I'm going to be one of THOSE parents

Yesterday at my appointment, I had an ultrasound and for the first time, I realized there is a PERSON living in there. I feel her move every day, but it was so cool to actually see her in action. We saw her at the last ultrasound, but this time she was clearly sucking her thumb and it was so cute! :) It's not too clear in the pic, but she was sucking her thumb, touching her face, and generally moving around like babies do.

I was so excited that I wanted to call everyone and tell them she was sucking her thumb, and that's when I realized I am going to be the type of parent I didn't want to be--the one who tells everyone all the cute things her kid did. So if you see me often and I do that, feel free to call me on it. We'll try to keep those cute milestones like "oooh, she turned her head" or "guess what--she pulled my hair" between Jay & I.

Everything looked healthy, which was of course great news to us, and the only bad news was that I gained too much weight. Oops. It was no surprise--I knew I needed to lay off the ice cream & candy. And lay off it I will do (notice I didn't say eliminate!)