Well, I can finally answer all those people who kept asking! Hehe. We went in for the Anatomy Ultrasound on the 23rd, and everything is still looking great. We are about 21 weeks along, and I've been feeling our little one for a couple of weeks now. She has days where she just doesn't sit still! :D

Up until Wednesday, we had thought we were having a little boy. With my father's prediction, I guess it had just sort of stuck in my mind. We were wrong...
Our Itty Bitty turns out to be a little girl, and her name is Dextra Ann. The newest pictures from the ultrasound are so awesome. We have one of the surface pictures, and you can see her little mouth open with her hand up in the 'air'. I can't wait to meet her.

Went to my first appointment with what I thought would be my doctor yesterday.
Turned out to just be a session of me answering questions, them pumping five vials of blood out of me, and then them giving me dates to come in for an ultrasound and my first doctor's appointment.
Oh yeah, and let's not forget that said doctor's appointment won't be until April 26th. I'll be nearing 3 months pregnant at that point!! I mean, is this normal? Seriously... I feel like I'm having to wait forever to see a doctor for my Itty Bitty and, while I do not think that anything is wrong, I would really like to have a doctor there to tell me, "Everything is just fine. You and baby are great." etc. I'd also like a doctor so they can answer all my flippin questions and help me through this. I feel like I'm going to f' it up without some sort of help here. This is my first time at any of this, and while I refuse to really freak out about it, I still hate that I am having to wait so friggin long for my first appointment. I want a doctor, and I'd really like to have them NOW!

So, my husband and I have this sweet lab/pit/and-who-knows-what-else mix who is just a year old. She will be two in November. Normally, she will come and get attention now and then, but, typically, if she is coming to me, she either wants me to throw the ball or toy she is dropping at my feet... or she wants food/water, or to go outside. We have another dog in the house that belongs to a roommate, and she is usually completely content to run around the house like an idiot with him half the time. The rest of the time, she is happy to lay about in her "I'm so cute when I sleep" manner. :P

Lately, this has not been the case at all. Of course, she still comes to me for food/water, to go outside, and still brings toys now and then. She still runs around the house with Faust, and she still wanders off to do her own thing plenty... but then there's this new development of hers. Ever since what I can only guess was near the beginning of the pregnancy (ultrasound Tuesday so I'll have a more exact idea of when we got pregnant, and how far along I am...), she will come up to me and start pawing and whining at me. Normally, Toaster does not whine unless she *really* needs to go outside. Lately, though, it will even happen shortly after she has been fed and taken out. It doesn't take long to figure out what she wants when a bit of petting silences her and, the moment I stop, she is upset again. If I give her the ability to do so, she is more than happy to crawl up into my lap. Of course, she weighs about 40+ pounds, so she is definitely not a lap dog... and she just loves to squirm... but I don't mind it so much right now. It will be interesting later on, though... :P

I think it is very sweet, and I love that she has gotten so cuddly at times... but I do wish she would drop the whining part of it... She's not normally a whiner, and I can't stand it.