Dancing Peanut

Our Peanut gave us a little scare this morning at our doctor's appointment. The doctor couldn't hear a heartbeat with the hand-held doppler, so we had a second ultrasound just to make sure that everything was okay. It turns out that Peanut is just lounging a bit off to the right in Ariel's uterus right now so the doctor was looking in the wrong place. But we were excited because this meant that we got another peak at our baby, who has grown a good deal since our last ultrasound three weeks ago. Peanut has doubled in size from last time (about 2 1/2 inches long now) and looks much more like a real baby. We could see his little head and arms and legs clearly this time. Peanut had her legs crossed at the ankle, was jumping up and down very actively, and waved at us with his little arm. We were glad to see and hear the heart beating at a healthy 156 beats per minute. And disappointed that they only moved the due date up one day to August 23! (Yes, we are purposely taking turns with our gender adjectives because we won't find out what we're having until our "big" ultrasound on Good Friday.)