::YOU ARE MY SONSHINE::

Yesterday, March 30th, was the "Systems Check" ultrasound and prenatal appointment.

Here are some little tidbits at this time in the pregnancy:

~You are still a boy. Hah! No changes there. And I am so glad you are a boy. Not only have a come to terms with my boy mom status, I am now fully relishing in it and wouldn't have it any other way.

~You were sleeping at the beginning of the ultrasound, all curled up and very peaceful. Then as the wand passed over and over my belly you began to move and acknowledge that your little nest was being disturbed. I saw a clear shot of your face and you kept your right hand in a fist near your face.

~You are 13 ounces, just three more and you'll be into the featherweight category at a whopping pound! Keep it up!

~I weigh 128 pounds right now, so I've just barely got you beat ;) Here's something kind of remarkable; I was the exact same weight at this point in my pregnancies with both Warren and Jack. I get a gold star for consistency.

~You checked out just perfectly. All of your organs and systems are just dandy and you are cute as a button. Lots of movement and I am able to now tell when you are asleep as well as when your precious little feet are digging into my bladder!

I didn't get any digital pictures from the ultrasound and truthfully you are kind of camera shy so far. Every time we were able to manage a good shot, you would quickly move or turn your head. So, I'll just have to make up for it after you're born when you can't escape me!

Daddy is now more "into" the pregnancy as he always is once I really start to have a big belly and call the baby by his name. I can tell he is awful proud to tell everyone that he has three boys. He is already protective of you and often fetches me my prenatal vitamins and commends me on eating so much to make sure you are getting enough calories.

Well, I have to admit that both Warren and Jack's baby books are in various forms of incompleteness. And I found the majority of the pages to be a little silly, especially when I found myself asking and then saying:

"Bryan, what is the average cost of the newspaper right now?"

"How about for a car?"

"What was your paternal Great Grandpa's middle name?"

"Oh, forget it. I'll skip this part and do it later."

Yeah, later never happened. At least not yet. So, I am trying something different this time around. I can type much faster than I can write, and uploading pictures is so much easier than printing and cutting and gluing.

I will try my best to mimic a traditional baby book, minus those annoying parts I mentioned already. And after Nolan is a year old, I will print the blog content into a glossy, beautiful book using Blog Books, where they "slurp" your blog into a real book. How cool is that?

So, here we go!

I said, "here we go!"

...Oh yeah, I still have 18 weeks to go before Nolan is actually born...

What can I say, I'm excited.