23 Weeks...

My friend, Angie, commented on my last post about how a papaya can be bigger than a cantaloupe?

Truthfully, I don't know! It's just what they say! But, when I was finding a picture of a papaya to use, it looked to me like a large papaya is about the size of a football.




So, this week, I'll say Baby Bruce is about the size of a football. Pigskin. Although, it doesn't feel that big yet.

However, I am getting pretty excited for football season this year!!!

GOOOOOOO BIG RED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, now that I got that out of my system...

I went to the doctor on Tuesday and had a great old time! It's true. I really liked the nurse practitioner who met with me. And all the other nurses were really nice, too. The ultrasound tech had time to take me, so we got another ultrasound done and she spent almost an hour with me! Mom went with me, since Stephen has been out of town, and we managed to still not find out the gender. The tech just told us when to look away from the screen.

Everything looks great! I graciously gave the lab SIX vials of my very own blood for all of my bloodwork. Holy-moly. I had a massive headache for the rest of the day, which I'm not sure was due to all the blood loss, but I'm going to say it was!

I go back in 4 weeks for my next appointment, which Huzz gets to come to. They want to do another ultrasound then because they want to get a better look at Baby's heart and little feet. Baby Bruce was being a stinker and kept hiding these two things from us. I was super excited, though, because I got to hear the heartbeat, finally! They never did that for me in the big K. The nurse thought it sounded like a girl because the heartbeat was pretty fast. But supposedly, that's an old wive's tale now. And Mom told me that they thought my bro, Kyle, was a girl through her whole pregnancy because his heart rate was so fast, so when she delivered and they said "It's a boy!" she said, "Are you sure?"

No matter what, I'm sure I will be totally surprised and I'm really looking forward to it. It gives me a little extra something to labor for. Ha!

We are headed to the Pacific Northwest tonight to visit Erik and Julie. FIL & MIL are already out there and we're all going on vacation together for a few days. When I'll get back, I'll tell you where we went and post pics! Have a great rest of your week and weekend!