Sprout's first photo shoot!

Baby's head is on the right side and the two little things sticking out on either side of the rounded part on the left are its little leg buds!  Obviously he or she doesn't look much like a baby yet, but I'm excited to see how much he or she has grown and changed by our next ultrasound on the 20th!  

I'm so in love with little Sprout already.  I can't wait to bring our baby home in July and enjoy being a family of 3!

Great News!

We had an ultrasound today.  I'm 7 weeks, 1 day.  Everything went perfectly.  I was extremely excited but also a little anxious about how it would go.  We saw the heartbeat, it was at 149 bpm, which is perfect!!  We saw where the brain is developing, where the spinal cord is developing, and the beginning of little legs!  It was so neat and amazing that we could see so much on our little baby who is just the size of a blueberry. I'm really excited to see how much more we can see when we go to our OB on the 20th!

This is going to be short and sweet!  I'm about to take a bath and head to bed in a little bit.  My days are significantly better if I am in bed by 8 or 8:30.  So... I'll have enough time to get cozy and warm in the bath, read a little from The Girlfriends Guide to Pregnancy (a GREAT buy, by the way), and then off to bed by 8!  It's a good thing I have such a wonderful, caring, and helpful husband to help around the house!  He's absolutely amazing and is going to be the best daddy that I know!

The Cat is Out of The Bag... Sort of.

Well!!  We did officially cave and tell our families this past week!  It was so much fun surprising them with gifts and seeing the shock on their faces!  We told our parents and our sisters but my BIL will have to wait until his package arrives in the mail later this week... I'm sure he's very curious about what is in this mysterious package!

Our dads got t shirts that said "Great Dads Get Promoted to Grandpa".  Our moms got a picture frame with a First Grandchild Poem.  We gave our sisters calendars and told them we wrote all the important dates (birthdays, anniversaries, etc.) on them and suggested they check it out to make sure they saw what was written on July 27!  For my BIL we got a bottle open made out of bike parts and put a note on it saying "To open a celebratory beer..." then inside an envelope is a picture of a little t-shirt we bought that says "I'm a Hawkeye just like my uncle".  His reaction will be interesting... Mostly because he's not a Hawkeye but rather a diehard Cyclone, but of course our kid will not be wearing red and yellow!  I can't wait until his package arrives and then all of our family members will know!  For now it's our little family secret... We don't want to start spreading the word to everyone else until Christmas/New Years time when I'm about 10 weeks.

It's definitely starting to feel a little bit more real!