Last Day of the Best Year

Hello Baby,

We are finally back from our east coast whirlwind, which wrapped up by far one of the greatest years of my life... at least the second half when we joined together and became Mommy and Baby! Ah, to remember all our great moments on this last day of the year - from the exuberance I felt upon learning you were growing inside me, to the big belly that I sport today where I can not only feel you but see you too - brings a big warm smile to my heart.

You also brought smiles to the hearts of your new family and to some of them, the heebee geebees... specifically your Aunt Jenny and cousin Alyssa who you freaked out with some strong kicks to their hands laying on my belly. Good times.

Before we headed out on vacay, I got to see you one last time this year and not only did everything look great but you waved to me or maybe you were waving buh-bye to the technician. Our trip out east was anything short of uneventful - starting with our connection into Jersey being canceled, to the pounding Blizzard that brought about 20" of snow to NYC, to whatever sickness I caught at the beginning of the third trimester that right now seems to have tapered off so I don't want to rehash it for fear it may be morning sickness and may stick around for these last few months. I just want the new year and these last 3 months to be nothing but joy so positive thoughts only.

Have to make the best of things from here on out and try to get as much sleep as possible, altho if these last 2 weeks were any indication that my sweet dreams are over, I won't be happy, maybe I just missed my snoogle.

Tomorrow, I will start the new year off right and post some new pics of us. Wait until you see how HUGE we're getting!

Happy New Year little one!

XOXO

Mommy

Phat Baby

Hello Baby,

We had our 24 week ultrasound today and the Dr gave you a fantastic report, even called you "perfect" repeatedly! Of course, your parents already knew that, duh, but he also called you chunky, which we didn't like so much... so rude. We prefer pleasantly plump! How could this be?! Because you are growing bigger and faster than the average bun in the oven. Your measurements show you are now the size of a big eggplant instead of being a lil eggplant. Your head puts you just over a week ahead of schedule and your body already measures 3 weeks ahead (that's a half pound heavier than average and when you're so little, just one ounce shy of 2 pounds, those 7 ounces sure are a lot). So, whoooaaa, slow down there tiger, or tigress. The Dr may chalk this up to good genetics and nutrition - which, surprise, once again your Daddy is taking all the credit for - but since you're developing inside my lil body, I'd be happy if you took a break from growing so much because I'm not sure if I can handle all of you on the way out!

It's nice that your head is growing fast because we are relating this to smarts, and as I've told you before we are hoping that you are Ivy League material... Go C-U!

So now we know why I've been feeling and we've been seeing so much movement on the right side of my belly... right now you are in a "frank breech" position on my left side looking right, with your lil baby feetsies up by your head so each time you kick or punch, we see it. I must say you are very flexible, I think you've been enjoying these last 4 weeks of yoga!

I've been on a boy kick recently and I'm starting to call you Becks. Soccer does run in the Fitzgerald family so I don't mind you practicing your shots (gooooaaaal!) in my belly. Even though at times it's not the most comfortable, I mostly just think it's cute, funny and absolutely alienish. And when you are being so active, we assume you are awake and bored so we've started reading to you, which I think you like. Daddy bought you some books that we're enjoying reading to you in preparation for your arrival in just about 3 months and 3 weeks. Hopefully, you are listening to us read to you and will enjoy the stories in your nursery as much as we think you enjoy them now! Or at the very least, you are getting used to our voices :-)

You will be hearing some new voices soon, those of all your grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins in just a few weeks on the east coast when we go home to celebrate Christmas with everyone. And I know how excited you are for pizza and bagels... yum!

Lucky me gets to see you two more times before we go, but I never get to see much of you at the weekly monitorings except for your heart so it was so awesome to see you today... chunks, plumps and all. Just look at you waving at us and that teeny tiny foot... so cute!


Another bit of good news, and if you are a boy, you will def appreciate this someday, Daddy won the regular FFL season, yay Daddy! Superbowl, here we come!

XOXO
Mommy