Busy...

I think everyone is busy this time of year but it seems like the past few weeks have flown by. We have had Simon & Ellie for almost two weeks, family in town for the holidays, and Sean started a new job in new car sales at Park Place Mercedes! He has only been in training so far but loves it.

I am almost 6 months along and feel great! All of my mommy friends tell me to enjoy the second trimester and how I feel now because the third trimester tends to be a little more uncomfortable. I have energy, am used to being pregnant, and am amazed daily as I feel the baby move all the time. Sean felt the baby kick for the first time on Chirstmas Day. It was the best present we could have wished for! The look on his face was priceless and I will never forget it.

I have pictures to post from Simon's basketball game and Ellie's holiday dance performance from two weeks ago, Christmas, and will have some from New Year's Eve. My camera battery died so it is charging now and I promise to post pictures soon. In the meantime, here is what babycenter.com says about how our baby boy is developing at 23 weeks:

How your baby's growing:
Turn on the radio and sway to the music. With his sense of movement well developed by now, your baby can feel you dance. And now that he's more than 11 inches long and weighs just over a pound (about as much as a large mango), you may be able to see him squirm underneath your clothes. Blood vessels in his lungs are developing to prepare for breathing, and the sounds that your baby's increasingly keen ears pick up are preparing him for entry into the outside world. Loud noises that become familiar now — such as your dog barking or the roar of the vacuum cleaner — probably won't faze him when he hears them outside the womb.

I love that he can hear our voices and is getting used to the normal sounds of the house. My mom says that I need to read to him and I told her that he gets read to and Kindergarten lessons every day when I am at school! Speaking of, I have to get ready now. I am having lunch with my friend Courtney that I used to teach with at City Park. She lives in Frisco now and is a busy stay at home mom with her 1 year old Jacob so we don't get to see each other as much as we would like!

Happy New Year!

5 month update & more pictures of our baby boy!

We had a doctor's appointment today and everything is wonderful! I cannot believe I am 5 months already. I am getting a little spoiled with the ultrasounds and getting to see our baby boy but I think this will be the last one for a while. This is only the second ultrasound with my regular doctor, the other two were with our specialist testing for down syndrome. Once again, our little guy is measuring a little over a week ahead of my estimated due date so we expect him sometime the last week of April! His head, brain, stomach, and arm all measured around 20 weeks 5 days but his femer measured 21 weeks 6 days which means he has long legs! We are not surprised. We know he is going to be tall so as long as he is coordinated and an athlete like his Daddy. =)

The first picture is "evidence" again that yes, he is definitely a boy. The second picture is my favorite, he is sucking his thumb! We are going to frame this one. The last two are of his head, body, and arm. In the third one his little fist is up by his head. If you click on the pictures you will be able to see them enlarged. Thank you Aunt Alli for scanning, spacing, and aligning the sonogram pictures for me!

We picked out nursery furniture this week and are currently looking at bedding and deciding on a theme. A lot of you have asked if we have decided on a name yet and no, not yet. We have our top two first names but have several middle names we like. We may not decide until he is born so I guess there won't be any official monogramming anytime soon! I guess you can just call him my family's nickname anytime they ask about him which is "Little Booger" which Sean has shortened to "Booger". I guess we should decide on a name soon because I would rather not have that one stick !

I almost forgot, here is what babycenter.com says about how our baby boy is developing:

How your baby's growing:Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. He's also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom and about 10 inches from head to heel — the length of a banana. (For the first 20 weeks, when a baby's legs are curled up against his torso and hard to measure, measurements are taken from the top of his head to his bottom — the "crown to rump" measurement. After 20 weeks, he's measured from head to toe.)He's swallowing more these days, which is good practice for his digestive system. He's also producing meconium, a black, sticky by-product of digestion. This gooey substance will accumulate in his bowels, and you'll see it in his first soiled diaper (some babies pass meconium in the womb or during delivery).

Well, it says our baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces but he actually weighs 14 ounces right now, almost 1 pound already! We realized weeks ago that this will not be a small baby! I asked the ultrasound technician about his length but his legs were curled up under him and she wasn't able to get a measurement from head to toe. Our next doctor's appointment is Monday January 5th and I will have a glucose test done, which is a pre-screening test for gestational diabetes. I have 8 more days of school then will be on Winter Break! We have Simon & Ellie for 10 days over Christmas so I know we will be busy and the time will continue to fly by. I will post again next week!

Love,
Tiffany & Sean