Alright, alright...here's a bump picture already! :)

I have been harassed by everyone I know to post a baby bump picture!  So finally, by popular demand, here it is.  I always thought the whole, photograph the bump as it grows idea was a super cute idea....until it involved me that is :)  haha...I've now realized that the concept is WAY cuter when its someone else's escalating weight and multiplying chins you're recording!  

Also one thing I definitely did not get the memo on is, the whole "belly bump" term is a misnomer.  Yes, your belly grows (and that part is actually cute and really fun).  However, no one fully explained that you don't just get a belly bump (unless you're a freak of nature, and if you are I'm afraid we can no longer be friends! :))  Along with this belly bump comes an additional 25-35% body fat, evenly distributed throughout the whole body.  Arms, face, neck, sides, THIGHS, BUTT, and even your ankles (or cankles rather) don't get left out!  So if you have not yet been pregnant, consider yourself forewarned!!!  haha...I wish I had read this post before so I would have been more mentally prepared :)

Why my tiny, now 2 pound baby girl needs all these extra fat stores I have no idea...However, it's her show and whatever she needs is exactly what she'll get!!  It's all about Annabelle, and all joking about my vanity aside, I feel SO unbelievably blessed and fortunate to get to be a momma soon!

Annabelle says hello...

Haha, well right after Brian claimed that Belle wouldn't kick him cause she knew better she made him eat his words! That's my girl :) Possibly in a preview of a willful personality...just a few nights later she kicked her dad her the first time! This time he put his hand on my stomach and we both think she will stop, then Brian suprisedly exclaims, "Hey I felt that!! (couple seconds later).....And that!!"

Well in just about 20 weeks everyone will get to meet the newest Peter, Annabelle Sue!! :) We had our 2nd trimester ultrasound and where we heard the fateful words, "It's a girl!" So this weekend I cleaned out our computer/junk room (the latter adjective was MUCH more fitting.) It was an all-day project and now we have an empty room to fill with pink, white, and chocloate brown stuff!



Annabelle (who we'll call Belle for short) has taken to kicking me, which is very fun! However, without fail every time I call Brian over to feel her kicks she stops! Haha, Brian says it's cause she knows when he comes around she better settle down. Oh yeah...sounds like quite the disciplinarian...just wait till she looks up at him with her big eyes, we'll see how tough he isthen! :)

A Belle Foot :)

She hid her face from us the whole time!!

2nd ultrasound and update!

O.k. so I have defintately been slacking on my blogging! I've had these ultrasound pictures from week 12 ultrasound for quite some time and have been meaning to post them...so here they are finally! This one actually turned out to be a suprise ultrasound...I was under the impression from my doctor that it was just going to be a blood test. So I told Brian, who was off that day and totally could have come, not to come :( Then I walk into this perinatal office that has all the high-tech, state of the art gadgets and equipment, big flat screen on the wall in front of you so you can see the ultrasound, machine that takes pictures, plays audio, and makes a DVD of the whole thing!! I was bummed that Brian missed this one, but figured at least I'll have the pictures and the DVD. That is until I lost the DVD somewheere between the doctor's office and my car (who does that?) and the pictures didn't come out nearly as clear or good as the actual ultrasound looked :(

However, luckily it's almost time for our second trimester ultrasound and my doctor sent me back to this same office with all the bells and whistles!! Most importantly, Brian WILL be in attendance :) So this time it will be an even better ultrasound since our little one is more developed now, and I promise not to lose the DVD this time! Holding onto it will be Brian's job :) Haha...so August 6th is the big day!! And we're going to find out the sex too ...good thing too cause I don't think Brian could wait much longer!

So the good thing about me taking so long to post the pictures is kind of a good thing, because now you guys will only be in suspense for less than a week until even better pictures are up!!