17 weeks 3 days

I cannot believe that I am only 3 weeks away from being half way! After the first trimester time really flies, this baby will be graduating high school before I know it...crazy crazy. But let's see, I have been feeling infinitely better, but I have allergies now and the because of that I have a hard time sleeping and the post nasal drip has given me a sore throat (I know, super appealing to think about) but besides that and the occasional queasy moments I don't have anything to complain about.

In the recent weeks though I have decided that I cannot not find out the gender of my little one, or at least I can't wait till birth to do it. I think labor will be enough of a surprise for one day, and Zach, though he still is fine with not finding out, he is ok with knowing in three weeks too and that day is June 16 =).

You guys have to email your responses to mom before then, you know how with every grand baby we always guess when the due date is, the weight of the baby, how long the baby is and what gender it is, well I would also like to do that for my little one so if you could all answer those questions and send it to mom via email that would be greatly appreciated. Here is the information that you need that could be helpful in your guesses.

 Official Due Date: Halloween 2015

My guesses
Due Date: October 15th or 17th
Height: I dont even know what a normal height of a baby is...so 21 in will be my guess
Weight: 6.8
Gender: Boy

Zach's guesses
Due Date: October 11
Height: he had no clue either
Weight: 6.7
Gender: Boy

And according to all the gender predictor myths out there....

 This is the Chinese Calendar, supposedly has a 90% accuracy rate at predicting the gender of your child. You take your age and the month you conceived and voila! Gender predicted. So according to this I am having a boy. Age 23 and Month February.

Other myths:

Chinese Calendar
Carrying: Low
Baby Heart Rate 153 bpm
Ring on a String 
Bad Skin (breakouts)
Sleep on my Right
Craving Orange Juice

 Morning Sickness 
No energy

 So there you have it, Girl: 5 Boy: 4 (but again, these are just fun myths)

 Today we were able to go to our third appointment. I love going to those, I always wake up so early on days I have my appointments, and even though today we just heard the heart beat again and took my regular ol' stats, I like hearing that my little bean is still in there and that I am expanding at a normal rate.

Here are my stats: (ones from previous time included)

Pre-symptomatic pregnancy stats:
My weight: 136 lbs.

First Appointment (9 weeks 4 days) stats:
Baby heart beat: 180
My weight 130 lbs.

Second Appointment ( 13 weeks 3 days) stats:
Baby heart beat: 158
My weight: 127 lbs.
My bp: 101/62

Third Appointment (17 weeks 3 days) stats:
Baby heart rate: 153
My weight: 135
My bp: 107/68

Alright non baby talk:
This Memorial Day Zach and I drove an hour and a half to the beautiful town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, he had never been and I think it is worth the trip. We enjoyed the scenery and the window shopping (I always hope I run into Harrison Ford...but i didn't.)

This was a $645 dollar hand stitched Alaskan hat...I did not wear it very long because we were getting the stink eye from one of the store workers.

And of course Farley being Farley:

He is way too heavy to be sleeping on my chest

Look at the poise of those feet