18 Weeks

I'm glad that working full time makes the days fly by. I can't believe I'll be 19 weeks tomorrow!

Ive been feeling the baby move a lot this past week. I can feel it when I'm laying in bed or on the couch and sometimes when I'm sitting still. At first it felt like muscle twitch, then like big marble rolling around. Last Saturday I had the thrill of feeling a fist or a foot push/kick my tummy from the far right and moved to the far left. I always enjoy feeling the baby move, it ensures me that its still alive and doing well.

This coming Tuesday, we will be finding out if our little bean is a boy or a girl. I, of course, am hoping for a girl, but I will be just as thrilled if it is a boy. Scott of course wants a boy. Pretty typical I guess. I'm just as excited to see our baby up on the monitor and be able to see its hands, feet, face, spine, etc. I just mostly want to be reassured that everything is going normal and on track. I guess knowing the sex is just a bonus.

We've been debating baby names. Scott is pretty adamant about keeping the baby's name a secret until the day of the delivery for the purpose of making sure the baby actually looks like the name we pick. I really hate this idea. No one picks out a baby name based on what the baby looks like. Newborns are all squished up and look completely different a month later. I have tried to make him see the logic. I guess I will just have to suck it up and just respect his wishes. So sorry, I guess you will be left in suspense until the baby arrives.

Purely for my own entertainment I have compiled a list of predictions if it is a girl or boy:


1) If you’re carrying in your hips, you’re having a girl. If you’re carrying in your belly, you’re having a boy. = BOY

2) Chinese Gender Chart = GIRL

3) Craving sweets its a girl, crave salty things its a boy = well I crave both?

4) Hair growing faster means boy, hair grows the same means girl = BOY

5) Nails growing faster means boy, nails growing the same means girl = BOY

6) Sleep on left means boy, sleep on right means girl = I roll all over the bed, this one is no help

7) Extreme morning sickness means girl= BOY

8) Dry hands means boy, soft hands means girl = GIRL

9) Clearer skin mans boy, acne means girl =BOY

10) Graceful means girl, clumsy means boy = BOY

11) Weight gain in the face means girl = GIRL

12) If a toddler boy pays attention to your belly then its boy, if a toddler girl pays attention its a boy = BOY

Pretty obvious that I should be having a BOY! We will find out next week!

Its Fall Yall!

Has that much time really gone by since my last post????

Well, we have been up to alot. I started a new job at The Center for Early Learning teaching 3-4 year olds with special needs. My first few weeks were really hard. Some of my students are very high functioning, while others are not. I have gained alot of patience in the last few weeks, and gotten really good at record speed diaper changes! :) Scott is still going strong in school at UALR and working at Chick Fil A.

Last Weekend we went to the pumpkin patch with my family! Here are some pics!

 

My mom and I also went to Hobby Lobby and we bought some wreath making gear for $16! I had alot of fun making my first wreath, I can't wait to make a Christmas one.

And of course I have to do a baby update. I feel like my bump actually is starting to look like a bump and not just like a fat roll. I can't sleep on my stomach anymore :( because I can feel the tight little lump down there :). I spend a couple of minutes each day laying still on my back to see if I can feel any quivering of our little one. Sometimes I think its just my mind playing games on me or just gas but I think I've felt a slight fluttering! I long for the day to feel the first real kicks. I have an ultrasound scheduled for November 1st, just over 2 weeks away. We hope to find out if we will have a little boy or a little girl! For whatever reason, since the day I found out I was pregnant, I had this strong conviction it was a girl. However, over the past few weeks, I have started to feel it was a boy. I have no idea why, but I just think its a boy.

Symptoms Ive had this past month:

Heartburn/reflux
Swelling of hands and feet
Peed in my pants after sneezing

15 Weeks

                                                                     16 weeks

Weeks 12 & 13

I know, I know. I'm not doing so great at keeping the blog updated! I've really dropped the ball on taking weekly pictures (or should I say, Scott is never home to take them for me). Nothing new to really update except what little nausea I did have has completely vanished. However, my feet are still swelling daily.

I've been keeping busy subbing and working after school care. Scott is busy with work and school. Our lives these days are a careful orchestrated schedule of who needs the car and when. However, I have been overly forgetful the past couple of weeks so even keeping up with when I need to pick up my husband is a challenge.

I went to a sewing class and sewed a skirt for my little cousin. Maybe I'll update some pictures soon. I also have several other ongoing sewing projects in the works that I maybe I could post soon.

Excited the first trimester is over,
Katee

11 weeks!

So this week I hit 11 weeks! I have a little bump, or at least I like to think so, even though Im pretty sure that belly was there before I was prego. I can't seem to get enough pickles these days (typical right?). Scott was tired of going to buy them every other day so he invested in the big jar! It was such a sweet suprise! This week I started subbing, so I've been spending more time on my feet than Im used to, so I now have "Monster Foot". You can see the imprint of the top of my shoe. If anyone would like to donate money so I can get a pedicure so you dont have to see more of my aweful toenails, feel free!

Whew! Its been a good while! Alot has changed in our lives since my last post, so I will catch you up. Around Christmas, we decided that we wanted to move back home to Arkansas. We both worked very hard for the next 6 months to save up money to make the move possible. We packed up the moving truck and pulled back into Little Rock on June 10! We are so excited to be south of the Mason-Dixon. More importantly, we are excited about being around our friends and family.

Even more exciting news, on our 2nd anniversary, we found out that we will have a little one on the way! That is what has inspired me to restart my blog. There will many more updates on that over the next 8 months! This will more or less become my pregnancy journal.

My Wonderful Husband....

Yup, I married the one on the left

Provo

So I dropped off Scott at work and it was beautiful afternoon and I didn't really want to go home so..... I just drove around Provo for ab 30 mins and snapped these. I love fall...wish I could just dance in the leaves!