18 Weeks

How Far Along: 18 Weeks

Size of baby: the length of a bell pepper

Total Weight Gain/Loss: +5lbs (haven’t weighed in a few weeks, it could be different)

Maternity Clothes: a few, but I still wear a lot of my regular clothes.

Gender: Don’t know! We will find out on Saturday with all of our friends and family!

Movement: Feeling the baby move a lot. It’s always when I am laying down!

Sleep: I’m just not a good pregnancy sleeper. I change positions about a thousand times and am usually wide awake at some point in the middle of the night.

What I miss: Sleeping on my stomach.

Cravings: FOOD! I feel like a hungry hungry hippo!

Symptoms: Mostly tiredness, a few headaches lately.

Best Moment this week: Seeing our baby on the ultrasound for a good 45minutes to an hour! It was so fun to watch the baby squirm all around!

On Monday we had our “20 week” ultrasound. The technician checks for all of the baby’s limbs, looks at the four chambers of the heart, measures the head, and looks at blood flow. The baby measured just one day bigger than my due date so we are pretty close! The heartbeat was 150 bpm! The gender was determined and we will find out on Saturday with the family!

One more picture of the baby bump and my cute guys. Hudson always ask to get his picture taken with daddy after mommy does. I want to make him feel special during all of this too so we are doing a lot of talking about baby and how he’s going to be a good big brother. He is really excited for the “baby’s party” on Saturday!

What’s Going On

I feel like I haven’t posted much except for baby updates lately so here is a little bit about what the rest of us have been up to!

I feel like things haven’t slowed down much since summer started. We’ve been busy with so many things. I have needed to work in my classroom, had some meetings and sat in on interviews. So I don’t really feel like I’m away from school too long (but that’s ok). Huds has gotten to go to school a few times and he LOVES it. He loves to visit the office, play in mommy’s centers, eat my snacks, color, etc. He always says “mommy’s school far away” So true little man!

We’ve also been watching the Thunder games. Hud loves to lay on the couch with daddy and watch basketball. We were also fortunate to get to attend a game thanks to my sweet father-in-law! Thunder up!

We’re still working on swimming. The water is still a little cool and it takes H a while to warm up to the pool. I’m sure in a few weeks he will be begging to go constantly! (We did this exact thing last summer).

Blowing bubbles! This boy is a bubble blowing machine. ALL.DAY.LONG! No lie.

We’ve also been to the Library (we have to go weekly for new Thomas books) and it’s one of Hud’s favorite places.

And the Zoo! Of course the most important thing at the zoo is the choo choo train. Was anyone else aware? It comes in right above the baby giraffe.

More than doing “things” we are all loving more time together. I am cherishing all of these moments with our little man. Before we know it we will be chasing two of them around and begging for more one on one time with each of them. I am so thankful for family (and summer)!

16 Weeks

How Far Along: 16 Weeks

Size of baby: size of an avocado

Total Weight Gain/Loss: +5lbs (Can you say hungry hippo?)

Maternity Clothes: a few, but I still wear a lot of my regular clothes.

Gender: Don’t know and don’t really have a feeling one way or another yet. We’ll see!

Movement: Pretty sure I started feeling the baby on Friday! It’s always when I am laying down!

Sleep: Sleeping better and taking naps when I can!

What I miss: Sleeping on my stomach.

Cravings: FOOD! I feel like a hungry hungry hippo and you can tell by my weight gain!

Symptoms: Mostly tiredness, a few headaches lately.

Best Moment this week: Hearing the baby’s heartbeat at the doctor this week-150bpm.

Friday Five

I felt like I needed to take a minute to write down a few things I'm thankful for. This doesn't even begin to encompass them all, but these are just a few on my mind today.
1. The baby growing in my belly. We heard his/her sweet heartbeat today and I'm just in awe every time. 150 strong beats per minute and I'm thankful for every one of them.
2. Family time-Ryan and I work really hard at our jobs and do our best to have as much family time as possible. The summer allows us a little more than we get during school and I'm thankful for every minute of it.
3. My job-each summer when I sign my letter of intent for the next year I am so grateful to have a job and one that I love.
4. Hudson-he's just growing up so much and although it's a little saddening and sometimes hard. It's so fun. The way he's figuring things out and having conversations. It all brings so much joy. I adore him.
5. My hard working husband-he's been spending a lot of time working on things around the house like the yard. He takes pride in our things not to show them off but because he cares that we work hard to get them. He also works really hard at his job and doesn't always get acknowledged for that (especially by me).
Ok I feel much better now that I've taken the time to write down my thankful thoughts instead of keeping them in my head. A wise person once said that a smile or kind word that you never share is like having a gift you never give them. What are you thankful for and who do you need to tell?

14 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 14 Weeks

Size of baby: size of a lemon

Total Weight Gain/Loss: I don’t really know! But last week was Teacher Appreciation and our PTA fed us really well! I feel like I’ve gained 5 pounds…

Maternity Clothes: a few-started getting them out and putting them in my closet, but I still wear 95% of my regular clothes.

Gender: Don’t know and don’t really have a feeling one way or another yet. We’ll see!

Movement: none yet!

Sleep: Sleeping better! I am not waking up as frequently in the middle of the night. Still going to be around 9:30 and on the weekends I try to nap when H does

What I miss: Hmmm, not sure I’m missing anything.

Cravings: FOOD! My appetite is definitely coming back. Most days I feel like a hungry hungry hippo!

Symptoms: Mostly tiredness

Best Moment this week: Hmm probably celebrating Mother’s Day knowing I am blessed to be a mama twice! I am so thankful for that!

H wanted his picture taken too!

12 weeks

Well it’s my first official post on this pregnancy! I’m hoping I can keep up as well as I did when carrying H, but life is different these days so we’ll see how it goes :)

So here are all the FAQ’s for those who are interested.

We found out on March 7th and then told our families the next week or so. We talked about waiting longer but for one Ryan DOES NOT do well with secrets/surprises and second, we were about to go to Branson to Silver Dollar City. I knew I couldn’t ride any of the roller coasters so they had to know or I would have had to make up lame excuses the whole time!

We are due on November 12th!

Our first doctor’s appointment was on March 28th and by the calculations of the baby’s size we got our official due date. But to be honest, this baby will come when it comes, or when it gets evicted!

Four weeks later it looks much less like I had a peanut and a whole lot more like a baby! We got to see this baby’s arms and legs moving all around at our last appointment so that was fun! We also took Hudson to this appointment. He was so intrigued by seeing the doctor and that she turned off the lights, he didn’t really care about what was on the screen.

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 12 Weeks

Size of baby: size of a lime

Total Weight Gain/Loss: haven’t gained any weight in the last 4 weeks! I don’t really know about before that, I don’t really keep track of my weight unless I’m prego.

Maternity Clothes: Not yet! Although I did get them out of the attic.

Gender: Don’t know and don’t really have a feeling one way or another yet. We’ll see!

Movement: none yet!

Sleep: I'm usually awake sometime in the middle of the night for at least 30 minutes, then I always seem to wake up around 5 and try to go back to sleep until my alarm goes off. I’ve been going to bed around 9:30 because I have been so tired!

What I miss: My appetite?! But it’s been coming back the last few days.

Cravings: not really a craving, but cheese and crackers has been my snack of choice the last several weeks.

Symptoms: Mostly tiredness, the nausea is getting a lot better!

Best Moment this week: Seeing that little baby (that really looks like a baby) in an ultrasound.

Here are Hud and I at 12 weeks. The wind was blowing like crazy so we look a little out of sorts!

The Zoo

Last weekend mom and I took Hudson to the Zoo! They were having an Earth Day special so it was cheaper to get in!

I told him in the morning where we were going and he kept talking all about the animals and practiced making animals sounds. I have a really cute video that I need to get uploaded!

All morning he kept talking about how the baby giraffe had fallen down. We were glad to know that all the giraffes were safe and sound when we got to the zoo.

The sea lion exhibit that recently opened was a favorite also! You can see them swimming underwater which we really enjoyed!

Of course the thing he was most interested in was the train. The whole time he was watching where the train was going and listening for its sounds.

Of course we waited until the end to ride the train so he was so excited to finally get on. He sat in awe most of the ride and didn’t move. Then we had to say bye to the choo choo all the way home.

Hopefully we will be making more zoo trips this summer (weather permitting), he had a blast!