baby update.

Ok ok... I have slacked on the blog thing. However, I will not be as conceited as some and apologize for my lack of blogging, because that is egotistical and I am very much aware that your lives only SEMI revolve around mine. Lets face it, only a few of you actually are living your lives vicariously through mine. Now for the updates...

Right now I am 16 weeks along. I look like a beached whale, and I can only pray that my belly doesn't continue to grow at the rate it has been growing. I swear to you that one morning I woke up and BAM! there was the huge bump staring back at me. No gradual warning. Jerk.

I cannot feel the baby move yet, though I try to every single day. I sit with my eyes shut tight wishing with everything I have that I will be able to feel it. No luck. My child would be stubborn like that... There are two things that will make this whole situation finally seem real. 1. Feeling the baby move, and 2. knowing what the baby is. So far, neither are working out in my favor.

When we were first talking about baby names, Dewy was shooting down everything I threw at him. We hadn't made it past girl names yet, so I said "FINE! What would you name her!?" He fired back "PRESKA!" Oh my... I sat right up in bed and told him to take his Preska and get out of my house. Of course he was joking, but who even kids about a name like that? Don't even tease about it... ugh. I made the mistake of telling my students the story, and now they come in and ask "How is Preska doing today?" Sick. The poor little thing has all sorts of nicknames already. Preska, Fetus, Fetussie... the list goes on and on. I need to know what it is so I can give it an actual name!!!

We went to our apt a few weeks ago, and we were assuming we would know what we were having by the time we left. We were so disappointed. The doc didn't even do a picture ultrasound! He did the Doppler, and I wasn't disappointed to hear the heartbeat, but come on... heartbeat vs baby's sex?? Get real. The following week I had to go in to do lab work so they could test for Spina Bifida and Down Syndrome, and I about stormed into the ultra sound room demanding they do one. Not to worry... I was intercepted before I got there and I had to leave.

Our official due date is April 12. There is a lady in my ward due April 9 and SHE KNOWS WHAT SHE IS HAVING! Ugh... my frustration is brewing. I had some weird voodoo thing done to my wrist that said it was a boy, but the Chinese Birth Chart thing says girl. The baby better hurry up and decide what it is, or we will have a problem on our hands! Either that or I'm having more than one! Which would explain my overly large belly. The doc did ask me how many I ordered and informed me that sometimes they get the shipping orders messed up... Hope that isn't the case.

All in all, everything is fine. I'm out of the first trimester (THANK HEAVEN) and not feeling too bad. Now if I could just get the hubs to go on a walk with me...