Today was my due date

And no baby Andrew yet. Although I'm very anxious to see and hold my baby after carrying him for the last 40 weeks, I'm also staying pretty calm and relaxed and just trying to enjoy my time with Bill before life gets a little more hectic. As of yesterday, he is on vacation for the next two weeks, so we're just hoping Andrew decides to come sometime within that time so the three of us can have some family time together before Bill has to go back to work. So my due date was pretty uneventful, we've just been hanging out close to home trying to pass the time until our son decides to make his grand entrance. Today we went out and ran some errands and then had lunch at my mom's. Afterwards we went to the library so I could check out the book "The Happiest Baby on the Block" which I've recently heard is a must read for new parents. My goal is to finish it this weekend. And tonight we have settled in for a long night of HGTV, Food Network, and our favorite show Psych. Let the waiting game begin...

My New and Improved Blog

Well, since I hadn't posted since last January, and with our first baby due any day now, I decided it was time to revamp my blog. It's now called the Baby Diaries and will focus on our new journey in life: parenting. Baby Andrew is due next Friday (August 21st), so now we are just patiently waiting. More to come soon...

Video of my Amazing Ultrasound

My friend Jamie at work did an ultrasound yesterday and it was truly one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. Jamie has already done a few ultrasounds for me and, until this one, they baby looked like a little spec or a little bean. I was completely caught off gurad this time because for the first time it looks like a real baby now...arms, legs, fingers, toes...unbelievable!! We counted 10 fingers and 10 toes..brain and spinal cord look good and the heart was beating away. And we could hear it really good this time. The biggest surprise for me though was that the baby was moving around like crazy. In this video the baby is relatively calm but looks like it's waving. At one point it went wild and started thrashing around, shaking it's fists... I hope he or she doesn't have their mom's temper : )

We got a heartbeat!

So I had an ultrasound done last Friday at 7 weeks pregnant to look for the baby's heartbeat. I had a slight concern about the pregnancy and haven't had my first official OB/GYN appointment, so my Dr. sent me to have the ultrasound done because, although she was confident that everything was fine, she wanted to make sure there was cardiac activity. Well, thank God, we got to see a very strong heartbeat and got a great picture of the baby, which right now looks like a little bean. In the picture you can see the arms and legs which are starting to form (the little circles on the top and bottom of the bean are the arms, and the little flipper-like part on the one end are the feet). Amazing! So far, everything looks great and the baby is growing right on schedule. So for now, some of my fears have been put to rest and I can take a deep breath and relax (a little).