24 Weeks

Today I'm 24 weeks and we got a few pictures today to show off the growing bump. The pictures of us were taken by Kent's dad during our annual Thanksgiving family photos. Unfortunately it looks like Kent has a cactus growing out of his head but other than that, they turned out pretty well. AnnaBeth is moving a lot more these days and sometimes kicks hard enough to make my belly jump! I'm enjoying feeling her move around and Kent especially loves to feel her kick =)

20 Down, 20 To Go

On Saturday I hit 20 weeks, the official half way mark of my pregnancy. During this past week, I've been feeling AnnaBeth move everday now. She is especially active after I eat hot sauce so she either likes it or is telling me to quit feeding it to her =) She's also quite active during iPod music time when I play Baby Praise for her. Sometimes her kicks are strong enough that I can feel them from the outside if I put my hand on my belly. This weekend mom and I are going shopping for preggo work pants because I've finally gotten to the point where I can't button all of the buttons on them anymore. I'm quite excited to get pants that have the big "grow with you" stretchy elastic band.

And on another note, now that its dark when I get off the bus after work, my bus driver waits until he sees me getting into the truck before he drives away from the park and ride. Kent is very appreciative that he looks out for me and wants me to tell him so =)

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween (a day late)! AnnaBeth spent her first Halloween as a pumpkin as you can see =) And it also kind of looked as if I actually swallowed a small pumpkin (or a pumpkin seed that has been rapidly growing as one person told me). Her first Halloween went very well and she even got to have a Halloween themed cookie!

Fun times at Grandma and Grandpa Locker's house

Today we got together to celebrate Grandpa Locker's birthday. Emma and Hailey enjoyed some time outside. Emma had a blast playing with Poco and Hailey discovered grass =) Here's a little video of just how much fun they had!

And the answer is.....

We had our big ultrasound yesterday and learned that we're having a girl! We were both really hoping for a boy but Kent was a tad more disappointed than I was. I found a CUTE dress and sweater for next year's Christmas outfit so I got over it pretty quickly. Kent is still adjusting but he's getting there. AnnaBeth will have him wrapped around her little finger before long =) All is well with her, everything looks just as it should so we were very happy to hear that. She's already a little stinker as she didn't really feel like cooperating yesterday. The tech kept trying to get her to move into certain positions so she could check her feet, heart, etc and she did NOT want to have any part of it. She kept folding up her legs and kept turning her back on us. I guess she just really wanted to sleep! But we did manage to get a few fairly good pictures of our little girl so we can start showing her off =)

Birthday Fun

Today we got together to celebrate my birthday and Jacob's birthday. We had a great time and a yummy lunch! As you can see, Emma demonstrated her cooking skills and Hailey had a fantastic time playing! Hailey also showed off her army crawl for us.

Later she spent some in her jumperoo which is one of her favorite things to do.

And finally, Jacob told us what he learned from his kindergarten P.E. teacher, the bones of the body. We were all very impressed!

16 Weeks and Growing

Today I am 16 weeks and my belly seems to have grown just a tad in the last four weeks. I now have just a bit of a baby bump that's noticeable and it appears that my belly button is slowly but surely on its way to popping out =)

Last Friday, the 26th, I had to do the 3 hour fasting glucose test since my one hour test I took the week before that came back a little high. It was no fun having to go 15 hours without eating but my results came back perfectly normal so I guess it was worth it. I'm just glad that everything is fine and I won't have to do that again!