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A few of my favorite foods & things that I have enjoyed during my first 3 months of pregnancy...

Foods:

Outback Steakhouse House Salads

This is the one item that I craved over the past few months. It seemed like the salad with ranch, extra cucumbers, and cheese was the only food that sounded good at the time. Mmmmm...

Capri Suns

I just can't get enough of the Coastal Cooler. They are a little small for my liking so I usually consume two at a time. Yum Yum!

Baby Goldfish

Goldfish have proven to be a good mid morning snack. I love the smaller size of the baby goldfish.

Propel

Since I have been pregnant I have given up my Dr. Pepper habit. I love the Berry Propel packets that I can add to my water bottles. It really makes drinking water a lot more enjoyable.

Jelly Bellys

A couple of weeks ago I woke up in the middle of the night looking for Jelly Bellies in the pantry. I usually pick out the cherry and the watermelon jelly bellies first!

Fruit

Watermelon, Grapes, and Cantaloupe are a necessity in my house right now. I will be glad when they actually are in season and I don't have to pay an arm and a leg for something from Guatemala.

Things:

Bubble Baths Even though I don't take them near as hot or as often as I used to I still enjoy an occasional bubble bath.

My husband I know that I have not been the most enjoyable person over the past few months. Jason has really been a great husband and has been there for me when I need him, yet he knows when I need time to myself as well.

Boomer and Champ I have really appreciated my dogs over the past few months. I love that they don't know i'm pregnant and they don't care. It's nice to have a little bit of "normalcy" back. They are also great companions when i'm not feeling well.

12 weeks and counting

Today marks the end of my first trimester and the beginning of the second trimester. It is hard to believe that we only have six more months before the baby is born. Thank you to everyone that has sent Jason and I comments about our pregnancy! We really are blessed to have great friends!

This week the baby is the size of a plum. By the end of my pregnancy i'm sure i'll have the whole produce section taken care of. My belly is starting to show a little and my pants are getting really uncomfortable. Thank goodness for the belly band! For those of you that don't know what a belly band is it is an elastic sleeve that you can wear on your stomach and over your pants (when they do not button any more). It is fabulous.

I'm starting to feel better each day that goes along and my appetite is slowly coming back as well. Hallelujah!

Work is going really well and super busy. It is tax time so i've been busy doing all the W2s & W10s for employees and parents. On the yucky side of things the pre-school has been a breading ground for illness. Strep, Flu, RSV, and now Chicken Pox are just a few of the illnesses floating around. Thankfully i'm not around a lot of it since I work in the office.

I have really enjoyed being around kids and hearing all the funny things they say and watching all the funny things they do. I'll try and remember to post some of the funny things the kids say each day. Here is a funny moment from yesterday....

Yesterday a four year old was warned if he spanked any one again he would have to go to the office (the four year olds think spanking each other and running is hilarious). Well about 2 minutes later the little boy spanked his friend. The teacher said, "H, I told you that if you spanked your friend again you would have to go to the office." H quickly realized that he would have to go to the office and panicked and told his teacher Please don't take me to Teacher April (the director) she will be mean to me, take me to Teacher Julie. Ha Ha. Luckily for him I was the only one in the office.

Hope everyone has a great weekend & a good week!

It's a Lime...

I am 11 weeks along and the baby is the size of a lime. The fingers and toes have been formed and nail beds are beginning to form. It is still crazy to think that there is a baby growing inside of my tummy.

These days I am feeling chubby and still a little nauseous in the mornings. Luckily with my new job I am able to wake up around 7:00am, fix breakfast, and take my time getting ready before getting to work at 9:00. I have really noticed that I can fight off the nausea if I eat breakfast and snacks throughout the day. Speaking of food, right now I am looking forward to the day that food starts to taste good again. I have lost 8 lbs since I've been pregnant but have been reassured that losing weight is normal for the first trimester. Nothing has really sounded good in the past few months. However, the one food group that I have craved is fruits. I am counting down the days till Watermelons are in season (before I was pregnant I could easily eat 1 big watermelon by myself in two days). LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM!

Good News: I heard from the nurse today and my blood results came back negative for Von Wilibrand (problem with blood clotting). My mom has Von Wilibrand and some of my relatives from her side have had problems with their blood clotting. Thankfully my tests came back negative.

First Sonogram

Hi Everyone! Here is a picture of "peanuts" first sonogram.
The picture isn't the best quality. The red arrow is pointing at the baby's head. If you look at 11 o'clock you'll see the baby's legs. That is really all that is clear on this picture.

December 18th 2008

Flash back to December 17, 2008. I had started my new job a couple of days earlier and was really looking forward to a new start. Little did I know that the "new start" would be a lot more than a new job position. I was feeling tired, stressed, and just plain yucky but figured that it was just the stress of changing jobs in such a short time period. I had taken a pregnancy test a week earlier just to make sure that it was pregnancy and it showed up negative. Well on December 17th I kept thinking I need to take a test to make sure something just isn't right. After taking 4 tests I had 2 positives and 2 errors. {side note: I think pregnancy tests are scam to get your money!!} Needless to say I got little sleep that night and decided to call the doctor the next morning.


On December 18th, after a few blood tests, it was confirmed that yes, I was pregnant. The first words that came to mind were ARE YOU SERIOUS?! Jason and I had decided in November to stop preventing pregnancy. We figured that it would take us at least a year to conceive. Guess you can say i'm Fertile Mertile. After dealing with the idea of pregnancy I had to talk to my boss and explain to her my situation. Thankfully my boss was very understanding. {for the record, I was not pregnant when I interviewed} Just one of the benefits of working in child care, they love babies. One of the neat things about finding out that I was pregant the week before Christmas was that we could tell our parents at Christmas.



On January 8, 2009 Jason and I had our first doctors visit and we were able to see the "peanut" for the first time. We were both really surprised that the little peanut actually resembled a little baby, only an inch long, but still a baby. The heart rate was a strong 186 bmp and we couldn't have been happier. I will try to get the picture of the sonogram posted early next week.



I have lots more that I could say but i'm going to save that for future posts. We're going to have a baby, how crazy is that?!



Here are the details that we know so far:

I am 9 weeks along

The baby is due August 14th