Yo Daddio!

And.....now.....in the blue corner.....weighing in at.....well, there's no need to go further with that one.  Hello to all readers!  When Jess created this blog a little over a month ago, I told her she would *MAYBE* see an occasional post from me, but it would be doubtful. Myself, I'm not a big fan of writing about my everyday happenings, but it's great to keep track of what we're going through during this special time and to have a place to share photos and updates with family and friends.

Today was a really exciting day as we had our third appointment, followed by an ultrasound.  We had a quick appointment with a midwife first.  The most exciting part of this was that we got to hear the baby's heartbeat with a doppler stethoscope! She placed it near Jess' belly and after a few seconds we heard a heartbeat.  "That's Jess' heartbeat, the midwife said".  We were told the baby's heartbeat would be about twice as fast.  We continued to listen and a few seconds later, there it was....the sound of a faint, fast heartbeat.  Music to our ears!  So cool.

After our appointment with the midwife, we met with the sonographer who began the ultrasound. He took his photos and measurements and told us that he/she was measuring almost 3 inches tall, about the size of your pinky. So, in honor of that, in today's post (and just today's post), the baby's name will change from "peanut" to "pinky".  See, that's just another sign that pinky is probably a girl. We had the pleasure of watching pinky tossing and turning all over.  I swear pinky knew we were checking it out since it was squirming all around, almost like it was trying to find a comfortable position. We caught some good profile views and front-on views of pinky as you'll see in the photos below.

   

Crazy!  At one point, we could see it looking right at us, mouth wide open.  Jess said it looked like one of the singers from the band Kiss.  I thought it looked like Yoda.  Hopefully, we won't have an ancient-looking Yoda baby, although I won't complain about having jedi-master offspring.

All joking aside, it was a great day and a priviledge to be able to watch our growing baby on live TV. I just can't wait until I get to meet our little movie star, live and in person.