Horse poop and Heartbeats

I learned something very disturbing about our precious Bailey last night.  Pat and I stayed at my parents house on Saturday night.  We had a birthday party for Andrea (happy birthday Andrea!) and then I had a baby shower in the morning and Pat was heading to the Cape to help his dad paint, so it made sense to just stay in Canton rather than drive to back to RI.  Anyway, while I was at the baby shower yesterday afternoon, my parents took B and Maggie to the golf course, something they always do.  Apparently, this time, Bailey decided that it was a good idea to eat fresh horse poop.  My mom said she was literally tossing it in the air and catching it.  When my parents caught up to her to tell her “NO“, she ran away, eating the poop all the while.  I can’t quite look at her the same and I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to … gross.

In human baby news, today marks the beginning of our 13th week of pregancy!  YEAH!!  We had an ultrasound this afternoon, and saw our little shrimp – the size of the baby, according to babycenter.com 🙂  It was so awesome, both Pat and I were totally enthralled.  The baby is already so much bigger than our last ultrasound 5 weeks ago; it actually looks like a baby!  It was all curled up in a corner, so the ultrasound tech got it to move, and we saw it squirm all over the place.  It was totally amazing, and neither one of us expected to be able to see so much!  We saw the profile of it’s face, and we saw arms and legs.  It even waved at us at one point, haha.  We also got to hear the heartbeat, which was incredible.  It’s beating strong at 162 and everything is “right on track” according to the doctor.  I feel so relieved and am so excited to finally be able to start telling our family and friends the good news!!  I know we waited a long time to share with everyone, but it just felt right for us, and now I can’t wait for everyone to know!!

P.S. Pictures of the ultrasound will be posted later this week!

EDIT: Here’s just one of the ultrasound shots. We’ll post more later once they’re all scanned in…