23 weeks in Vegas!

Our baby boy is 23 weeks along today... it happens to be a Thursday - go figure! - and we decided for sure on his name today :) While we were in Las Vegas, we were in this cute little gift shop at Excalibur with Mandi, Jason, Danielle, and Jon, and we found little jungle bowls and silverware sets that with names on them... I was walking around the gift shop going back and forth, back and forth - should we choose Ethan or choose Logan?? We really had our hearts set on Ethan for a boy before we were pregnant, so we decided to go ahead and name him Ethan Christopher. It just felt right!!

Mommy at 23 weeks:

Happy 4th Anniversary!

We had a fun, busy day celebrating our 4th wedding anniversary! It started out by Mommy making our favorite banana pancakes for breakfast in bed:



Then, we had our 22 week appointment. It is hard to believe, but our little one will be here in 4 short months!! All is well :) The baby's heartbeat was 144 beats per minute, and the midwife could palpate Mommy's uterus now 2cm above her belly button.

Mommy at 22 weeks:



We went for a 4D ultrasound at Becoming Mom Pregnancy Spa and Imaging Center, and it was absolutely incredible to see our little baby in that way!!



Here is a slideshow of some of the 4D images from our ultrasound!!
After the ultrasound, we went to a yummy dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, The Melting Pot!



We got to visit with Dean, Becky, Allison, Melody, and Danielle a few weeks ago in Indianapolis, and we took the baby name book along for the ride... we read through the entire book, and we have narrowed the baby's name to Ethan Christopher or Logan Christopher. Now comes the tough part of deciding which to go with!

We go for our next appointment in one month, and then we switch to every 2 week appointments!! It is hard to believe the pregnancy is going by so quickly. We are heading out for our "babymoon" to Las Vegas on Monday morning with 4 wonderful friends - Mommy is armed with seabands and Dramamine to prevent air sickness!

First kick!

Our baby boy is 21 weeks, 1 day... and Mommy felt him kick for the first time! Inside Mommy's stomach, it felt like someone flicking their finger :)

First movement!

Our baby boy is 19 weeks, 6 days today... and Mommy felt him move for the first time! It felt like a wave moving over my belly :)

Mommy at 19 weeks:

It's a boy!!

We had our 18 week appointment and ultrasound today. Mammaw and Grandma Joy went with us! We had our ultrasound at Bethesda North and they say It's a Boy!! We heard the baby's heartbeat twice, once at the ultrasound and once at the midwife's office, it was 146 beats per minute! My blood tests from 2 weeks ago came back with great results, no signs of neural tube defects or Down's Syndrome, and my one hour glucose test came back normal, so no signs of gestational diabetes!! Everything is going great, now we have the challenge of figuring out what to do with the nursery :) We will have our next appointment and a 4D ultrasound on our anniversary August 23. Then we're off to Vegas!
Mommy at 18 weeks

Daddy and Mommy at our 18 week appointment

Grandma Joy, Daddy, Mommy, and Mammaw after our appointments

It's a Boy!

Our baby's profile

Our baby's foot :)

14 weeks

It is hard to believe, but the baby is now 14 weeks along. We went to our second OB appointment today at Trihealth Nurse Midwives. We were able to hear the heartbeat!! Ryan had the hugest smile on his face and I cried, of course!! We met with another midwife, Cheyenne, and she was very nice. I'm working at Bethesda some now through TriHealth, and she treated me very much like a colleague which made me feel good! She said the heartbeat was very strong (in the 140's) and perfect and that everything is looking great!! She wanted to do the ultrasound at 20 weeks, but we talked about it and she agreed that we could get it the same day as our 18 week appointment, so we will get it in 4 weeks on July 26!! Hopefully the baby will cooperate and we will get to find out then if we are having a boy or a girl! When we found out we were expecting, it seemed like it would be so long until we could find out what we are having... now it is only 4 weeks away :) We are also going to go on our anniversary, August 23, and get a 3D ultrasound and video done as a special gift to us :)

Mommy at 14 weeks - starting to have a little baby bump :)

First appointment at 10 weeks!

We went to our first OB appointment today. We decided to go to Trihealth Nurse Midwives and we really like the practice!! Everyone there is really nice and we are looking forward to going there. They deliver at Good Sam. Everything went really well, we didn't really hear anything that we didn't already know!! Neither one of us have any health issues so that was easy :) They are still saying the estimated due date is December 27, lets keep our fingers crossed that the baby will decide to come before the holiday!! Physically she said I am measuring around 9 weeks, date wise I am 10 weeks. We met with one of the 6 midwives on staff and loved her. She said they usually can't hear the heartbeat until 11-12 weeks, so we will have to wait until our next appointment, which is June 28. They won't plan to do an ultrasound until around 20 weeks, which is standard practice now. So hopefully we will find out in August if our little one is a boy or girl!! It will be a nice anniversary present and also some encouragement for baby shopping on our Vegas trip with friends the end of August :)

Today was the start of our "Thursday" rituals! Mommy and Daddy planned the midwife appointments on Thursdays and had date days together :)

Mommy - 10 weeks pregnant



Mommy and Daddy at our first midwife appointment: