10 Fingers and 10 Toes

As exciting as yesterday's 22 week ultrasound was, the thoughts of course are in the back of your mind... what if?  What if the baby's heart isn't normal?  What if it is missing something?  What if something I did has had an effect on its development?  You pretty much hold your breath as the tech pulls the want around examining and measuring every detail of your baby.  As beautiful as it was, we didn't breathe easy until the Doctor came in and said "your baby is perfectly symmetrical!"  Before the Dr. came in (about 20 minutes of just Ron and I with the ultrasound pictures and random numbers that we could only guess the meaning of alone in the waiting room), Ron and I had assessed that the baby's femur was in the 19th percentile and its head was in the 89th percentile, and it MUST be a dwarf!!  I'm telling you... this motherhood thing brings hypochondria to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL!  But whew! Symmetrical is good... and it is in the 53rd percentile size wise, which was also fantastic news to me... even though Ron for some reason wants me to birth a small calf... he's hoping for a 10+ pounder (I am still hoping that he is joking).

So for comparison... check out what just 12 weeks in the womb does for development!

Al at 10 Weeks

Al's Profile at 22 Weeks (Still has Daddy's dome)

Now I completely understand why mom's won't stop talking about their kids... I have worn the ultrasound picture pages out looking at them over and over again!

Tomorrow we will have the gender reveal party... starts at 5 pm and cake cutting at 7pm!  Stay tuned for the results!

Enough about my baby!  We celebrated Thanksgiving last weekend at our new house with my mother and father.  They were SUCH a big help and the house ALMOST looked like a home by the time they left.  I cannot thank them enough for taking their hard earned vacation time and spending it working on our house.  It was a perfect Thanksgiving.... full of food and laughs!

Saturday mom and dad left :( (only knowing that they were coming back this weekend made that tolerable) and my bestie from college, Kelly Klare and her sister came down to visit and Kristy attended the UVA/Tech football game (that's the last I will mention of said game).  Kelly and I drove out to see Erica, Madison and new (still not yet supposed to be born) Meghan.  It was so great to catch up and everyone in Erica's household looked great!  Meghan is the TEENSIEST thing that I have ever seen, yet I still cannot imagine her being INSIDE Erica's belly at this point... and Erica informed me that she would be even larger if she were still in the womb!  Check out the photos of Kelly and baby! :)

Kelly and -3 Week Old Meghan (yes negative 3!)

Meghan's Very Tiny Hand

I think that is all that I have for today!  Time for me to go wrap up my last day at my job of 3 years!  Monday will entail new diggs and new challenges!  Have an AMAZING weekend!