priorities people...

i say that because, sincerely, 

the LAST thing i should be doing right now is blogging!

i have a large group coming to my house tonight

for a christmas party!!!

{or at least i did when i started this post 5 days ago!}

but, i have been wanting to do a pregnancy post

and i just got a fun email in my inbox that inspired me

i am not totally sure at what intervals i will continue with this

but i decided to go ahead and start now!

i am 14 weeks this week and here is what's going on

{according to babycenter.com}

Welcome to the second trimester! This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb. Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him -- a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb. In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches -- about the size of a lemon -- and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. 

so, me and my lemon are getting along swell...

most of the time he/she has me feeling ok...

at others times, green.

maybe a little more green than giles,

not sure...it's hard to remember the specifics.

i was at a party last night and was telling the group of our good news.

as i was leaving and telling various people good-bye,

a lady stopped to talk to me about the baby.

she asked if i had found out the sex, and various other questions. 

i told her that i hadn't officially found out anything, 

but that i thought i might have seen boy parts. 

she said, 'i knew exactly what i was having with each. 

back then you didn't find out like you do now-a-days. i picked

out one name each time. and got it right! i don't know...

 i am feeling 'girl' on this one"

so, i rubbed her arm.

i did.

like she was some sort of good luck talisman.

not that a boy is bad luck
{babyB2, if you end up reading this, and you are in fact a boy,

please know,

we aren't wishing for you to be a girl... only a healthy you...

but, if you turn out to be a girl, well, that's fine too!}

there are so many great things about 

having a boy OR a girl

boy, we've got so much already!

girl, i could go crazy with PINK!!!

those are the things that excite me about each!

giles is excited about either...

and i keep asking him, not that it would change anything,

but i just like to be sure he understands

we're not in control of this

he really seems to be genuinely excited about either,

even though he started out asking for a sister.

now when he talks about baby, 

he always says something about both

 a brother and sister!

and since we've confirmed that there is only one heartbeat,

him talking about both makes me happy!