almost 16 weeks...

My baby belly is almost visible to people who don't know I am pregnant, so I am super excited for that. I am even wearing these maternity jeans I got from Gap and I LOVE THEM. Elastic waists rule :)

Here are my weekly belly pics:

I discovered photoshop for free online so I hope you like the fun words I put on the pictures. I am trying to become a little more internet savvy so I can make this blog more fun!
Next week we go for our checkup appointment where we might be able to find out the sex! If baby cooperates and the doc can tell, we shall see! If not then we go back to the specialist doctor on feb. 23rd for the anatomy scan so we will definitely know then if not next week. I can't wait!
I want to post all of the fun furniture and bedding and room ideas I have, I will do that soon.
It's hard to keep on top of blogging!

some updates...

we had our 2 doctor appointments last week and everything seemed great. at the 1st trimester screening there was a flat screen tv and it was pretty cool to see the baby like that, on a huge screen and in a lot of detail. it was moving around a LOT, the u/s tech was laughing because we could barely freeze the screen to get any pictures. the legs were pushing off the 'walls' and doing almost flips. it is crazy that they have fingers and toes that you can actually count and all the other little body parts that are formed and now just have to grow. here is one picture from our normal ob appointment, the screening appointment only printed pictures out on paper and they are hard to scan.  it's waving its little hand at us :)

another thing i have been thinking a lot about lately is the nursery! we went to look at furniture over the weekend and i am glad we starte because there is a lot of stuff to choose from, but i think we narrowed it down to a few options.
other than that, life is as normal. i think my bump is starting to show, i will take another picture on friday. and sadie is turning 3 years old on saturday, i can't believe my little girl is going to be 3! i can't wait to see how she interacts with the baby, i think they are going to be best friends :)

time has been flying!

i can't believe i am already 12 weeks pregnant! so much has happened in the past 6 weeks since i have updated this, i suck at updating it but now that work and school have calmed down significantly i will have a lot more time to take pics and keep this thing current!
so we went to the doctor just about 3 weeks ago and had another ultrasound, the baby grew SO much and instead of just being a dot on the screen it was an actual little person with a head, arms and legs plus it was moving! here is a pic from the appointment:

he/she is upside down but its a good shot!
now here are a few pictures of me at 10 weeks, i am getting bigger but still looking just fat in my opinion!

today is a HUGEEEE jets game so i am of course wearing my jersey for this photo session, lol 12 week pics:

this week is going to be a BIG one. we have our normal check up appointment on tuesday with the ob then on wednesday we go for the nuchal transluscency scan, it is a big ultrasound and we will get to see the baby for awhile and maybe even in 3D. i am excited but also nervous, i will be in 2nd tri on friday and once these appointments are over i will feel a lot better! i will update with new pics every week from now on, promise!