I wanted to write a little about Ollie while he is still so fresh in my mind. this post is mostly for me, so I can go back and re-read it when the details get foggy… He was so beautiful. and he was TALL! most babies at 16 weeks gestation are 4.57 inches (average) and Ollie measured in at 7 inches! In that respect he looked like an older baby than he was. He was long on his Ultrasound too 23mm at 8 weeks gestation. his growth in the 8 weeks that followed was AMAZING. Ollie looked so much like Josh. He has his nose and cheeks, but my chin… maybe my ears too, they were pretty small like mine. In the hospital I asked Josh what his favorite part of Ollie was and he said his little hands. they were fragile, his fingers were about the width of a straight pin. He had a long torso, like his Aunt Rachel has. My favorite part was his tiny feet i think… I think his baby toe was the smallest thing I have ever seen… about half the size of one tiny piece of Nerds candy. so tiny. One of my other favorite parts was his little tounge… if you tilted his chin to open his mouth, you could see inside and it was so small, maybe something about the size of half a Skittle MIGHT have been able to fit his mouth. you could also see his tiny little ribs and sternum, they were perfectly outlined. he looked perfectly healthy, which makes it so much harder to believe that he will never grow. even the kids’ armpit was cute for heaven’s sake! I’m sure all parents feel that way, but he truly was breathtaking.

I want to thank everyone for their prayers! for those of you who don’t know, tuesday afternoon my water broke, so we went to the hospital. eventually the baby’s heart stopped, so we had to deliver him. We named him Oliver Harbaugh, ollie for short. he weighed 3.5 ounces and was 7 inches long. He was breathtakingly gorgeous! I wish we had been able to know him, but he is in a better place. We will probably post pictures in a few days for those who want to see them.

Well, I’m 14 weeks. I am finally (hopefully) over morning sickness. I don’t have too many complaints about pregnancy itself, just an overall discomfort of stuff moving around. You know, like my hips widening and uterus expanding. twinge-y stuff. But all-in-all its going well. Josh and I listen to the baby every night for a few minutes, and we bought a pack of onesies when we were at walmart the other day. that’s the first thing we bought.

We are talking about names… we really like Oliver for a boy…like the green arrow :D… we’d call him Ollie. Jury is still out on a girls name we like Elise, Charlotte, Isabella, and a few others…