This Week

Well, weekend plans to get anything done fell through because of weather & "other" work loads, so... this weekend is the only window for the rest of the month to get anything done. I've compiled a super long list and am crossing my fingers it happens on Saturday! In the mean time I'm finally going to record milestones and pregnancy stories my mother said I should- instead of obsessing over house work- which has become increasingly difficult.
1st babycenter.com (my source of all things baby) says I should talk about the positive pregnancy test & me telling David, which wasn't a big production but exciting nonetheless. I wrote "Well, when my period didn't start I immediately told David and we bought a pregnancy test- thinking I would wait until after my period would have been over, but I couldn't wait and took it while I was at work. I called David right after the test showed positive and we were both SO excited! Yay for First Response accuracy!" There is also a picture... but if you wait too long the "yes" goes away, lame, but here it is- oh, and this was probably on October 10th, 2010.
The next milestone, hearing the baby's heartbeat for the first time, "At my second appointment we got to hear Jonathan's heartbeat & the doctor let us record it on my cellphone! He moved around a lot & it sounded so fast, but I was SO excited! I had been worrying all week, that something was would go wrong or that we were having twins. It was a relief to hear only one heartbeat & that it was a good, healthy one!" and I know I've posted it before, but here it is again:
On Dec 6th, 2010 we had another milestone, our first ultrasound at 13 weeks, "David & I were really excited about our first ultrasound, and were really hoping the doctor would be able to tell us if the baby was a boy or girl (because we knew that this doctor had very accurate predictions early on in the pregnancy). So when he told us it was a boy we were ECSTATIC!" This also happens to coincide with picking a name. Since the baby is a boy, we knew we were going to name him Jonathan (after his father) Michael (after his first paternal uncle) and that I would most likely call him Jon (after his maternal grandfather & first uncle)- this is a name I picked out when David & I were just engaged- I knew what it was in Sunday school maybe a month before we were married it just popped into my head :D here are a few pictures:

The current "milestone" is my halfway mark on Jan. 21, 2011 "I can't believe how quickly it went by! I'm growing bigger everyday now, I can feel him kick up a storm -have really been able to for a long long time but now I can feel him hiccup. My appetite is coming back (finally). I wake up at night to switch sides & every night David puts his hand on my belly to see if he can feel anything yet (hopefully he will soon!). Right now my favorite thing is to lay on the sofa & listen to David practice while Jonathan does his "dance"- he loves it when David plays too." And here are some pictures from last Thursday's ultrasound:

This was the VERY FIRST THING Jonathan wanted us to see, that he is, in fact, a boy This is his Nixon wave

And lastly, here is what babycenter.com has to say about Jonathan's growth, which is pretty much spot on with what the doctor said at the ultrasound last Thursday:

At 11 inches (the length of a spaghetti squash) and almost 1 pound (the doctor said he was 14oz), your baby is starting to look like a miniature newborn. His lips, eyelids, and eyebrows are becoming more distinct, and he's even developing tiny tooth buds beneath his gums. His eyes have formed, but his irises (the colored part of the eye) still lack pigment. If you could see inside your womb, you'd be able to spot the fine hair (lanugo) that covers his body and the deep wrinkles on his skin, which he'll sport until he adds a padding of fat to fill them in. Inside his belly, his pancreas — essential for the production of some important hormones — is developing steadily.

*I'll save the funny stories for tomorrow :)