Baby is on the move.

Kyle finally(!!!!) felt the baby move a couple of nights ago. It was only for a second, but at least now I know that I am not crazy. :-). I have been feeling a lot more movement, though it is still mostly when I am lying down in the evening. OH--and according to the baby development calendar, our little one has pretty functional hearing and can respond to sounds. Funny--a couple of times I have raised my voice, I know how shocked you must be, and I will feel a little tap. It is as if the baby doesn't like it when I shout. Hopefully, she won't be a yeller.

21 week pictures

Alright...so now I am 23 weeks and we took these a couple of weeks ago. The belly is much more impressive now, but you can see the increasing roundness in these early ones. Kale (our blue heeler/lab mix) is being VERY protective of me. He is lays his head on my belly when he jumps in the bed. When we walk at night, he is very suspicious of joggers and anyone that comes too close...which sometimes means that the kids in the neighborhood get a raw deal. He is so cute and cuddly that everyone wants to pet him, but he is also a very loyal and protective beast, particularly since I got pregnant...so we have to be careful to give adequate warning that he is on patrol.

Here are the pictures. I will post some newer ones and our Thanksgiving pictures as soon as I figure out where they are. :-). 24 week check up is coming up on the 30th, so time is flying by.

Sometimes when you least expect it.....

We were NOT planning to find out the sex of our baby......we were actually quite adamant about it. This was much to the irritation and frustration of friends and family. :-). So, of course, when we went for our 20 week ultrasound we made this clear. Kyle was struggling before we even got into the sonographer's office, but he decided that he could stick to the plan. Once the sonogram started, it was amazing...see the pictures below. Baby Devo was all squished into one half of the available space with feet up by the head. As they go through the diagnostic part of looking at the brain, lungs, kidneys, bladder, stomach, etc...it was the coolest thing I have every seen. You could see the baby drinking the amniotic fluid and we saw the half full bladder and the filling stomach. FYI---it is freaking me out a little that this tiny being is peeing into my uterus at the moment....

As the sonographer made her way from top to bottom and then bottom to top, it became pretty clear that our child was not modest...so we didn't need any help figuring out that it was a girl. Our little one isn't exactly "ladylike" or modest, so we got a full-frontal view of the naughty bits. Kyle was actually the one that called it....silly me, I was concerned about the internal organs! So--we are pretty confident that we are having a girl, a little Wesleyanne addition to the family. Kyle is beside himself...so excited that he will have a daddy's girl to hug and kiss on forever. I am excited, but I really couldn't have cared less if it was a boy or a girl. Best news is that she appears to be a deep sleeper because she barely wanted to shift around to give the sonographer a good view of her cerebellum. At the last ultrasound, she wasn't real excited to wake up long enough to flip positions either. We are keeping our fingers crossed for a good sleeper! Apparently Kyle and I both slept through the night pretty early, so we are hopeful. Here are the ultrasound pictures from the 20 week....I can't believe this is the last view we will
get of the baby before she is born. Check out the giant Buddha belly! On the second picture, there is a phrase "Gig 'Em" written by the sonographer. At A&M, the students hold up a thumb and say Gig 'Em as one of the traditions....when baby put up her thumb, the tech (an A&M grad) couldn't help herself. :-)