Guess what we are expecting!

Okay, so for the few (or maybe less) people out there who actually come and visit this blog...having previously read my April entry.... do you believe me when I say that we are expecting?! You never know with me! Well, this time we are serious. But then again we were serious last time also - I was just talking about some plants that I was expecting back then. Which, by the way are doing wonderfully! We are harvesting Garrett's first pumpkin next week and are loving all the fresh veggies we are getting out of our gardens outside from our "babies". Anyways, back to the point, how serious am I when I say we are expecting? It isn't April, so this would be a lame April Fool's Day joke to play in September. But what exactly am I expecting??? Owen is expecting to get a dog for Christmas and a Better Batter Baseball for his birthday. Garrett is expecting his pumpkin patch to have "a million" pumpkins on it by Halloween. Teagan is expecting to spend the night with her cousins this weekend. Scott is expecting to love his two new classes this semester because they get to make hammers and puzzles and stuff like that from computer models. And in another 4 months I am expecting a little boy!

We went today to the ultrasound and it was a ball! Scott was as giddy as a little kid and the kids and I were all taking bets on what it was going to be. Scott wanted a boy and a girl, I wanted a girl, Teagan wanted either one or two girls, Garrett wanted a boy, and Owen wanted a boy a girl and a dog. Since Garrett was the correct guess he got to have the first cookie when we made them. We opted to get a DVD of the ultrasound, and I am glad we did. This is the only ultrasound I will get for this pregnancy (which is odd for me, because in GA I always had three during my pregnancies, and out here they only do the one) and we weren't able to get a still picture of his little face other than when we saw it on the DVD. She also tried to get a face picture by using the 3D ultrasound machine a bit, and I had never had that before. I am planning on posting the ultrasound pictures later (after I get Scott to rehook up the scanner!) and you will see the cutest little boy foot and hand and little leg ever. But again, there will not be a little boy profile face shot...ah...that's okay though. I am also going to try and get him to show me how to edit the DVD so I can post a shorter version of it (the original is almost 14 minutes long!). There are some cute shots in it of him drinking some amnio fluid and his quick little heart beat and other stuff that I think is wonderful and adorable and it will probably bore all other regular people, but I am going to post it anyways because I love my little "Hoppy"! (His name is Hoppy because Owen named him that. It was "Music Hoppy" when he thought it was a girl, and then it was "Music" for the girl and "Hoppy" for the boy when he thought there were two, and now it is just "Hoppy")

Okay, that is it for today. I am going to take myself and my little "Hoppy" and go read scriptures to the kids and put them in bed. We are at the part in Alma where the 2000 Stripling Warriors are. It was perfect timing for us because I used that story as a way to explain why there was yet another boy coming to our family! Both Teagan and Owen were a bit set out that it is another boy, but after thinking about him as being another stripling warrior in our family, they were more okay with it. And given another 4 and a half months I know they will be fine with the idea! Owen already agreed to share his toys with Hoppy and Teagan is excited to kiss his cute little feet, so I am not really worried about them!

I have been sending my mom some pictures of how little Hoppy is growing, so I thought I would post those tonight so this blog has some sort of visual stimulation for anyone who happens to come across it! These are pictures from weeks 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19. There is a little bulge showing there, but for me it feels like a huge pooch! I am at that yucky stage of pregnancy where you don't feel big and pregnant, you just feel fat! But soon enough that pretty pregnant belly will be here and then the "beached whale" feeling will be here with it! Ah, the joys of pregnancy!




As of this week Hoppy is a little over half a pound right now and measuring a week farther along than he really is. Which is all well and good, but it doesn't explain why I am five pounds heavier than when I started this trip 20 weeks ago - and that is after being so sick the first part of the pregnancy that I lost 14 pounds ~ so I have actually gained almost as many pounds as weeks I am pregnant! Can you tell it is a sensitive subject with me?!