3D Ultrasound Pics

I had a doctors appointment today. I go every 2 weeks now. I first met with the OB and she measured my belly first - I'm measuring "a bit ahead" as she put it and then she said that should be expected with my past history of having a big baby. She said they'd keep track of things over then next few appointments and then probably do an ultrasound about 36 weeks to check the baby's size. She also listened to the baby's heartbeat, it was in the 140s.

After meeting with the OB, I had my 3D ultrasound. This was an ultrasound that I set up and paid for myself. It's just something fun the OB's office offers. Below are all the pictures that were taken during the ultrasound. Some of them turned out really good. Most of them are of her face, sort of a profile view, but she didn't move around very much during the ultrasound...

Front view of her face.

Hand up to her face

She made this "sour" face several times...very cute!

Great view of her hand!

Another sour face!

At the top of the picture is the bottom of her foot...

Hand over her face...

Not sure if she's got her thumb in her mouth, but if so, she didn't leave it in there long.

Her mouth is open...

Not much going on...

We celebrated Richard's birthday with a small dinner with family. Ivy insisted on having party hats - apparently it isn't a party without hats!!

A helicopter landed in our neighbor's yard... After watching who got out of it and who picked them up, we've decided that the folks in the chopper were here to buy a boat. Our neighbor builds custom yachts... Between helicopters and yachts who knew we had such fancy folks in our neck of the woods!

We spent the weekend in the mountains with my Dad. He's officially back and living in NC! He lives in Banner Elk and we had such a nice visit...

There was a park/playground right in downtown Banner Elk. We spent the majority of our time there and Ivy could have spent more time there!

Here's Ivy with Paw paw in the stream they have running down the middle of the park.

There was this cool slide made of rollers - Ivy went down that thing at least 100 times!

Ivy with some of the beautiful flowers...

Feeding the ducks and geese...

Picking blackberries with Paw paw...

Ivy and Paw Paw with the elk of Banner Elk...

Ivy on the bench at the park - I thought this picture turned out pretty good for just setting the camera in my lap...

And a picture from tonights bedtime routine...

Ivy got a new toothbrush! It's an electric toothbrush with Dora on it. She LOVES it and brushed her teeth over and over!

Catching up...

Here are some pictures from the last month - I realized tonight that I hadn't posted in about 2 weeks and that the last 3 posts were belly pics! The last post with a picture of Ivy was at the end of May!!

We went to Virginia Beach mid-June. Richard's Aunt lives there (his Dad's sister).

Ivy's first "real" boat ride

Ivy trying to run past Daddy into the water (the swim lessons have helped her become really comfortable around water!).

Waves coming in...

Ivy laying in the water...

She was having a BLAST!!

Again, trying to get past Daddy...

Ivy loves the beach!!

More fun in the waves...

Filling the bucket with water...

Later in the month, Ivy got a new picnic table - Her Grandpa Dave built it for her...

Ivy's friend Grayce turned 2 in June!! Happy Birthday Grayce! Ivy was invited to her birthday party at an exotic animal farm...

Ivy petting a camel...

All the little girls walking to see more animals...

Swim lessons went really well - Ivy became more and more comfortable in the water. Here she is going under after "jumping"off the side of the pool. I put jumping in quotations because she really just leans until you grab a hold of her... :)

And of course we all celebrated the 4th of July. We went to the parade in Greensboro. We rode in the very cool 1968 Buick Skylark and threw out candy to the kids. We all had a great time. Here's a pic of Ivy after the parade - she got some candy too!

26 weeks!!

Here I am at 26 weeks...

We are off to a birthday party tomorrow so I'll have more pictures to post - and I still need to post pictures from our trip to Virginia Beach! The to-do list is just too long!!! :)

24 Weeks!!

Last Friday was 24 weeks!! We left for Virginia Beach on Friday so I had to have my 24 week belly pic taken there (more on that trip in another post).

According to the books...Baby is about 12" long and weighs just over a pound.

Today's OB appointment...

Went to the OB today - met with a new doctor... She isn't super new to the practice, but was added since I had Ivy so I hadn't met her yet. Baby Sister's heartbeat was 145-150 beats per minute, so perfectly normal. I had gained a little more weight this time - so I'm up to 8 pounds gained so far. I've got a great list of excuses as to why I have gained more weight between this visit and the last one, but I won't bore you with them... :) I just need to make sure I make better choices this next month!!

Next appointment is July 6th, and it's the glucose test - YUCK!!!