Week 10 - we can't wait any longer to tell

Well we are into week 10 and all is still pretty normal. I am experiencing some nausea from time to time but have been very lucky and have not been very sick. We are getting very antsy to tell friends and family our good news so we have started telling family and will be breaking the news to a group of friends this week. We are excited to let people in on our great news!

We had another ultrasound last week and all was looking great. You could see alot more stuff and there was actually a little form that looked somewhat human so that was cool.

We get to do one more early ultrasound next week at 11 weeks and then we probably won't have another one until around 20 weeks. My mom suggested that we have Andy take a video of the ultrasound machine while we are there because I keep telling her they are much more exciting live because you actually get to see the baby moving and you can see its little heartbeat. These pictures are great but they aren't quite the same. We will try that and then hopefully I can post the video on here.

Ok, well we are just very excited to start telling our friends and family our good news. It will feel great to get that off our chests; it has been very hard to hold it in this long and it has really only been a month!

Week 8 - Time sure flies when you're on vacation

We are into week 8 and all is well. I have had a few bouts of nausea but nothing as bad as I have heard from other friends so I am still counting myself lucky. I am finding that I am very tired (especially at work). I know this is to be expected but it is sometimes tough just to keep my eyes open :) I find that I really want to sleep in the middle of the day; which makes being productive at work a difficult task.

We just returned from a 9 day vacation in northeastern Washington and had a great time relaxing, water skiing, fishing and generally doing nothing or whatever we wanted in mostly great weather. There was a day we decided to float the river and it ended up being the day of a huge windstorm that crept up on us on the river so that was a bit of an adventure but other than that the weather was great and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves hanging out with friends and soaking up the sun. It was a little challenging to hide the fact that we are expecting when most days were spent sitting in the sun with drink (secretly non-alcoholic for me) in hand. But we must have done OK since no one seemed the wiser. We are still really itching to tell our friends and family but want to wait a bit longer to make sure things are progressing.

We have another ultrasound appointment tomorrow to check progress. After that we will reassess where we are and when we want to start telling folks.