Third Trimester Butterflies! 28 Weeks

This is what baby looks like at 28 weeks!

August 29th 2012

We finally made it! I feel like a pioneer who has struggled across the plains of the mid-west and can finally see my destination in sight!

Except I would be naive to think I could even compare to these remarkable people.....

Tougher than I'll ever be

But in the great scheme of things, this being my first pregnancy, I feel so blessed to have reached this far in our pregnancy. I admit that I scare myself by watching too many Youtube documentaries of premature births and I should really cut that out of my routine.

Third Trimester is Great! 

I have officially been in the third-tri for two whole days and I am feeling pretty good about it....Jett and I are starting to think now about this little one coming into our lives and to put lightly, we have no clue what we're doing!!

Won't this be an adventure....

We have been greatly blessed by our family and friends so far and I think they understand and realize our incompetence because they have been so generous in helping us with what we are lacking in. Our sweet sister gave us some beautiful pink baby clothes and an adorable headband to match and another great friend of ours asked if she could give us her gorgeous dark wooden baby crib! I still don't know how we will ever repay her for that! What a sweetheart!

We are going to have a baby shower here in Utah on the 7th of October at our new house and a week prior to that, our family will make a long trip back to California for a sweet baby shower in the town I grew up in. Our baby is a lucky girl to have so many people who love her and I predict she will be plenty spoiled in goods and love.

Oh by the way, Jett and I were able to score a dandy little 3-D ultrasound! It didn't turn out all that great and it took the poor sonographers 3 different days just to get this shot...but in it you can see her sweet little mouth and nose and her hand is folded up against her cheek. That thing draped over her head is actually the wall of the placenta that she was so closely snuggled up against.

We have a stubborn child who after three days of prodding, running, jumping, getting poked, and consuming nasty soda STILL refused to let her face be seen. I guess as long as she's comfy I am alright with that. She certainly moves a lot when the sonographer isn't around to capture it on film. As if she's taunting us. 

I can't really tell yet but I certainly hope she looks like her sweet daddy! That would make me very happy. I can even settle if she at least inherits his smile:) I can never get enough of that smile and it would be so pleasant to have a double dose of it throughout life!

*Just a note to expecting mothers out there, if you plan on getting a 3-D ultrasound, just be warned that after you pay the $80 for it, there is no guarantee that you will be able to capture anything. 

Said by the ultrasound tech on day two of trying to get pictures:  "Hmmmm, she just doesn't want to come out of her little hiding place. Oh well. There is nothing more I can do." Done. Finished. Warm gel and wand down on the table. 

$80 Dollars and no pictures later, she was going to give up. But kicking our "sad puppy dog faces" into play, the woman took pity on us and invited us back one more time to try "even though they never give people a third try." The third attempt is when a different sonographer was able to capture the above photo.*