Baby's First Picture

I had an ultrasound at my doctor's appointment on Friday and she printed out a snapshot of it for me. I know that is normally what they do but I felt like she'd bestowed a precious gift on me. It's been proudly displayed on our refrigerator ever since.

What you are looking at is the gestational sac (the black area) and the yolk sac (the white dot inside the black area that the doctor put little marks around). Baby is there but too small to see.


Looks like a beautiful and intelligent baby to us! :-)

Our Big News

It's official! We are five weeks and three days pregnant. I saw the doctor yesterday and she confirmed that the three home pregnancy tests didn't lie.

For the record here they are.

The first test -


The third test - this one helped convince Jay more than the others -

And here they all are together. We finally moved this off the counter before his poker night last week -