18 Weeks

Happy 18 Weeks Baby Rowsell!

We are looking forward to our ultrasound next Wednesday! Hopefully, we will be able to find out baby's gender. Yippee! I have thought since day 1 it was going to be a boy, so we will see if momma knows...
Jeremy and I have been talking about our appointment non-stop for at least two weeks and are most looking forward to finding out how it's developing. Last week I was dying to call the Doctor and move up our appointment, luckily I have been swamped at work and didn't give into my urges :)

 {18 Weeks - May 3rd }

All of the kids at the school love to rub my belly and talk to the baby. It is the sweetest thing and I have loved getting to see that side of them. It really is amazing to witness how much joy one baby can bring to so many people.
 

Here are a few pictures that show the drastic change four months can do to a girl :)

{8 Weeks} We were so excited as this little bump began to grow. My belly started to show pretty quickly and everyone around me had the scared look of "I think it's twins". But, it's just one baby and a really big belly.

{10 Weeks} Sorry about the pose, bare skin and sweats! Yikes, lol. Jer made me move my arms and pull up the shirt so we could really "see the belly". (What a pain, lol) I was also feeling pretty crummy that first trimester, so as soon as work was over the only clothing I was sporting were sweats.

Looking back at these photos makes me laugh, Jer and I thought I was huge back then! I think we are in for a big shock for what huge really is when 9 months rolls around.

I have another photo of 15 weeks, but Jer made me lift up my shirt (again) and I am definitely not posting it :) I really have got to put a stop to his photo ideas.

Sweet Things

I wanted to write some of the sweet things Jeremy has done during the past few months before I forget:

• When I was only about 8 weeks along he bought me one of those ginormous maternity pillows. It's great, especially now that my belly has grown so much.
• He brushes my hair just about every night after I take my relaxing bath (my two favorite parts of the day).
• I catch him smiling every now and then at my ever growing belly.
• How he comforted me and I felt his love so strong at our 10 week appointment. (The Doctor couldn't find the baby's heartbeat and had to do an ultrasound, I'm told it's a common thing, but very scary)
• Most nights he will come to bed early with me and lay there until I fall asleep. Lately, he has been staying falling asleep early and blaming his fatigue on "sympathy pains".. ;).
• One night I kept waiting and waiting for him to come to bed until I couldn't keep my eyes open. The next day I asked him what he was doing up so late (I assumed gaming or looking up some kind of gun stuff on the Internet), to my surprise he was looking up baby names and nursery ideas. He even saved some images from the Internet and found a saying for our nursery -"What a big miracle from such a small child". Man he's cute.
• Every week we lay down together and he reads the baby's weekly changes to me and then we listen to it's heartbeat.
• The alarm on his phone is a recording of the baby's heartbeat. You just can't wake up angry to that sweet sound.
• Jeremy and James came home about a week after our 10 week appointment with the baby's first stuffed animal

It's about 6 ft tall :) Justin had to push it in his cart around Costco and ran into an old lady because he couldn't see where he was going. haha

• Lastly, Jer helped me make a receiving blanket and it's as square as can be.

Our Baby

We can hardly believe it, but baby Rowsell is on it's way. What a wonderful feeling. Jeremy and I are so excited and so thankful to be blessed with our little miracle baby.

We first found out we were pregnant at the end of January. Jeremy somehow knew we were pregnant for at least a week before I would even consider the thought. He finally talked me into humoring him and we bought a pregnancy test. I wasn't looking forward to being let down again, so I decided to wait until the next morning to take it. When I saw the positive result I couldn't believe it. I remember first feeling a little annoyed, a false positive, really can't they make anything reliable these days? lol But, when the second test was positive I. About. Died.

This is our beautiful baby at our 10 week appointment. The love we feel for our little one is so strong and amazing. I can't even begin to explain how thankful we are to be on this journey!