My Tap Dancing Babies

We had the ultrasound yesterday and little one is just fine! Baby's heart rate was at 167 and he/she was being very cooperative for the technician to capture all the necessary shots. She (the tech) commented on how well behaved both my children were (more on that in a minute) and of course, once she said that Baby started flipping and dancing and kicking all around in there, making it almost impossible for her to get any more shots. Hehe. That's right, my children are quite well behaved, until you point it out and then they will prove to you they can be just as rowdy as any other kid out there :)

We made it a family experience yesterday, I picked Kaleb up from day care and brought him with me to the appointment, Kyle left work early to meet us there. When we got back into the room and I was up on the table, Kaleb requested to sit in his own chair (which was actually a foot stool) and then he just watched the screen with this serious and solemn expression. I commented to Kyle afterward that you just know when a tech or nurse or doctor sees a toddler walking in to a parent's appointment they have to be internally cringing.

Kaleb was such a perfect gentleman, a big brother in training, sitting there quietly watching his baby sibling...until the tech commented on my children both being so well behaved. Kaleb didn't really start acting up by any means, but he did start practicing his tap dancing skills from his chair, tapping his feet fast and slow on the floor pretty loudly. And when he started doing that, Baby also started dancing around on the screen. In my pregnancy induced hormonally sentimental state I have decided it is the first moment my babies have danced together. It is a moment in my life I will take with me forever, a true heart smile!

When we came home I took a picture of Kaleb holding the ultrasound picture and was finally able to officially announce this news, a moment I've been waiting for since August 8th! What's most exciting is we can now start talking to Kaleb about all of this, or at least talking about it in front of him. We were holding off on talking about a new baby because we didn't want him spilling the beans before we were ready to do so. But now the news is out! My first order of business will be finding the best "new baby sibling" books out there for kids. I'm SO excited to be book shopping on this topic! :)

It is so beautiful to know that this new baby is in there right now swimming happily and healthily, such a weight of stress and worry off from this past week of worrying after Baby hid from the doppler last Friday. I am so blessed!