14 WEEKS

Best Moment: Getting to see you this week! We had our nuchal translucency test this week.  The bummer was we had to drive almost an hour and we were late and maybe one of us was a little hormonal.....but none of that mattered when we finally got to see you! You were so cute squirming around, we probably could have watched you all day, but since we were late we got shooed out fairly quickly.  We did get a lot of cute pictures though that we may look at multiple times a day!

Baby News: We are officially in the second trimester! You can now make funny faces, go potty and even suck your thumb (although try not to get in the habit of that, braces are expensive!).  You are about the size of a lemon and your dad says your hand is about the size of a fingernail.  So sweet!

Symptoms: So exhausted stillll...wondering if I will ever get my energy and appetite back.  Also a few occasional headaches which are no fun.

Weight: My scale is off from the doctors so it is hard to tell and they didn't weigh me at this week's appointment. I am guessing I have gained about two pounds so far.

Movement: We definitely saw it, but I can't wait to feel it!

Sleep: Still able to sleep on my tummy which is nice. I fall asleep so early, but don't ever quite make it through the night due mainly to potty breaks.

Cravings/aversions/eating: Mexican food is still the only thing that sounds good consistently and cheese. Plus I am almost always in the mood for anything sweet. Most meat is still out of the question.  Smoothies sounded really good this week too.

Workouts: Just occasional walks with the puppy and getting up to go to the bathroom a hundred times a day.  

Clothes: We went shopping this weekend for a few maternity items.  I kind of feel silly wearing some now since I still fit in almost all my regular clothes (although not always comfortably).  Our school has a super strict dress code, so it makes mornings very stressful.

Other News: We had to put our family kitty down this weekend.  It was one of the worst things I have ever experienced and I hope the baby didn't feel too much of my sadness.  However, non-stop crying is not exactly good for pictures, so please excuse my face from this week's bump picture.  Annnd for the record....I am so off in my weekly updates.  I was officially 14 weeks last Friday.  Maybe over the summer I will actually catch up :)

13 WEEKS

Best Moment: Finally getting to go public at work and on the f-book. What a relief! I am not a good secret keeper and this was killing me. Not only does it feel great to share the news, it is the best feeling to have so many people share in your excitement. This year in my class I have 16 boys and only 9 girls so the reaction was pretty uneventful (one of the boys actually asked who their sub would be... apparently they think I am ready to pop this baby out any time). However, one of my sweet girls has the same birthday as our due date, so she said she is keeping her fingers crossed :)

Baby News: We haven't seen you for over a week, but I know you are growing like crazy! According to my sources your fingerprints have formed and you are about the size of a shrimp. If you are a girl like I think you are, you have all you need to have a baby some day (that is seriously mind blowing!). And your body is finally starting to catch up to that head of yours. People may say it is oversized, but I think it is adorable :)

Symptoms: So exhausted stillll...wondering if I will ever get my energy and appetite back. The school carnival about killed me and I was down for the count for the whole weekend recovering.

Weight: My scale is off from the doctors so it is hard to tell. I am guessing I have gained about two pounds so far.

Movement: Not yet!

Sleep: Still able to sleep on my tummy which is nice. I fall asleep so early, but don't ever quite make it through the night due mainly to potty breaks.

Cravings/aversions/eating: Mexican food is still the only thing that sounds good consistently and cheese. Plus I am almost always in the mood for anything sweet. Most meat is still out of the question.

Workouts: Does working the carnival count? I am going to go with yes.

Clothes: Most of my work pants still fit, but not exactly comfortably. Most days I feel like I have nothing to wear, which I guess is not too far off from pre-pregnancy days. My weekend wear consists of pj's and one pair of jeans.

Other News: I had my dentist appointment this week. I was cavity free (yay!). However, the dentist was sure to scare me in to flossing. He casually mentioned that his mother never flossed and went in to labor three weeks early. Fine, I will floss! :)

We are.......

having a baby!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have not posted anything since February 10th when I took that test and wrote this post.  Mainly because I didn't think I could write about anything else, but also because I have been too exhausted to get off the couch :)  Anyways here is my post from February........

It seriously looks weird to type, it feels even weirder to say and I kind of feel like I could be making this whole thing up.  It seems like it took us forever to get pregnant.  Which is kind of awful to say considering all of the people who had to wait much, much longer than us and considering all of the people who never will be able to.  We had always said we wanted to be married two years before we started to grow our family (don't you just love "our plan").  Anyways, I convinced the hubby to start trying one month before our two year anniversary under the assumption that it could take longer than expected and all my teacher friends told me June was the perfect month.  Well fast foward seven months and oceans of tears we still had no baby.

I literally thought this month was out.  I even threw myself a full blown pity party and ruined a perfectly good date night.  Then the next day, I thought welllll geee that's weird, it still hasn't come....so I thought well maybe if I just go get a test, and it shows up negative I can stop holding on to that secret sliver of hope.  So I brought it home, took it upstairs and proceeded to do my business.  I had taken a total of three tests in the last seven months and all three were so blatantly negative that they felt like a major slap in the face.  So this time, I half expected that to happen and half couldn't believe my eyes when almost instantly two little lines showed up.

I would like to tell you that I planned a cute, romantic way to share the news with the hubby.  Instead I grabbed my pee-on-a-stick and walked in to the other room where he was elbow deep in cat litter.  Straight out of a movie, I tell you! I wasn't sure what to say, so I just kind of shoved the thing in his face.  He said....wait for it..."What does that mean?"....What do you mean, what does that mean?!! I think it means that I am pregnant! Well then it was all just roses and butterflies, right?? Nope, he ordered me to go drink some water so I could do it again.  So I did, and sure enough number two produced the same results.  After that we kind of just stared at each other and weren't really sure what to say or do.  We actually had to "google" what to do after a positive pregnancy test.

Last night I woke up at about 1:45am and didn't really ever fall back asleep.  Today, I am officially five weeks and 3 weeks away from my first doctor's appointment.  If ever I could fast forward time, this would be it! I would even skip right over our week off! I pray that God would continue to bless our little growing family and continue to calm this mom-to-be's anxious heart.