Gender Reveal!!

Merry Christmas!  

We know you have been waiting and waiting for this day to come...so have we!  So without further ado, check the volume on your computer so you can hear the audio on the video and press play!

(To view in full screen you may have to go to YouTube and watch it there.  Press the 'You Tube' button on the bottom of the video to go straight there.  Then expand the screen and watch.)

P.S. ~ For those who called me at 1:30am and 3:30am this morning...nice try! (I still love you!)

18 Weeks!!

Time has gone by so fast!  I can't believe that we are almost halfway through this pregnancy.  The count down for the gender reveal is getting close, only nine more days!  We thought since Christmas is right around the corner we would reveal the gender to all our friends and family at the same time Christmas Day!  What a great gift!  By email and/or blog you will be able to find out if Baby Palmer is a boy or girl!

Currently Baby Palmer is the size of a sweet potato, approximately 5.6 inches long from head to rump and 6.7 ounces.  Baby is growing rapidly, twisting, rolling, punching and kicking too!  I have seen on previous ultrasounds that Baby Palmer is a mover but I have not yet felt any of his/her movements.  I would imagine that it wont be too much longer before I can feel everything going on inside of me.  

Tim has officially completed his last flight here at this training command!  We are set for the January 13th Winging Ceremony and will be moving shortly there after.  Where????  We still don't know!  Hopefully we will find out the first week in January.

Last night was the HT-8 (Tim's Squadron) Christmas Party.  It was a nice night to dress up, get out of the house and enjoy the evening with friends.  They were giving away some awesome prizes including a 55 inch and 60 inch flat screen TV, Kindle Fires, iPods, and $$$.  We walked away with two squadron glasses that they provided for everyone attending.  

Baby Shower

The ladies from our Sunday School class put on a baby shower for me and another first time mom-to-be, Catherine.  Getting involved with this group at church is truly a blessing.  Tim and I have made some  wonderful friends and will be sad to leave them soon.  It is alway sad to leave our church friends because we get so close to them and they become family to us.

The shower was so sweet.  Everyone brought  heavy hors d'oeuvres to snack on all night and an adorable cake.  Since we don't know if we are having a boy or a girl yet they had the baker put Baby Palmer on the cake.  Catherine is having a boy and they are naming him Christian.

 It was so nice to have the love, support and prayers of these lovely ladies.  Everyone that came to the shower had to draw a piece of paper that asked them to specifically pray for Catherine and I and our pregnancies.  Some of the prayers were: comfortable pregnancy, easy delivery and the soon to be Daddy!

Catherine and I took turns opening gifts from everyone and had so much fun looking at the cutest baby stuff.

Baby Palmer made out with some great gifts!  I came home and set it all out so Daddy could see the neat things we got.

Baby Palmer got a few pieces of clothing, including a set of onesies with numbers 1 thru 12 sewn on them for a monthly photo to follow his or her growth.  I love this idea and am looking forward to documenting all of Baby Palmers achievements.  We got our first box of diapers and wipes!  THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!  I plan on using cloth diapers but for long outings, over night and in the beginning disposable  diapers will be our closest friend.  A dear friend and my P'cola Mama, gave us the softest sweetest bear and a beautiful picture frame that will be great for holding a bath time picture.  Those of you in my family that work in the medical field will like this next one, hanging on the left side of the picture is a scrub and stethoscope bib for those messy moments which leads to bath time with our ducky towel set and wash clothes.  The rest include cute bear slippers, two sets of mesh nibblers, teether rings, nail clippers, a giraffe cloth rattle and last but not least Baby's First Bible.

To all my friends, thank you so much.  I know Baby Palmer will love all the gifts and will put them to good use.

17 Weeks

Baby and I went to the doctor this week for our 16 week check-up.  Apparently at the Naval Hospital you only get to have ultrasounds routinely at your initial appointment, at your 20 Week appointment and right before you deliver to determine the position of the baby.  I had to ask the corpsman if I would be getting an ultrasound because I had not had one since October and thought I was due for one.  But lucky for us, the Doppler could not pick up the fetal heartbeat....kind of scary for a minute or two, so my doctor came in and did an ultrasound.

The first image we saw on the screen was a perfectly round circle.  The probe was looking straight on top of our baby's head.  The doctor was pretty impressed and said it was the best shaped head he has ever seen!    This was a Proud Mama Moment!  I can already brag that my sweet baby has the best looking head, not to mention quite a large looking head!  Unfortunately, Tim was unable to attend this appointment due to his flight schedule but I was able to bring two pictures home for Daddy!

This first picture is of our baby's arm and hand.  Baby was moving around a lot but got a picture of it's hand up by his OR her head.

(16 Weeks 4 Days)

This second picture is looking straight onto Baby Palmer's face...kind of a creepy skeleton image.

(16 Weeks 4 Days)

As for things at home, Tim and I are doing great!  Tim's Winging Ceremony had been scheduled for January 13th.  We are looking forward to the next adventure the Navy will send us on, unfortunately we will not know where that is until shortly before the winging.  Moving definitely was not on the top of my list of things to do while pregnant so we are trying to do a little preparing now so it will not be as stressful when that time does come.

As for now the ultrasound only revealed that Baby Palmer likes to move...a lot!  I have yet to feel any movements but I am waiting for them to show up anytime now.  Still waiting to find out if it is a boy or a girl.  At the very latest we should know by January 5th!  

Soon to come...a preggo pic of me and a shopping spree! (since my favorite pieces of clothing no longer fit!  Thank God for sweatpants!)