I'm getting behind on updating this so I'm posting several different items in this post! First of all, we have more baby news to share!! This week I had my 20 week appointment...which is usually the most exciting of the baby appointments. It marks the halfway point of the pregnancy and you get to have an ultrasound!! As I posted before, we had decided to find out the gender this time around. I was so nervous and excited for this appointment. Marshall went with me and we settled down in the ultrasound room for the hour long look at our baby....right away the tech was not getting a good view of some of the important thing...one of which was gender! I started convincing myself that it just wasn't meant to me...baby didn't want us to know. The techs (two of them kept alternating) kept taking different measurements, pointing out different body parts to us, and then going back to take a lot at the gender...still no cooperation from baby. It was still neat to watch the little moving around, kicking me, moving hands, even putting a hand on top of the head! It was getting obvious that the techs were nervous they wouldn't be able to determine a gender. They had me get up and use the bathroom (what a relief!! You have to come to the appointment with a full bladder..and I was bursting), lay on my side..they were even poking my belly, trying to get the baby to flip over. Finally they started to get a better view and told us, with 99.9% certainty, we would be having a baby GIRL! I was instantly overwhelmed, excited, happy...my eyes welled with tears. I was so sure this would be boy#2 for us. I thought I was destined to by the mom of boys. And now I get to anticipate what having a little girl will be like...I just can't imagine it. I look forward to it so much. Marshall's reaction was not as joyous...he asked if there was still a chance it could be a boy. Caleb was also a little disappointed when we told him, he said he wanted a boy baby like him. Hopefully they will both be a little more enthusiatic about this once baby girl is here!! The rest of my doctor's appointment went fine...everything looks great with the baby and I even get to have another ultrasound next appointment. There were a few shots missed by the techs, due to baby not cooperating!
A couple weeks ago we finally made it to Como Zoo with Caleb. He had a great time and was sad when we left. His favorite part of the zoo this year was the seals. It was fun watching them swim around in the water. The night before our trip to the zoo, Caleb was stung by a bee! We were at home, with Angela visiting for dinner, when out in the backyard Caleb suddenly came running and screaming to me, holding his ear. We saw a bee fly away from him as he got closer. It was terrifying. I've never seen him so upset and in pain...that is the hardest part of being a mother. We took him inside and Marshall and I tried to console him, make sure the stinger was out and calm him down. His ear swelled up pretty good (that's what the last picture is of!) but he was fine after awhile. What an experience! Marshall was stung the next weekend after discovering a ton of bees in a hive or something underground in the backyard. Hopefully we've taken care of them, but we've been staying inside lately!
