First trimester complete!

As I crawl out of the first trimester, I'm at 14 1/2 weeks, things are starting to feel better physically and starting to feel more real. We had our first appointment with the midwife at about 12 weeks. She moved our due date (to later, darn!) but the best part was that we got to hear the babies heart beat. I was nervous because I was expecting to hear it but directly before she started up the doppler thingy she said "Now it's possible it will be too early to find the heartbeat, so I don't want you to be disappointed if we don't hear it" Um, that's the only reason I came the appointment! But I sheepishly nodded and luckily we did get to hear it.
Also with the 2nd trimester is came a new yoga class, our first batch of baby gifts, and lots of "spreading the word". All things that make it settled in reality.
Seeing 20 other pregnant women at Yoga was rewarding- I kept thinking "All these women are going to have babies, and I am here, AND I am going to have a baby!" The teachers started class with a birth story of a former student- I don't think there was a dry eye in the room. An easy audience I suppose, over 20 hormone induced listeners that are craving a baby story. It felt good to stretch and be back in the yoga studio- it was also rewarding to have set the time aside to focus on the baby.
Grandma Dee Dee and Great Grandpa Paw Paw got us our first big baby gift. A new BumbleRide stroller. It is amazing and we did a significant amount of research to determine just the right stroller to keep our family active and on the move. Thank you Dee Dee and Paw Paw. We can't wait to test it out. We also have a toy from Miss April my co-worker and co-new-mom and some cute outfits. It's nice to have baby stuff starting to move into the house- again making it all seem more real.
I had my first dream that involved the baby. It was a girl- but I am chalking that up to the fact that we just had Rylie Bowman (8 month old daughter of Eric and Molly) stay with us and I met Lyla (5 month old girl of work associate) both on the same day as the dream. Our baby in the dream was a combo of those two more than some sort of psychic connection to the sex of our baby. I have been wanting the baby to show up in a dream for a while- unfortunately I wasn't doing a great job taking care of her in this dream world- but I think there were other considerations- long story for another time.
Cheers to trimester 2!