Misc. stuff...

Found a new ticker, shows the baby growing... kinda neat:



I have my appointment for an ultrasound on March 6th.  Whether or not we can see if the baby is a boy or a girl will be up to how cooperative the little one is.  I'm excited to see the baby though.  I can now feel the kicks a lot more this week, yay!!  

Typically we don't go out of our way to have an ultrasound.  With Jordan we had the basic hospital/dr. birth and so I had about 4 ultrasounds with him, but we were planning on NOT peeking, we were going to be surprised... that is until we went to the last ultrasound and I was past 30 weeks (we made it that far without asking) and then the tech asked once again if we wanted to know and we just caved.  :o) 

Katie was a surprise though.  That was neat.  Mike was the one to tell me what we had after he helped lift her out of the water (it was a waterbirth in a birthing center with the midwife).  With Joshua we found out late too, he was breech towards the end and so I went in for an ultrasound to see if he had flipped or not... same with Ryan.  Both late ultrasounds.   BUT this one I really want to find out because I have given away almost all of the baby clothing, Katie is sure we are having a girl and if it is a boy I need her to prepare for it, and we can't come up with a girl name.  Lots of excuses.  LOL!  :o)

For those of you who read my flickr site, an update on my reading list/exercise goals:

I'm reading 3 books at once, taking turns each night and then the Message Bible.  I want to read the entire Bible, The Excellent Wife, Keeping our children's Hearts, Discipline, the glad surrender, The Power of Words, Becoming a Woman of Prayer, The Heart of Homeschooling, Feminine Appeal and a couple other "maybes" if I can before baby is born.

So far here is where I'm at:

Bible - Done with Genesis, Exodus, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, and Isaiah.

The Excellent Wife - on chapter 10.

Keeping our children's hearts - on chapter 10.

Discipline, the glad surrender - on chapter 10.

As for the goal on exercise (500 miles on the stationary bike during the 40 weeks I'm pregnant), I have done 144 miles in 19 weeks.  I'm pretty sure I can hit the goal, but I need to stay on top of it.  The reading I am behind on, but it is still possible to make the goal if I can pick up the pace a bit.

K, off I go to finish up dinner.  Have a great weekend!!!

17 week update on baby...

Today at my midwife appointment I was able to hear baby's heart beat again, he/she was moving all around and trying to get away from the doppler so it was hard to pin-point it. I also got the go-ahead for the ultrasound so I will be making an appt. in the next few weeks, hopefully we will see if the baby is a boy or a girl by then.

All the lab work was good, we chatted for a while and then off I went. I have my next appt. March 27th, I will be 22 weeks by then. I think I might be feeling baby move a little, but not too much. I hope that I can feel more movement this next week.

More later!

Tickers...

Just for fun, some new tickers...