16 weeks

Well we have an exciting update to share this week - Harper is going to have a baby sister!!  As I had mentioned before Andy has been dying to know but I insisted we wait. Well, we had planned to do a gender reveal party next weekend but my Dad was on call so the next weekend we could do it was the weekend after Christmas... an awfully long time to wait.  But, we did plan on waiting... in fact I had already ordered something from etsy that we were going to use to make the reveal.  Then I woke up the  day before Thanksgiving and asked Andy if he just wanted to find out that day.  Of course he said yes so we decided that if we could get an appt at one of the pregnancy spas in town then we would go get an ultrasound done and find out!  Sure enough they were able to squeeze us in and although she was sitting so proper with her little legs crossed in front of her our tech was able to coerce her into moving a bit.  I didn't feel surprised at all for some reason.  For quite a few weeks I had thought it was a boy but then for the last couple weeks I had been thinking girl.

Andy decided he was going to skip Thanksgiving festivities and head back to the office to make some more money for the weddings in his future... I reassured him that we would be saving so much money with all the hand-me-downs from Harper ;)  Of course we are so excited to have two sweet girls and I hope they will be the best of friends!!  And I hope they think I'm not too embarrassing to hang out with either ;)  And with baby Claire right across the street... these girls could be a handful in just a few short years!!

Everyone is now asking about names and for some reason I'm having a hard time with it - we had our boy name picked out for sure but not positive about girls.  Our other girl name last time was Emma Kate and Andy still loves that.  I also really like Caroline though at the moment... but then I'm always thinking of other ones I love too.  We will see!

Anyhoo,  here's our little update for the week

How far along: 16

Total Weight Gain: 6lbs
Stretchmarks: None but need to get serious about lotioning up the belly 

Sleep: like a rock, except Harper cutting some molars has brought me back to the newborn age at times ;)
Best Moment This Week: healthy heartbeat of 155... so similar to Harpers.. and then finding out it's a girl!!
Movement: nope

Gender: Girl!
Labor Signs: braxton hicks already... so soon!
Belly Button: lived in
What I Miss: not much
What I am Looking Forward to: feeling baby move
Milestones: baby is the size of a turnip

I definitely am bigger this time than I was with Harper - I looked back at my old blogs to see when I broke out the belly band... not until like 22 weeks!! ahhh!! I am wearing scrubs for the next two weeks and had been fine in my work clothes until now... we will see with the middle of December brings ;)