Friday, August 31, 2007

Ultrasound Day!









Here are some cute pictures of our little baby! You can see his/her head and body and even an arm! It was so exciting to see what is living inside of me! Crazy. Just to let you know, even though the baby looks like a baby it is only 1 inch long! The black stuff around it is all amniotic fluid. The whole thing together is about the size of a grapefruit. Now aren't you impressed with how baby-like it looks?! :)















Here is a picture of me the day that we found out the big news. This is the third of four tests I ended up taking that day... I wasn't gonna be wrong about this one!

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Hi Everyone!

I finally got my stuff together and started a blog to share our pregnancy with everyone! In case you didn't already know Troy and I are going to have a BABY!!! We found out in late July and as of today I am 10 weeks along (I think) but we will know better tomorrow because we are having our first ultrasound. We are having all of our prenatal care and our delivery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital downtown Chicago. This is our first baby and can't wait to see our new addition! I have decided to do this blog because so many people that we care about are all around the country and don't get to see all of the fun (and not so fun) parts of the next 7 months or so. So far it has been pretty crazy and I am thinking it's only going to get crazier.

Troy is working at Bang and Olufsen doing sales and he is doing awesome. I am so proud of him :) He is being a great provider and I know he will be a wonderful dad. Not only is he good at his job but he goes above and beyond what I could ever imagine at home. These last 5 weeks or so have been pretty interesting with all of the changes this pregnancy has had on my body. I have had morning sickness for over a month now and am a vetran at worshiping the "porcelain god." Don't worry - I will spare the details! But Troy has been so understanding and I know that I won't get to say this to people in person so I just want to share my greatfulness in this blog. I don't know what I would have done without him.

Besides the morning (and afternoon, and night, and ... you get the picture) sickness I haven't had too many bad things happening to me. I have had some physical changes (haha you might notice if you know me well) and most of all I have been really tired. This is unusual for me because I have always been an early riser (yeah right) and now I sleep for at least 9 hours a night if not more! I do enjoy sleeping though so I won't complain about that part. (Maybe now I just have an excuse for all of my sleeping)

For some reason I can't think of what else to say right now but I will probably think of more and update later tonight. I will put up pictures and videos soon too so you can do more than just read what I have to say. Feel free to leave comments. In fact, PLEASE LEAVE COMMENTS! I would love to hear from everyone!

Take care and check back soon!
Love,
Kristin (and Troy) (and baby!)