Rattle your rattles... ITS A GIRL

Well the day has finally come and I was able to find out that my baby...

!!!!!IS A GIRL!!!!!

Can you tell that I am just a little excited about having a girl? 

Here are some of the pictures we got of her today. She kept sticking her hand out and waving at us the whole time so they got us a picture of her hand. And yes we saw her thumb too so she has all 5 fingers on that hand thank goodness. You can see her other hand in the second picture but it is in a ball so it is just the fist you can see. It is right next to her face. 

A lot of people have been asking me what her name is and so I will tell you all that her name is going to be Jocelyn. Picking her name was not the easiest thing in the world though. When I got married to Jon I told him all the names that I loved for our kids names and he disagreed on all those names which really was sad. But after I got over the hurt of him hating all the names I loved, we started throwing names back and forth to each other to see if we would like them. Well we did this for a long time and we did not agree on a single name until one day I threw Jocelyn out there because that was a name that I loved for a long time but was so scared to tell him because I thought he would hate it too. But I threw caution to the wind, closed my eyes (expecting him to say he didn't like the name) and asked him how he liked it and he came back with the most surprising response I was not expecting. He loved the name and I opened my eyes and told him to tell me again that he liked the name so that I was not imagining it. So we made a deal that our first girl would be named Jocelyn and we are very excited to have her coming to our lives. 

She almost did not want to behave today and show us if she was a girl or boy. The nurse had to keep wiggling my stomach to get her to move and open her legs. After a bit of convincing, she moved for a split second and the second she moved I knew that it was a girl. I blurted it out before the nurse could say it. She looked at me and asked me how I saw so quickly what it was and honestly I do not know but she said I was right and got a better picture later. (I did not include a pic of her "girl parts" on here) but I do have proof that she is a girl which will one day be put into her scrapbook. She is going to love me when she is older. :)

When I got home from the doctors today one of our goats had her babies and I thought it was funny coming home to babies after seeing my baby earlier. I guess today was meant to be a baby day. Oh I just love babies and cant wait to see and hold my baby. Well I can because I want her to develop fully inside but I am just excited for August 20th!!!

A Naval Orange

As promised, I am posting the first picture of my baby bump at 15 weeks. If you squint hard enough and tilt your head, you might be able to see a small bump protruding from my stomach. My little baby is the size of a naval orange this week, is 4 inches long, and is moving a lot. Unfortunately I have not felt a bit of movement yet. I can not wait for that day to come!

This past few weeks have been just about as uneventful as my first trimester.I have had no signs of morning sickness, my stomach has not grown much, and other than being ready for bed by 8 pm. I am not really tired through the day. Yes I am feeling way blessed for having such great genetics. 

I can not say I am completely symptom free from pregnancy though. I constantly have to go to the bathroom finding myself up about twice a night to relieve myself, half way through the night my body hurts so bad I have a hard time sleeping, and I have recently started to feel my first bit of tendon stretching pain. Every few days I get bad pains, but for the most part it is all manageable and I am still enjoying pregnancy. I was talking to my sister in law the other day when she took me out to dinner and after finishing my BLT sandwich, she said she was amazed that I was able to hold the sandwich down. She is one who could not eat any meat sandwich/ hamburgers through her whole pregnancy without having to loose that lunch in the bathroom minutes later. 

I remember "nannying" her kids while she was pregnant with her last child because she got so sick she could not get out of bed to provide adequate care for them. After watching her go through that pregnancy, I worried about how mine would be, but thank goodness it has been a walk in the park so far.

In 5 weeks or so I will be able to go in for the Anatomy screening, where they look at each organ to be sure my baby is growing correctly, and that is when I will find out if it is a boy or girl! So start putting in your guesses!