12 weeks

After talking with my super smart IT brained brother-in-law, it was obvious it was the size of my pictures that was a problem.  DUH!  Of course it's something simple and not overly complicated like I originally thought.  Regardless....HOT DAMN!  Thanks Matt!

Problem fixed!  Needed a reason to show off those baby blues!

As for Baby P...it's week 13 which means we're 1/3 of the way there...WHAT??!?!??!  I was wrong when I previously said our next appointment was the 24th, it's actually next Tuesday, July 31st so still have a few more days before we hear the heartbeat.  Friends of ours just found out they're having boy #2 (due in December) and it's making me super anxious for our next appt just to get an update on how things are cooking in there.  20 weeks seems really far away right now, but I'm sure it'll be here before I know it. 

I'm currently reading "Your Pregnancy Week by Week" by Glade B Curtis, M.D., M.P.H. and Judith Schuler, M.S.  It was a gift from my bff Lindsey and I'm loving it!  It's starting to creep me out a little with how on target it is though.  For example...I read week 9 which warned about headaches and 2 days later I started experiencing headaches that could last an entire day.  Granted that could have been from the 100+ degree weather we've been having, but still.  Then the day before I read week 12, I learned a friend's little girls had come down with Fifths Disease and week 12 just happened to talk about Fifths Disease...random.  By far the strangest coincidence though is the one that happened yesterday.  A couple I met when living in Belleville, posted their blog on fb in honor of their daughter's first birthday to tell the story of her Omphalocele....I bet you can't guess what one of the topics was in week 13...yep babies born with an Omphalocele.  Get out of my head Glade & Judith!!!!

I received a VERY surprised visit from my aforementioned bff Lindsey & her son Jack this past week.  We didn't get to spend a ton of time together, but I'll take any time I can get with those 2 when they visit IL.  I think I'm still smiling from the huge hug I got from Jack when I walked into Lindsey's grandma's house.  It was like he remembered me and it.was.awesome.  Thanks for making some time for me Linds...even though you drank my favorite margaritas in front of me ;)  

13 weeks

IMO I'm really starting to show and I'm pretty sure Kiel agrees with me.  No one at work has made any comments, but I've been noticing some wandering eyes directed at my protruding belly from friends and family....hello hair ties around the buttons on my pants and belly bands!

 

your baby's the size of a peach!

She's about 2.9 inches long and weighs about .81 ounces, 

and -- proportion-wise -- her head's now about

1/3 the size of her body (remember? It used to be bigger!).

Gonna have to wrap it up, my Buster Bar Blizzard just arrived. I have priorities.

-Nicole