Our Pit Stop on the Way to Oregon

Two weeks ago, on our way to Oregon, we stopped off for a doctor's appointment to finally see this:

9 Week Ultrasound
Due Date: March 10, 2012

It was a long time coming. Or maybe it just felt like a long time. Either way, we're thrilled. All three of us. When we ask Boyd if he wants a baby brother or a baby sister, he always says sister. He gives my tummy pats and kisses and when you ask him what the baby is doing he says "sleepin' and growin'."  I personally would like another boy. It's familiar to me and because these two will be three and a half years apart I feel like they would be closer if they were brothers. Phil on the other hand doesn't care either way. 

Some people say that they can tell what they are having because their pregnancies are different. If that is true for me, I have an inkling it's a girl. I had the usual morning (all-day) sickness with Boyd but I feel more sick more often this time around. Of course that could because with Boyd I sat all day at a desk job and now I'm chasing Boyd around. But with Boyd I remember not feeling well and not wanting to eat. This time I have to eat all the time (and yet still feel a bit sick). Only time will tell. 

Phil decided he wanted to tell his family before Bear Lake. Typically I would have preferred to wait until we had an ultrasound, but I was okay with it. I didn't want to have to try to hide not feeling well the whole time I was there. So we decided to tell them over iChat one Sunday night. Once everyone was in the room we had Boyd tell them that "Mommy has a baby in her tummy." It didn't go quite as well as we had planned and was actually quite anticlimactic due to the fact that Boyd was a little hard to understand over the computer and the system was slow so it kept breaking up. But they were still very excited. 

Our doctor's appointment was fine. Routine. I do love that first appointment just for the shear fact that you get to have an ultrasound and see that tiny growing baby. Seeing it in there gives you so much reassurance! It was really neat to have Boyd there too. I had shown him pictures of his old ultrasounds so I think he understood (a little). He was pretty excited and kept saying, "the baby." 

After the appointment we continued on our way to Oregon. I drove the first (small) part of the way and then Phil took over once we got past Boise. I would have rather stopped over night since I knew there was no chance I would be able to stay awake the whole drive, but Phil toughed it out and we pulled into my brothers driveway at 3 am. Boyd did really good in the car. He's turned into a champ traveler. In the morning during breakfast with Justin's family, Phil snuck our ultrasound onto the counter. Shortly after Justin discovered it and there was a tiny bit of confusion, then realizing there was really only one option of whose it could be, our secret was out. My Mom and Dad found out the same way later that day. Boyd gave  Kristin the ultrasound out at the pool. We told JaNea later that night at an outdoor party. Jade and Ashton already knew, we told them when they came up and stayed with us a few weeks earlier. =)

I'm so grateful that we're pregnant. And I've learned that it's not really up to us as to when these little spirits come to our families. It hasn't been great to be in your first trimester during the summer (the season you live for in Teton Valley). But it wasn't up to me as to when we got pregnant, so I'll take it! And I'm also already having anxiety about the highways being closed during the winter storms in March and not being able to make it to the hospital in Idaho Falls. And I'm struggling with names. For boys and girls. I don't think there is a single name that Phil and I can agree on, but we still have a lot of time to work that out. I decided we don't need to worry about that until we know what we're having. I've also decided that I'm not going to do any nesting until after the holidays. January and February seem to drag on a little up here, so I'll save most of my projects for then.

In a couple weeks I'll be out of my first trimester. That's crazy. Fast. And the fall will only go faster. Before I know it we'll be a family of four and I can't wait!!