Our Chubby Little Boy

What an exciting morning! James and I had our 28 week appointment today! At our last check-up (18 weeks) they said my placenta wasn't quite low enough so they wanted to schedule another ultrasound at 28 weeks to make sure it dropped down, or something like that. Well, after today's ultrasound all is well for my placenta :) That however, is not the exciting part.... Seeing Carson of course was what we really excited about! In case you have forgotten Carson was labeled as "hard headed" after our 18 week ultrasound because he just didn't want to cooperate. He was covering his face while the tech tried to get a 3D picture.
Well...Here we are 10 weeks later and our little man hasn't changed a bit. Still wouldn't cooperate! His head was laying directly on top of my placenta so the tech ended up having to do an internal ultrasound to even be able to see the placenta. And, to top it all off he had his little hands all over his face again! haha I guess I shouldn't have expected much else from someone with Fiorella blood :) I told dad I think he got it from his side of the family and he says laughing, "No, he gets that from the Harper's I'm sure..." Which of course proves the point even more that we are so hard headed we can't admit we are hard headed. haha

Carson at 28 weeks 2 days

Is he adorable or what?!?! We are so in love with his little face! The ultrasound tech told us he was a little bigger than most babies his age. He is a little over 3 lbs and in the 70th percentile. I don't totally understand the whole percentile thing but she also explained it by saying that if he were 29 weeks gestation, instead of 28 he'd be average size. So he's measuring about a week larger right now. Does that mean that I will go into labor a week early? No, just that he might be a little chubby! Yay :) Who doesn't love a chubby baby!

A funny story about the ultrasound... During the 3D/4D ultrasound we are getting to see "live footage" of what's going on inside the womb, crazy right? Well, while we are watching we of course see right away that he's got that one hand covering up half of his little chubby face. He then proceeds to move the other hand closer to his face, spread out his little fingers, open his mouth, and then cover his entire face. It was literally like he had both hands spread open as big as he could, and then put them on his face. It was hilarious! He then moved his left hand back down but was still only willing to show us half of his face. What a stinker!

Another exciting piece of information we learned during the ultrasound was that Carson has some hair! We were able to see a bright white little dusting of hair on his head during the regular black/white ultrasound! James is still hoping it's nice and thick like mine...Maybe it's a good sign that he's already got some! haha

From now on we will have check-ups every two weeks so we go back again March 24, then again April 8th :) What a busy month we have coming up!! We shouldn't be getting any more ultrasounds though :( Unless they think something might be wrong, or if Carson really starts to get big they'll do another one to check his measurements. Both of which I'm hoping don't happen so if all goes well the next time we see our little man will be actually in person... not on a screen! Ohmygosh I just can't wait :)