Our McGawesome Life: Baby McGah

We are very excited that Baby McGah will be joining us around December 1st!! This Spring has been full of so many full celebrations and accomplishments, we are thrilled that making it through the first trimester of pregnancy can be added to the list! As of today we are almost 15 weeks pregnant, have heard the heartbeat, had an ultrasound (got verification there was just one in there, not two!!), and have began the transition to maternity clothes. We are excited to find out the gender come the middle of July and once the school years are over, we will switch over the guest room/office to the nursery. We are also loving being the third of my siblings to have kids...we have all the furniture for the nursery and more already :)

Seeing the ultrasound was pretty amazing. The baby was moving around the whole time, loved having her/his fist by it's face, and has all the major body parts (2 arms, 2 legs, head, abdomen, etc.). It was so fun to just watch the little baby moving around. Everything seemed much more real during and after the ultrasound. It is amazing how much s/he already looks like a baby, even though s/he is sooo small still. Ann shared with us that when Pat was a baby he also loved looking at his fist...maybe it runs in the family. One funny moment in the ultrasound was when they finally let me pee, I come back to the room and the screen is now in color and the ultrasound tech is taking an ultrasound of her forearm. Pat and her are discussing blood flow and the various ways to measure it with ultrasound technology. Apparently they were just fine without me and the baby in the room :)

Here are a few fun pictures from the last few months...