Life is Abso-freakin-lutely Fabulous

There is indeed a child inside of me. A child with a beating heart, a child that is continuing to grow, a child that will be born in late February 2007.

Yesterday at my doctor's appointment, Jim and I heard the heartbeat for the first time, and wouldn't you know as I am typing this I am getting teary eyed. Or perhaps that the dust in this office. Really, our custodian could do a better job. The doctor found the heartbeat immediately, the fast paced whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, so unfamiliar, yet so reassuring at the same time.

Jim and I left the doctor's office and we could. not. stop. grinning. We are parents! Right away we got on the phone and called family who had yet to find out. We emailed friends and immediately became involved in a frenzy of IM messages, email replies, and phone calls.

I wish I could write more right now, but my brain is going about a million miles a minute and I can't seem to focus on much.

Yesterday I was 14 weeks. Our kid is 14 weeks old. I can't wait for February to get here, and yet at the same time I want to stop the clock because I don't want to forget a single second of my life the next several months. It seems like just yesterday I had a sonogram picture taken of my 7 week old kid. Ohhh...they grow up so quickly.