"Punk Kid"

"Punk Kid" is Nick's way of referring to one of our children when one of them is being stubborn or doing something that we can only roll our eyes at.  :)  As you can imagine, we hear this phrase in our household fairly often - especially this week after we had our 20 week ultrasound for Babe #3!

Baby M lying facedown - Notice the spine (about all you can really see in the photo!)

Because of the surprise of this last pregnancy, and also knowing it's our last kiddo, we decided that we wanted to try and find out the sex of the baby at the ultrasound this time around.  I just figured, one less surprise the better for me at this point!  Ha ha!  But of course, our "punk kid" decided not to cooperate with us and we were unable to find out the sex.  We also were unable to get any decent ultrasound photos as Baby M was lying on it's stomach, face-down, one heel stuck up in it's crotch, and the umbilical cord tucked nicely between the legs as well.  Sounds comfortable, right?

Our ghost child - Front of face with two eye sockets and a round open mouth.

Our doctor estimated the baby's weight to be about 12 oz and he told us to envision our child as a pop can with LONG arms and legs sprouting out.  Baby's body is measuring right on track, though the arms and legs are measuring about a week ahead.  Sounds like our kid!  Ha ha!  The good news is that we will hopefully get another chance at seeing Baby M on an ultrasound in mid-March as the doctor was unable to see several things he needed to check out at this appointment.  Will be interesting to see if this baby is as stubborn as our other two!