Baby Portrait!

Tada! Our baby's first portrait! Isn't s/he precious! Well, a cute little blob at the very least! We won't have another ultra sound (unless the Doctor thinks we need one) until 20 weeks, so this little picture will have to do for now. You could even see the little heart beating on the screen! The experience left me feeling at a complete loss for words. I think I called everyone we've told about the pregnancy just so I could brag about our baby pictures. Next appointment we should actually hear the heartbeat :-).

For the first time today, I realized that this is really for real. We are so excited!

Belly pics!

So, we've told our families about our little baby! They are very excited! We are going to try to take regular belly pics so you can watch us grow. I don't have any kind of a belly yet, but this will work for a pretty good "before" picture at least. When I called for a Dr's appointment, I found out she will be out of town for the holidays and they can't get me in until the 28th. How are we going to wait that long to make sure everything is okay!?

This picture was taken at 4 weeks, 5 days pregnant. I am not looking forward to growing out of my clothes, but at least this way I can have a record of how it happens!

Our Middle Eastern Souvenir

So today felt pretty much like any other day. I had thought that maybe we were pregnant and took a home test a few days ago - but it was negative. Three days and a glass and a half of wine later (oops!) I couldn't shake the bloated feeling I've had all week. I was at home for lunch; I couldn't take it any more! Thank goodness for 2 for the price of one specials - I had one more test! To my complete amazement, I watched as a blue "+" formed in front of my eyes!

Poor Fred, I was so excited that I just couldn't wait for him to get home, so I called him at the office. He sounded a little dumb-founded, and perhaps a little upset that I didn't wait until he got home. So to make it up to him, I emailed him this picture.

I did a little math and figured that our first baby will arrive around August 13th or 14th. So exciting! Of course then I kinda sighed because I realized how freaking hot that is giong to be. Thank God for good old air conditioning!

I smiled to myself all afternoon as I walked around with out little secret :-). We haven't decided yet when to tell everyone, but we have dinner planned Saturday night with Fred's family, so maybe we'll start then. He wants to tell them, I'd rather wait, but we'll see.