Pregnancy Update...

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Well-- somehow, I have made it to 20 weeks (20 weeks and 2 days, actually) without documenting almost anything besides a camera phone snapshot of my belly at 15 weeks!!! So, just for my personal memory, I am going to post a few facts about this pregnancy;

March 13, 2011-- First positive pregnancy test (so VERY faint!)
March 17, 2011-- Told family we were expecting #2!
March 29, 2011-- First Doctor visit, pregnancy confirmed
April 2011-- Nausea, but no throwing up
May 20, 2011-- Hit second trimester-- feel AMAZING!!!
End of Mayish-- started feeling baby move!!!
June 13, 2011-- Doctor visit-- heart rate: 169
June 28, 2011-- BIG ultrasound! Everything looked great!
July 2011-- Nesting hit...HARD.

So here we are--This baby is a banshee, practicing kickboxing on the daily in my belly, JUST like big sister Haddie! I started feeling her around 14 weeks and she hasn't stopped moving since! The ultrasound was a little tough, but I am still amazed (and impressed!) that we didn't find out the sex of the baby. All along I have said that I only really every wanted a girl, so anything else would just be bonus! So, hopefully in November, we will be blessed with a big fat surprise! I have also been nesting like crazy, something I never experienced with Haddie. I get something in my head about cleaning and I have to do it immediately-- I have been up until 1am the past few nights organizing or straightening up! We are loving it because I am not normally such a good housewife, haha! I go back to the doctor this week for a 20 week check up and I am hoping this pregnancy progresses without any drama, but knowing what I know about my previous pregnancy, I have it in the back of my head that something could pop up-- praying for a smooth 4 months!!!

Now, even though we didn't find out the gender of the baby doesn't mean I don't think about it very second of every day--so some fun (and not factual!) gender quiz results!!!

Chinese Gender Chart: Girl!
http://www.babyzone.com/pregnancy/genderpredictor/default.asp

Baby's Heart rate: Girl! (which I TOTALLY don't believe heart rate has to do with it!)
http://www.babygenderprediction.com/babys-heart-rate.html

Old Wives' Tales: 60% boy, 40% girl!
http://www.babygenderprediction.com/old-wives-tales/index.phtml

If I had to guess I would say it is a boy...but tomorrow, I may feel like it's another girl! Either way I'll be so excited, but honestly, I feel like its a boy right now!!!



Update.

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Well, I haven't posted in a very long time YET again...I promised myself I wouldn't do this, but here I am again. Once again I am going to post a brief recap of what has been going on since my last post.

1. I am huge. No two ways about it, everybody says I look like I am "going to pop" even though I keep assuring them I have about 7 1/2 weeks left.

2. I left my job at a year round school to pursue a career in half-day head start. I am very much looking forward to this job, but I don't get students until September 1.

3. I am taking a huuuuuuuge pay cut to be able to stay at home with Haddie for half the day, something that I think is totally worth it, even if I did shed more than 5,287,362 tears over it.

4. My sister is going back to work tomorrow (2 days a week) for the first time since her oldest was born and I am pretty sure my mom and I may feel almost as nervous as her.

5. I will be keeping one of my nephews in the afternoons while my sister is at said job, even though I will be 7-8-9 months pregnant and then on maternity leave, I would have it no other way. I would keep him (and the older one too!) all day every day if it meant somebody they knew would be with them, but things don't work out that way so 1/2 day will be good enough until the little one gets potty-trained!

6. I am slowly beginning to realize I am terrified about giving birth so I have been avoiding the topic at all costs.

7. I am hoping *at all costs* that I will go full term with this baby. I keep reminding her that 37 weeks is ok with me, but I really don't want her to come out before that unless she ABSOLUTELY has to. My oldest nephew was 7 weeks early and luckily he was healthy as a horse, but still had to stay in the NICU for a week...I really don't want to have to go through that.

8. I just want a healthy baby. Whenever she gets here, however she gets here, as long as she is safe and happy!

9. I am beginning to feel "first-trimester sleepy" again so goodnight all.

ps- I will try to post a "belly pic" soon so you can see just how huge I am getting!!!

E is for Enough...

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Alright, enough is enough...my sister is right. I have decided that I am the official world's worst blogger...where's the bloggie for that one!?!?!

Since I have left you all out there in the world without me for a while now, I have decided to update you on what's going on in my life...

1. We are still in the middle of 10,000,000 little house projects in our new home...while we are living in the house and are even having people over (ok, ok...just family so far...) we still have tons and TONS of things to finish, but I do promise that I will finally post pictures very soon

2. I have also been overwhelmed with getting my students ready for our statewide standardized tests. There is a whole other post I would like to write about how unfair I think "high stakes tests" are, but that is for another time and place. My past 3 months have involved "cramming" for this test, I haven't felt like a teacher in FOREVER because we are so busy cramming and I don't really feel like we are learning...oh well, there I go again with that other post.

3. I am exactly T minus 10 days until I am camping with my brother and SIL...Last Memorial Day was my first camping trip and, contrary to popular belief...I LOVED IT!!! I can't wait to go back and I really, really, really love spending time with Nicholas and Jessica...and of course Erin and Matt as well...as well as 1,000 of their other friends!!! We will be headed out over Memorial Day weekend and I can't even begin to explain just how much I need this trip!!!

4. I am exactly T minus 30 days until my school year is over! I am excited, but I am super sad! These girls are my first class and I HATE to have to see some of them move on to middle school, but I know most of them are ready to get out...

5. I am not counting down the exact days until the beach, but it is getting closer...this is proving to be both good and bad. I can't wait to go to the beach, play in the ocean, feel the sand, just RELAX-- but the weight loss plan hasn't been going so well lately. I have been stuck at the same weight for about 8 weeks now and it is driving me crazy...I really need to step it up in the next couple days. 

6. While at the beach, husband and I will celebrate our first year of marriage! I can't believe our very first year is coming to an end, it has certainly flown by!

7. In order to prepare for the beach...meaning: in order to not have my butt burned off the first week of the beach, I have started tanning in a tanning bed here in town. Spare me the drama, I KNOW they are terrible, I KNOW I should never, ever, under no circumstances lay in a tanning bed, but lets get real...I just look so much better with a lil color on my body!!! I have only been once and I can already feel my skin burning away...maybe I won't lay so long next time. . . 

8. I  have started eating salads....Yes-sir-ee-bob...you heard it hear first. I have started eating salads! The "no thank you, I do not eat anything green or healthy" stage is beginning to give way and husband could not be happier. He, along with every member of my family before finally giving up on me, have been trying to get me to try new things for as long as I can remember. For me, it was always a texture thing, but I am really getting into salads now! Of course they still have some sort of meat in them and some form of cheese and of course, full-calorie ranch dressing, but I'm trying. Stop judging me-- I have to take baby steps. 

9. I have decided to stay at the same job next year...It's not that I was every really considering a move, but the thought did cross my mind. My job is hard, our school is hard to work at, but at the end of the day, I love our schedule and I love my girls, so I could never leave them...not yet at least.

10. I am not sure if I really have anything else to write about, but I thought it was a good idea to wrap this post up at 10...hmmm...maybe 10 lbs. I would love, love, LOVE to lose 1o more lbs before summer got into full swing...that would make my weight loss grand total right around 25 lbs and I would just really enjoy that! I guess I better get going on that goal!!!

Well folks, that is it in a nutshell...what has been happening for the past, well, however long it has been since my last post. Now sister, sister-in-law, sister's sister-in-law, mom, dad, brother-in-law, and brother-in-law's mama will know what is going on in my life...It sure is nice to have abut 7 readers...maybe one day I will up my game...aaaaahh, one day. . . 
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