IT'S.............

We had our big ultrasound today and learned that baby #2 is a little girl!!! Hadley Rebekah is doing great and is keeping her same due date of November 22. The tech asked during the ultrasound what I thought I was having and I looked up on the screen to see the tell-tale sign of a little girl!!!

"Is it a girl?" I asked.
"It is!" she said.

Tears were flowing quickly and thus began the ugly cry. It was such a cry that she had to ask if this was a good thing or a bad thing. It is great news!!! Hadley will be the first girl on my side of the family. So that is very exciting for us!

We do have a prayer request for you along with this announcement. I have a low-lying placenta right now which will likely resolve on its own. Please pray that this is resolved to avoid complications near the end of pregnancy. We were told almost all ladies who have this before 20 weeks end up seeing it resolved by 28 weeks or so. That's what we're praying for. I'll probably have another ultrasound in 6-10 weeks to check on that.

As for pictures, they were pretty disappointing. They are pretty blurry so its hard to make things out. Maybe my belly was shaking too much when I was crying??? Anyways, we'll see if the next ultrasound produces better shots to post. Just know, she looks like your typical alien baby at 18 weeks.

"This is the Day"

Here is Luke singing (and performing) his current favorite song, "This is the Day."

Baby Update

I don't know if we have many blog readers still out there since my updates have been very infrequent. I decided to hold off on the first set of ultrasound pics from my 9 week appointments since the images require a lot of explaining so you know what you're seeing. I am now 16 weeks pregnant and have another check-up coming up this week. All is going pretty well. Morning sickness ended right on time at the end of the first trimester and we are watching my tummy start to grow. I just started feeling the little one move around at least once a day this past week, so that has been an exciting development in this pregnancy. We told Luke the other day that we would find out what we're having in a couple of weeks. He said, "A Baby!!!" You're exactly right Luke! We will find out the gender on June 23. We debated on that one, but decided on finding out since we need to know what exactly to bring back here from KY since our space here is extremely limited.

I never gave a lot of details of our first appointment, but the short of it is before conceiving there was a concern that my pregnancy would be high-risk due to the brain malformation I was diagnosed with in '07. We were told then that any future delivery may have to be a C-section. However, at my appointments thus far (and I've only seen NP's so far) there has been no concern about this whatsoever. I'm considered a normal pregnancy which was a huge praise for us. I will still double-check this when we begin seeing doctors, but we're trusting God completely on this and believe all is just fine. I don't anticipate it causing any problems since I had this with Luke and we just didn't know at that time. In case you're wondering, the reason we haven't seen doctors yet is due to personal choice. The office we visit is the closer of 2 offices and doctors are usually there in afternoon hours and we've only done morning visits. Don't worry...we will see the doctors!

I'll post more updates as we have our appointments this month. Life has been tough this semester with classes for both John and I as well as a PT babysitting job for me. Updating the blog has not been at the top of my priority list, but I'll try to do more updates while we have more time this summer.