20 Weeks - Halfway Update

Oh hey.  I've missed a few days of blogging due to computer/iPhoto issues.  As much as I love technology and the way it helps stay connected to geographically distant friends and family, it can be a pain when it doesn't work right or is outdated.  :-/   It's not all worked out, but I'll post when I can and catch up.

Let's start with this baby I'm growing

...and growing we are!

Last week was half way, 20 weeks!

This week our baby weighs about three-quarters of a pound and is approximately 10 1/2 inches long head to heel.

The boys enjoy keeping up to date on our baby's progress and we read the email update together every Monday when it comes to my email via BabyCenter.com.  During the 18th week, we read that our baby was 5 1/2 inches from head to rump.  Later that week, Cooper brought me his Lego monkey and said, "This is about the size of our baby.".  We measured it and sure enough, it was.  So now every week Cooper and Miles look for toys that are the size of our baby for a visual comparison.

Last Friday, we had a sonogram.  We intentionally didn't find out the gender, but the boys were intrigued by the whole thing.  They cracked us all up several times with their comments, including once when Miles curled himself into a funny position and said, "The baby looks like this! Only with no shoes.".  The tech said, "How would it get shoes in there?" and Miles replied, "Mommy could eat some!"!!! 

We saw a cute little profile...

And clearly watched it touch it's face and then put fingers in it's little mouth.

We also saw a little foot.  But the sonogram tech was very careful to turn the screen away anywhere inbetween so we didn't see anything we didn't want to.   The boys were still trying to look and make guesses though!

We got a fun surprise at the end when the tech switched and did a 3D sonogram!  We didn't know we'd get that...  at first the baby hid from us.

But it was wiggling all over and moved to give us a nice glimpse of it's face.  When Cooper saw this, he said, "Just go down now, we'll be able to tell if it's a boy or girl!"!

I think (although hard to tell for sure) this looks a lot like Miles!

Having the boys be excited about it all has been so fun.  They were both (and Derek) able to feel the baby move as early as 14 weeks.  They're pretty obsessed with my belly and talk to the baby constantly.

Cooper likes to read to the baby during reading time.

And this baby already receives a lot of hugs and kisses.  Miles gets close to my belly every morning and says, "Good morning, baby" and then a "Good night, baby" every night.

It's been a very active baby so it gives the boys a lot to feel and watch.  In fact, at my 15 week appointment, the midwife we saw at our doctor's office saw my belly move when I laid back so she could measure me and check the heartbeat.  She laughed and asked if I felt that... Ha.  Yes!  Hopefully this little one is just making it's presence known and will be a quiet, content, still, lots-of-naps needing baby.  At least I can hope for that, right!?  :)

We're all looking forward to meeting this baby in June!