Baby Appleseed

I found a great article on thebump.com about the size of your baby as it develops and what your baby is up to. I couldn't have found a better reference because they relate the size of your baby to food. I will be referring to this for the next 9 months.

It just fascinates me what is going on inside of me right now.

Right now baby is starting to form major organs like the heart, kidney, liver and stomach. That is just crazy! There is a heart growing inside of me!

I mentioned this to Gil and he said "well, yeah. Didn't you take science in school. It's the miracle of life."

Well, yes I took science and I get all that but it is different when it is happening to YOU! I just think it is the coolest thing!

Two Pink Lines

On January 22, 2010 I nervously took a test and was very happy and relieved to see two pink lines! Almost immediately we called our parents. For mine it was 1 am but my dad was leaving the next day for 5 months and we wanted them to be together when we told them. Next was Gil's parents. We tried over and over again and nobody was home. We finally tried them one last time before we went to bed and they knew right away why we were calling. Both sets of parents or should I say grandparents are very excited.


We knew we wanted to get pregnant and had been trying and this was our last opportunity if we wanted to have Gil home for the birth. We enjoyed the weekend thinking of all that is to come. I of course began researching what week I was in and the development of our little pea; Gil went straight to finances to see what we need to do to be ready.


We didn't want to tell any other friends or family until we got it confirmed by a doctor. We waited 5 long days before we told the rest of our family and close friends. As we expected they are all very excited.


So as you can imagine my mind has had nothing but BABIES on it! All I want to do right now is buy cute little baby things. I am hoping it will wear off so I can get some other things done because right now I don't want to do anything but baby stuff.


That is all for now. I can't wait for week 12 so I can announce it to the rest of the world and by then I will have also had my first doctors appointment!