10 week u/s

How could I forget this adorable picture when I was posting yesterday?!!? Here is a picture of Pokey at the 10 week ultrasound. Such a good picture...the other two are pretty much little blobs, but this one actually allows you to see a little body, head and arms. Pokey's head is the round blob toward the bottom, the oblong shape connected is obviously his body, then you can see his little Power Forward arms swinging around by his face. We also saw his legs, which were crossed at the ankles, but you can't see them here.

We won't get another ultrasound until we're 20 weeks, so another 7 weeks from now! But as of now, this is what the little peanut looks like (you can see the legs crossed in the picture just like Pokey had them at our 10w u/s). They say he's almost 3 inches long and weighs almost an ounce.

Cat's out of the bag!

We let the big secret cat out of the bag this afternoon and it feels so fabulous....we're PREGNANT, again!!

We are officially out of the first trimester as of tomorrow (or Saturday, depending upon who you ask) and we had our first appointment with the regular OB/Gyn yesterday. We found out in late February and I can tell you that it has been so tough keeping the secret! On the one hand, we wanted to make sure that things were going smoothly, but at the same time, we're so excited that it's hard not to shout it from the rooftops.

Here are a few pictures so far:

6 week ultrasound:

8 week ultrasound:

And here is a picture of me with Dr. Miracles himself, Dr. Jarrett. We really cannot imagine what we would have done had we not made the move from our old RE to him. He's obviously the best that there is, proven by his success rates and the fact that he ranks as the #1 IVF RE in the state. But beyond that, he genuinely cares. He's really invested in his patients and I'm certain that he treats them all as fabulously as he did us. This man literally changed our lives and we have so much gratitude toward him!! (We took this picture right before we officially "graduated" from his care...very bittersweet. If he was available to be our doctor through the entire pregnancy, I'd absolutely make the drive to Indy every month!!)

Anyway, so that's what we have so far in the way of pictures. We didn't get an ultrasound at yesterday's appointment but we did get to hear the baby. Luckily, we have a doppler and we're able to listen to the baby every night. It's a great source of reassurance for us.

As for the little peanut, we're calling it a few different things. Josh is convinced that it is a boy. 100% convinced. (We'll find out in 6 or 7 weeks!) He calls him his little power forward, and based on the wiggleworm that we saw swinging elbows in our last ultrasound, he could be right on about that prediction. I tried to remind him that he could have been doing ballet moves, but J didn't go for that. I sometimes call him our little b-dub. As in, Baby Wright.

But mostly, we call him our lil Poke or Pokey. The reason behind this is that when we went for our first ultrasound at 6 weeks, we saw no heartbeat. This was on a Thursday. We were scared out of our minds, and Dr. J gave us no reason for high hopes...he didn't want us getting our hopes too high. So I took Friday off, got some more bloodwork done (and my levels were skyhigh, which was good news), and then spent the weekend taking it very easy, praying and praying for our little miracle, and I kept saying, "I'm building a heartbeat, people!!" On the way to the appointment on Monday, we were still so nervous, but I said, "Maybe the baby's just taking it's sweet time building its heart. Maybe it's just a little pokey!" Needless to say, there was obviously a heartbeat (pretty sure that Dr. J teared up with us!) and the baby DID take its sweet time and it WAS just a little Pokey. Funny enough, I've been accused on more than one occasion of being a piddler, so it's not surprising that a baby of mine would build a heart on its own time! So Pokey has stuck, plus since Josh's alma mater, Wyoming, is also known as the Pokes, he likes it even more.

So there you have it! Another Baby Wright on the way. We're still very sad over the loss of Mya and we never want to forget everything that she did for us. She gave us so much hope and joy even in just a few weeks. She made us realize that we were meant to be parents and that our 3 1/2 year struggle was worth it. We still believe that and we will treasure her as our first baby for always.

Marching for Mya

Today we did the March for Babies Walk in honor of Mya. It was a really fun day, though very bittersweet.

Shell got t-shirts made for us and they turned out really cute:

Here is a picture of the girls (minus Sloop)

Josh and Danny messing around after the walk:Here's everyone during the walk. Notice that Josh is carrying Lincoln. He did almost the entire 4 miles carrying either Linc or Griff or with Griff on his shoulders! Guess he got a double workout!Here we are after the walk...sad but excited to be thinking of our little girl:

We're so proud of our team!! Together, we passed our goal of raising $1,000 for March of Dimes by $200!! We were in the Top 5 Lafayette-area teams for online fundraising, too! March of Dimes is one organization that I knew I would want to support because of the research they have done for Down syndrome. I know that if Mya had lived, we would have taken advantage of the research and support offered by MOD, so hopefully with our team's help, other families will be able to do so.

Thanks to our walkers:
Shell, Dan and the boys
Ron and Patty
Laura and Jeff
Laura Smith
Elizabeth
Laura Edwards (in spirit!)

And thanks to the many people who donated!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Easter

We had a great Easter holiday this year! I had been planning a big egg hunt for the boys and we had planned on doing it on Saturday, but then it ended up raining. So on a whim, Josh decided to make an Easter lunch for Shell, Dan, the boys and us after church and the day turned out to be gorgeous. We had the egg hunt first, then Dan and Josh took the boys down to the playground and we had lunch outside on the patio. We were hoping to go down to Southern IN to visit Josh's grandma but it didn't end up working out. Hopefully we'll get down there soon.

Here are some pictures of the boys hunting for eggs:

And here is Shell, Dan, Linc and Kowe relaxing on the hammock. Perfect hammock day!!
As always, Josh worked his magic. We made some deviled eggs and I got the idea from Mary in my office to dye the egg whites. They turned out pretty cute.

And here's a picture of our entire spread...salad bar, ham, homemade potato salad, corn and cadbury mini egg cookies. It was all delicious!