It's a........

GIRL!!!!!!!

Introducing Claire (middle name still undecided) Byers! We are so excited! It was so unreal to actually see her there moving on the screen. She was putting her hands up by her face in the "Home Alone" pose and it was just amazing. Having not been to the doctor or having an ultrasound until this point it wasn't really feeling real to us. I mean the morning sickness was definitely real but since that has stopped we wondered what was going on in there. Technology is just amazing. We were able to see her kidneys, bladder, all chambers of the heart, spine, and her skeleton like head. Chris was just in a happy state of shock.

For some reason in my mind I kept thinking before the appointment that I was supposed to drink 64 ounces of water. That is approximately 4 bottles of water starting the hour before the appointment. Well, as I was getting near the bottom of the third bottle I was thinking that I was going to start drowning if I really had to drink all four. I checked my notes and to my relief I only needed 32 ounces!! That could have been fun.

After the appointment we starting calling all of our friends and family. My favorite reaction was my dad's. He said "But Byers' don't have girls!" LOL! We were kinda thinking along those lines too. For those of you who don't know, Chris' father has 8 children. Of these there is one girl.

So to celebrate we went over to the hospital and signed Chris up for as many extra shifts as we possibly could for over the holidays. Lol. Then for the fun part we went out to dinner with our great friends Angie and Justin who were very excited for us as well. The evening was topped off with delicious brownies with ice cream and a little Mario Kart Wii for the guys.

It was one of the best days of my life.

Our next adventure!

Guess what? We are having a baby!!!! We found out back in July but have waited to post here until we could personally let our friends know that we are expecting. This adventure is coming a little sooner than planned in our life but we couldn't be happier! Our due date at this point according to online calculators is March 17th.

We have been having a little trouble getting into the doctor as they keep cancelling our appointments. I did talk on the phone to the nurse who took my personal health history and got my blood drawn at the hospital lab up in Pullman. Our first appointment was scheduled for the 15th of October but we got a call cancelling that the Monday before it was to happen. I explained to the nurse that at that point we were 16 weeks along (hadn't had our insurance figured out until then) and was there anyway we could combine a few appointments to get things going when we rescheduled. She was able to work it out so that we could have our ultrasound and my physical work up done on October 28. At the beginning of this week I got a call that the Nurse practitioner would not be in the office that day to do the physical. I told them fine whatever, but we can still come in for the ultrasound right? They said that would be fine so on Tuesday we will hopefully be finding out what kind of baby we have in there! Then my physical will be on November 11th.

We are really excited. Halfway through already! I had really bad morning sickness until about 2 weeks ago. I was sick almost everyday. Every time I opened the fridge my stomach flip flopped and I would have to run out of the room! Chris was a lifesaver. No matter how annoyed he seemed I know that he loves me and the baby. My very first craving was slurpees. Then we moved on to nectarines and melba toast. Also natural fruit popsicles for that quick sugar burst when I first woke up and waited for my waffles to toast. Now I am almost back to being able to eat normally again. I had a huge problem with lettuce and other vegetables just tasting like garbage. I have been able to eat salad and lettuce successfully for the last couple weeks until the other day when we were at Shari's. It just wasn't fresh and the soup that I had was not at all what I was expecting. Came home feeling not to well. One of the good things about moving down to Clarkston was transferring locations of my retail job. The location here has the bathrooms and drinking fountain in the very front of the store while the other store had them in the way way back. I would not have survived there and definitely would have quit probably by mid September if I had made it that far. The people at this store are really understanding. It turns out that I am one of three pregnant women at this store. One is due any time now and the other is due about 2 weeks after me.

It is hard being so far away from family right now and missing out on my baby nephew's early life. I wish we had the support system close by but we talk frequently on the phone and that seems to help. So I hope to be a better blogger from here on out. Here's to the first of many many posts!
Jessica

One word Meme

The rule is that you have to answer with one word.
1. Where is your cell phone? couch
2. Where is your significant other? work
3. Your hair color? red
4. Your mother? smart
5. Your father? protector
6. Your favorite thing? food
7. Your dream last night? none
8. Your dream/goal? many
9. The room you’re in? living room
10. Your hobby? waiting
11. Your fear? dying
12. Where do you want to be in six years? happy
13. Where were you last night? home
14. What you’re not? neat
15. One of your wish list items? dogs
16. Where you grew up? Olympia
17. The last thing you did? laundry
18. What are you wearing? pajamas
19. Your T.V.? old
20. Your pet? cats
21. Your computer? gold
22. Your mood? hungry
23. Missing someone? family
24. Your car? dented
25. Something you’re not wearing? socks
26. Favorite store? Target
27. Your Summer? missed
28. Love someone? many
29. Your favorite color? green
30. When is the last time you laughed? 3ish
31. Last time you cried? Sunday