BABY!!!

When I first got married I wanted to wait to start our family until we graduated from school. During that 'wait' I got sick and was diagnosed with a seizure disorder that resulted in me being on some pretty nasty medication. About a year later, after my health was on the mend, we decided to look into having a baby and learned that the medication I was on was very harmful and detrimental to a fetus and we would not be able to have a baby while on it. So we started a yearlong change of medication to something safer for pregnancy. Now after years of waiting and trying we are expecting our first baby.  

We are so excited to have a baby enter our lives and our family.  It all seemed so unreal at first, especially to Ben who wasn't feeling the morning sickness, and then we got to meet with our Doctor for our first ultrasound. It was at this appointment that we got to see the little alien for the first time, which was so cool and special.  But it was not until the doctor found the heart beat that Ben's eye's widened big and he got a huge grin- I think he finally believes that there is indeed a baby inside me. 

 Our little one is due January 30, 2013.  We are so excited and can barely wait for our little family to grow!

I send my parents updates on size and development and a couple weeks ago the little one had grown to a fig.  This is what dad said- such a dad joke but really funny!