Sex and 16 weeks

So as of Wednesday baby Ruddick and I are 16 weeks into this journey. 24 more weeks to go.

I have offically gained 6 lbs, although I feel like the nurse can't read the scale. I'm pretty sure she knocked off a few pounds. I'm thinking I'm more around the 8-10 mark. I have really been enjoying this no dieting thing. Especially now that I can eat more than soup without wanting to throw up everywhere.

I'm feeling so much better each week (except for the headaches). I definetly have a belly although it changes size daily. I'm about to the point where I need maternity clothes. The belly band has been working great the past couple of weeks, but not so much anymore.

Here I am yesterday, 16 weeks and 1 day.

Stu wanted in on the action.

Barry and I had our 16 week doctors appointment yesterday. I love going to the doctor right now becuase I always feel so much better after I hear the babies heartbeat. When you can't feel them moving, it can get scary.

But look how cool the doctor's office building is. This is Memorial Hermann Hospital, they just finished this highrise a couple of years ago. My doctor is on the 21st floor, and labor and delivery is on 4 (I think).

This appointment was not scheduled to have a sonogram, but I begged. I said "I haven't seen the baby since week 8 and I can't feel it, so that is scary. Plus I don't know if it has all its extremeties, the last time we saw it, it looked like a gummy bear. I would really like to see if we could find out the sex of the baby". The nurse was not happy with me, but she still asked the doctor and the doctor agreed!!

So we now know that we are having a BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Barry was so so so excited. There was some fist pumping in the doctors office. Now we just need to decide on a name. I think we have it narrowed down to two.

I have a picture of the peewee from the sonogram, but I wasn't able to wrestle it away from Barry. The picture is resting comfortably in Barry's wallet, so he can show everyone his boy's giant penis :)

Hopefully next week/sometime this weekend I can post it.

Growing up & Out

For those of you that still check my blog. I bet you are suprised I'm actually posting. Me too! It has been since October. I'm a horrible horrible blogger. But I'm making a mid years resolution to try and be more active on this sucker. There are a couple reasons for this.

1. My mom and friend Brittany keep hounding me to start blogging. I guess hounding is a strong word, maybe encouraging is a better term.

2. As Barry and I are expecting a baby in December I feel its necessary to try and document the pregnancy.

Yes, for those of you that just choked on your drink. Barry and I are expecting, I'm pregnant, knocked up, with child, or however you want to put it. Crazy right. I totaly agree an I'm as shocked as you are. I'm really excited but totally terrified all at the same time. When did we get so old, and when did I become a responsible adult old enough to raise a child? I was still scared to tell my parents. I felt like a 16 year old girl, although my mom had me at the same age I am now.

I'm 15 weeks as of yesterday. So our due date is 12-12-12. I really hope that baby actually arrives on that day!!

Here I am yesterday, with a bit of a belly! (I would like to preface the picture with "wow this is horrible, I normally do not look like this")

Haha, I laugh looking at myself. My boobs are actually much bigger in real life then they appear on the screen. It's scary really, I hope they stop growing.

Sidenote: if you remember a post from last May, that cute giant puppy next to me is Doc who is now over a year old.

Moving on. We don't know if the baby is a boy or a girl. We currently refer to "it/baby" as a "he" becuase Barry is 100% sure that "it/baby" will be a boy. I'm rooting for him, but I don't have any idea at all.

I actually found out about being pregnant 3 hours after Barry left for Vegas in March. I had to keep the secret all weekend, and over the course of that weekend took 5 pregnancy tests. I'm very happy I did test it though as I was really excited to a wine filled girls weekend!

I will be back next week for 16 weeks, and hopefully I will have a sonogram picture to share. Actually I don't know if the doctor does a sonogram at 16 weeks or not. It will be a suprise!