We've got ourselves a BABY!!

We had our first appointment today. WOW! What an experience! I was a little nervous going into it. I just wanted everything to be ok. So we get there and the doctor was running 30 minutes LATE!! You've got to be kidding me! But we made it back there and after the dreaded scale we were ready to roll.

We had an ultrasound and it was amazing. The minute I saw the little guy on the screen I started to cry. It's so little, only 1.9 cm! But so amazing. You could see little arm and leg buds and the heart beating. 166 BPM, not bad! My doctor said everything looked GREAT and that the baby is perfectly healthy. I don't have to come back for another 6 weeks which is nice too. Just need to let Baby Goodell grow.

Anyway, we are so excited and very relieved. I now feel like it's real! It's amazing that there's something inside me that's growing and has a beating heart that I can't even feel. So here are the pictures...they are pretty much just blobs :) The head is the blob on the left, the body on the right.

Thanks for all your prayers! We love you all!!

8 weeks 4 days

Today is the big day! Our first appointment is this afternoon and I'm so excited! We get a ultrasound!! Yippee! I think this will finally calm my nerves and make all this so real! We'll post our first photos this afternoon and update you all on what the doctor says! Wish us luck!!!

7 weeks!

So for the first time in a week I was able to get up and have a cup of coffee. It was very good :) I wasn't queasy at all this morning so that was VERY nice. I've had 3 pretty good days in a row! I'm not getting my hopes up though. Tomorrow could be a very different story.

Other than that we're just going through the motions. There was a time last week when I was feeling so good that I'd forget that I'm growing a baby inside me. So Marc and I go on a nice long bike ride. We're crossing the street and he jumps up over the curb onto the sidewalk. Well this is like his 80th time showing off like this so I think to myself "I can jump that curb. No problem." But considering I couldn't jump curbs when I was ten I have no idea why I thought I could jump it when I was 28. But I tried...so I slowed my bike down, took a quick glance to the oncoming car on my right. Deep breath, hit the brakes a little more, a swift look up watching the 4 other people on the trail...here I go. BAM!! Right into the curb. I don't even think I got an INCH off of the asphalt. My wheel turns around, I scrape my knee and hit the back of my leg with something. And then I burst out laughing. I look up at Marc and say "Did you just see what I did??" I'm cracking up as I slowly lift my mangled bike and body onto the sidewalk. The nice lady stops to see if I'm ok. I am I say...but my bike seat is twisted at a 90 degree angle and I'm just trying to ride away from these people because I look like a total idiot. I was bright red and so embarrassed. I kept thinking about how cool I would have looked if I would have jumped it...but instead I just looked like a crazy woman in her bike helmet trying to be cool! Bad flashbacks to childhood, let me tell you!

I finally catch up to Marc who asks if I'm ok. I of course say yes I'm fine, let me stop and fix my seat. Then I get the LOOK and the following "You know you should probably not try and jump curbs when your pregnant!". OOpps! I wasn't even thinking that I could get totally mauled by the pavement while trying to look cool. Sigh...guess I have to leave these types stunts alone for a while. Then eventually I can lecture my kids on being stupid and trying to jump curbs. But at least I tried.

And I solemnly swear to avoid curb jumping or otherwise dangerous stunts while pregnant.