Auntie Shay here!!

As mentioned in the last post, I get the awesome privilege of sending out the latest update. There are two reasons for this: 1) Peanut (and mom, and family, are currently in Europe and I am house sitting) and 2) I was lucky enough to fly in on the day of their last doctors appointment. Lets talk a little about both of those things, shall we?

Yes, our precious little Peanut is a world traveller!! After coming to visit me in Canada just before Christmas, Peanut is off again, this time visiting Ireland and Rome. What a lucky little Peanut.

I arrived a few days before Peanut and the family left for a few reasons. Obviously I needed the run down of the house since I'm house sitting for the week, and even more obviously, I wanted to spend some time with my "bestie" before she left, but most importantly by arriving a few days early I was able to be taken straight from the airport to Shanna and Peanut's doctor's appointment. Last Thursday, I joined Shanna, Peanut and Jerad to hear Peanut's heart beat. It's was amazing!!! Here's the run down of the appointment:

-Shanna did not eat or drink enough the day of the appointment and got busted!! Why do I tell you this on Peanut's blog?? Because as Peanut's trusted blog readers I assume you all love Shanna and Peanut very much. Now, we all know how easy it is to get caught up in the busyness of a day and forget to drink enough water or eat an extra snack when needed, but this is so important when you're preggers. Although Shanna is usually quite good at keeping up, you officially have Auntie Shay's permission to check in and see how many bottles of water she has been drinking etc :)

-I'd love to tell you what Peanut's heart rate was, but quite frankly, I don't remember the number. I'm sorry Shanna can plug it in when she gets back. I will however tell you, the heart rate can still go either way right now, in terms of determining gender. Their midwives exact advice to Jerad was to be ready to buy a pink snowmobile helmet, so who knows!!! Nevertheless, the heart was healthy, and even more importantly, really really cool to hear. It really did blow me away!!!

Here's a few pics, of Shanna at the doctors, Mommy and Daddy, and the BABY BELLY!!!

Hope you enjoy!

New Jeans

So I know it's been awhile since I've posted a blog...please forgive me!  Life has been a little crazy lately.  We are now starting our 15th week! This week Peanut will grow to the size of an apple and will weigh around 2 1/2 ounces. (That's pretty huge in comparison to a few weeks ago!) Peanut's legs are now longer than his arms and bones are developing and strengthening. It's still so amazing to me what can happen in just a few weeks...

On my side of things...I had the enjoyable experience of buying new jeans!!  Some of my friends kept warning me that one day I would wake up and suddenly have a little baby belly. I refused to believe it could simply happen "over night." But, it did. I woke up Friday morning and found that I could not button my jeans!  The funny part is, I've only gained 1 pound so far. But at this point the baby is growing at such a fast rate, there isn't any more room inside! Part of me is really excited to start "showing" so the whole world knows that we are expecting, but the other part of me is a little nervous to start this sixth month journey of non-stop growing!  I guess I don't really have a choice though so I might as well enjoy it.

Our next doctor's appointment is this coming Thursday so I will try to post a blog after that...or maybe Auntie Shay will want to post since she is coming for a visit that day...  :) We're hoping we get to hear the heartbeat again. Our midwife wants to wait until we are 20 weeks along to do the first ultrasound and that would be in early February, but in the meantime I will try to take some pictures of my growing tummy and post them for the world to see. 

The next big adventure for us is our trip to Ireland and Rome! We leave a week from Monday.  This baby gets to travel young!  I'm praying for quick flights and room to stretch out on the plane, since our recent trip to Canada was not the most comfortable I have experienced.  But we had this trip planned before we found out about our little one so we are going to go and have a great time! 

Allright, I will keep you posted on our next appointment!