Bettin' Time

We are almost at the half way mark! It's hard to believe. Time has started to feel like it's flying by the last few weeks. Melissa is feeling great. Her congestion is gone! We started using a humidifier at night and she wonders if that has gotten rid of it, but she is not willing to test her theory. Melissa really has zero complaints as of now. She is feeling good and enjoying being pregnant. She has her energy back, as you can see in the above photo.

As Melissa wrote above, she feels the little passenger moving each day! We read that the baby is starting to be able to tell the differences between morning, afternoon and night. She has noticed that the baby tends to move most in the late afternoon and evening.

We are counting down the days to finding out the passenger's sex. Anyone want to place bets on it? You have pretty good odds. We will actually be finding out on April Fool's Day. We hope the passenger doesn't realize that and play its first joke on us. Melissa had a dream recently that the technician told us the passenger was a girl and she replied, "No. I really think it is a boy. Can you check again?" I asked her to please refrain from living this dream out in real life. Needless to say Melissa thinks it's a boy, in which case we're going to call it Wesley Snipes (you know, passenger 57).

Thank you for reading and keeping up with how we are doing on this adventure and thank you for any and all prayers you offered up on our behalf.

Man, I ain't no Wesley Snipes...(scene continues)...Wesley Snipes, Passenger Fitty-Seven!

Boy or Girl?

We're Prepared

We have had a pretty good week. We remembered Melissa's brother this week as it has been two years since he passed away. It is still difficult to believe he is really gone. It makes us sad that our children will not get to know him. He was a such a special part of the family.

We had our third visit with the midwife last Friday. Things are still looking good, and we got to hear the passenger's heartbeat again. Melissa is feeling pretty good. She definitely feels that she has her energy back, which she is thankful for. Her only complaint is nasal congestion, which apparently is a pregnancy symptom and not cold related in her case. She read that if you get congested it probably will not subside till the baby is born... I guess we will need to stock up on Kleenex.

The most exciting thing that happened this week was probably Melissa feeling the baby move for the first time. She sneezed and then felt the passenger pushing back a little. She has now felt the baby move quite a few times and always tells me. I unfortunately will not get to feel the baby for another couple months probably.

We're continuing to prepare for the baby. I got a gun this week...a shotgun. So, if we have a girl, we're set.

Well that is about it for now. We hope to post a picture every week from here on out. We will do our best, so stay tuned.

S/he's gonna be a soccer player!