What's in a name?

I've missed a few weeks... so lots to catch up on.

1) We have finally decided on a name!! Yay! I'm so excited that we finally have a name for a little boy!

2) You can see movements from the outside! It seems so surreal to look down and see your stomach move around. It such a weird feeling, but so cool! It's amazing to see what God has made the woman body to do and create life.

3) Lee has finally felt the baby "kick!" It was such an amazing feeling to see the look on his face! I have been trying for weeks to get him to feel what I feel, but apparently he was unable to feel on the outside what I feel on the inside. But this past Sunday was the first time he actually felt it. At church of all places, the place where I felt the first "kick." I told him the baby was moving and so he reached over to feel. The look on his face was priceless! Followed by "Was that you?" Yes I'm kicking from the inside. ha! Then he felt it again! So cool! Finally! I feel like it seems more real to him now. ha!

Now for pictures and the name reveal....

 

Jace William Goggin

Halfway There!!

So overwhelmed with excitement! Still so excited to know that our baby is a boy! We have been mulling over names and Lee is having a hard time committing to a name... saying we have more time. Which I know we do, but I'm so ready to have a name for our baby boy! So hopefully we can agree soon!

I started the registering process this past week... talk about overwhelming! I'm glad I had my mom and friend Heather, who has been done this before, there with me. I had no clue where to start, but it was so fun to see and look at all the baby stuff. How could little bitty things not be adorable?!?

Anxious to meet my baby... 19 weeks to go!

It's A....

Boy!!!

The Gender Reveal was a blast and such a success! We were in complete shock. Lee and I both were 99% sure that we were having a GIRL. I just thought it was girl, thought I had that "mother's intuition" (apparently not). With my morning sickness and other "old wives tales", I thought for sure girl. Lee had been saying the majority of the pregnancy that it was a boy, until the sonogram. He thought he could tell from the sonogram that it was for sure a girl. He was so confident in his assessment. This then made me lean even more on the girl side.

So when the balloons popped out... I cried. Of course tears of joy... we were wanting a boy first. I'm still in shock. I was so confident that pink balloons were going to pop out, but blue came instead! So excited! We are so thrilled to start thinking of names and nursery ideas! I just don't have many words... I'm speechless. So excited!

Boy or Girl?!?!

Such an exciting week!

This past Sunday I felt the first "kick"! I was sitting in church and felt some movement and put my hand down on my belly at just the right moment! It was very surreal. I'm feeling more and more movements each day. So fun and yet so weird to think about another human life growing inside of you. Such a miracle! It's making this all seem so real.

Another exciting part of this week... we get to find out the gender!! I'm beyond excited! Somehow we are going to resist finding out at the doctors office and have them seal the results in an envelope. We will then reveal the results with our families! I am going to have to hand off of the envelope very quickly so that I am not tempted to rip it open and find out... this will be hard. Lee had decided he is just going to pay the doctor to find out. Hopefully that doesn't happen so that the surprise will be so special!

I can't believe we will find out boy or girl this week!! EEEK... We can finally start talking about names and nursery ideas and register.... oh the joy! I'm ready to meet this bundle of joy.

17 Weeks

Almost to the halfway point...

The doctor says I should start feeling some movements in the next couple of weeks. On Tuesday my stomach was twitching a lot, (like the feeling when your eye twitches) which some people say that is the baby moving around. It was happening an awful lot all day Tuesday, so I think it may have just been a coincidence.

Not much to report this week...

Here is our updated picture...

Here's to 2013

Goodbye 2012. You have been more than a blessing to us. We got to enjoy one of the best years yet. Mexico with the family in January, Disney World with the family in May, Paris/Venice/Florence/Rome in August, Branson for Thanksgiving with the family.... and the best part of 2012... finding out we are expecting! I couldn't have asked for a more blessed year. Thank you Lord for allowing us to enjoy your creation and blessings.

I can't wait for 2013! Ready to experience many firsts. The first time I feel my baby kick, finding out the gender of our little bundle of joy, seeing my baby's face, becoming a parent.... let the adventure begin!

Slowly showing...

The "showing" process is slow. Sometimes I don't think Lee thinks its real until I have a big 'ol belly. But slowly but surely, its starting to show itself.

I have several questions flooding my mind.
(For the mommies): Did you hire a doula? Any recommendations for the DFW area? How did you find your doula? When do you hire one? Is it too early now, or am I already behind? When do I need to order/buy furniture? Set up the nursery? Register?

I'm also getting very anxious to find out the baby's gender. It's killing me. We went by a garage sale that had a TON of baby clothes, most unused with the tags still on them. So we searched through them all to find gender neutral clothes, but these days it seem near impossible to find those. We went home with quite a few, but I would say we leaned more on the boy side of clothes. Our thoughts were that Lee had 2 cousins who just had baby boys that we could pass the clothes onto if we end up having a girl. Although some of the clothes like camo and such Lee informed me would still be put on our girl, if we have one.

I'm pretty sick to my stomach because we took our 13 and 14 week pictures and Christmas morning pictures and then realized that our memory card was not in the camera. =( so we now don't have those pictures. So we have to skip ahead to week 15. 

And somewhere within week 13 and 14...