Eating Out...

Crazy crazy pregnancy hormones!  They, whoever "they" are, are right when they say that your hormones are crazy during pregnancy...I randomly started crying last night for no apparent reason.  Sometimes it's a little sometimes I cry for a while and I don't even know why.  THEN there's the food issues.  Morning sickness has kind of been going away in the morning (except for today, sadly) and showing up around dinner time.  This presents a problem when Lorenzo decides to do something sweet and take me to Zio's Friday night for dinner.  I have been craving Italian bread and dipping oil, you know olive oil with all the spices in it?  I have been craving it for weeks!  So Zo takes me to Zio's which is far, far away on the west-side and we get there, we order manicotti to share and it comes and all of the sudden, I feel sick to my stomach and can't eat it.  We had the waiter (nice guy) box it up and I felt like a jerk, so I told him I was pregnant and that I just got nauseated.  Luckily he understood because I guess his lady just had a baby.  I still felt bad. Then on Saturday we went to the salsa fiesta in Old Town and stopped at Little Anita's, a really good New Mexican restaurant to eat...it happened again.  I was hungry, I ordered, food came and BAM! I had to box it up.  I'm hoping this is just a passing trend.  I've been getting hungry for grilled cheese around 9pm every night.  Zo has been a good sport and makes it for me since I like the way he makes it better, but it would be nice if I could eat dinner at dinner time, lol.   I will be 13 weeks tomorrow and the baby is the size of a peach or a nutter butter cookie (one website actually said that...) 

 It can put its thumb in its mouth and move its arms and legs as well as make jerky motions in the womb, although I still don't feel it.  We have an appointment on October 17th to find out the sex of the baby, so i'm excited.  Oh, it also has vocal chords this week.  Crazy.  The next few weeks will be nuts, as we are going to Denver next Wednesday for a week to be with Mike and Jenna while they hopefully have their baby, then we have out appt. when we get back to find out the sex.  I will try and keep the blog posted with more news when we find out :)

Good Parents

There are people that should not have children....And there are people who are amazing parents.  Today I had lunch with two of my favorite parents, Tamara and Dan.  Their little boy, Taylor is 2 and I can already see their parenting making such a positive person out of their little boy.  I hope I can be a good parent.  Tamara inspires me because she was young when she became a mom, but she did it right.  I hope I will be a good parent.  The baby is officially a fetus, now.  Twelve weeks and counting yesterday.   Apparently it has fingernails and is growing a lot this week.  I can't wait to find out who this little person is, already! 

:)

Audible Heartbeat

Today was a good day! We got hear our baby's heartbeat. First we saw our little baby's heartbeat on an ultrasound screen. Today our (new) midwife used Doppler to amplify the heartbeat in a speaker. I'm not sure if it's the same Doppler that will show us storms on a weather map or not.  Well, I know it's the the exact same machine, but it has the same name so I'm just wondering why they have the same name. The fun thing was that we heard the heartbeat. It made me feel so joyful, almost to the point of tears.  There's a tiny human in Lindsey's womb! This little tiny human doesn't know it yet, but I'm its father! What a huge responsibility I have! I hope I am a good father. I'm just imagining all the fun things we're going to do. It makes me feel good. That's all for now.

On a different topic, I was able to get my scanner's software installed in wine for Ubunu, but it's not working properly. I'll find a way to get the ultrasound photos uploaded soon, I promise.

Heartbeats.

HEARTBEATS!!!

Today we had another appointment at the midwife clinic.  I had a physical and got a flu shot, but the most exciting part is that we got to hear the heartbeat for the first time! It was really fast and at one point, you could heard it overlapping with my heartbeat.  It's one thing to see it, but to hear it made me feel really amazed!  This is the real deal! The midwife (Abby) said that it sounded healthy and after my physical said that everything was going well so far.  Lorenzo and I opted out of getting the genetic pre-screen testing.  Zo had a good question, asking if they caught something in the testing, would it be able to be treated In-utero?  They said no and we decided that no matter what we will love our baby and we would rather just no do the testing unless they think there may e something wrong, so for now, we are holding off.  Our next appointment is October 14th, after we get home from Denver and we will be able to tell the sex of the baby in late October which is sooner than I thought!!  Next month is going to be busy and exciting!

My little......Lime!

Well.....It's not a raspberry anymore, it's about the size of a small lime this week!

Funny how we always compare babies to fruit, huh?  Nonetheless, I feel pregnant.  The morning sickness is getting a little less and a little better every day so I can't complain about that. What do I know about this kid so far?  Well, it waved at me during my first ultrasound and I have another one coming up on Friday, so I'm hoping this time I can actually hear the heartbeat (last time I got to see it flutter!).  This little raspberry craves random things like Colby Jack cheese slices on top of Apple and nectarine slices, oh and watermelon.  At the beginning of my pregnancy I craved Chili rellenos but now, even thinking about them makes me want to throw up.  I have a very strange feeling that the little raspberry might just be a girl, but at this point its only speculation.  We painted our nursery and I think I am going to try and get owl things to decorate it.  I don't think I believe in themes, but owls are cool and there's some tasteful owl stuff that I can keep around when we are done having a nursery, too.  My pants are a little tighter, my tummy just looks like i'm hiding a small pony keg under my shirt, but so far, everything is good.  I'm excited for the ultrasound on Friday.