yes, yes, it’s true…

We’re expecting baby number 3!

I can’t really hide much this time around.  I don’t know how other people do it!  My good friend Susan kept it a secret until she was almost 20 weeks, her 3rd too! My stomach has just given up trying to hold these babies in I guess, because my tummy started to pooch really early, I noticed a difference by only 6 weeks.  I am just over 12 weeks and yesterday at church I know a lot of my friends were really starting to wonder if Jessica had eaten too many doughnuts over the weekend or what!  That’s right, I saw those looks on your faces!

So I just finished my 1st trimester and am feeling fine.  I’m proud to say that I’ve kept up my 20 miles a week of running so far.  I try to be careful not too push myself so I have slowed my pace by 30 s to 1m per mile (depending on how I feel that day).  I don’t always feel like hitting the trail, but never regret it!  I have to give energy to get it.  I hope to keep it up as long as possible.  Anyone who has run through pregnancy I’m very interested to hear your advice!  I’ve read about maternity belts for support but I’ve never tried anything like that.

We are all so excited!  I went to the doctor this morning and got the ultrasound photo shown above.  We stopped at the store on our way home and Sophie carried the photo in her hand the whole time!  She stared at it a long time as I pointed out the body parts as if trying to prove to her that it really was a picture of the baby in mom’s tummy.  She thought about it awhile and asked, “Mom is our baby black?”  I laughed pretty hard and told her the photo didn’t show colors but that our baby probably isn’t black. :)  The girls were so cute watching the ultrasound seeing the baby wiggle around, they kept saying, “OH, look at the tiny baby, oh!”  And asking me if it was crying.   My due date is July 30th.