Grow Belly, Grow!

I've had several requests for belly shots. Unfortunately, even though I am 19 weeks today, I'm not showing very much. I guess it's not such a bad thing, but it's hard to find clothes that fit. I'm busting out of my normal clothes, but too small for maternity. When I first got pregnant and Googled, "when will I start showing," I read that in some rare instances, a woman will not start showing until 20 weeks. This is normally because the woman is either obese or has six pack abs. Well, I'm certainly neither, so I never imagined I'd be one of those women. The good news is that I started feeling the baby move this week! I was starting to wonder if he was still in there!

Baby Boy West!!!

By now most of our family and friends know that we are expecting in July. We went to the doctor today and found out that we are going to have a boy! We are very excited, but not at all shocked. Our doctor made a guess at our 12 week ultrasound that it is a boy. Laramie says that they were able to see so soon because our son is very "gifted."

I love modern technology! Our doctor has the latest and greatest equipment, so we were able to have the ultrasound recorded on DVD. They aren't able to record in real time, so we didn't get to leave the doctor today with the DVD in our hands. However, we did get some good still photos, one of them in 3D. I realize that even the 3D pictures can be hard to make out, so I'll try to explain them

Baby has his right arm lifted so that his elbow is beside his right eye.

Profile of Face: baby is almost upside down. His forehead is the white arc middle, left.

Hand: middle, left

Boy: Arrow points right at it! (Looking at baby from underneath).