And we have life...

Or at least the beginning of it. Today was the first ultrasound. :) Rick met me at Panera for a quick lunch. I ate about 3 bites because I'm still not feeling well from this stupid m/s. Then we went to the hospital together. First I had to drop off my 24 hour urine sample. Ew. haha! The I had to go to the lab to have blood drawn. We waited half an hour there (good thing we went plenty early). She called me back and said I needed to pee for her. I told her I had my u/s after that and was told to have a full bladder so I'd come back after that. She drew blood and it was super easy for her to find my vein which was a bonus.

We headed over to the ultrasound area and waited about 40 minutes. It was torture! haha! Then they called us back. The tech was really nice and explained everything that she was looking at the whole time. When she was looking at the baby she said my uterus sits pretty far back and she could see a tiny flicker but couldn't get a good enough reading to measure. So she had to do an internal. It was no big deal (even though now I'm cramping like woah). She found it right away and measured and the little bean has a heartbeat of 120 which she said was really good. Of course I've googled the crap out of it since then and found that is right on. :)

So there it is. A tiny little blob that is growing into our new baby. I'm afraid to scan the photo right now since I'm at work considering I'm not planning on telling them for a little while yet. But I'll probably scan it to save a copy next week at my mom's.

We are planning on telling the girls tomorrow night. I got them super cute shirts and I can't wait to hear their reactions (I think). Gabby's shirt says, "I have a secret" on the front which is more than perfect considering pretty much everything that comes out of that child's mouth is prefaced with those four words. And the back says, "This little monkey is going to be a big sister!" Victoria's shirt says, "I'm going to bee a big sister...again" and has a cute picture of a bumble bee.

Then we are planning on telling the rest of his family next weekend when we all go to the casino for his dad's birthday. A bunch of friends have been invited so they'll all find out then. And we are going to Canton that Sunday to tell my grandparents. From that point on it's pretty much fair game for everyone to know. We debated waiting, but I want to be able to enjoy every possible minute of this fabulous pregnancy, so we are telling :)