My First Pregnant Road Trip!

It's early in the morning and I am hoping that in spite of my much more sensitive digestive system and need for snacks we will find ourselves in Indiana by nightfall. I'll let you know how the adventure goes. It is ususally a 10 hour trip with decent weather and tolerable traffic, I am doubting we will have both. We plan to leave in the next hour. Of course the fact that we are taking our four legged child could also make it more interesting. More news later!

The Great Gender Debate....Your opinions please!

Okay so here's the deal....I have pretty much always been of the mind that I wanted to be surprised at the birth by the gender of our children. However, it seems this is not the norm these days. When people ask if we "know yet" what we are having and I say I don't want to know I have gotten lots of strange looks and comments like "well...I just had to know!"
So I'm weird...Nothing new as I'm sure most of you who know me well would agree.
To make things a bit more interesting however it appears that the merchandising world is against me in my plight to not be overwhelmed with pink or blue and ruin one of the only real surprises in life. I tried to find a non-gender specific bib that said "I love daddy." We ended up with a blue bib with puppies that was the least gender specific item I could find!
May seem strange but even as a kid I never would sneak and unwrap my Christmas presents. In fact, it never even occurred to me to do so! So even though Dave would lean toward finding out I have been so against doing so he says that we will not find out because my opinion against is stronger than his for finding out.
So I am wondering am I missing something...Maybe there are things I had not considered in making this decision....What do all of you think??? We care about your opinion or we would not have sent you the link to this silly thing. So please....Weigh in with your opinions about the great gender debate....To know or to not know that is the question!

All is well....

We went to the doctor this morning and she reported all is well. She was able to use the dopler to let us hear the baby's heartbeat and said that the little lima bean apparently was enjoying the sausage gravy on toast that Mommy had made for breakfast. She cleared me to exercise as long as I don't get my heartrate above 140.

At this point I have given up on non-maternity clothes excluding things like yoga pants as they are just not comfortable on my expanding tummy. I will be 14 weeks tomorrow and I am already counting down the time until we can meet this little person (though I don't want to rush things). I still say that I have waited far to long to have a baby only for it to be wisked off to NICU so I plan at cooking the bean until at least 36 weeks, for as long as it wants to stay in there. (You may need to remind me of that statement in about 5 months from now.)

One more picture before the doctor's appointment

Hi all,
A few of the pictures from the last ultrasound were a little odd looking, and a few others are really hard to make anything out, but here is one more that has decent detail. Looks like some feet and a hand in there. We'll post more after we meet with the doctor on Friday.