The Word is Out! The Baby GIRL is IN!

It's true. Bill and I are having a baby!! I am due March 5th.
We were really shocked and excited, we really weren't expecting to be expecting. We'd thought about starting to try, but then I got cold feet cause I wanted to know the time was right and I felt like if I MADE it happen I wouldn't know if it was really God's will or just mine. So we stopped "trying" and a few months later I started to feel kinda funny. I had thought I was supposed to start and had that "here it comes" feeling a couple of times, yet nothing happened. I was beginning to wonder and one Sunday night (June 29, 2008) I was talking to Sara on the phone. She was about 2 or 3 months pregnant with her second so as I explained how I had been feeling lately, she quickly recognized the signs! She urged me to go get a pregnancy test right now!! Well, Bill was in the room for our whole conversation :] and by the time I got off the phone he had such a priceless look of his face. Total surprise, curiosity, excitement, and disbelief. "Is there something you wanna tell me?" he asked. :] ha ha. So I explained it all. He thought I was crazy, and really I wasn't even that late yet so I, too, thought I was a little crazy. But we were both so curious now and Sara had sounded so sure! And since she was pregnant right now it really would be cool to be pregnant too and have our kids so close together I thought. So finally, even though it was a Sunday night, we decided the urgency and need to just know dominated and we broke the Sabbath and went to Walmart and picked up two different brands of tests, just in case ;]
WELL!!


Bill was SO SHOCKED when, after the 3 long minutes it takes to process, that it indicated we were indeed PREGNANT!! It was just such a surprise! We were stunned and totally excited. Bill was still just so shocked and taken off guard, his first words to me after seeing the strip was "quick! Drink more water! Take the other test to double check!" So I did and it too said the same thing. "We're having a BABY, baby!!"




Can you see the shock and excitement in our faces? :]

So after much searching, we found a good doctor and had our fist appointment. We heard the heartbeat!! and got to see our little blueberry-sized being! It was so incredible! Her little heartbeat was so fast and wow, she was alive! This adorable little creature living inside me!



Then on October 20, 2008, we had our special ultra sound!! She was so posy in there! The ultrasound tech was laughing and was so impressed cause every time she would tell us something like, "ok, now I'll move this to take a look at the liver (or heart, or spine, whatever)" it's like the baby could hear her and would turn herself in just the right position! It was pretty impressive. Smart baby ;] I just think she is the most adorable thing on the face of this planet and she still just looks like a little alien baby! ;] it is so much fun!!


Isn't she cute?? :]


And while we were watching her in there, she put her little fist up and raised one finger...not that finger ;] but she flashed us a #1 sign! She's #1 and she knows it! And I guess she just wanted to let us know she knows ;]

So there you have it. I have been trying forever to get this posted! :]
We are having a little girl...so that luckily eliminated 50% of the name possibilities, and because I am so horribly indecisive, that really helps to not have to pick out a boys AND girls name just in case. But still, as far as names go we have NO idea.
I CAN FEEL HER KICKING!!! OH I LOVE IT!!
it is so funny though, she kicks all the time! she is an active little tike, but Bill has only felt it like two times! I am convinced that she can sense Bill or when she hears his voice it soothes her and she stops cause so many times she'll be kicking like crazy but as soon as I put Bill's hand on my tummy she fall totally still and silent! It's like clockwork!

This is me at about 19 weeks. There is a little bump!

I am a lot bigger now and it is getting really hard to hide it when I am on stage singing with the band! :]



Oh and I got so excited upon hearing I was pregnant, that I painted a mural in our new baby room. Bill thought it would be so awesome to do something classic like Mario Brothers! We painted it before we found out if we were having a girl or boy, but I figured, hey, there is still a princess on the wall, so if it is a girl, I'm sure she'll be fine with it! ;] I painted the background and then printed off the characters on repositionable stickers so that I can move them around to switch up the scene when I feel like it! :]