Meet Our Little One!

Frank and I had our ultrasound today and this is our little baby. He is 8 weeks and 6 days old and we even heard the heartbeat! It was beating 152 times per minute! It was really neat seeing a tiny little baby, that actually looks like a baby. You can see the head and the body really good. My baby already knows how to strike a pose! Takes after it's momma!

Also at today's doctor appointment, I begged for drugs to cure my morning, noon, and night sickness. The doctor weighed me and I have lost 3.5lbs in 2 weeks. So he wrote out a perscription. But my main question....why can't I loose weight when I'm not pregnant? It just isn't fair. But I'll take this as another blessing my little one is bringing me. :-)

Baby Butterbean

Tomorrow Frank and I will get to see our baby butterbean. We have an appointment for an ultrasound at 9:30 and we should get a more accurate due date. I didn't think I would be nervous but I really am. I am hoping they will give me some medicine for my Morning, Noon and Night Sickness. This baby is already grounded for a week for making me sick! HA!!!!

As for the "Is it a Boy of Girl" vote.....it's 6 to 5 favoring a girl. I think Frank would be completely devastated if he doesn't get his little "Tank". But mommy would be tickled pink!

Frank is really getting into this baby stuff. He was watching a show on babies inside the womb, and it was showing how babies learn flavors based on what their mommy's eat. He said butterbean is going to love chicken fingers. Which to everyone's surprise...I have not wanted chicken AT ALL!!!! Mashed potatos and corn though....that's another story.

I'll let everyone know how butterbean is doing tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed!

The Shock of a Lifetime!

Most of you know that Frank and I weren't expecting a little bundle of joy any time soon. Or I should say, I wasn't really planning on it but Frank has been hoping and praying since the day we said "I DO". I was thinking more along the lines of maybe trying next year....the end of next year to be exact. But some of the greatest blessings in the world are also the biggest surprises of our lives. You see...this is how we found out.

I went to the doctor for a small kidney infection and he was writing a perscription when he casually asked, "You're not pregnant are you?" and I said, "I'm 99% sure I am not pregnant." When I asked him why he was asking he said the medication he was perscribing has been know to cause birth defects. I left his office and went to CVS and never gave it much thought until I was walking out the store and thought....hmmmm, I better double check since it causes birth defects. So I went back inside and bought the cheapest test I could find.

I then swung by my house on the way back to work, because again, I was 99% sure I wasn't pregnant. Well let's just say it only took .5 seconds for that pink line to show up. I was in complete shock. I immediately called my doctors office b/c I was positive it was the kidney infection that caused the positive test. I went back to work and waited. I knew it wasn't a good sign when the doctor himself called back to congratulate me on my good news.

So after it all sunk in, I am very excited. Frank was bouncing off the walls from the first minute I told him. I on the other hand kept thinking, "Oh my gosh...I am going to be responsible for another life." But the more I thought and prayed about it, I realized that although this baby is a surprise, it's also the biggest blessing God has ever given me.