It's a ......................... GIRL!!!!

So we went today to find out the sex of the baby! I had a pretty good feeling it was a girl and so did Mitch and it is! We are very excited and can't wait for her to get bigger. She is definitely a little active thing! She played peek-a-boo and likes to punch and kick and suck on her hand. Which looked like all the fingers were there the sonographer said that she counted five fingers up to the knuckles. She had her hands in fists the eintire time, so we will know for sure the 16th when we go to Akron. We have a name atleast the first name, Dad asked us to use Claire if it was a girl since that was his mom's name. We couldn't say No so we are thinking Claire Katherine Richey but the middle name is not set in stone yet. We are just excited to know that she's healthy and what it was, NO more guessing! yaay! We are ready to get started with the nursery and to buy as much giraffe stuff as possible! I have a thing with giraffes hence the giraffe and the duck on the nursery wall. I'm almost 18 weeks so almost half way there woohoo. We are both excited and can't wait to meet her and all her cousins!

We can't wait until October 15th!

   I went to the doctor today, everything is looking good! My doctor found the heartbeat right away and she said she would bet that it's a girl. But I'm not holding my breath or buying anything until we KNOW for sure which will be October 15th! October 16th we are going to Akron for a high risk ultrasound that will tell us if our baby has all of it's fingers and toes. We are both nervous but excited we want to know what's in there and be prepared for what we need to be prepared for if that is needed. The nursery got an awesome addition this weekend, my Aunt Cindy replicated a picture I had of a giraffe and duck onto some canvas and then onto a wall in our nursery. It looks amazing! Mitch and I keep going in there and looking at it, He's afraid it's going to move walls mysteriously one day, I said if that happens we are moving! I'm starting to feel better I'm still tired, but I think that has to do with my sister-in-law's baby shower this past weekend! It was fun but there was so much to do! I think it is starting to actually feel real that I'm actually pregnant and we are going to have a baby! I've starting feeling the flutters which is pretty cool and I can't wait to actually feel the baby kick! We will keep everyone updated with anything new and before we know it we will know what's in there!

14 weeks!

we are now at 14 weeks and in our second tri-mester! we are both very excited. I had an appointment two weeks ago and it went very well. They couldn't get the heartbeat with a doppler so they did an ultrasound and were able to get a heartbeat at 140 bpm. The doctor kept saying that he/she was moving around like crazy which is good. I haven't been able to feel anything yet, hopefully in the next couple weeks. I have another appointment on September 15th and the appointment after that we will know the sex! I have feeling that will be the second week of October unless they want to do it sooner. I'm starting to feel better and get my energy back! we went to D.C. this past holiday weekend to visit with Brad and Danielle. We wen't to Aunt Connie's on sunday and she brought her doppler home from work and this time we were able to hear the heartbeat! She thought it was in the 160's and Danielle's was in the 150's so both babies had good heartbeats! I will update after our next appointment!