The pass was so bad we ended up leaving before church on Sunday so I didn’t get my Sunday picture taken.  So here’s a current one – we’re almost at 32 weeks (another 2 days)!  Wow.

Oh, and those are my new boots – Nine West. Love them!  :)  Here’s a bnw version…

By the end of Week 10, your baby graduates from embryo to fetus, which literally means “little one.” It also translates to “I’m just going to keep getting bigger and bigger and so are you!”

Your baby now has discernible fingers and toes, which will explain the steady stream of kicks and punches you’ll feel down the line.

10 Weeks Pregnant

I’m hoping that I’m nearly out of the woods as far as the nausea is concerned. (Maybe I’m just managing it better? I don’t know.) I have felt better nearly this whole week – with the exception of throwing up first thing Wednesday morning.

So what has the pregnancy looked like over the last few weeks?  Well I’ve been super tired, and until recently, very nauseous.  We took the youth to Convention last weekend in Yakima, and I had to have Tobin take me to the hotel during the festivities on Friday night as I was just exhausted.  I’ve basically been getting home from work and resting.  (Right now a nap sounds great.) :)  I did get a bunch of decent pics though from the Conference…  Shot in manual nearly the whole time.

This has been an especially tough week at work (the hardest week yet of my 5 years at Biblesoft). I’m glad it’s Friday and I’ll soon be able to put this week behind me.

Margie Lou is super excited to be an aunt.  She called me up the other day to tell me all the patterns she’d bought to make baby things for our baby.  :)  Pretty fun.  She wants us to find out the gender ASAP. I originally thought 20 weeks was the time when that could happen, but it looks like an ultrasound can find that out as early as 18 weeks.  That means we might know before Christmas if we’re having a boy or a girl. I’d like to know so we can really focus on names (two lists are a lot of work), and maybe start a baby registry.

Yesterday was our first ultrasound.  It was very cool.  :)  We got to see the baby’s heart beating.  That was really amazing.  Life is so amazing!  Every time I think about this, I am reminded of what an awesome Creator we have.

The ultrasound was the best part of the doctor’s appointment. The rest of the time we had to answer family history questions, and decide what kinds of tests we want run.  Ugh.  My next doctor’s appointment is Nov 4. Oh, and I have a revised due date – May 17, 2009.

Tobin and I debated about keeping it a secret until I started showing, but realized there was no way we wanted to keep that big of a secret that long.  So Friday night we drove to Anacortes. There was a lot of family at Tobin’s parents’ house as his Grandma recently had a stroke.  We showed up and brought Greg’s early birthday present with us (little did he knew what it held).  I told Greg he’s have to open the present before we left (but really I was hoping much sooner than that).  Greg proceeded to eat his dessert painstakingly slow (the suspense was killing me).  We were there for about 2 hours before Greg finally opened his present.

Tobin had gotten a pen for his dad – so he opened that first and was happy.  Then he pulled out a baby bottle filled with peanut M&M’s and exclaimed that he loved peanut M&M’s.  Everyone just sat at the table looking at the bottle until Tobin’s mom looked at me and mouthed something about me being pregnant.  When I nodded my head yes and said that we were due May 15 everyone started screaming.  lol

We spent a few more hours in Anacortes until we left (a bit too late) for Seattle.  My parents were flying in and we were supposed to be their ride but we were in Shoreline when they called to say that they’d landed and had their luggage.  We had them wait for us, and about 20 minutes later (at about 11:30pm) we picked them up from the airport (they’d been in Mexico for a 2 week vacation).  Originally we’d been planning on following them over to Ephrata Friday night, but by the time we actually got home, I was waaay to tired to spend 3 hours on the road.  So my parents left (around midnight), and we spent the night and headed out Saturday morning at around 6.

When we got to Ephrata we headed up to the hospital to visit my Grandpa who’s been hospitalized since the end of July (he’s 100 so he’s had a full life, but right now he’s dealing with prostate cancer).  Grandpa was a bit groggy – but then we woke him up so that was somewhat understandable.  We all visited with Grandpa (it was pretty emotional), and then headed home for breakfast.  By then ML and Kevin were at the house with their new (very cute) puppy – Sasha (a black lab).  It was very hard getting everyone together at the table for breakfast (M&D, ML, Kevin, Heather, Tobin & I), but I succeeded and then forced Daddy to open his birthday present.  :)  I’d gotten him a camera shirt a few weeks ago at Forever 21, so he got that first (and wore it the rest of the day – matching me).  Then he opened the rest of his present – a bottle with pistachio nuts in it.  Mommy and Daddy both cried I think.  It was really sweet.  :)

After breaking the news to the fam, we headed over to Quincy to take in the Farmer Consumer Awareness Days…  I’d told my boss a few days earlier about the activities, but was still surprised to run into him at Quincy High School.  lol  I didn’t tell him we were pregnant, ’cause I wanted to wait on that…

There was a tractor pull that we watched (it was a lot of fun) until Tobin couldn’t take the sun anymore. :) Then we headed home.  We hung out on Saturday, then on Sunday we went to church and then visited Grandpa again.  After lunch Tobin and I headed home.  We tried to connect with two of our couple friends (Dusty & Kristen Buchmann and Terry & Christina Fritsch) to let them know the news, but nothing really worked out…  We drove to Dusty & Kristen’s but they weren’t there, so we ended up calling them and telling them the news.

Monday night before our youth leadership team meeting we caught dinner with Terry & Christina (at Athen’s Pizza in Des Moines), and informed them of our being pregnant.  They were happy for us.  We didn’t tell the youth at the leadership meeting, opting instead to wait until youth last night to pop the news – which we did and I think the kids screamed for about 5 minutes straight. lol  They’re all pretty excited.  I got a ton of hugs, it was cute.

I also told work yesterday and they’re being pretty cool about it, so that’s nice.  :)

And this morning I updated my Facebook and Google Talk status to I’m PREGNANT and have gotten comments all day from friends.  :)  It’s pretty exciting!

So by now I’m around 6 weeks along, and have my first ultrasound scheduled for October 6.  :)  As you can probably tell I’m pretty happy and excited about this new stage of our lives…