Dixie in July

We're back, some of you didn't even know we where gone, but yes we did just get back from a week visiting my parents in Dixie, ID. It was so much fun, and as you see below, I worked really really hard :).

Baby Bump :) (16 weeks=4months)


Grammy and I traded off doing the real work :)


But most of the time we just sat on the porch talking & studying :)

It was awesome & I wanna go back :)

Ontario & Nampa '08

We went to Ontario & Nampa to visit & got to hold the cutest baby in the whole world. This is Kairi Eulene Townsend (3 1/2 weeks old) and I've known her parents since I was about 15 or 16 years old. We had a bbq in my brothers back yard and just hung out, relaxed and caught up. It was really an eye opener to hold a baby that small and realize that we where going to have one of our very own very soon. We had a really good visit, both with Joe's family in Ontario (we got to play with his cousins baby too who is only 4 1/2 months old), and with my brothers & friends. But I'm always glad to be home.

It looks like a baby!

We had our ultrasound today and it was amazing! The baby is 12 weeks and 6 days old and you can see hands, fingers, toes, nose... we looked between the legs too to see if we could see anything there, but it’s still too early. But they said everything looks good. The heart beat is strong and, oh my gosh, the baby moves around so so much! The technician was having a hard time getting a good look because he kept moving & jumping. Oh and it was really special because not only Joe & i saw it, but my mother-in-law Shelley got to go as well and see her grand baby for the first time. It was amazing and overwhelming... I’m still processing, but couldn't be happier. Blogspot is being wierd and wont let me upload the pics, so for now i'm just going to put them on our photo gallery (click on the link on the left side of the page). I will put them on here though as soon as it quits being corky :)
Em

3 Month Belly Bump

Wow I can't believe it’s already the end of the first trimester! Its absolutely crazy, and although i really want to enjoy it, I kinda hope the last two trimesters go just as fast. As most who have seen me know, my belly is kinda popping out so I thought I’d put a pic on here just to prove (mostly to myself) that yes, I indeed have a three month belly bump.

All is well

Just an update for anyone who cares. We had our 10 week dr. appointment yesterday and all is well with Bullwinkle (as my dad has taken to calling the baby). The highlight of the appointment, of course, is when we got to hear the baby’s heart beat. I don’t think that will ever cease to totally amaze me. It’s still so hard to believe there is actually another human growing inside of me! But of course, the baby constantly reminds me of his/her presence through continual nausea, fatigue, and tiny-tiny itty-bitty mood swings J.
Its definitely been a totally new and different experience, even in these first two and a half months. I feel my body changing as if I’m being taken over by a foreign object and I now have little to no control over how I feel, what I want, or how I react. For example, I have found that my memory decides simply to abandon me at random times. From forgetting my address at the bank to walking across a busy parking lot in a total daze (and almost being hit by a smiling mail man) I fin d that I simply check-out of the hotel at times (and yes bring on the blond jokes).
Any way, that is what is happening in the world of growing Knapp household so if I tend to either randomly bite your head off or break down crying for no apparent reason, you have been warned. Thank you all for your support J
Emily

The first ultrasound!

We heard the baby! It was so cool! It was really hard at first to go back to the hospital because the last time we were there was devastating. But this experience was so different. The ultrasound technician quickly found the gestational sac then continued to point out, what to me looks like a uvula, and explained it was the embryo! I know it doesn't look like much but that little piece of white in the middle of the dark is our baby!

Then she showed us the heart on the outside of the embryo and told me to hold my breath & we could hear the swishing of our baby’s heart. Thats the picture on the right. The lines at the bottom are the baby's heart beats.

It was so emotional, and yes I cried, but I am happier then I can even say. Our baby is 3 mm long, healthy, and right on track to be born on Jan 8, 2009. Thank you everyone for all your support!