The good news is, we are having a healthy baby! The bad news... I don't have access to my scanner so the best I can do is pictures of my ultrasound pictures, which makes them look really, really cruddy...But here they are anyways. Enjoy!
This shot shows you, our baby's bulging bicep!
So Blogger keeps posting my pictures sideways no matter which way I orient them, so I'm giving up, they were pretty grainy and blown out anyways. Enjoy these little video's below and make sure you watch them both in order. The password for the videos is "Giovannoni".
Dylan tries to guess...
And the verdict is...
Baby stats so far... I'm measuring 20 weeks 2 days. The baby currently weighs 13 oz. If my placenta doesn't move I will have to have a c-section...Which I hope and pray I won't have to have. Everything checks out and so far and the baby looks healthy! Dylan is thrilled that he's getting a brother, and Livie is in denial, because she still insists she's getting a sister.
Thursday October 15, 2009 Last night I was lying on the floor resting my aching bones. I had spent most of the day cooking and cleaning in anticipation of having the local missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over for dinner. I had pulled up my shirt a little ways to examine my growing belly and was in the process of poking my uterus here and there, when Alivia asked if she could lay on my tummy and listen to the baby. I laughed and told her she could. As she leaned over and laid her head on my belly, she looked at me for a minute and then jumped up and said, "Mom! I heard the baby's foot!"
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." ~Elizabeth B. Browning~ I love, love, love this little girl of mine. She's a lot like her dad at times, multi-tasking is a must! She isn't just satisfied with sitting around sucking her thumb, why she knows she can conveniently pick her nose clean at the same time. I always, always find her walking around the house doing this... So the other day I looked at her and noticed that over half of her finger was shoved clear up her nose. I said, "Miss Alivia you better get that finger out of your nose right now, you're going to poke out your brain!" To which she responded with a quizzical brow, "What brain Mom?"
When I saw these little boots I just had to have them for Alivia. She apparently is as smitten with them as I am, because the other night when Derik went to tuck her in bed, he found that she still had her boots on. He asked her if he could take them off for her, to which she whole-heartedly told him no way! That's right, she likes them so much she won't let us take them off even for bed! The other day Alivia stumbled across a Halloween costume catalog we had received with our junk mail. She quickly sat down and within minutes she had picked out her costume, which (not so surprisingly) happened to be a pink princess costume. But not only did she pick out the dress, she choose a matching purse and shoes to complete the outfit! She's so NOT my daughter!
She's also really into dancing. Maybe I saw one to many little girls dancing around in parades like they were strippers...But I always swore that I'd never be one of those mom's that shoved their daughter into dance and beamed with pride as their daughter pranced around dressed in their skivvies. Fast forward to today... Alivia sure loves to dance and if I can find something mild like ballet, I just might have to eat my words and put her in a dance class. Check out this little dance she did for me as I was typing out this post. She's always begging me to put on some music so she can dance. And for like the millionth time I apologize for the video being sideways, I thought I had the camera turned the right way. That's what I get for thinking! P.S. Alivia had just got herself dressed to go play outside, notice the socks she put on her hands because she couldn't find gloves. What a character!
My Mom and Dad were so kind to take me and my kids for a weekend camping trip up near Fish Lake Utah this past weekend. I felt like a kid at Christmas, I was that excited to get out and be in the great big wonderful outdoors. I never ever thought I'd love and miss camping as much as I do. My kids loved every second of it too. There was not a whole lot of picturesque scenery and the skies stayed pretty dark and dreary, but here's a few pictures I did take.
Dylan and his buddy Javin Boy these two can get pretty silly together! Alivia
My kids favorite part of the trip had to be the four wheeler rides. They would beg their Grandma Ward every five minutes or so to take them for a ride. I couldn't help but laugh at Alivia. Every time we suited her up, strapped on her helmet and took her for a ride, she would fall fast asleep. Apparently there was something hypnotic about wearing a fifty pound helmet and having her little body bounced around. I was so glad we got the chance to hang out and have fun together as a family. I'm so grateful to my parents who invited us along! Thanks a million for the memories!
So I'll go ahead and give you three clues, but I'm guessing you'll only need one...
Clue #1 March (which just happens to be the third month of the year) March 18th 2010 to be more exact (which happens to be the third week of the month)
Clue# 2 We've got two and now there's going to be three!
Clue #3 Just switch my name out for Marge's and Derik's out for Homer's...
I do find it kind of fun to think that this will be Derik and I's third child and that I'm due in the third week of the third month. Both of my sisters are also expecting, so this makes baby number three in this batch. And I'm pleased to announce that although three seems to be a theme with this pregnancy, there is only one baby, thank heavens!
The Potty Pad.... Dylan emerged from my bedroom this evening and said to me, "Mom when we get a dog can we buy a potty pad for it"? I had to chuckle because just a few hours earlier I had caught myself fully engrossed in the "Potty Pad" infomercial that keeps airing on channel 11, as well. Dylan's brain is like a sponge that will only absorb commercials, he just cracks me up! At least I knew what he was talking about right?
