hyper fetus

this baby is so full of energy! i can feel her kick already! justin even felt it for the first time last night. i went to the ob yesterday for my check-up and we could barely hear the heartbeat through the doppler because she wouldn't be still! she's gonna come out dancing and doing cartwheels...just like her Mommy!

p.s. i can't stop shopping for her!

we're having a...

...girl!!!! we're, needless to say, so excited! more importantly, though, she's extremely healthy. she's measuring 17 weeks, 4 days and i'm only 17 weeks along. so her growth is great! now we just need a name for little miss pretty girl!

here, she has her hand up to her face and it looks like she's smiling!

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oh! and i totally had to get this out of my system...

nursery theme

animals! i'm not going overboard with it, though.

so far, i've knitted these for baby's room...

cravings

with davis, it was frosted flakes and pineapple. not at the same time. i'd wake up in the middle of the night and HAVE to eat a bowl of frosted flakes before i could go back to sleep. and i'd eat so much pineapple every day that my tongue would bleed!

with this pregnancy, i find myself randomly wanting different things. and by 'wanting' i, of course, mean 'needing'. a couple days ago, i drove all the way to towne center mall just to get some pretzel bites with melted cheese. once i satisfied the craving, it was gone. i had to have french toast for dinner a few weeks ago and ate like 5 slices...craving gone. i'm really into cheese right now, though...little caeser's pepperoni pizza, atlanta bread company's asiago bagel with cream cheese, kroger deli's white american cheese...my digestive system hates me.

i'll post a lady lump photo soon!

dreams

when i was pregnant with davis, and before we knew what we were having, i would have these strange baby dreams. and, in them, the baby was ALWAYS a boy. i'd dream that my baby lived in my mattress, instead of in my belly. or i'd be walking around walgreens and he'd just fall out of me and i'd have to beg someone to help me put him back in. or i'd be delivering my baby in the middle of the mall's food court.

well, last night, i had my first baby dream of this pregnancy. it was born really early (which i can probably chalk up to stress and expect to have this dream every other night until its born), but it weighed like 20 pounds and was really healthy! i think it even had clothes on.

so you wanna know what sex it was??? a boy. so, now i'm convinced that that's what we're having.

my 12 week lady lump

i woke up a few mornings ago with this thing protruding from my body. it's finally real! i was so excited when i couldn't button my jeans that i immediately unpacked all the maternity clothes that my girlfriend gave me a couple months ago! jumping the gun, much?!?!

total weight gain so far: 3 big lbs!

first mfs visit

yesterday, we had our first appointment with the maternal fetal specialist. their ultrasound machines have a higher resolution than normal ob's offices so we got to see all the body parts in much more detail. it's still only 4 cm in length, but we could see its cute little fingers and thumb plain as day!

that little sucker is super active, too! it was, like, barrel rolling inside of me and bouncing up and down. the ultrasound tech was having a hard time getting certain measurements because baby wouldn't be still! so cute.

so far, everything looks great with me and baby!