Laughs, Somersaults, and New Do's

Friday night we joined a couple of John's co-workers for a comedy show in San Francisco--you may have seen Jim Gaffigan on Comedy Central--very funny guy.

Sunday, I went to a baby shower of a co-worker and oohh'd and aahh'd at all the adorable baby stuff.  Then on Monday, John and I got to see our little one on ultrasound again (for genetic screening purposes).  At first the technician wasn't showing me the screen because she was taking a bunch of measurements and needed to type, etc...but I got to watch John's face light up as he saw it appear on the screen, when she zoomed in on the heartbeat, or the face.  (He missed the second ultrasound I had, so he hadn't seen it since it was a millimeter blob)  Then the tech turned the screen and the baby must have been sleeping or something because it wasn't moving much, so she had me roll side to side and suddenly the baby was doing somersaults and waving it's hands and feet around.  Very cute.  We had a regular doctor appointment later that day and got to actually hear the baby's heartbeat.  John's face REALLY lit up at that appointment because the doctor told me I was near anemic and needed to eat more iron or red meat--the idea of steak and cheeseburgers had John smiling!  We saw awesome visuals of the baby this time, but the pictures she took weren't that great...but you can tell it's definitely getting bigger and more baby like!  13 weeks...
And depending on how you voted a few months ago, you'll either hate or love this decision...but I finally chopped my hair!  I had enough to donate it for cancer again, so that was cool.  And although it takes some getting used to, it feels lighter and I like that it has more body when it's shorter.  I can't style it like he did though, so this picture is about the best it'll ever look :)

Congrats to all the new Moms!

In the past 3 weeks, 4 of our friends have welcomed new additions into their lives!  First, Michelle had Aveya, then Kellee had Kyle, then Leslie with Alana, and finally Hayley with Noah.  2 boys and 2 girls!  All the moms and babies are doing well.  We can't wait to meet them--hopefully in 3 weeks when we're home for Thanksgiving!

12 weeks!

12 weeks is finally here!  A little less to worry about now.  And since I made Michelle post belly shots for me, I guess I must return the favor.  John jumped out of bed this morning with "a great idea"--he plans on taking a picture of me each week and then making a flip book out of them.  Great.  :)  That ought to be a great coffee table piece.  These pictures don't look so bad, but i feel like i look a heck of a lot bigger than this.  The first one is me still sleeping because i just woke up (me at my skinniest during the day), and the second is me at the end of the day (looking larger!).  

Oops, forgot to face the same way :)

As for what we've been up to the past couple weekends...Last weekend we stayed home and did a lot of nothing which felt great.  This weekend, John and I went to the San Mateo High School's performance of the broadway show RENT.  We were pretty skeptical going into it, but the high schoolers actually did an amazing job, and they barely modified the original version, which tells you CA is a little different than WI.  Let's see, what shows did we do in high school?...Fiddler, Oklahoma, and Carousel...um, yeah.  Sunday, Celia and Sean came up and brought free tickets to the Oakland Raiders game.  Unfortunately, it was a horrible game...we walked out at the end of the 3rd quarter when the Raiders were losing 24-0 (which ended up being the final score as well.)  We had a nice dinner after that though and then had fun running around Babies R Us just for fun...yes, we obviously had nothing better to do :)