Sneak Peek

There are a lot of sacrifices involved with seeing a husband and daddy through OB residency... we share quite a few meals at the hospital and don't always see him as much as we would like... but there are also some really great perks! We haven't taken as much advantage of the ultrasound machine on the floor this time as we did with Carolyn- because we decided that constant surveillance only served to increase my anxiety level- but we took a little peek at the little baby tonight! Carolyn's brother or sister is growing! She saw the baby on the screen and we told her it was the baby in Mommy's tummy and she said "Baby Aria!" [side note: one of my best friends who Carolyn frequently sees just had a baby named Aria so Carolyn thinks all babies in tummies are Baby Aria]. It's too early to tell the sex (as we expected) but we got to see a lot of other cool stuff and it was just neat to see him/her jumping around in there, even though I can't feel most of the movements yet.

Here you can see the baby's profile.
And here you the eye and mouth and nose- also a knee.
Here he/she is looking at us and opening and closing his/her mouth.
Check out the arm and hand! We didn't get a picture of it, but the baby waved to us at one point!
I admit this is a little freaky, but it's also really amazing to see all the bones in that little arm and fingers right where they should be. I'm so excited for that little hand to grab my finger in less than 6 more months! :)
Hope you also enjoyed this little sneak peek! We don't get as much time to just sit around and think about being pregnant with this one as we did with Carolyn- she keeps us pretty busy! But it is fun to have moments like this when we can stand back and marvel at the miracle God is hard at work on inside my body! It still gives me the chills to think about how He creates a whole, new, complete individual this way!