people kinda stare at you and think "is she pregnant or just fat?". So it definitely isn't the best stage to be at. I was told by the doctor to get off my progesterone supplements and I was so scared because that's a really important part of the growing baby. It preserves and maintains the uterus in order for the baby to survive. So when they said it was ok to get off, you've just gotta trust them. But they said the placenta has taken over now so it will all be ok. YES! onto the 2ND trimester!!! So it has been about a week now and i seem to be doing fine. I don't have many cravings at all really. The one thing that I do eat ALOT of though are clementines. (there the little Cuties you get at the grocery store) I hate orange juice, and oranges are o.k. i guess, but clementines, man! I can eat those for every meal it seems like! So other than that 'small' craving, there really isn't anything else that I prefer. So I know it's still early, but I was laying in bed the other night and I had to sneeze so bad. So when I did, it was like 4 times in a row and I have to hold my stomach because it feels like I push EVERYTHING out each time I sneeze. So I was laying on my side when I sneezed, and all the sudden I felt like something was kicking me. It was the weirdest, yet coolest feeling ever! But I'm still not sure if it was the baby or not, cuz I've never really felt a baby kick inside me before! But if it was, it was an awesome feeling. When I told Ben about it, he cuddled up next to me and put his arm around me and his hand on my belly just waiting to see if he/she would do it again, but they didn't. So we will see in a couple weeks if I do start feeling some movement. That is the one thing I can't wait for. So that's all for this week! (and yes tina and amanda, I'll put up some "side profile" pics soon. I promise!!) =D

Christmas Time

Oh how I LOVE christmas! It's my most favorite time of the year!
Except this is our puny little tree that we had in our apartment so in our new house it looks so tiny!!!


This is Ben trying to be all cute....haha I say he pulls it off pretty well.


And here is our Christmas Card Photo for this year.

Our Baby!!!

So I went to the doctor today and had an ultrasound. We got to hear the heartbeat and see the baby squirm all over the place! It was the most amazing thing ever! Here are the sonograms that were taken, and none of them really look like a baby it just looks like a little peanut. =) But it's a cute one! We are so excited!





So there's our Baby Smith!!! I just want it to grow so fast!! I can't wait for him/her to come into our life!!