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Well I am now 17 and a half weeks pregnant and am feeling better every day. While my belly is huge, I have only gained 9 pounds, which is right where I hoped to be.

Yesterday I had the telling ultrasound. However, because there are some readers who wish to wait until the baby is born, we will not disclose the sex of the baby in our blog. Instead, if someone would like to know, please email us at whelanfamilyx4@gmail.com or text me at 919-880-7607.

Ken was out of town, which meant that unfortunately, he was unable to come with me to the Ultrasound. However, Jasmine was able to go. I am not exactly sure what I expected, but I know I did not expect her to lose attention after just a few seconds. After the first screenshot of the baby on the monitor her attention was focused more on the equipment in the room, than the baby itself. Most of the time she wanted to hold my hand or would say "my turn" and try and hop on the table. I had hoped it would help her better understand there was a baby inside me, but I guess she is still a little young. She did ask several times what the tool was the doctor was using, but that is as far as it went.

As for the baby, "it" weighs 1/2 a pound and is about 7 inches long. That baby is a bit longer than normal, but is right on target weight wise. There was no change in my due date, which is August 30th, but we still have yet to determine my actually delivery date which will be either the 22nd or 25th of August, if not sooner.

My next appointment is not until April 24th and won't be much to write home about. But I will post any updates then.

Also, I have several still shots of the ultrasound which I will post on the blog as soon as I get a chance to scan them. Don't worry, I won't post any revealing snapshots...

Moving along, Easter was great. We had a wonderful time in New Jersey and Jasmine had a chance to die Easter eggs for the first time. She really enjoyed it. As for Kenny and I, we were just happy to get Wawa hoggies and spend time with the family. Though Ken did make sure to pick up a few bags of Salt and Vinegar chips. I am not a fan of them, but Jasmine likes them as much as Ken does.

For Easter Dinner we went to Uncle Lenny's house which was both awesome and yummy. There was a lot of terrific food, but my favorites was a tortellini dish grandma Sutton made and of course grandma's famous potato salad. Grandma is so sweet she even made a bucket just for me. Besides the food and full stomachs, it was so wonderful to see everyone in the family. It has been some time since we have seen a number of them. The only downfall was that we had to drive home that day, which meant we had to cut our family time short. It would have been nice to spend more time with everyone. I hope to spend more time with everyone when we come up in June for Jessie's graduation.

The drive home was terrible. There was a traffic accident that brought traffic almost to a standstill. We went 10 miles in 60 minutes. In theory, we should have made it home in 6 hours, even with a quick pit stop. Instead it took just over 7 hours, getting us in around 2 am. Boy were we tired! In fact, Ken did the unmentionable and allowed me to drive the last hour he was so tired. I felt bad for him because he had to go out of town that day, which meant he only got about 3 hours of sleep. Luckily someone else drove to their job site which allowed him to catch some ZZZZs.

I suppose that is about it for now. Again, sorry for the lack of luster. I know I am not an exciting writer, but please bare with me, most of the documents I write are technical documents. How much drier could it get?

Peace Out!