So we found out today that we are having ..... A BOY!!! He's 12 ounces and very active. Pictures will come soon!

20 weeks(the middle of the fifth month). This week the baby was kicking me so I lifted up my shirt and tried to see if I could see the kick on the outside. Sure enough this little bump on my belly rose and fell with each kick. Really strange to see happening to yourself! I felt like a cast member of Alien. Then when the kicks had stopped for awhile I put my hand where the kicking had been happening and poked in a little just as the baby was kicking again. It kicked my fingers! I let out a little yelp from being both excited and freaked out. I mean my baby and I just made some kind of contact and I was hoping I hadn't poked its eye out or something. The dog picked his head up from the couch and looked at me like I was crazy. I now have a look with my eyes only approach to enjoying the baby's kicks!

The Baby is moving. Danny felt the baby move for the first time tonight. I was feeling some small kicks or jabs and thought I would tell Danny. He came over and sat beside me with his hand on my belly and he felt it. It was the strongest movement I had felt yet and I'm glad he was around to feel it. His reaction was "WHOA!!!" It was a neat bonding moment.

16 week check-up. Dr.'s appt. today. Went well, mom and baby are doing good. Danny came and heard the heartbeat for the first time. He said it was pretty cool. I'm sixteen weeks and 4 days now. I'll officially be 4 months this weekend. I'm feeling so much better than I did just weeks ago and finally can keep food down. I've been craving spicy foods and salsa all the time! Our next doctor's appt. is for the 30th of September. We have our gender ultrasound that day and can't wait to know if the jelly bean in my belly is a girl or a boy.