18 weeks!

We are officially 18 weeks pregnant today!  I have been making myself crazy worrying and worrying about the baby.  We are almost halfway there and I am feeling great!  We had an OB appointment yesterday and the doctor had a difficult time finding the heartbeat on the doppler.  After a few minutes of moving around and pushing (really hard!), he decided an ultrasound would be better.  Well, wouldn't it figure that the ultrasound lady was walking out the door.  The computers were shut down and her office was empty!  Luckily he was able to catch her at the door and we were able to catch a glimpse of our beautiful little dumpling.  The baby's heart was beating at 151 bpm, and we felt so much relief! 
DH's birthday was on Sunday and I think he had a nice weekend.  He went to the UFC fan expo in Boston on Friday and met his favorite fighter.  Mike Swick autographed something for him, and personalized it for him.  I think that was cool of him to do.  DH said all the fighters and everyone who worked there were all very nice and talked with him.  DH's family came down on Saturday.  We had dinner of mac and cheese and ham steaks with his Mom and Dad, his sister and of course, our nephew.  He is getting to be such a big guy.  He's 2 1/2 and just growing!  He loves to go swimming so Mom-Mom and I took him over to the pool on Saturday and DH and I took him over on Sunday.
I took yesterday off to spend the day with DH to complete his birthday weekend, and he took me to Babiesrus!  he knows how much I love to go and look at all the baby stuff.  We took an old stroller we had with us and traded it in for 25% off of something.  You can only use the coupon on certain things, and the only thing on the whole list that we still needed was the car seat.  So we went back and looked at the car seats.  We were stuck between 3 different ones.  I knew we wanted a convertible, one that would go from 5 lbs up to 60 or so pounds.  I also wanted an extended rear facing car seat.  We finally decided on the Evenflo Triumph LX Convertible Car Seat in Oh!  It is a gorgeous seat and will work well with either sex.
We also decided last night that we are not going to find out the sex of the baby.  After a lot of thinking and talking about it, we decided it is the last big surprise in life and it won't change anything either way!  We are going to be ecstatic no matter what we have, and all of our baby gear is gender neutral.  I also have quite a few gender neutral outfits hanging in the closet already and a go home outfit, so we don't have any good reason to find out!  We just want to be surprised!
ALSO!  I lost a pound!  Which means in the 18 weeks of my pregnancy so far, I have only gained 4 pounds!  And my blood pressure is a perfect 120/80!  So I am feeling good and hoping the rest of my pregnancy goes well!