*Forewarning: I was too excited to wait any longer to share our news! AND, this post may have gotten a bit longer than expected :)

I am 21 weeks pregnant today! Woot-Woot! How am I feeling? Pretty darn good. I have been sleeping well, eating (and craving lots of delicious cheesy foods!) well and growing well! My belly is slowly, but surely getting bigger. I still feel that this pregnancy is super similar to my pregnancy with L - nothing too different going on. The only complaint I have is that I have gotten an abscess (yes, they are disgusting) on my lower belly and it is NOT a pleasant thing. I told my mom that there is clearly an alien inhabiting my belly and it is forcing my body to produce abscesses. How rude of that little alien :)

Here I am (with my super cute shirt I got a few weeks ago - on sale, no less!!!) at 21 weeks pregnant with baby #2:

For pure comparison sake, here is a photo taken of me, just about a year ago, when I was in between 20 and 21 weeks pregnant with L (Eeek! It makes me look huge now at 21 weeks!!! Ok, not HUGE, but bigger than I was last time. Obviously!!!):

I had my ultrasound yesterday! Fun times! I think having an ultrasound is such an amazing experience (I know, it's ONLY an ultrasound!). It is so fascinating to see all the little things they can measure/know/test on a little baby the size of a banana in my belly! It's so neat and I always leave with a renewed-newfound awe of technology! When I got to the ultrasound, I kindly asked the very nice technician if she would be willing to write her determination of the gender in an envelope for me. That way, when Max was able to call next, I could open it while I was on the phone with him. He didn't want anyone else to know before him! And it was something we could do together (and there aren't many things that we are able to do together with this pregnancy, since he will be gone the entire length (and beyond) of it). She kindly agreed and when she was doing her gender check during the procedure, I tried to not look too hard :) She gave me a few pictures of baby #2 on our (my mom went with me) way out the door. I have scanned them in for your viewing pleasure. Here is a profile shot of the blueberry, with it's little hands up by it's face:

Next we have the "alien" shot (I TOLD you there was an alien in my belly!). This is a shot from above, looking at it's head. You can see it's big brain and then eyesockets, a little nose and if you look very carefully, a little tiny mouth:

Finally, another profile shot with it's hands up by it's face again: