Christmas shopping

I am finished with my Christmas shopping! I did a lot of online purchasing this year so I am just waiting for a few gifts in the mail but otherwise I am done. And all of the gifts that Josh and I have already purchased (and recieved) are wrapped and ready to go. I can't say that they are under the tree because we don't have our tree yet, but hopefully that will change this weekend. Hopefully we didn't forget anyone....

Our baby boy!

It looks like he might be a soccer player!

Ultrasound

Sometime during the second trimester the doctors like to do a quad streen test, or the alpha fetal protein test which is an optional test that tells you if this protein is in your blood. If this protein is in your blood it means that your baby might have a neuro tube defect or possibly be a down syndrome baby. However, the rate of a false positive is very high. Well Josh and I decided to have it done, if its positive then we would schedule a more sensitive, more highly technical ultra sound, a level two. I wanted a level two ultra sound anyways because they are cooler. Well yesterday we got our test results back and they were negative. Yay! It made me feel a lot better, I wasn't overly concerned that they would be positive and if they were positive they could have been a false positive, so basically all it means to me is that I don't get a level two ultrasound. I have to go for the boring one. Bummer.

But our ultrasound is scheduled and if the baby lets us we are going to find out what flavor it is. So hopefully that will be our big Thanksgiving news!