IT'S A GIRL!!!

And here she is!!! Jaycee Anabelle Springer!! The most wonderful precious miracle that God could ever bless Josh and I with! I mean, isn't she beautiful!! ;) Words cannot express the feelings that Josh and I felt yesterday during this ultrasound! Everything is measuring perfect for her! I had about a half of a diet mt. dew on the way to the ultrasound to try to make her active, but that sure didn't work. It was at 330 yesterday and I know that she was thinking, "momma this is our nap time!" The ultrasound took a half hour (which didn't bother me a bit), but she wasn't wanting to do anything but wave her hand at us and suck her thumb! :) You think this will mean that I will have a calm baby?!?! They said that she weighs 11 oz (a can of green beans) which is perfect on the percentile sheet.

I was absolutely bound and determined that I was having a boy. I had been thinking this for weeks and even had Josh convinced that it was a boy! During the ultrasound I kept saying, "i think i see a penis!" And at one point she said, "honey, i'm measuring the head!" hahaha. That's how convinced I was. When she told us what we were going to have, she said that she had known for about 10 minutes, but that she was having to much fun listening to Josh and I think that we saw stuff ( that apparently wasn't there!). I completely lost it when she said it was a girl, and I looked over and Josh had teared up to...which didn't help me stop at all! It was priceless seeing Josh's reaction as we walked out of the ultrasound room to the doctors office. His eyes were huge, and when i asked if he was ok he said, "I think i was prepared to be a daddy to a boy, but I don't know if i'm prepared to be a daddy to a little girl!" It made me cry again! He's going to have himself a little daddy's girl! :) And he knows it! He'll be such a great dad!

After the ultrasound and doctors appointment, my mom, dad, sister, and Josh's mom Josie and her boyfriend Steve came out to eat with us to celebrate! I walked into the restaurant and saw a big balloon that said "it's a girl!", with pink baby roses! My sister also got me a picture frame to put a monthly picture in until they are one and got me onsie's! Which i'm sure you can never have enough of! Thank you to you guys! :)

If i can figure out how to load more of the ultrasound pictures, I will do another blog update and have a picture of my ever growing large belly and a picture of the gifts i got!! Keep praying for this little one!! I got back to the doctor on Aug. 20th! Love you guys!! Layne and Josh

17 weeks and 3 days!

Hey you guys! I'm so sorry it's taken so long to get on here and do this!! Life has been absolutely crazy lately!! So here i am at 17 weeks and 3 days pregnant! Very large. I'm hoping it stays all belly, but we will see. I can still fit into all my clothes, they just won't button at the belly area! I did go to the doctor on June 24th. I got on the scale at the beginning of my visit and new that i was in trouble!! hahaha. I have gained 9.5 pounds and at that point I was 16 weeks. I knew that was too much. Dr. Howell tried to be nice. But I told him that i needed him to be hard on me. I just told him I didn't want to be a 60 pound weight gainer, and that he needed to help me make sure that i wouldn't be! hahaha. And strangely enough, I truly believe it's God helping me out, but my appetite has completely been horrible lately. And i've lost 2.3 pounds according to the scale at work, which is right on with the scale at the doctors office. So hopefully, i won't gain so much by the next visit! They say some people gain a ton at a time and then stay in a lull, so we will see. He also told me that my event monitor that i had to wear looked ok, so that was great news! And the best news of all......i get to find out what i'm having on July 23rd!!! YAY!! I really don't think that it can get here fast enough! This will be the first appointment that Josh gets to go with me and i'm very excited about that. I think i'm just as curious to see how josh reacts during the ultrasound as i am to find out the sex! Such an exciting month! I can't wait to see what God planned for us! And i think this is the appointment where i get a 3D image to bring home, so i'll definately upload that and put it on here! Hope everyone is doing ok and i'm so glad that you're following this!! It's great to share an exciting time with friends and family that are just as excited!

Love, Layne and Josh!

So here I am, late posting another one, surprise, surprise!! Here is my 14 1/2 week picture!! I look large and in charge in this picture! I about died when i looked at it after Josh took it. I had just eaten a very large meal, so I sure hope that some of that is because i ate. I can almost promise I wasn't this big this morning!! Regardless, I'm starting to feel better and better!! And i'm so definately excited about that. That tiredness was getting on my last nerve! And I know the picture looks large, butI've gained a total of 5 pounds so far. So I don't know if that's bad, but I hope not. With it being summer now though, I definately feel like i can eat better!! Fresh fruit, veggies on the grill. So let's hope i maintain a good pace for a while. The only thing that is bothersome right now is trying to get comfy in bed. If i lay on my back my lower back hurts and i end up sitting up in bed for a while. But the whole trying to lie on my stomach thing is slowly not feeling so hot either. I think i need to invest in one of those pillows that are advertised all over my pregnancy magazines!! Well that's all i have for this week. Going to the doctor next week should be a good post!! I'm kinda jealous. I work with a girl that found out at 15 weeks what she was having and i'll be that this week. And I'm not scheduled for an ultrasound this time. So maybe I can talk good ol' Dr. Howell into an earlier appointment in July so I can find out sooner!! That's what I'm so anxious about!! But I'll let ya know all the details next week!! Keep up the good prayers for us!! (And pray i don't look larger in my picture next week!) whew. I'm going to fall over backwards by 40 weeks! :)

Love, Layne and Josh!

13 weeks!

Trying to do a weekly update on this thing is harder to keep up with than i thought!! I don't have a picture of my belly this week, but i do have ultrasound pictures!!! YAY! They are absolutely adorable and it finally looks like a baby!! In this picture on the right, he/she is actually smiling, but you can't tell...stupid scanner!! This was the first ultrasound that I actually cried and i kept saying that I just wanted to hold it!! I was very excited. They did the whole genetic screening thing and it has came back negative, so that was a blessing!!

I also decided to tell my doctor that I was having these horrible palpitations that made me feel like i couldn't breathe....so here i am wearing a heart monitor!! These stickies that I have to wear on my chest, omg...i now feel sorry for all of my patients that i take care of that say that these either itch or hurt!! I have welps and blisters and red squares all over my chest!! It's attractive, let me tell ya!! I was also excited because it showed that i had only gained a pound in the first 12 weeks. Well, that was a week ago, and when i was at work yesterday, it looks like i've already gained another two!! So gotta get back on track of the healthy foods! Everyone at work is asking me what all i've already bought for the baby.....is it bad that i haven't bought anything??! Kinda hard to shop for something when you don't know the sex, or at least in my opinion! Maybe, i'm already failing as a parent!! hahaha. I get to go back to the doctor June 24th. I don't think i get an ultrasound with that appointment, but the next appointment will be the sex!!! YAY!! Time is flying!! I'll end this blog with another ultrasound picture of the baby, and at the bottom is the heartbeat!! I can't tell you what it makes you feel like when you hear that noise. It's breathtaking, it makes a mom immediately cry!!

Hope all of you guys have a great weekend!! Keep praying for this little one!! Love you all!

Josh and Layne!!

11 weeks pregnant!

I am so sorry that this one is a little late! Not much has been going on this past couple of weeks except my growing belly! Josh has cracked me up the past couple of weeks. You know

how girls plan and get everything in order for a baby. Well I didn't think much about a guy planning for a baby, but Josh has....in ways I didn't even think of. Last Monday was a busy day. Josh got home from work and he had a guy meet us at our house and he decided that it was time to invest in life insurance. He said that since we had a little one on the way that we needed it. I was like, "ooookay?!?!?!" So then, that night after that guy left, Josh left also and arrived back home at 9:30 that night with a brand new baby mobile!! :) Needless to say I was excited about that. He said he did not want our baby in a car, he wanted it in something larger!! Too cute!! But he did hook me up with a 2009 Ford Edge! I do have to say that i'm quite pleased!! He did very well!

So here is my belly for this week!! I go back to the doctor on Wednesday! I get another ultrasound then!! So definately look for an update with new ultrasound pictures by this weekend!! I should have a lot more news for ya then, b/c i sure have alot of questions for my doctor!!! Pray all is well!! Hope everyone has a great week and had a safe Memorial Day!!

Love, Layne and Josh!

9 1/2 weeks pregnant!

So I'm a little late getting to this entry. Life has been absolutely crazy lately!! Well since i last posted, many things have changed already! My nausea has subsided, and now i'm hungry!! Which i know isn't a good thing, b/c i've never been a very healthy eater! But i am trying! I went to the store yesterday and bought a bunch of fruits instead of junk food! I have also become very emotional. Josh will strongly agree with that statement, bless his heart! I had a voicemail the other day that at the end of it, said that she hoped i was feeling well, and i lost it all the way to my car walking out of target! And so i don't even have to explain to you what i did after a little girl came to the door and said that her dog was missing!

This past Saturday, a friend of mine who is pregnant and I went to this thing that the Womens Hospital offered called "babypalooza!" It was actually a great time! We were greeted with new duffle bags that they immediately filled up with diapers and wipes!! I got hooked up with alot of really great beneficial stuff! They even gave 10 minute massages for free! It was wonderful! We then got a special treat!!....my friend had a friend that worked inside the Womens Hospital, and she happened to let us know that it wasn't that busy in there, and that she could probably get the ultrasound girl to do ultrasounds on us because no one was doing much!! I was very pumped!! So therefore, i have another ultrasound picture to show you guys!! And it's sooo much better than the first one! And i also have another picture of my belly too. I'm not too happy with this belly picture b/c i'm already in my comfy clothes and i had just eaten, so i feel and look absolutely huge, so i apologize. But Josh refused to take the picture without my shirt up. He said it was only fair.....stupid boys....he has noooo clue! So I will be 10 weeks in a couple of days so this is my 9 1/2 almost 10 week picture!

As you can tell, I'm definately pooching!! I got a dose of reality that I was starting to show when i was at work today, and I didn't have one person that I was around not mention my stomach!! It bothered me, but at the same time I'm still trying to get use to the fact that i'm pregnant and that this is only the beginning!! :)

So......here's my little baby!! I wish scanners gave the pictures justice! The real one looks even better!! But I feel like you can definately tell that's it's a baby now! It threw it's little 1 mm arm up in the air on Saturday during the ultrasound and so she hit rewind until she found it again and took this picture, and it's a bummer that you can' tell that's its little arm is in the air! So keep praying for the special little thing!!! Two weeks from today I get to go back for another ultrasound!! I love these things!! I literally wanted to scream on this ultrasound. I was definately more excited with this one than the first! Hope all of you guys are having a great week!! Look here next week for more updates!! Love you all!

Layne and Josh!

So I went to my first OB appointment last friday on the 24th! Josh couldn't go with me (stupid Vectren), so my mom went! I got an ultrasound, lab work, yada yada. I was so excited i could hardly sleep the night before! When i got my ultrasound done, technically i was suppose to be almost 10 weeks along. But once she got going she asked me, "are your periods regular?" I said "dang it, i'm not as far along as i thought am i??" she laughed and said that she didn't think so. So when i saw the doctor I found out that I'm only 7 weeks! So my first blog on here, i must have just been pregnant! :) But being 8 weeks this week explains why the morning sickness has kicked in full gear! I have been such a party pooper lately! Between being tired and nauseated, this isn't much fun right now!! I hear that I'll feel better in a few weeks and I'm ready for that! Here is my first ultrasound picture!!

As you can see, it looks like he/she is playing peek-a-boo!! I did get to hear the hearbeat and it was going strong and was the most precious sound i've ever heard! When she turned it on, I didn't cry, but i just went "awwwwww!" I can't wait to see how he/she has grown in a few weeks! I get to go back for another ultrasound on May 27th!! The doctor says i'll see a baby then!! :)

Here is my 8 week picture!! I feel like I'm already pooching but they say that I'm just bloated!! Which to me, I'd rather be pooching!! hahaha.

I have a few other pictures to upload of a pregnancy journal i got and a onsie that my mom bought the lil one, but my computer is being very stubborn tonight, so i'll try it next week!! See you guys next week!!

Love, Layne!