MOVEMENT!

Well Friday we had a doctor's appt with Paula and Brookelynne came with me. The nurses couldn't believe how big she was getting or that she was so cute and such a great little walker! We played in the exam room until Paula got there and when she came in, Brooke got up on the table with me so we could listen to the heartbeat. She was sitting on my thigh and watching intently as Paula found my uterus, put on the gel and turned on the doppler. Then she put it on my belly and it went from making a static sound to the heartbeat sound and Brookelynne FREAKED OUT! :) I picked her up and sat her on my shoulder where she continued to scream until she noticed my bellybutton. At that point she was totally fine and loving that little indention in my belly! haha. She's so silly!

Today we had a great day and enjoyed church and lunch. When we got home Brookelynne took a good nap and Mommy even got a short one in! We went back to church this afternoon and worked in the nursery, and while Brooke wasn't eating well, she did great otherwise. And when we got home, Daddy came out and greeted us! He had woken up and so he got Brooke out of the car and we all came inside for a few minutes of family time. Right before Daddy went to bed, while in the midst of pumping, the baby pushed all the way out! :) It was nothing like the first time I felt Brooke move (which was her kicking my pelvic bone) but a really cool sensation as this little one stretched out! :) Daddy came over and kept his hand on my belly for several minutes, but he or she didn't want to do it again so soon. Hopefully he'll be around for the next time and will get to feel it first hand! :)

My baby is getting SOO BIG! (the second one that is!)

We visited the OBGYN again and got some more pictures of our little addition! :) They measured the length and the heartbeat of him/her. It's crazy to me that we can see the beginnings of the arms and legs already! This is the link that you can see Brooke's 8 week sonogram, and as you can clearly see, this baby seems way more developed! Looks like we have an overachiever! (or maybe that's how big of a difference 1 week makes, as this one is 9 weeks!)




This is the sonogram that shows the heartbeat at the bottom! Strong and fast! So good!

Sick and Tired...literally!

Well this pregnancy is going along swimmingly with two little exceptions. I am tired ALL. THE. TIME. Today I took 2 naps, and am still tired. I slept 16 hours a day in my first trimester with Brooke, and this isn't as bad, but it isn't much better either! Especially since I have a little girl crawling all over the place who I'm constantly running after and picking up. That obviously doesn't help! But more frustrating than the exhaustion is the sick feeling I almost always have. My stomach feels queasy almost all the time. Especially when I drink anything with splenda in it! :( I haven't thrown up and it doesn't even get to the point where I think I might most days, but its bad enough that I want to lay down or at least sit, which pretty much gets in the way of getting up or doing anything! My house is a wreck and that alone is driving me crazy! If only I could get it done it wouldn't be so hard to keep up!

And our Brookelynne is doing so good with the crawling and standing that everytime I turn around she's standing up or has crawled to another room! She's developed an attachment to her daddy which I find very cute, because she wants him anytime he's home! She even crawled all the way into the spare room to get to him and then stood up next to his chair and reached for him! :) It was sooo cute! A negative thing is that she isn't eating very well today! She's taking her bottles fine, but she's not even eating half of the baby food she normally finishes. She ate most of her breakfast, none of her lunch and then only a few bites of her dinner. If she keeps it up tomorrow then I'm going to call the doctor. Her ear follow up is on the 22nd, so we might have to move that up or something if they associate it with that. We'll see. Hope everyone has a great night!

5 weeks, 6 days....

So we had our first doctor's appointment for this pregnancy this afternoon! :) They did a sonogram and found out that I am only 5 weeks and 6 days pregnant. :) While they were able to see the heartbeat, we couldn't quite hear it, but that's okay! :) Some pregnancies don't even register a heartbeat at an 8 weeks sonogram, so I'm thrilled that there was one at all! :) I've got a strong one that's for sure!

They seemed to be content with just knowing how far along I was, but I was like 'Um, can you tell me my due date please?" and she pulled out the wheel and said, "Well it looks like its going to be, uhhhh, February 4th." Which is super cool because that's Mitch's birthday!! :) So we are both really happy and very excited! :) Looks like the two months from Dec 24th to Feb 17th are going to be even busier with one more birthday in there! :)

And even better? I get another sonogram in like 3 weeks! I LOVE not knowing when I got pregnant, because I LOVE sonograms and I get an extra one!! :)

We're bad at keeping secrets....

We'll we SAID we weren't going to tell anyone until Wednesday, but as it turns out, we're really bad at keeping this kind of news quiet! lol :) Thursday Mitch called me from work and told me that we could tell our moms. I was like "What? I saw my mom last night and was barely able to keep my mouth shut and now you want me to call her up and be like 'Oh yeah, I'm pregnant'?" That's not cool, but whatever, so we called our moms and told them! :)

Then we discussed waiting until Father's Day to tell the rest of the family but that was too long to wait so we've been telling them as we can get a hold of them! :) We told my dad, Josh and Amy, Tricia and Jennifer Saturday night. But we couldn't get a hold of Wayne until last night (Sunday). Seriously though, my favorite person to tell so far this time was Amy because she was HILARIOUS! We were in the garage at her parent's house and I was like "Do you want to know a secret?" To which she replied "yes" while starting to bounce up and down. So I said "We're pregnant!" and her face was priceless!! She literally jumped up and down and hugged me and was like "No way! That's awesome!!!" :) It was really cute! <3 her!

Now if we can just make it to Wednesday! :)

Great News

Well, as you may notice, I've used this title before...and this time it is with the same result...A positive pregnancy test!! Yay!

I've been telling Mitch that I was pregnant for several weeks but he just keeps making fun of me, saying that all that means is that he's going to be buying A LOT of pregnancy tests. (Because I tend to not take no for an answer! haha) Anyway, since he was saying that I thought more about it and was like "He's probably right, and I'm just wanting to be pregnant so badly that I'm imagining these things or just looking for things that could be connected to pregnancy when there's really no correlation." So I hadn't taken a test and I hadn't taken a test and just kept telling myself to wait, that there was no point in wasting that last pregnancy test in the closet, because I haven't even had a period since I got pregnant with Brooke and I'm still pumping (only once a day, but still). But the last few days I've had zero energy. Like NONE! And that was something I suffered badly with in my first trimester with Brookelynne.

So back to my day, the series of events, when Brookelynne fell asleep, I went outside because our air conditioning hasn't been draining properly, so I took the shop vac and un-clogged it. I called Mitch to tell him that I had gotten it done, but he wasn't at the building and wasn't answering his cell phone. So...I left a message with the building for him to call me back. So then I headed to take a shower, and I just had this urge to take a test. So I stood there contemplating whether or not I should and finally said, "Forget it, if its negative, I'll just go to the dollar store and buy more and they'll be cheap so he can't complain!" And I took it.

I looked at it and as it filled it looked negative, so I set it down, just as the angle looked like it was becoming positive. I snatched it back up and started jumping up and down. Just then the phone rang! :) Isn't God so good like that? Mitch was calling, so I answered by saying "Guess what?!?!?" He said "What?" and I said "We're pregnant! That's not what I called you about, but I just took a test like 30 seconds ago and we totally are!! We're pregnant!" (Yes, I'm aware that I'm a dork, but still jumping up and down at this point, I didn't care!) He was like "Really? Are you serious? That's Great!!!" and then I told him about the air conditioning and asked him again, if he was happy, and he said "Yes! I'm very happy, we want more kids so this is great news!"

So we talked for a second about who we should tell and when and he told me to call the doctor before we do anything, because we have no way of knowing how far along I am or anything like that, so I did and am set to see the doctor next Wednesday at 1:30. They'll do a vaginal sonogram to determine how far along I am and what my due date is! YAY! Seriously CAN NOT WAIT!!

Once again we are so thankful that the Lord would give us the opportunity to raise more children! What an amazing honor! As I sit here typing I can see my baby girl napping in her swing and am in disbelief that this time next year (Lord willing) there will be a different baby in that same swing while my Brookelynne toddles around the house!

We'll tell everyone soon...but just not quite yet...