Thinking Pink

***BABY UPDATE***

Seems like forever since I last updated! I'll try to catch up.

I got to feel the baby first move (TWICE) on Saturday, August 15th! It's a very strange feeling...unlike really anything I can explain, I guess. Well actually, my mom explained it perfectly...it's kinda like how you feel when you go down in an elevator and "lose" your stomach for a sec. Totally what it was like. Both times I was getting into the car and buckling myself in and then BOOM it would happen! Since then, I have felt the baby move pretty much everyday. It's the coolest feeling...and I can already tell, I'm gonna miss it once my little one is no longer in there! :) It's been frustrating for Dustin...he really wants to feel the baby move, but soon enough, I'm sure he'll get to feel kicks and such!

The baby loves to move in the morning around 9am or so...usually like a "feed me mom" kinda move and then I get lots of movement after lunch has been eaten (baby moved like CRAZY after I ate Subway one day...crazy, crazy movement) - my happy, fed little baby - and usually right before I go to bed. This morning the baby moved big time when I (in my sleep) rolled onto my stomach, trying to get comfortable in bed. The baby did NOT like me on my stomach...and it made it very known!! :) The baby is a little ball of energy - ALWAYS moving (which I love!).

Speaking of sleeping...it has become a chore! For a couple weeks in August I had a terrible time trying to sleep. I would be SUPER uncomfortable every which way I laid in bed I wouldn't be able to sleep, I would be burning up and I would be SORE beyond belief. I would have leg cramps AND for a week I had the WORST hip pain I have EVER experienced in my life. I could barely hobble around the house -- oh and on top of it I got "flat foot" (from the shift of how you carry your weight) in my left foot. So yea...I would wake up crying because I was exhausted and miserable.

As of today, the hip pain has subsided (unless I walk A LOT - yea, the day after the fair. Not my best day.) and my foot is feeling "normal" again (thanks to acting quick and putting arches in my flats and wearing my trusty Dansko to work and around the house, which has been tough - I love to be barefoot). I think I have the sleeping down (I haven't had insomnia in a few weeks), I found a pillow that fits perfectly between my legs (not too big and not too flat) and helps me wake up in ease without hip pain! And I only sleep with a sheet (no more hot flashes in the night) and Moshi tucked under my arm! YAY! I would have to say my only complaint would have to be, when I move just the slightest, I have to pee. So I get up a lot in the night. Yup, fun, fun - but I can deal with that. (Oh and the "growing/expanding" skin - yea, it's HELL - I itch ALL the time...I'm going crazy!!)

OKAY - now onto the really exciting news!! We got to see our baby again on Tuesday, September 1st with the she-Dr. Richey for the detailed sonogram (she can see if everything is developing correctly) and 3D sonogram pictures. AND we found out we are having a healthy BABY GIRL!!!

I am so happy!! And actually, I have been calling the baby a 'her' and "talking" to 'her' since I found out I was pregnant. I always had a feeling it was a SHE and it was true! :) When the doctor told us we were having a girl, I turned to Dustin and go, "HA! I told you!" And he just sat there with a little smirk and shook his head. haha... I guess you never can underestimate a mother's intuition! :)

I think Dustin was a bit bummed that it wasn't a boy, but he has most definitely come around to it. He has already started calling her "Daddy's Girl" and his "little Princess" - so I think we are good! I'll have to get a picture up of him and his 'Daddy Makes Me Smile' onesie I got for the baby, for Dustin (if that makes sense). He got me a gift too...it's this super soft blanket that's pink and brown for the baby. So cute. Oh, yea - she'll be spoiled in no time.

Dustin thinks she looks like him in this picture...

Since our little ball of energy wouldn't stay still for the 3D pictures we only got one that is somewhat decent of her...and even that is of her stretching her neck out. In that photo Dustin thinks the baby looks like him (and as he said, "so obviously cute") and the other one that was somewhat decent, I think she looks kinda like my mom. haha...little booger.

I think she looks a hint like my mom in this picture...

She kept moving about and putting her little hand in front of her face. She looked different then I imaged (I'm a terrible mother, but she kinda looked like a little alien), granted the fat of the baby hasn't grown yet and we're still only half walk through "making her" (as a friend of ours said recently)- but I know when she comes into this world - she'll be gorgeous! :) And even though she was looking like a "weird little alien" to momma - I still wanted to hold her and have her wrap those little fingers around my big finger.

The doctor told us she weighed exactly 1lb. that day.

I am so excited to have a daughter. I cannot tell you how excited I am to have her here with us. I love that little girl more then I ever thought I could love another human being!! Love, Love, Love her! :)

Now, we just need to figure out what we are gonna name her...Hmmmm?