17.5 Weeks

Just to catch everyone up on the last couple of weeks. I have yet to sign up for yoga or the exercise class recommended by my OB, but I did get some physical therapy done and am feeling much better. I had a little argument with my OB, we'll call him, Dr S, about getting PT, but I got it anyway and will try to sign up for that exercise class this week. I met with the other OB doctor, Dr T, yesterday and I really liked him. He gave me the go ahead for an ultrasound any day after Wednesday (tomorrow). I have been told that I should wait until I am closer to 20 weeks to make sure they can see the gender of the baby, so I am waiting until September 26th, one day before my 20th week. I am so excited!

My mom has been bugging me about a picture, so I enlisted the help of Gary...I mean Michael to take a picture. Just a simple picture, but since I did marry a man just like Gary (and I do mean that as a compliment to you both), it had to be perfect. "How about under the Japanese maple," and "I want to see how far this camera zooms, so back up." He just wanted it to be nice. So of course, I hated all of them. I don't know where to put my hands and I feel so dumb. It's weird to want my belly in a picture! So we tried again today. I thought I would put in one of each. I hope this works!

This is me at 16 weeks...in front of the Japanese maple

And this is me today 17 weeks and 6 days (It looks like I got a tan in the last week!)

I can no longer wear my "regular" clothes and am almost totally in maternity. My belly really popped out last weekend and although this picture doesn't make it look so big, it is ALL I see! I had the 5 year old that I take care of take a picture of me on my camera phone to send to my mom and it turned out better than these...probably because he cut off my head!



I hope to continue to taking pictures and keeping this current. I hope you all are well! I am coming home next month for a week and hope that I can see all of you!

I can't resist adding a picture of my dog, Molly, now that I have figured out how.