Blessings

Yesterday Josh and I toured the CDC (Child Development Center) on Hill AFB and signed our baby up. Even signing up 6 months early doesn't guarantee us a spot come August. We are really impressed with the facility and staff and know our baby will be in good hands during the day. Another aspect we really like is they encourage parents to come and visit during the day, so Josh (being as close as he is) would come during lunch and they serve the parents lunch as well and he can spend some time with our little one. They are only able to take 16 babies in the age group 6 weeks to 6 months and the CDC serves alot of people. We are priority 3 out of 7, so it's better than we anticipated.

So like I said a few days ago we found out the baby's sex and got to see tons of pictures of the baby. We went to the radiology department at the hospital we'll be delivering at and they took over 100 photos, they printed out 5 for us to keep. We got a face photo, a picture of the baby waving, cute feet photo and a great spine one. They took all the measurements of the bones and head and we got to see a really clear shot of the baby's heart. We were able to see all 4 chambers and the veins and arteries. Anyway the baby is perfect, everything is where it should be and there are no problems. We also took the quad screening blood test (easy test that just draws my blood) that looks for things like down syndrome, spina bifidia and other things and everything came back normal so that's reassuring. I'm getting so anxious and excited to meet our baby, I can't wait to be a mom and Josh is so excited to have another baby.

It's a boy.... or maybe a girl!

So by the time you read this we'll have already figured out our baby's sex. Boy or girl? What do you think? I won't post it on our blog- because there are people I just don't care to know and I'm too lazy to go private.. but if you'd like to take a guess or email me I'll let you know if you're right :)

More photos

Josh gets tired quickly from all my photo ops




They had a show every night in the theater- our favorite was actually the Improvisation. The magician was the worst- even Dallen wouldn't have been impressed!

Cruise

So he really didn't want his picture taken- but he's too cute to pass up. So it's late, I'm really tired and I don't even know why I'm posting. I'm too tired to write much...


Why is it sideways??
Dune buggy's in Puerta Vallarta... we went through a lot of dust and then a huge lake/river, we couldn't breathe the water just kept coming at us. It was awesome though.




I think it's an elephant, do you agree? Some of the towel animals we really had no clue.

Mazatlan at the beach

I swear I didn't get bigger because of the food on the ship... the baby seems to have taken a growth spurt. Tuesday we find out the sex! And half way done :)


Everyone knows Senor Frog

Cabo
Really? Sideways again... this is lover's beach

At the library on the ship

Small bump

My sweet sweet baby!
So I'm a little into the 5th month now and starting to show a tad... I'm sure things will rapidly speed up each week. I'll continue to show pictures as the weeks go by



Such poise- and beauty!
Kids went on a bike ride while we took Mishka for a walk

Junge oder Mädchen?

So I can’t believe in 3 weeks we will find out the baby’s sex! We are excited for either, since this is our first child we would love a boy or a girl. A girl would be great because I can do her hair and dress her up in cute dresses and skirts and have tea parties with her. On the other hand a boy would be awesome because he’d be our little rocker with a fohawk, that looked just like Josh (hopefully- because he’s so handsome). Josh said he would love a little me, I warned him that she might be a terror, haha. He said, “If I can handle you I can handle her.” We have a name picked out for both. When I go to the store I find the cutest clothes and I want to buy them- but I refuse to buy anything until I know which gender I can focus on. I couldn’t imagine not knowing the sex and buying everything gender neutral- gender neutral clothing is no fun. How did they ever survive back in the day without all these cool ultrasounds? My mom has found great deals for boy and girls stuff and I’ll get text messages that she picked up an item for a boy one day and a girl the next. So I said, “Don’t you want to know the sex first?” She’s like it’s taking too long!