A Butterball Turkey, the a size of a lemon

So, you lucky ducks get to skip week 13. I was tired and it looked like a boring blurp to read. as does this one. Sorry. But what is exciting is that we had an ultrasound yesterday and I realized I have a plump little monster inside of me. And here's a shocker for ya...they changed the due date (AGAIN!) to Oct. 31. BUT the baby is measuring a week early (right on my original due date: Oct 24th). I laughed at them and told them to pick a date any date, my luck this thing will be stuck in me til mid Nov. If you do the math I realize this only puts me at 13 weeks...let's just say I refuse to count backwards :) We got to see baby's hiccups and watch it flip around. They had a hard time getting the measurement they needed, they tilted the bed, jiggled my stomach and all kinds of crazy tricks to get baby to move to a better position.

And the million dollar question has been "when do you find out the sex?" Well, we don't have a date for the ultrasound set just yet. My next appt is on May 17 and after that I will make the gender US appt. It gets tricky because I have another US scheduled on June 5th already (exactly 6 weeks from now) that I could just wait until then to find out. Honestly I'm not in a hurry to find out. Once we know the sex the pressure is on, everyone stresses me out with talk of themes for the nursery and showers and questions about names pop up...AHHHH! I like to fly by the seat of my pants, Andrew needs to figure everything out this second. I think I'll enjoy saying "we don't know anything" for a little while longer. In the meantime, maybe I'll get a belly photo up by the end of the week?

A non-baby post will be coming soon! Andrew and I have been busy pretending to be interior designers and get our house to look alive. It's a headache and I'm already sick of looking at paint samples. But yay for me, I bought pillows and curtains wahoo! 

Little butter ball turkey measured 8cm from crown to rump

High Five!

Baby Center Week 14 Update:
This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.
In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.