It's a girl!!!!!

It's a GIRL!!!!! No doubt about it. We went to the doctors on August 24th, as soon as he put the ultrasound on my belly, she was there spread eagle. Dr. Hernandez zoomed in and said no doubt about it, all GIRL! I started bawling! I know its bad to say, but I wanted her to be a girl so badly. Of course if she had been a boy, he would have been the most loved little boy in the world and we would have been thrilled. Josh was shocked, he said "I really didn't think we made girls." He is loving the idea of a Daddy's little girl. He heard the Darius Rucker song "It won't be like this for long" and got all teared up, its about a little girl and her daddy. I know he is going to make an amazing father. I was able to contain myself for a whole day, then I had to go get a couple of girly things. Mrs. Aleta got me the outfit in the middle in July, we have kind of been planning for a little girl :)



Everything else looked great in the ultrasound. My due date is still February 4th, 2010. He was able to show us the spinal cord and the insertion of the umbilical cord, everything looks normal with all of that. So there are no signs of any neural tube defects or ventral wall defects. She wasn't as active this time, but I had worked the night before so we were both sleepy. I think I MIGHT be starting to feel little "flutterings" but I think it might still be gas :) I am starting to show a little bit more, but Josh and I are really the only ones who can notice it. Everything is just getting firmer in my lower abdomen. We took some pictures today. I made 17 weeks yesterday.

Everything around here has been going great. I am not working quite as much, so I have more energy on my days off. Josh is in the clinic, waiting to get all the patients and adjustments that he needs to graduate. We go back to the doctor's office September 23. Josh has the second part of his licensing boards September 11-13. So he needs to start studying for that, say a prayer that he does well on them. We are also going to begin working on the nursery soon. So exciting!
That's about all for us now.
Love,
Josh, Cherish and baby GIRL LeBlanc

Nursery Plans

Josh went to San Antonio this weekend, so I have been catching up on housework and playing on the computer. I think I have decided on most of the nursery stuff.

This is the nursery furniture I like:

If its a girl:If its a boy:

I picked out the crib bedding when I was VERY early and surprisingly I actually still like it! I figured I would change my mind a few times before I settled on something, but I keep coming back to it and I really love it. I think we are going to get the furniture and the bedding for really good prices...compared to some of the other stuff I have seen. I will probably order the furniture this week since it is on backorder, that way it will all get in on time. And we will procede with the bedding once we know what we are having. My plans for the nursery/guest room are to turn the big bed we have in there and turn it into kind of like a day bed. I have a tan comforter that will go with either set and then add coordinating pillows for decoration. If it is a boy, Josh gets off easy because the room is already painted blue. BUT if its a girl, I would like to do two pink walls and two tans walls. It just sucks because we will be moving back shortly after the baby is born so the baby won't be in the room that long. But I just can't have a baby without preparing a nursery for him/her!

That's about all that as been going on around here. I worked 4 days last week, so I was exhausted by the end of that, I have recouperated this weekend, and get to do it again on Sunday. The good thing is though, I only work two days, then I have 4 days off. Josh has finished up with all of his classes, praise the Lord! So now he will just have clinic duty. His schedule will also be a little bit better, he should get off around 1:00pm if he doesn't have any patients. Hopefully that will give us a little more time to spend together. One more week till THE ultrasound! We will find out what this little jumping bean is! I will keep everyone update.

Lazy Weekend

We have had a very lazy weekend. Friday I had a horrible headache, and I had worked the night before. So I ended up sleeping most of the evening. When I woke up I was STARVING, so I made a classic comfort meal, Grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup. Josh had never had that until we got married, but he isn't crazy about the tomato soup. It looked cute, so I took a picture:
















Today, once we got up and moving, we ran some errands around town. Since I was dressed up cute and I think I am starting to get a little bit of a baby bump, I had Josh take a our first belly picture. 14 weeks and 2 days:


















Izzy thinks she is getting a treat, which is why she is sitting there so sweetly. While we were running errands, I had Josh stop at Motherhood Maternity. I just wanted to look a little. I found a really cute shirt that I could wear around the holidays and it was only $20. The best part is whenever you try stuff on they have a little pillow "bump" that you can put on underneath the clothes, to see how it will fit once you have a belly. Of course, I had to try that on! It was sooo funny, I wish I would have had my camera with me but it looked really cute. I go back to work tomorrow for four in a row...ugh. But I am off next weekend and then after that I am not working more than three in a row. My back is really starting to bother me when I work too much, thank goodness I have got a chiropractor in the house :)

13 weeks 5 days!

Things have been going great in the LeBlanc household over the past month or so. Josh had a great birthday, we went to the Lil Wayne concert with some of our friends. Mr. Chris, Mrs. Aleta a Summer came in for the 4th of July. We went to Philadelphia July 24-27. Josh, Jonnilin and Julian met us up there! We got to visit and do a lot of sight seeing. Our big computer is down so we haven't been able to upload very many pictures. When we got back from Philadelphia Mrs. Aleta, Corey, Summer and Cole were driving through and stopped to visit for a couple days. It worked out perfectly because I had my OB appointment while they were in town. So Summer and Mrs. Aleta got to see the baby. It was AMAZING how much he/she had grown. The baby went from looking like a bean at the 8 weeks appointment to looking like a perfect little baby at this last one. He/she was wiggling and moving ALL over the place. I wish I could feel it, because it was soooo active! We finally got some good pictures. This first one is the classic side view:

I love this one because you can actually see the little details in the face:

His ultrasound is so high-tech. He was able to switch back and forth between regular and 3-D. I think these kind of look like an alien though:

I like this one because you can see the little hand covering the face:

It was still too soon to tell what we are having. But so far everything looks great. He even bumped my due date up a week. I was 12 weeks 5 days for the ultrasound, so he changed my due date to February 4th, 2010! We go back at the end of August so we SHOULD be able to tell what we are having then, even though my mom wants me to wait till the end of September when she is visiting to find out. I will try to update more, but as far as the pregnancy goes there isn't much new information. I am still not really showing, still wearing my regular clothes. I lost 3 lbs while I was sick and had no appetite. So since I am feeling better now I am trying to eat more and start gaining a little bit.