Introducing...My Tummy!

These photos was taken two weeks ago. I am just a little bit bigger now...not much though.

Love,
C. Ray

Active Baby...Restless Mommmy!

This week must have been the fetus olympics. The baby has moved around sooooooo much. He does flips, he kicks, he pushes, he balls up into knots. All I know is that for a teenie tiny thing, he deserves the gold for keeping his mom awake. Last night for example, we are laying in the bed. Lamarence is half sleep, like always...I am trying to turn the tv off but I was watching Wedding Crashers...funny movie...all of a sudden the little boy inside my stomach starts doing back flips. I turn off the tv, ready to go to sleep and he is still at it. This is at 12 midnight...at 2:30am he is still at it...at 6:00am he takes a nap...and by 7:00am he is up for the day!

So now it is 11am and I am at work...barely able to keep my eyes open. The only reason I came to work today was because I have a lunch meeting. Please know that I didn't come because of the meeting...I came because of LUNCH!!!

Sidebar...Women are remarkable creatures...men would not be able to handle being pregnant...could you imagine a man with a lop sided tummy, a man having contractions, a man having to pee every five minutes, a man having mood swings and crying fits...well i can imagine it...too bad it will never happen!

LADIES...I NEED YOUR HELP....PLEASE POST SOME TIPS THAT YOU LEARNED WHILE PREGNANT OR TIPS THAT YOU HAVE HEARD OR GOTTEN FROM OTHER WOMEN WHO YOU KNOW WHO HAVE BEEN PREGNANT...REMEMBER THIS IS OUR BABY!

Love ya,
C. Ray

My Baby Has Ten Fingers and Ten Toes!

Ok, so today was the day. Firstly, today started off a bit rocky. You know those pregnancy hormones were going all over the place...I even started crying today. Everyone who knows me knows that I am generally not a cry baby but for some reason I was highly emotional.

We arrived at the hospital for the ultrasound and all was right with the world. We went in the room and I was lying on the table and all I could think of was. Today is the day that I get to see my little baby in action. I mean I feel the baby move all the time but today I get watch the baby move! From what the ultrasound revealed everything looked great with the baby. 10 fingers, 10 twos, 2 kidneys, a heart beating at a rate of 148 beats per minute, 2 feet, 2 hands, and a big old head...GO FIGURE!

So...I know the sex of the baby and I am very happy. I decided not to post the sex as of now. If you would like to know you can just ask me, but I didn't want to ruin this for the people who didn't want to know.

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SIKE!...................................................IT'S A BOY!

I am having a little rock head boy. They showed us the penis...either that was a penis between his legs or his belly button is a huge outtie! L and I were both extremely excited with these results. We wanted a boy from day 1 and now in November we are going to have him.

I will wait until a later date to tell you the name we have decided upon.

Love Ya Much,

C. Ray and Baby Boy and the father...yea yea yea

One More Day!

Well...tomorrow is the day that I will find out the sex of my baby! I can't wait. For the past 21 weeks I have been wondering what the baby looks likes, is it a boy or a girl, and so many other questions and scenarios. So tomorrow at 11:30am, Lamarence and I will go to the hospital to have our level 2 ultrasound done.

The ultrasound not only tells the sex of the baby it also determines if the baby is growing normally. Checks the fingers and toes, the head...all that good stuff. We just pray that we have a healthy baby...we really don't care what sex the baby is.

However, he has a baby boy's name picked out already and I absolutely hate it! So part of me is hoping that it is a girl so I can get out of giving my baby that horrible name. Well truth be told...no matter what the sex of the baby is...I am the boss and I will be the one with the final say as to the name of our child.

Just to update you on my condition and the baby, I will tell you what is happening at 5 1/2 months. The baby kicks and moves around all the time. If I am sitting in a position that the baby does not like, he or she will simply kick me to make me move. So bossy already...i guess this baby is more like me than I would like him or her to be. I also don't get sick as often as I used to. I still have a little nausea in the morning but it usually subsides throughout the day. However the past 2 days were really bad. I also gained 3 measley pounds. I was so excited when the nurse told me that I had finally gained weight that I almost jumped off the scale.

Well that is it for now! Till tomorrow!!!