This week's blurb...

Not much to update on this week. Tuesday, I went to the hospital to do the pre-admissions. It was very easy. I just had to sign a lot of paper work and then I was given two cards that I have to give to the ER when the time comes. They say all I have to do is show up when the baby is ready and they will be ready for me.

As for me and the baby, we are doing pretty good these days. I think I have started to feel her moving around this week. I am not sure if it is her or not, but it is something that I haven’t felt before. I am sure I will be feeling her kicks before too long. I can’t wait until my next ultrasound. I want to see how much she has grown. My belly is growing a lot faster these days. You can check out where I am in my pregnancy by clicking on the link below.

http://www.babycenter.com/6_your-pregnancy-19-weeks_1108.bc

We have a back yard now!!!!

For the past two years our back yard has been washing away. We have either been putting off getting it fixed or we couldn’t find anyone to come do the work. Well, 13 loads of dirt and 5 pallets of sod later, we have a yard! Trey Logue did the dirt and did a great job! Then Skip and some friends put down the sod. Now we have to just keep it watered. I don’t even want to think about what the water bill is going to be like. I am just very excited that we have a back yard that we can enjoy. Now Hogan has more room to play and our daughter will have a back yard to play in. I have posted a few pictures of the project…

The dirt work...


Our big helper...


The sod project...


Taking a break...

It's a girl...

I got a little scared today. I went to my doctor visit by myself because the doctor said they were just going to listen to the heartbeat with the doppler and make sure everything was okay. Well the nurse took my blood pressure, which was 122/67. So that was good. Then she tried to hear the baby's heartbeat with the doppler, but couldn't find it. She called another nurse in to try again. I asked if I should be freaking out and she said no. Then we heard a thump. She said that is probably a kick. I thought that was pretty cool, but I am still upset that there isn't a heartbeat. Then the nurse calmly said, "we need to just do an ultrasound because we can't find the heartbeat." My heart kind of stopped. As I am walking to the room for an ultrasound the nurse asks if I want to find out the sex of the baby. I hesitated at first because Skip wasn't with me. She asked a second time and I couldn't resist. She found the baby right off the bat. That little thing was jumping everywhere. Then she tells me it is a girl! I got a little teary eyed. It was so cool to see her (I don't have to call the baby "it" anymore). At one point she tried to straighten her legs, but we didn't get a picture of that. She looks like she is going to have some long legs. After the ultrasound, I talked to the doctor. He said everything looks great! At my next visit on August 18th, they will do another ultrasound to measure the baby's organs. So everything is going good. Now we get to start shopping for girl stuff. I can't wait!! I have attached a few of the ultrasound pictures. Enjoy!

We are finally home…

Skip and I got back from our trip to Delaware late last night. We had a great time. I wasn't really to come home, but I was ready to see Hogan. It was so nice to relax and do whatever we wanted. We went to the beach almost everyday for a few hours. Skip was like a big kid on the beach. He played in the water most of the time while we were on the beach. He had a yellow tube (my aunt calls it the Cheerio) that he would sit in and just float down the beach. He got dunked by the waves a couple of times, which was pretty funny. He lost his hat in the one of the wipe outs. He thought it would wash back up, but we never saw it again. After the beach, we did some shopping and a lot of eating. There were several good restaurants that we were able to enjoy. I wish we had time for all of them. One afternoon we decided to rent a scooter for an hour. It was called the scoot coupe. It was so much fun. It didn’t go any faster than 35 mph, which was fine with me. Skip and my cousin, Beth went fishing one day for 4 hours. They didn’t catch anything, but they seemed to have a good time. We didn’t take very many pictures, but here are a few that were taken.


Skip in his Cheerio...

The scoot coupe...

Vacation Bound...

Skip and I are going to Dewey Beach, DE on Wednesday with my mom and my sister, Deborah. We will be gone a week. I can’t wait!!! We use to go almost every summer when I was a kid. I haven’t been since 1999 and Skip has never been. It will be fun. I haven’t even started packing yet, but I am sure it will happen eventually. I am just so excited that I don’t have to do anything that I don’t want to do. That is my favorite part about vacation. I am a little worried about the flight. I am afraid that I will get sick since my morning (all day) sickness is still hanging around. My sister, Ginger told me to go ahead and find every barf bag around when I get on the plain. I am also worried about leaving Hogan at the vet. We have never left him there this long. Skip keeps telling him that he is going to camp for a week. The last time we left him at the vet, he was mad at me for a couple of days because I was the one that picked him up. This time we are getting Skip’s friend, Woody to pick him up because we will be getting in too late to pick him up. Hopefully he will be mad at Woody instead of us. I am sure we will get him some type of souvenir to bring back. I will most definitely be doing some shopping while we are there. Skip’s birthday is Saturday. So we will get to celebrate that while we are gone. He will be 31. I will do some shopping for him too since I haven’t bought him anything yet. Anyway, I hope everyone has a great 4th. I will post vacation pictures when we get back.

Update...

I went for a check up yesterday and they did a sonogram. It was awesome! Our little baby is a jumping bean. It was so cool to actually see a little head and body. Last time we could only see a dot with a heartbeat. The heartbeat was a strong 137 and the baby is about 2 inches long. I have gained 2 pounds, which was very surprising because I thought I had gained about 15. Dr. Gebhart said everything looks great. By the sonogram, he has changed the due date to January 4th. My next appointment is July 21st. I will be 16 weeks by then. He said that we won’t learn the sex of the baby at that appointment. He does that at 20 weeks. So we will have to wait another two months to find out. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the second picture of our baby.

11 Weeks and counting….

Today is Wednesday, which means I am now at the 11 week mark of my pregnancy. For the last couple of weeks the morning sickness (more like all day sickness) has really been getting to me. I just seem to stay nauseated all day. On top of that, I have been really tired. I am so glad that it doesn’t really matter what time I get to work because I have been sleeping in lately. I am hoping once I get through the 12th week all of this will pass, like everyone keeps telling me. I think my belly grew over night. I will probably have to surrender to maternity pants this week. I have been wearing maternity shorts on the weekend, but I am not sure I am ready to completely start wearing maternity clothes. I guess I don’t have a choice. Also, I am in the process of daycare shopping. I have already put our unborn child on a few waiting lists around town. It is hard trying to figure out which one is the best because everyone has good and bad stories about each daycare. Anyway, my next appointment isn’t until June 23rd. I can’t wait!! I am ready to see another picture of our sweet baby.