20 Week Check Up

We had our 20 week check up last week.  I had another ultrasound and there is definite confirmation that the baby is a girl!  It was so neat to watch her move around on screen.  She was waving her hands and would cross her legs and uncross them and then turnaround.  She's kicking a lot now too, so to see her moving all around was really neat.  They said everything is still looking good and they did a lot of measurements and took a lot of pictures for the Dr. to review.  The Dr. said all is well and she has 10 fingers and toes...we counted on screen.  Here are some pictures of the ultrasound, they aren't that great.  She looks kinda weird in the face pictures, so don't judge her by these pictures.  The ones with the hands and feet are the best.

She looks like an alien here.

Here's her feet.

Here's her hands.

AND...Blair felt her kick two nights ago for the first time!  It's very faint, but he was excited he finally felt it. 

Hawaii Pictures

I had a time downloading and labeling our pictures, but here they are...finally!  And my pregnancy brain kicked in when I got the camera all ready for the trip by deleting old photos off to make room for Hawaii photos, but forgot to bring the charger.  So my camera lasted about two days and I had to use my phone camera the rest of the time...which turned out ok, but we didn't get a lot of pictures with the two of us since my phone camera doesn't have a timer on it.  Here are some of my favorite pictures from our trip, but all of them are in the link at the bottom of the post. Just click on Hawaii Pictures 2010 and that should bring up the Kodak Gallery site.  They pretty much tell the story of everything we did.  We stayed in Maui for 2 nights and took a ferry to Lanai (another small island) for 4 nights. 

Here's Blair driving the road to Hana in our cool Mustang Convertible

Us at Waianapanapa State Park on the road to Hana

We woke up at 3am our second morning and drove up the volcano for 1.5 hours to Haleakala National Park (House of the Sun) to watch the famous sunrise over Hawaii.  We were over 10,000 feet high and above the clouds.  It was definitely worth the drive and early morning rise.

On a grassy hill overlooking Wailea Beach, it was great people watching and our favorite beach in Maui.

We took a ferry ride to Lanai for an hour.  It was 9 miles away and the sea was rough and angry that day.  I was trying to keep it down the whole ride there.  Thank goodness for my motion sickness wrist band I'm wearing...it was a lifesaver the whole trip.

We went snorkeling in Manele Bay on Lanai.  It was voted the best snorkeling beaches in our book and we saw a lot of really pretty fish and even some eels.  Here's Blair coming back from his second outing with the fish.

We went on Fisherman's Hike along the West side of our hotel on Lanai.  It was a wonderful rough hike up and down the cliffs to the beaches you see behind me.  It was a great workout.

We also went on another hike to the East of our hotel to Sweetheart's Rock or Pupu Pehe.  This is half way to the rock...what a view.

We made it to this destination...facinating how the rock formed over time.

This picture is bad quality, but the only one of both of us together that isn't in a shadow.  We just ate dinner at our hotel on Lanai and this is the hotel's lobby area.

All in all, we had a great "babymoon" and hope to bring Baby A back here some day.  She did a lot of kicking while we were there, so I know she'll love it in person.

Hawaii Pictures 2010