Boy or Girl?

We can finally stop referring to the baby as 'the baby.' Today, we had our 2nd trimester ultrasound and learned some new things: He's a he, he's healthy with a good looking brain and a strong heart, and he's quite active – although Emily is well aware of this by now.  It was pretty unreal to see him kicking his feet and rubbing his face. At one point, we even saw him open his mouth. I bet he was just saying, "shut it, fools, I'm trying to sleep."

Here's his face peeking out.  

He's waving his arm in front of his face. 

And here are the bottoms of his feet. 

Baby Bump Update

Here are some new baby bump pics. Em is showing much more now and it seemed to happen pretty suddenly. We saw Kelly and Jonathon on the 12th and then again on the 18th and they noticed a dramatic difference just in those 6 days.

The baby is still pretty active. On Saturday the baby was really active and Chris was even able to feel it from the outside! It's all pretty amazing.

Here is another pic of the bump and an excuse to upload a cute Gidget pic.

Stay posted! We have an ultrasound on Thursday. Hopefully we'll learn if this is a girl or boy then!!

Flipping Baby

I'm starting to feel the baby a little bit more these days.

It's hard to explain what it feels like but I have been trying hard to visualize what the baby is doing in there. I have decided the baby is doing flips. I thought about it... the baby has a little bit more room now, room to play around... it won't get swimmers ear or water in it's nose like you do in a pool... there's not much else to do in there... if I were in the baby's position I'd do flips too.

Our baby pics - according to VW

Emily and I uploaded our pics to this application we found online – the Babymaker3000. This is the result the first time. Cute baby, huh?

Here is a link to the result of the second time we did this: http://www.vw.com/vwhype/babymaker/en/us/?mId=28237778

Notice the huge forehead! Before today we never realized that we both have big foreheads!