26th birthday and 6 months pregnant!

So my birthday was pretty awesome (and there is still more awesome to come tonight at NKOTB thanks to Rob and his mom!). We had birthday cake at grandma's and then dinner with the family at Adam's Mill. All in all it was a great day until Rob and I got home and read the "Mother of all Pregnancy Books" to find out decreased fetal activity is something you should call your doctor about ASAP, and considering it had been over 24 hours since I felt the baby move we called right away. The doctor set me up with an appointment for first thing this morning. Rob and I went in for my Fetal Non-Stress Test. Turns out it is actually too early in my pregnancy to be doing this test but they did it anyway. The baby's heart rate isn't increasing and decreasing when it moves as much as it should be. They'll keep an eye on this at my next appointment and when I don't feel the baby move again I need to go in for an appointment. So this sounds like it could add a whole new level of interesting to the next several months (4 to be exact, stupid 10 month pregnancy).

But on a happier note here are pictures (stolen from the internet) of a few of my many wonderful gifts! I got the changing table/dresser that we wanted for the nursery, a Vera Bradley diaper bag (the 2nd time I've gotten this bag but this time I'm actually pregnant!) and a fancy new Canon digital camera because Rob and I did a number to the old one at the beach!

22 Weeks!

Today marks a really important date in my pregnancy, the magic 22 weeks. At this point if something were to go wrong James would be viable outside of the womb (did I mention we are naming the baby James Martin?). It would be far from ideal if our little guy decided to make an appearance this early but it is somewhat comforting to know that if he did there is at least a possibility with some serious medical intervention he'd be okay. So needless to say we've been waiting for this magic date for, I don't know, say the 18 weeks I've known I was pregnant!

In other news we got a TON OF STUFF from some wonderful friends of ours (thanks Jim and Inge-Marie). We have a great crib to setup, a huge amount of clothing, a jumperoo and some other miscellaneous items. We are so excited to be well on our way to being ready (as ready as one can be I guess) for this little guy!

I promise to post pictures soon...

WE'RE HAVING A BOY!!

I'm sorry it's taken me many days to post this exciting news but we've been so insanely busy. My ultrasound was changed from 9/5 to 8/29 which was soooo exciting. Rob, mom and I packed into the little ultrasound room at the OB's office and it was AMAZING to see. We got to see cute little fingers, the brain, arm and leg bones, kidneys and a really awesome view of the baby's spine (I know it sounds so bizarre but the spine really was so cool to see). All of those things were very easy to see and it only took about 5 minutes to get nice pictures of them all, and then the big question...is it a boy or a girl? Sadly our little man was butt out and not moving much. The poor woman doing the ultrasound patiently tried to get some movement, shifted where she was looking and took lots of pictures to occupy our time. Then my question came "when is the next ultrasound if you can't tell the gender today" and she replied "there isn't one." To which I nearly lost it, this baby is as stubborn as me already! Anyway, she asked if I could do some Yoga-like move and poof perfect view that we are having a little boy! Mom and I headed right out to Baby Gap where she got the cutest outfits for her first grandchild and off to Mimi Maternity where she got me some wonderful pregnancy clothes. I will post pictures of Baby Boncoddo's first present soon!