A Quick Update

Here’s a picture of Maria making grilled cheese:

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She is doing well – still a lot of kicking going on, and I just received a report of the first visible kick a few minutes ago. We got a letter from our doctor telling us that Nubs passed her recent ultrasound exam (where they checked on the physical development of all her parts). That good report is hanging up now as her first entry on the Refrigerator of Pride.

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As you can see, the nursery is empty and the primer is drying. Soon we’ll start putting it together, which I’m sure will be more interesting than these pictures. Once we finish this room we will have officially covered all of the crazy paint left in this house aside from the orange stairs (which are surprisingly okay), and the haunting messages / body prints covering the back room in the basement. (A room we refer to as the scary room.)

Kicks

Nubs continues to grow and get stronger, and last week Maria started to feel her kicks. I’ve also gotten to feel some pretty clear kicks already, which was really fun. It’s exciting to know that she’s in there getting stronger, and that she’s still so active.

Ultrasound – 20 Weeks

Well, we have some exciting news to share today. Maria just had her 20 week ultrasound, and everything looks good so far. They need to send the pictures off to some doctors to check everything out, but all of the right parts seemed to be in the right places.

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Nubs has some nice long arms and legs, toes, fingers, and lots of new organs. This was another visit where Nubs was moving nonstop, always pumping those arms and legs, and rolling over. We also learned today that we can start using pronouns on this site because…

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Nubs is a girl!

(Maria felt that image was the best way to break the news to everybody.)

We also learned that Nubs has her head right around Maria’s bellybutton, and she weighs about 14 ounces.