Sweet Little Plum

We took dinner to our friends that just had a baby and she was the sweetest thing ever: perfect little ears, soft skin, chubby cheeks and a tiny fringe of eyelashes.  As I was holding her, I realized exactly how much of a blessing this little person is.  It comes out completely trusting and loving you with its whole heart, and then it's our job as parents to make sure that it maintains as much of that love and trust as possible.  Then I looked at Jared looking at the baby and I just melted.  He had that daddy look.  I can't wait for him to look at our baby like that.  I know he's going to be such an amazing dad:  patient, loving, great morals, fun, and so protective.  I just want to take thousands of pictures of him holding our little baby.

We made it to 12 weeks on Friday which has been great.  The riskiest part of the pregnancy is over, and so is the morning sickness.  The baby is the size of a plum this week and its ears and eyes are where they're supposed to be.  It knows how to swallow now too.  My favorite thing is that its little nails are starting to develop.  I just picture those little baby fingers with little bitty nails...I can't wait to see them!!
~Caitlynne

Mom's Good Looks?

I can't help but wonder what this baby will look like.  I know right
now, it looks like something off of the movie Independence Day, and
it's the size of a kiwi, but I am anxious to know if people will be
saying "You look just like your mommy/daddy."

  

Of course I can spend a lot of time researching sites to determine how

the science of genetics work, but I say you should just be able to
mesh two baby photos together and BAM!  There's your baby.

 Looking at the trends of my family, if the baby takes after me it will

have that Lewis family nose and gleaming bald head.  (Notice the left
side of the picture)

 So I met science halfway.  Thanks MorphThing.com

I'm pretty sure this is the most accurate way of determining this.
Now all we can do is wait, and hope for the best!

-Jared

A little gummy bear

It was definitely an awkward first visit to the baby doctor...a freezing cold room, lots of questions about medical history, some invasive procedures, and finally the best part-we got to see the little gummy bear!  When the nurse put the picture up on the screen, everything got real.  I had known there was a baby growing in there for 5 weeks, but the nausea could be in my head and the pregnancy test could be the 1 in 3,000 that's wrong....but seeing the fuzzy little guy up on the screen and hearing the heartbeat made the pregnancy real.  It even wiggled a little as we watched.  Jared and I kept looking at each other in shock...we made that little person and we were going to be responsible for it.  I can't speak for him but my eyes definitely watered.  The nurse took some crown to rump measurements and set the due date for March 21...6 days before my mom's birthday and 9 days after Maesynne's.  Jared is still kind of hoping for it to be born on his birthday...March 6.  We'll see what happens.  It was definitely an amazing experience and I can't wait to see the little gummy bear again. 
~Caitlynne

It was real.  Yep, we made a person.  It's so exciting to be apart of this process. I have always wondered what being a father would feel like.  The last five weeks have consisted of me trying to slow down Caitlynne's cafeeine intake while trying to fully take in what's happening.  After we told everyone, it seemed liked nothing had changed.  Daily life for us didn't really seem to alter from our norm.  I knew that there was a human the size of a variety of fruits growing in Caitlynne, but other than that life was just work emails all day and watching our favorite TV shows all night.  But when that strawberry sized fetus showed up on the screen, it was like time stood still.  Nothing else mattered.  I could have stood there and watched it's heartbeat flicker as it squirmed around all day.  A lot of things will be changing for us.  We are starting our own family, and these two have no idea what's coming.
-Jared