almost 16 weeks

No belly picture yet :)

We had a doctor's appointment on Wednesday and every thing seemed to go well. It was one of those "how are you feeling" visits, which I normally love, but since I'm seeing a new doctor for a few months, it was a little different this time. He was nice and I'll be seeing him the following appointment. We finally got to hear the heartbeat, which Holden really enjoyed. He's said, "That's my sister," very matter of factly. We keep trying to tell him that it could be a brother, but he keeps insisting it's a sister. Maybe he knows something we don't. Ha! I asked the doctor the heartrate, after he had put up the doppler, and he said it was around 150, which could mean anything, so there goes my guess! :) We are scheduled for a sonogram on November the 5th, 3 days before we leave for Japan. I'm so happy we'll be finding out before we leave. We'll be getting the boys prizes while we're there and I wanted to do the same for them. We're pretty excited. So far we've had 3 ultrasounds, but this will be the first one we'll see that it will actually look like a baby to us, instead of a beanish blob. Hopefully we'll be able to do the 4D sonogram at some point. It's too amazing not to do this time around!

We still have a bit of name searching to go...We are settled on a boys name, but have only come up with one girl name, which we adore, but we want to make sure we've gone through every name possible, so that we know we've found the perfect one. Maybe we shouldn't stress out about it until we know what we're having. That would make things easier, wouldn't it?

So far:
@ 12 weeks I had lost 10 lbs.
@ 15 weeks, 4 days I gained back 4 lbs.
I've now learned that a good way to get rid of that baby weight that keeps hanging on his to get pregnant again ;)
My next appt. is two days after we get back from Japan- Nov. 16th.