Click to hear our baby's heartbeat.

Mom and Baby at Week 10 (taken 10/20)

We had another exciting doctor's visit this past Thursday. Ryan and I got to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time. His little heart was beating so fast, Ryan thought it sounded like a dog sniffing a microphone. We were able to record the heartbeat and are in the process of converting the file in to something you can all listen to.

At our next two visits we will get ultrasounds again. By the end of next week the baby will have already grown to about the size of an apple. It will be exciting to see how much our baby has grown by the 16th and 20th weeks. We were able to schedule our 16 week ultrasound on Ryan's birthday—Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Later this week, we plan to share our exciting news with our co-workers. We're still trying to think of something clever. Some friends a church had a good idea of tying it into a fall or Thanksgiving message.

Stay tuned for the heartbeat!

Only about 200 days left to go! So far I have been very blessed to not have "morning" sickness and I have about two weeks left before we reach our second trimester. I couldn't imagine traveling downtown and not feeling well when we are away from home for 12 hours a day.

Our baby has been quite the traveler lately. A few weeks ago we went up to Green Bay to visit Ryan's brother Wade and his family. Ryan did his second shoot of senior portraits, this time for his nephew Max.

The weekend before last we were back up in Wisconsin at Blue Mounds for two nights of camping with Ryan's brothers Matt and Drew along with their families. I can't believe the warm weather we are having for October. We got one last camping trip in for the year and before we are too far along in our pregnancy. We stopped in Mt. Horeb at the Mustard Museum and traveled through the seven layers of the candy cane forest, past the swirly-twirly gum drops to Cave of the Mounds where we toured a cave 70-feet under ground to see stalactites and stalagmites. Sunday before we took down camp, Matt made some fabulous pancakes.

Last weekend we were almost in Wisconsin again. We went to the world's largest corn maze at Richardson's Farm in Spring Grove. I couldn't get enough pancakes last weekend, so I made some again on Saturday for Ryan and our friends Michael and Emily who went to the maze with us the night before. So much for craving pickles!

Stay tuned. Next week we have another doctor's visit. We're both very excited—at the 12-week visit we will listen to the baby's heartbeat.