17 Weeks and Counting!

I've decided to keep a pregnancy blog so that everyone I love can stay up to date with the latest news of my growing belly. A few things have been growing in the past few weeks including spicy cravings and awareness that-yes, I'm actually going to be a mom. It's not typical for me to do this kind of thing but it's also not typical that I have a human life growing inside of me. So, at the suggestion of a dear friend I am going to try this pregnancy blog thing out.

Today I had my 3rd doctor appointment and was able to hear the baby's heartbeat for the second time. Although my stomach is starting to show signs that I'm pregnant I still sometimes have a hard time believing that this is real. Hearing the heartbeat is a happy reminder that everything is going well.  I also steal little glances at the  ultrasound picture taken on February 27th. That was really the first time I had any idea of what was going on inside of me. It was unlike anything I had ever experienced to see live images of my baby moving around (a lot)  on the projected sonogram image. I hadn't even expected to have an ultrasound done that day, so it was a huge surprise. Unfortunately, Moncho was not at that appointment, but he was so excited to see the pictures the that nurse printed off for us when he met up with my later to meet our doctor.

As excited as Moncho was to see the first pictures of our baby, nobody was more excited than my mother. We text messaged the picture to both grandma's and by the end of the day my mom was excitedly insisting that I "facetime" with her. Why? Well, she had something very important to show me. Within a few hours she transferred the text messaged picture to her computer, saved the image on a USB, printed the picture at Walgreens, purchased a beautiful (gender neutral) picture frame, and had baby's first picture proudly displayed on the mantel. Meanwhile my pictures we loving folded, yet slightly crumpled, in my bag. I think it is safe to say we have an excited first-time grandma on the loose, one from whom I can STILL learn a few tricks (like how to properly display baby pictures). Technically he or she was still a fetus at that point, so I have a few more months to master that skill.

I probably look better on grandma's mantel but here I am at 13 weeks.