22 week visit, Mother's Day and new words!

Today was my 22 week visit. I was relieved to find out that all was well with our little one. Dr. Nieto comes in and says "what did you guys see at the ultrasound?" and my answer "a baby!" she knew then that we wanted the baby to be a surprise. She stated that that all was well with the report from Radiology. Here are our new stats:

My BP: 131/76

Wt gain: 9lbs

Baby's HR: 156

Our critter is active at fairly regular intervals. I can count on him/her being awake around 8am, 1pm, then again at 8pm. The baby fidgets a bunch but not a whole lot of limb extension yet. He/she still has lots of room to move around. A couple of times I have felt some good punches or kicks and I yell out "whoa!" because it catches me by surprise. We love this little baby so much already.

Mother's Day was better than the last one. I still did all the cooking and cleaning. I will have to work on Adam with that. We had friends and family over and enjoyed a nice brunch while the kids played. Nolan gave me a book by Dr. Laura Schlessinger (my favorite person) called In Praise of Stay-at-home Moms and Adam gave me some resistance bands to go with my turbo kick DVD he got me for Christmas. I know you ladies might be thinking "man, he must be telling her something" no, no, no he just knows how much I enjoy staying active and fit so he wants to make it easy on me. He's a good man that always buys me the perfect gifts. Last Christmas I got a jump rope and I was ecstatic!

Tuesday was Nolan's new word day. Adam and I thought he must of sat in his crib the night before and studied because come daylight he and I were outside and flying overhead were some birds chirping happily at the spring time weather and he looks up, points and proclaims "birds". I was surprised. He had never said that word before. I had said it many times but not even on that day. Later in the afternoon I was changing his diaper and he reached out to me. I though he wanted to poke my nose and instead he grabs my cross necklace I always wear and he always played with as a baby when he would nurse and said "pretty". Bless his heart. Later that evening while Adam and I were in the garage moving stuff around Nolan found his snow boots and as if he had always saw them he said "boots". Crazy how they learn so passively. I have learned not to press things with him. He is learning everyday and in time he will reveal just how much he already knows. I never take his intelligence for granted because I think those wheels are always spinning. Among those words are "cat, shoes, truck, please, mama, dada, cup, uh-oh, boom, touch, fish, hi, paw". 

Adam is back in action full speed ahead at the squadron. He has busted the door down on 2 FLUG, they have OREs, ORIs and a few other war games they will be playing this summer as well as our own plate being full with SOS in June (booo...Nolan and I will have to stay behind) family vacation in July and a new baby coming in September. Hang on, it's going to be a bumpy ride!