Double Digits, Baby!!!

Today we are 10 weeks into this adventure, Poppy!
I can't believe it. 8 weeks felt like a big milestone to me, but being 10 weeks feels great!
We are 1/4 of the way there.. 25% done.
Crazy!
The time has flown by, and I guess it helps that you are growing at a crazy pace - allowing us to jump ahead 6 days! haha
Your Aunt Katie said the same thing happened a few times with your cousin Syd.. growing faster and having dates rearranged. I am hoping you go a little easier on me than Syd did on her, though. I don't know if I can handle delivering a 10lb baby! ;)

According to my weekly emails about your growth and development, today is the day you graduate from embryo to fetus.. when the critical portion of your development is complete, and now your tissues and organs will rapidly grow and mature. We made it baby.
They say you're the size of a kumquat now, though it wouldn't surprise me or your Daddy if you were a little larger. You are an over-achiever, after all. :)
Its amazing to me to learn that your kidneys, intestines, brain, and liver are all in place and functioning. You are only about an inch and 1/4 long, and you have all these vital organs already working to help you continue to grow. Babies truly are little miracles. Poppy, you are our little miracle.
Your limbs can bend, and your fingers and toes aren't webbed anymore. You have real fingers and toes, and you are starting to grow little fingernails. Cute, teeny-tiny, little fingernails.
I love reading about your development each week, and Daddy loves to hear about it. We are amazed by you each and every day already, and I can only imagine how our amazement will grow as you continue to do so!

Some things we have noticed the last week or so? Well, for one, Mommy's midsection is getting a little thicker! Daddy is always surprised when he catches sight of just much my belly can bulge by the end of the day! We know that's not all you, Poppy, but its still fun for us to see all the ways your existence is already changing me.
We also noticed that you get Mommy into trouble at HEB. We had to make a quick trip on Sunday to pick up some Super Bowl essentials.. and apparently, having you in my tummy makes me revert back to my childhood a little. We just had to buy ice-cream sandwiches and creamsicles, shoestring potato sticks, nestle chocolate milk mix, and jello mix. None of these items were on the list, and its been years since I have had any of them... but seeing them made me need them! I like having you around, baby. Daddy wasn't as pleased, but he doesn't argue with what Poppy wants. He's a good man! :)
Its getting more and more uncomfortable for me to sleep on my tummy, as I always have. I think it is in large part just my mind preparing me for 2nd Tri, when I won't really be "allowed" to sleep on my tummy anymore. At that point, it will be high time to invest in a maternity pillow or body pillow! I can't wait for the day! Another nighttime observation, that I find odd, is that I now seem to be a mouth breather when I sleep. I hate breathing through my mouth at night, but I can't help it anymore! I wake up several times in the night needing a drink of water because my mouth gets so dry! Its the strangest thing.

As far as our sickness goes, we have been doing well. As I said before, last Friday was a rough day.. but it was isolated to that one day, and it didn't get half as bad as its been before. So for that we are very grateful! We are holding out hope that the sickness will become a thing of the past in, oh, about 2 weeks!!! Come on 2nd Tri.. here we come!

Poppy, we cannot wait to see you again in a few weeks. 3 to be exact. We've missed you and look at your pictures many times a day. We hope you know, that you can feel, just how loved you are.

Happy 10 weeks ( and fetus day! ), baby!!