Baby Scare

I had a baby doctors appointment this last Thursday (the first of my weeklies), while I was there they checked to see if I was dialated, effaced and how big the baby is. I am dialated to a 1 and effaced 30%, which is all good, but I measured the same as I did at my last appointment for baby size. Doctors try really hard not to freak you out, but they still do it. My doctors said, "hmmm, your still measuring really small, which could be ok! It just might mean you are going to have a 6 lb baby. But I want you to have an ultrasound as soon as you can so I can check to make sure he is growing symmetrically. " So on comes the panic and worry. I had dreams about my baby having one long arm and one short arm. And to make matters worse, when I told Daniel, this is how the conversation went down.

Me: "The doctor wants to check and make sure the baby is growing symmetrically"
Daniel: "Symmetrically? What does that mean exactly"
Me: "Well, like the baby could have a short arm with no elbow or something"
Daniel: "Oh no, that's not good. Then i would call the kid gimpy!"
Me: "You can't call your child gimpy!!"
Daniel:"Well, I would feel bad saying it! O.K. I'll call him Nemo."

My husband, always the sensitive one.

I did have my ultrasound the very next day, and even though I only waited 5 min in the lobby, it felt like forever. When they called me back, I held my breath as she did the first sweep around my stomach to take a quick look at everything. "Every thing looks pretty good. I'm just going to take some measurements now" *Exhale in relief*. It turns out that my baby is growing very well, he has long legs, lots of hair and is 6lbs 2oz so far. Apparently I'm just holding him in really tight. The most amazing measurement she took was his foot. It is 3 inches long already!! My boy has big feet just like his mommy did when she was born!

Only 4 weeks left

I Can't believe I only have 4 more weeks! I'm so excited and nervous at the same time. I have my first childbirth class tomorrow night and a breastfeeding class on Tuesday. I'm thrilled that people are so nice to me and keep telling me I look great, but I am really feeling big. Not me really... but my belly. I have had this problem a lot where after sitting I stand up and my legs are numb and tingly because Jacob has just been chillin' in the right spot to cut off circulation. He still moves around A LOT!! So many people have told me that the movement slows down in the last 6 weeks, but my kid has not slowed down. It is painful sometimes, but I'm grateful to feel him because i know that means he is healthy and doing well. Here is the latest picture of me. I took it today right after church, because Sunday is pretty much the only day I do my hair.

Nuestra Casa

Enjoy some video of the latest work on our house.

3rd Trimester...so far

This trimester has been pretty good to me so far. I signed up for a gym membership and have been taking pre-natal aerobics and aqua classes. Therefor I think that I am staying in pretty good shape and my energy has been pretty good. I did have really bad back pain the other night, I honestly thought I might be having a contraction. But it was just Jacob pushing me in the wrong spot. Now that I only have 6 weeks to go (eek) It is hard for me to find a comfortable position when sitting and Jake is taking up a lot more room and still moving a lot. But I'm happy because I feel like everything is going really well. And I'm so excited to see what my baby will look like.

Our house

So after being very impatient with the way "short sales" are working around here Daniel and I decided that we really wanted to live in the Mesa(a community in Summerlin) and that we would go ahead and build. So right before I left to go to Utah for Christmas we signed the paperwork to get everything started. When we got back after Christmas we picked out our options and the house is now being build.

http://harmonyhomeslv.com/images/Ladera/Harmony_Homes_2523.pdf

Above is the link to see the home we picked out. It is the 4 bedroom plus loft option. We are so excited and we have been told that the home will probably be done the end of February. I have hope that they might because they have about 100 workers on our street putting up houses. I drove by just the other day and I got a quick video of our house.




So it's a really quick video, but I was trying to dodge all of the truck and equipment that they have out and about. The amazing thing is about 2 weeks ago this was just a mound of dirt. So i think that it's going pretty good. It's just a race now to see what is delivered first. The house, or the baby! Place your bets now ladies and gentlemen....'cause it's gonna be a close one.

Daniel got his dream job!

For those of you that don't know, Daniel got his dream job as a public defender for Clark County. He has his own office and his own card. This weekend we made him feel official by decorating his office. Here is what is turned out to look like!
Just Ignore the messy desk.....isn't that fabric beautiful? Daniel's mom helped him cover his bulletin boards.
That amazing Don Quixote piece on the wall was given to Daniel from our wonderful friend Adele Austin. (Thanks Adele it looks great!)

A big thanks to Jenn and Gaynell for helping Daniel with his office. Snaps for Jenn and Gaynell!!

2nd Trimester

Now that I'm officially done with my second trimester, I figured I would give a recap of how it went. AT my 14th week we went to get an ultrasound done. Daniel was able to come with me. I think he might has been a little bit more nervous than anything. When the ultrasound tech was taking measurements of the baby's arms and legs he kept asking, "do you know what those measurements mean? Is everything normal? Is he developing at the right rate?" I thinks she was probably used to skiddish parents because she just said. "I'm just imputing the information right now, but I promise I will go over everything with you." As we watched the screen and what she was doing Daniel and I both thought that we saw boy parts, but we're not experts so we just waited until she said, "Well do you want to know if it's a boy or a girl?!" We emphatically said "YES!" And then she confirmed, It's a boy! I wish I could post mental images, because if I could I would show you Daniel's face. Oh well, I'm sure someday we will have that technology. The best part of the whole appointment was when Daniel asked the tech if she could just hold the camera still so we could watch him. She did and it was so amazing! He was just bouncing back and forth and moving his arms back and forth. Daniel was surprised that I couldn't feel him at that point, but it wasn't too long after that that I started to feel him bump around. So my baby is in the 68th percentile for length of limbs and 80th percentile for belly (i have a fat baby!) We had another ultrasound a month later just to check his heart and make sure he had all 4 chambers...he does. So here are some of our recent pictures.
Here is proof that it's really going to be a boy!


He's going to have big feet like mommy's!


I swear he waved at me here! Can you see his little hand up by his face? He was waving.