Falling in Love {again}

Falling in love with Kevin and getting engaged was without question the best time of my life.  I just love the beginning phases of falling in love...it feels like you're on top of the world.  No matter how terrible my day was, going home to him was (and still usually is) the greatest blessing of my life.  In the beginning, there was nothing to argue about, getting to know each other kept conversation interesting, and every little detail about each other was new and fresh.  As we all know, this feeling fades away a bit after some time has passed - the love is still there and quite frankly the hard times strengthen that love so I'm thankful that the new-ness fades and we can experience the high's and low's together.  But there is still a small part of me that misses that new love.  I figured I would never feel it again since I am happily married and have no intention of falling in love with someone else - but how little did I know that I would fall in love with someone else.  A TINY someone else.  I am quite sure this feeling will continue to grow and the day I get to finally meet this little blessing will rank right up there with the day I got to marry this miracle's daddy.  I could stare at these pictures all day long...thankfully I have a job and I can't think about it non-stop, but when it drifts into my mind, being able to take a quick peek makes my heart speed up and reminds me of how blessed I really am.


So yesterday, Julie went to her first ultrasound at her regular OB's office.  When she was going through infertility treatments, our Doctor continued to reference her "HUGE cysts" and had communicated that there is a possibility of these cysts rupturing, which would obviously be very painful and could create some problems for the pregnancy.  With that being said, her OB wanted to keep a close eye on the cysts and of course, while she was at it, she wanted to give us a little preview of our bug.  :)

She immediately texted me when she left the office - that baby's heart rate was 171!!  I thought she had typed it incorrectly, but it was followed up by saying that it was probably that high because it virtually didn't stop moving the entire time they were doing the ultrasound.  Hilarious.


This is a picture of it's back because it wouldn't cooperate :)

Now, if you're anything like my husband (or lots of other people I know), this looks like a big blob.  I don't know why - but I've ALWAYS been fascinated by ultrasounds and I have always been pretty good at being able to detect what I'm looking at.  But for those of you without such an amazing gift - I have labeled the ultrasound for you :)

It's in the same position for this little video - I'm sorry the quality isn't great, but let me explain the little set up we had for this operation:  Julie had the DVD from the doctor's office, she put it in her computer.  Using Dan's phone, she Facetimed me.  Using my phone, I video'd this little gem.  Soooo, the quality is about 4th hand by now :)  Anyway, it's in approximately the same position (head at the right, legs at the left) and you can see it flip forward and backward.  It's little legs keep crossing and uncrossing.  I'm in love.  I've watched it about 15 times since last night - seriously.

And my most favorite of all the pictures.....

This perfect and amazing profile.  Melt.My.Heart.

Need help deciphering?

I am so in love with this little miracle.  :)

Be back later this week with an 11 Week BUMPdate -