Baby Update

Tomorrow I will be 15 weeks along already! That's 1/3rd of the way to meeting this new little member of our family. How exciting!

I'm getting bigger. You'd think - with pregnancy #4 that is what you would expect right? Bigger - earlier. I'm just excited for the day I feel like I actually look pregnant instead of like I'm just adding a thick winter coat. Right now it still feels like it's more "chub" than baby. I mean - the baby is getting bigger and I wouldn't say my abs were in any sort of great condition to hold my muscles from realizing they were going back into prego mode - so what can I expect right? Whatever - it's all worth it :)

Grant is not wavering from his prediction that this baby will be a girl. It was pretty funny yesterday when I was going through trying to organize a bunch of boys baby clothes. Grant walked over by me and I said "look at all this clothes. If the baby in Mommy's belly is a boy - he will get to wear all this stuff, but if it's a girl - that's not gonna work is it." He looks at me and says "I think I'm going to start calling her a boy now." To which I questioned "Really? So what do you think Mommy is going to have a boy or a girl?" He answers - "A girl." :) Crazy kiddo! Pretty funny!

Pregnancy symptom: Weird dreams - they usually involve people I know and I remember that those people were in the dreams, but what is done never makes sense and jumps all over the place. When I'm not pregnant - I rarely remember a dream - now I have crazy ones every night.

At about 8 or 9 weeks I finally got back to running a couple times a week. I had fallen into a slump with the weather change (or season change rather - basically when the snow fell I stopped running outside). So - I now head to the Y about 3 mornings a week before Brian leaves for work. Only running 2.5-3 miles, but better than nothing. I'm sure all the people around me think I'm crazy b/c I have to watch something on tv that is completely pointless to make the time go by faster - so I watch Boy Meets World or Saved By the Bell. Gotta love it!

Our next appt is on Wed, Mar 16. Praying all is well. Then at the April appt I will have my ultrasound already! CRAZY! No we are not planning to find out the sex of the baby. There are very few REAL surprises in life - especially in Adult Life. So - we like to keep this a surprise until the day of delivery. We have no control over it and really would be just as happy with either a boy or girl. We simply pray he/she is a healthy and happy baby.