Beating Heart

So I am not the best at posting, and although I have nothing really new to report I figured I would fill you in on my doctors appointment this week.  I went in on Tuesday morning and it was so nice being the first patient of the day with no long wait in the waiting room. 

When I went back the PA came in right away cause the doc was out of town and she pretty much told me that it was gonna be really quick and that she was just gonna check for the baby's heartbeat with her little monitor thing and then answer any questions that I had.  So as she started telling me about the AFP test (or Quad Screen Test- has anyone taken this??? what did you think??) that I could opt to take at my next appointment, she also started rubbing the cold little monitor on my belly and the little monitor just sounded like static. I wanted her to stop talking so badly so that I could just try to listen for a heartbeat but she just kept on talking away... it was probably to keep me calm while she searched for the heartbeat, because as soon as the heartbeat was loud and clear she just smiled and stopped talking right away. But then she only listened for like maybe 5 seconds... at least that's what it felt like to me. Oh well... at least a little baby heart is still beating loud and clear inside of me. Good feeling! 

So I was getting all excited about making my next appointment cause I was thinking that since I will be 19 weeks and some days that they would do the ultrasound to find out what we are having... but NO!!! She said that I would just come in for a regular checkup and then the blood test (if I decide to take it) and then I would schedule an appointment for about 2 weeks out to see what it is that we are having!! I was so sad... but this is okay.  This is probably a test of my patience and I am just gonna look at the bright side... hopefully by the time that we get the ultrasound the baby will be 2 weeks bigger and hopefully the ultrasound will just be super accurate. 

Overall it was a good appointment... the PA was really nice... and it means that I am 4 weeks closer to this baby being born than I was at my last appointment! Yay!! I think these are the 1st doctors appointments that I've ever actually looked forward to. Weird. Well I hope you are all having a good week!! I didn't wanna leave this post super boring with no pictures so this is completely random but I am gonna post a pic of Aaron and I at Thanksgiving in Lake Tahoe... we had just barely found out that we were pregnant but hadn't told our families yet and it was so hard to keep in all weekend cause I was feeling so sick and tired...

Here is one of my HOT hubby and my awesome cousin Matthew that I caught before we left Tahoe!