Most of you know that Callen and I work together and because of that every now and then we eat lunch together. We decided on Wednesday May 16th to get lunch at Panda Express. We brought lunch back to the office and ate at our desks. I opened my fortune cookie and my fortune said, "Your wisdom will keep you from harm and danger." I kind of laughed and took it to Callen and said, "I think this fortune was supposed to go to you." (the reason is bc Callen was leaving the next morning for Honduras) I went back to my desk and then a few mins later Callen comes in and says the same thing to me about his fortune, "I think my fortune was supposed to go to you." I read it and it said, "Exciting news is in your near future." That night we decided to take a pregnancy test and sure enough it came out positive. :)
I am now just over 18 weeks along (4 1/2 months) and thankfully feeling better. The first 16 weeks were pretty brutal for me being sick every day, so I am very happy to be feeling back to my old self. (well for the most part). The 2nd trimester has definitely brought on some new experiences for me. I'm now experiencing charley horses just about every week and feeling dizzy/light headed every now and then. It's not a very pleasant experience but I'll take it over throwing up and feeling nauseous any day. :)
When I was in my first trimester I had heard from some of my friends that they found out the gender of their baby at about 16-17 weeks, so I just assumed that was when I would find out. However, my doctor told me I wouldn't find out until 20 weeks. I was really bummed I would have to wait another month, but then I heard that you can find out early...you just have to pay a fee. Callen and I decided it was worth paying to find out early, so we found out at 16 weeks that we are having...drum roll please..........a BOY!!!! It was so fun and exciting to see our baby during the ultrasound. He was stretching a lot, so the Sonographer was able to get some awesome pictures of his hand and foot stretched out. :) We both thought the baby was definitely going to be a girl, so it was definitely a surprise to hear it's a boy. It's kind of funny because Callen really wanted a boy and it didn't matter to me if it was a boy or girl, so when the Sonographer said it's a boy Callen got really excited and was definitely expressing it in the ultrasound room. :) About an hr later Callen told me that he was kinda bummed and when I asked him why, he said, "I wanted a girl too." hahaha I just told him I'm sorry and that I wasn't having twins. :) We are really excited to have a boy first and have him be the big brother to his younger siblings. We have another ultrasound in 2 weeks, so we are excited to see the growth of our little boy. :)
