19 Weeks

Here we are... at 19 weeks and almost to the halfway point! Technically I won't be 19 weeks until Saturday, but close enough. It is crazy to think the pregnancy is almost half over. And the baby and I will only get bigger! We have been pretty busy the past month with weddings! Whitney and Mike were married and so were Andrew and Johnna. The baby and I boogied at Whit's wedding and it was especially active during 'Party in the USA', so that told me it must be a girl :P We both enjoyed the cupcakes/cake at the wedding, for sure! (and all the other delicious food...) Congratulations to both! This does not close out the wedding season for us, however; Robby is in his buddy's wedding December 31! So I will have to bust out the maternity dress I stole for $4.00 one more time this year.

Robby is gearing up for the big week of this whole semester, where he will be teaching in Norfolk for his clinical. That is next week, so he said after that it will hopefully be all downhill until Christmas. We looked at his finals schedule for the week of December 12, and he does have a final on Friday the 16th when we had planned to go in for my final ultrasound to find out the sex of the baby. So, we are planning to reschedule that for Thursday, December 15 since he only has a morning final that day. I can't wait!!!! We are both excited to put the guessing to "rest" although it has been fun going back and forth. He is still committed that it is a boy, and I am starting to think it's a boy too. I have had 3 dreams now about boys and only my first dream was that it was a girl. 

We have started our baby registry at Target (YAY!) which we were also excited about. AND... I have an idea for the nursery (if we have one)! The stroller/carseat my sister bought for the baby is brown and has other pale blue/green colors in it, and it has cute baby deer, owls, bunnies, etc. on it. So.... I want to stick with that theme. If you all are curious what it looks like, go to Target's website and search for "Meadow Menagerie"... that will bring up a few items that we have on our registry including the high chair, pack n' play, and swing. Oh I wish we could find a house we could move into! We may decide to just rent a place closer to my work until we can save up a bit more $$ and find the right house. Please pray we find something before January! We have the next 2 weekends at home so we are going to head to Sioux City to look more.

My next Doctor's visit is November 17 with a new doctor, Dr. Hamburger. My co-worker uses him for her primary OB and says he is great. This one will just be another routine where they will measure my belly and I will hear the heartbeat. We have decided on St. Luke's to deliver and will start our birthing classes (2 total) in January. They have a great facility and took care of Brian when he was there, and also in the unlikely event I were to have a C-section, they have a NICU to keep the baby in, where Mercy does not. I don't know that I could handle having the baby in a seperate facilty from me if that happened :( So now, we just need to decide on a family doctor/pediatrician! That is all for now... I will post another belly picture at 20 weeks and update you again next week after my doctor's appointment! I tried to also upload a video of the baby's heartbeat from last Dr. appt. but my email is blocking it :( I will try again later. Ya'll have a great week and keep cheering on the undefeated Packers!!! :-)  Love ya!