IT'S A BOY!!!

We had our ultrasound on Tuesday and everything is GREAT! We are having another boy and he is growing very well! He weighs 10 ounces already and measures a week ahead of schedule! Micah was pointing to the screen saying "baby!" He was sooo good the whole time. I hope this baby takes after his big brother because I think we have really lucked out with a very well-behaved kid! We think that we have agreed on a name for the little guy and I'll post what it is once we're positive that it's the name we'll use. I am excited about it and I think it's "the one"! And Mat likes it of course because he has loved the name since we were naming Micah. I chose the middle name and we think that it sounds good with the first name. So we'll see!

THE BIG DAY!

Tomorrow is our big ultrasound! We are leaving for Iowa City at around 11:15 am and have to be at the hospital to register at 1pm. We're having a Level II scan which means that they look at every organ and body part in great detail. In our case, they will be taking a close look at the baby's brain and heart in particular. The brain because of our history, and the heart because I was exposed to coxsackie virus about a month ago. I'm excited for the ultrasound, but also nervous. We are hoping to find out the baby's gender tomorrow and neither of us has a preference as to one or the other. We are simply praying for a healthy baby. Please keep us in your prayers tomorrow and pray that our little one is growing as he or she should be.

Baby's Moving, Micah's Changing

Right at 15 weeks I started feeling little kicks. They got more noticeable the whole week and so far, at 16 weeks, I've felt the taps every day. It's so reassuring to be able to feel him or her and it makes the pregnancy much more real.

Micah is entering a new stage it seems. Last week he had a little language explosion and ever since he started talking he is Mr. Independent! He's fighting naps and bedtime again, and throwing some majors tantrums! He's most crabby when he wakes up in the morning and after his nap.

19 days left until the BIG ULTRASOUND! We're pretty excited, but nervous at the same time. We're just hoping that everything will check out okay with the baby anatomy-wise so we can breathe a sigh of relief. Mat, of course, wants another boy and I am completely indifferent. Either one would be fine with me. But, I am pretty anxious to find out so we can start planning more and decide the official name. We have a couple of names for each gender that we like so it'll be nice to have *the name* picked out.