28 weeks and counting

Well, I want to apologize for the way that the pictures were posted because my most recent pictures are at the top and the earlier ones are at the bottom. You can tell by the dates on the pictures. We also had to add some pictures of our babies. We will take some more pictures for the next post. We just wanted to share all of the fun and exciting things happening in our life. I will figure out how to post the pictures better as the time goes on. I forget from one month to the other. :) (Amber would call that Placenta brain! :))

Sorry it has been so long since we have posted, but we wanted to update everyone on how things are going. Liz and I are only about 4 days off for our due dates so we wanted to compare our two stomachs. I have a couple of pictures to compare what I looked like back in September and now what I look like in October. I am 24 weeks with the gray shirt and then I am 28 weeks in the black shirt with polka dots. I took a glucose test on Monday and my test came back great. All of my tests have been normal and typical up to the 28 weeks. The other fantastic thing is that the baby is moving like crazy and Todd can even see the baby move without touching my tummy. I love being pregnant it is so exciting.

There is another exciting thing that has happened for us in the last two months. Todd and I cleaned out the nursery so that Jeff could come in and paint it for us. Jeff did an awesome job with our nursery and we have posted a few pictures through the process. Now all we need is some baby furniture to fill up our nursery. Then baby hedges can come whenever he or she wants to. :) Becky (Todd's sister) and Abby (my cousin) are throwing me a couple of showers in November. Our Sunday school class is going to throw me a shower in December. The other piece of excitement is that Todd and I will have been married for 7 months next Wednesday. Life just keeps on moving so fast and before you know it our little baby will be here. We hope that you all are doing well and don't forget to give us a post and let us know what you think of our adorable nursery and of course any comments on my belly are welcome as well. :)

20 week ultrasound

Okay to the left here you will see our beautiful close up of our baby. The actual size of our baby is 5 1/2 - 6 1/2 inches. Below you can see my little bump that is covered with my tank.

Here below you see my tummy exposed. Here next to my exposed tummy you will see a great picture of the baby's foot. The baby was kicking and trying to get away from the ultrasound machine.

Here below to the left you can see a lovely picture of our baby's arm. The baby kept putting it's hand up and opening and closing it. Then the baby would cover it's face while we were trying to get a picture of the it's face. Below you can see another lovely side view of our baby.

The 20 week visit was a complete success. We met with Dr. Johnson and she was very informative. Baby Hedges is measuring exactly where he/she should be. I am measuring at 20.9 weeks so my due date will be on or off by 4 - 5 days. The baby's heartbeat was 155 which is right in the middle so it can still remain quite a mystery as to the sex of the baby. :) I gained 5 pounds in the last 4 weeks and the doctor says that is great. I am feeling fantastic! Okay I just wanted to share how I am doing and the little miracle is doing inside of me.

Now I have to fill you in on how the rest of my family is doing. Todd is doing really well and looking forward to things getting much busier at work. He is also so excited because we finally got our cable reconnected so we now have more than 3 channels! The dogs are doing great and they are behaving so well now that I am back at work all day long. In the next month we will be cleaning out the spare bedroom (future nursery) so that we can have Jeff come in and paint it in October hopefully. Well that is all the news so far in the Hedges family! We will talk with you all next month.

Pictures of our honeymoon

These are some of our honeymoon pictures. One at the baseball training game, one in front of the grand canyon and our first dinner out as husband and wife. There is also a close up at our wedding reception.

Getting Started

Todd and I have been blessed so much in the last year and we have not been able to share it with everyone that we love. We thought we would try this way of sharing information since it is a fun way. I also love reading and catching up on how Grace and Caroline are doing as I check out their blogs. I just envision the two of us being able to do the same when our little bundle of joy comes in January. We get to hopefully hear the babies heartbeat on Friday (our 16 week visit). I am excited to share this with all of our friends and family especially those that are in other states and we can't see them or talk to them as often as we would like. I promise the content will get better as time goes on. :)