Movin and a Shakin!

22 Weeks, or 5 1/2 months, but who's counting?

This week we have more movement every day, and I'm feeling great! Riley eats ice cream with me every night, and we go out on walks now that the weather is clearing up a bit. Enough people have told me they can see our baby is growing that we thought it might be time to put up a couple of pictures, so here you go!

Oh yea, that's a baby bump not a beer belly!

Drum roll please!
Yesterday we had a wonderful visit to radiology where we had what they call the "big" ultra sound. So this is it, this should be the last time we get to see our beautiful baby before the big day. The radiologist listened intently to my sorrowful story about how we found out about the pregnancy kind of late, and how I only had 1 little picture to look at, but my other pregnant friends had a few pictures to look at, and we left his office with not the usual 2 pictures, but instead we had 4 pictures! Woo Hoo! So here we go...

The baby was yawning when it first appeared on the screen, and never really closed its cute little mouth throughout the whole visit...


Here's a closer view of the last photo. The egg shaped blog near the mouth is an arm. Look at the slope on that little nose!!


I like to call this one Peetz Feetz. I actually thought we walked out of the office with three photos, but this one was stuck to the back of another photo and surprised me when I found it as I was looking excitedly through the photos again in the car. CUTE!!!! Now get ready, because here's our grand finale...


Look at those lips! Those are some Riley lips if I ever saw them. This is a 3-D image of the baby. Sorry if the arm looks a little scary to some, but I think it's absolutely amazing! We saw all of the vital organs (they're developing properly) and we saw all of the skeletal structures, too. When the baby first came on the screen we could see its little heart beating, and we could even see all four chambers! This was an absolutely amazing experience! It was even better after the radiologist let me up to pee! Now I know you're all wondering whether it is a boy or a girl, but we have changed our minds and decided to hold out for the ultimate surprise. I know some of you may think that green and yellow are boring colors, but there are so many other sexually ambigious colors to choose from! There are oranges and reds and blues and purples to combine with the greens and yellows for the developing he/she baby. Keep checking back, because we'll be going on more adventures around Oregon, and soon I'm sure we'll all be able to tell that I'm preggers.
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So it is a little after the date of the first ultrasound but we finally are figuring out how to post on here. This was our first view of the bean and oh how exciting it was. The ultrasound was taken at our first obgyn appointment. We were a little further along than we had both thought and we were able to have this photo taken. We also got to hear the heart beat for the first time. Amy and I were both a little dumbfounded that we were so far along that any questions that we had were forgotten.

This Sunday Riley and I took a trip up to Silver Falls. We hiked about 5 miles and we saw 7 waterfalls along the way. The rain didn't matter that much by the time we were behind a couple of the falls! Hope you enjoy the photos!







Check out this lipstick lichen!






You can see the coolest things in the forest! We saw this tree growing out of another tree almost near the end of our trek.