Drum Roll Please.......

It's a Boy!!!!

Big Baby Boy Scrupps at 20 Weeks and 3 days, measuring in at 21 Weeks and 3 days...

 Baby Boy's Profile. Anyone else see Ryan's nose and head shape?

 Baby with mouth open, profile again.

 So this is a little hard to explain, but it is a picture of his little fireman. His two legs are kind of bent, and then you can tell it is a boy from that little part in the middle :) I'm already embarrassing him by putting these up here!

*Note, this picture is supposed to be turned this way. This is looking straight on at the baby. You can see the skeleton face, eye sockets and nose, and then ribs and I believe some of the spine.

Ryan and I are both SO excited to be having a boy. We would have been happy either way, obviously, but we both wanted a boy first. Seeing the profile of the baby for the first time was simply amazing. It is hard to believe that the baby is that big already, and looks like a little human being and not some alien/panda/blob! I have to say, that my first instinct was right, I knew from the first second it was a boy. I will admit, I started having doubts, because so many other people were convinced it was a girl, but deep down I knew it was a boy.

Our 20-week check-up went fine, my blood pressure was little high, but that was because I was pissed off for having to wait in the waiting room for 40 minutes ( hehehe ). We had a new doctor, again, this time, and I really really liked her, I think Ryan did too. I am going to try and stick with her from here on out. She was just so much more personable and friendly (not that the other ones weren't, but you know...). I was granted permission to travel for Thanksgiving, so that was really good news! We got to listen to the heartbeat which was awesome, and the baby was moving around SO much that she was having a hard time getting a good listen. She joked that he must have been running a marathon or something. No WONDER I can't sleep!

20 Week Update

How your baby's growing:

Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. He's also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom and about 10 inches from head to heel — the length of a banana. (For the first 20 weeks, when a baby's legs are curled up against his torso and hard to measure, measurements are taken from the top of his head to his bottom — the "crown to rump" measurement. After 20 weeks, he's measured from head to toe.)

 

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Well, we have officially made it half-way (give or take a little bit). We have our 20 week appointment on Tuesday at 9:00am where we will get a sonogram, and hopefully find out the sex. I was given the wrong date and thought it was Monday, so now it feels like torture to have to wait a whole entire extra day! The baby has been pretty active, especially in the mornings and evenings. I keep trying to have Ryan feel, but as soon as he is there to feel the baby gets shy. Of course. He has felt a couple kicks though, and there are plenty more to come. 

I've been feeling pretty good, but I am having a heck of a time sleeping. It is a horrible combination of being uncomfortable, not being able to sleep on my stomach, having to pee every 30 minutes, and just being restless. I spend about 1/2 of the night on the couch,  the other 1/4 in bed and the other 1/4 in the bathroom, hahaha. 

Here is a 20 Week Picture:

 I have two things to add about this: 1.) Uh! I need to go clean our mirror! 2.) I have started to completely dread taking these pictures, so I cannot promise another one until I fell like I actually look pregnant and not fat and bloated. And I'm pregnant, so you can't argue with me about it :) hehehehe.

Ryan and I have been having fun at looking at baby onsies. I found this one, which I am going to buy because we both thought it was hilarious:

 

It is a joke for the Rifle Man's Creed, which is a Military thing...we couldn't figure out if it is just Marines or not?

(more to come...Ryan had something written, but blogger is being super dumb and it deleted it, so I'll have him re-write in a little while)