It's a Girl!!

We're having a girl!  We're so excited.  I really wanted a girl, but for some reason I felt like it just wasn't going to happen.  Ryan thought it was going to be a girl, though. When the ultrasound tech said, you're having a girl, I stared at her and said, "Are you serious!?"  She looked a little worried like maybe I would hit her if she said yes, but I told her that I was very happy about it being a girl.  Just to make sure she zoomed in really close for us and yep, no penis in sight. This is definitely a little girl.

She was very uncooperative for her pictures.  She was wiggling all over the place and didn't want to let the technician get very good shots of her spine and a few other things.  But after some coaxing and prodding, which she was NOT happy about, we got all the shots we needed and everything looks great!

I love being there and seeing the ultrasound screen.  Everything looks so much clearer and makes way more sense when you're there, and then you get home and everything looks blurry and fuzzy.  And also kinda creepy since the shapes no longer look attached to a little body, they are just sitting there.  For instance, this hand was super cute when we took the picture...

But now it's just a creepy hand floating out in space.  Oh well, it's still the cutest little creepy hand in the world to me.

And here is a new belly picture of me.  I have definitely popped.

And here it is side by side with my 19 week picture with Lucas.  Not a huge difference but I think I look a little smaller.

19 Weeks

I'm 19 weeks today.  I'm almost half way through.  I'm done with the morning sickness so that's nice and now I'm just waiting to find out...

My ultrasound is scheduled for Wednesday morning at 9:15 and we can not wait to find out.  Mostly because Ryan and I are terrible at picking names and knowing the gender will narrow things down for us.  It's hard enough coming up with one name, we didn't come up with Lucas's name till 2 weeks before he was born, and now we have to do it all over again.  Geez!  Such pressure.  And then of course I want to make all sorts of cute blankets and onesies and curtains for the nursery and we need to know the gender before I can decide on colors and such.  Come Wednesday morning, I may have to hide my credit cards in the freezer so I don't go crazy.

I need to take an updated belly picture for the blog.  I feel like my belly has really popped in the last few weeks.  Although I was looking back at pictures from when I was pregnant with Lucas and I think I'm smaller this time around.  It could be because I had a desk job when I was pregnant with him, and now I run around with a toddler all day long.  I also weigh less this time than I did at this point last time.  Let's cross our fingers that I can keep that up.  And before you freak out that I'm dieting and trying to be unhealthily skinny during my pregnancy, I've already gained 13 lbs.  I just gain a lot of weight when I get pregnant, and most of it is in my face.  I'm thinking I'll take maternity pictures at like 30 weeks and pretend I'm full term.

And the big news of the weekend is I felt the first baby kick!  I love feeling the baby kick.  You always feel some stuff earlier that you think might have been the baby swimming around, but it also could have been gas, so I like to wait till I get a good firm kick before I call it.  I can't wait till the baby is kicking hard enough for Lucas to feel it.  He loves to come to my dr. appointments and see the picture of the baby up on the ultrasound screen and hear the heartbeat, but I don't think he really understands what's going on.  He points to my belly and says, "there's a baby in there", but then he points to his belly and says, "I have a baby too".  It'll probably be even more confusing when my belly starts kicking him, but whatever, I'll pretend like it'll make things clearer for him.

Easter

The YMCA here in Livermore does an Easter egg hunt and pancake breakfast the Saturday of Easter weekend.  We had a lot of fun!  The pancakes were yummy, and they had egg hunts every 30 minutes so Lucas got to do three of them.  It was a good thing too, because there were so many people Lucas only got 4 or 5 eggs each time.

Lucas got pretty good at getting the eggs by the 3rd time around.

A happy boy with lots of candy.

We had a fun day on Easter.  Lucas woke up bright and early to find his Easter basket.  After church we went to San Jose to have dinner with my family.  I didn't get any pictures, but as soon as my dad updates his blog I will link to it because he got some really cute pictures of Lucas and his new cousin Scott.  Lucas is so gentle with babies.  Hopefully he keeps that up!

The next day Ryan had a day off of work so we decided to take a trip to the beach.  Lucas got a shovel in his Easter basket and he was dying to try it out.  We went to a beach by Half Moon Bay that is supposed to have some cool tide pools.  We got there too late to see the tide pools, but we still had fun just playing on the beach and in the waves.

Trying out the new shovel.  I think he likes it!

Watching the waves come in...

...and then running away!

We stopped to have a picnic lunch.  Lucas was curled up in his towel warming up after getting wet in the cold water.

Then we made sand castles.

Lucas kept knocking the castles over before we could add more so this was the biggest one we got.

One last picture with daddy before we go.

Okay, Ryan said I have to post this picture eve though it's terrible!  I wanted to get a picture with me before we left since I'm never in any of the pictures, but Lucas was terrified that a wave was going to get him so he wouldn't stay put and kept struggling.  Combine that with my pregnant body not being able to squat and balance at the same time and we almost tipped over.  Thanks Ryan for getting that unflattering shot.

Ugly picture aside, we had a great time and Lucas has been telling me ever since we left that he LOVED the beach.  We had a fun and relaxing Easter weekend!