15 weeks

I'll add a photo to this post tomorrow. Dave will take one tonight when I get home.

The baby is the size of an apple according to babycenter.com. I ate too much for lunch and now feel very full and i'm kinda regretting Qdoba's (not not entirely it was good). Tonight we have two parties. One in North Charleston, one in Mount Pleasant. We're going to try and go to both. I was going to be a nun, but the outfit looked like it swallowed me. Not attractive at all, and i'm not big enough yet to where you can see my bump in it. I have to be wearing a tight shirt for it to show. I decided to copy Natalie and be a 1920's gangster. An outfit that, with a little help from my friend Sara and a guy at my work named Jerry, will be easy and cost me nothing. I'll post photos of tonight at some point soon.

We were invited to a sweet party Saturday night and had every intention of going...until we realized Game 3 is tomorrow night. Phillies v.s Yankees. Yea right like Dave will leave the house during THAT game. So my parents are coming over so Dad and Dave can watch the game and mom and I will give out candy on the porch. Tomorrow night I'll wear my wedding dress as gangster isn't child appropriate.

Health: I'm feeling pretty good. General stomach issues but nothing to bad. I had to go to the dentist yesterday b/c my top teeth are being pushed together by my mouth guard, yes i wear one. Stop laughing. I got yelled at for not flossing...again. So last night i flossed and bleed like crazy. gota love all this extra blood flow. I have gained a few pounds and am tracking my weight every morning when i get up. I get excited b/c i lost a few lbs in the first trimester and it started to scare me. But no fear we're putting on the lbs now!

Babymoon

Friday morning around 7:00AM Dave and I packed up the car and headed south. Our destination Amelia Island Plantation. We arrived around 1:00, we stopped for breakfast on the way down and stopped at Target for some goodies. We checked in to our room at the Sea Dunes on the other side of the resort from the main check in. There is one main hotel and a bunch of other hotel/condo complexes. The resort also has a ton of private homes. After check in we went to grab some lunch and then went to the golf cart rental place and got a cart for the rest of the weekend. We went a got our suites on and sat by the pool for a bit. Friday night's dinner was amazing, we ate at the Verandah. It was pricey was totally worth it. I drove the golf cart home after dinner due to Dave's rum and cokes. On our way back we saw a possum. It was about 50 feet in front of us on the side of the road....as we got closer it started to cross the street headed right for us. In a car this would be scary, in a golf cart..different story. So I did what anyone would have done. I screamed. It heard me and took off in the other direction. It was pretty funny.

The next morning we woke up to the ocean, our room was on the 2nd floor with an AMAZING view of the ocean. We got in our golf cart and headed to breakfast at the Amelia Inn. We both go the buffet... and when the bill came dave took one look at it and turns to me and says "yeah, i'm going back for more". It was a VERY expensive meal. I'm recommend going to breakfast off the resort. After breakfast we went to the Spa. I got a wrap and Dave got a massage. It was glorious. We headed to the pool afterwards to sit and hang out. We garbed lunch at the Inn's pool side food stand....$12 for a cheeseburger and it was the worst cheeseburger ever. Dave's hotdog was $8. It was humorous how much everything is on the resort. Very much like Disneyworld. But we were sitting by the pool with a view of the ocean. Doesn't get much better than that.

That night we went off property to an Italian place for dinner. It was nice to see normal prices for stuff. It was an amazing meal. Right in the middle of this little downtown area.

Sunday morning we woke up and packed up our stuff. We went to a smaller place for a quick breakfast and dropped off our golf cart. Dave had a 10:50 tee time on the Ocean Links course. I was the driver, score keeper, and photographer. We played with a cool guy from philly. His name was Hilton. The course was really pretty and I got to drive the cart like it was a game. Almost tossed Dave out a few times.

We left the resort around 4:00 and headed for Charleston. We were going to stop at this place called Down Under Restaurant but it looked like a dump so we didn't even get out of the car. The road it was on was not paved well and I started to feel sick. I threw up about 20 minutes later. Dave pulled over on the side of the highway. After I took a nap I felt much better.

We got back to Charleston around 8PM. It was a great weekend!

Count down....

....to Vacation!! Dave and I leave tomorrow morning for Amelia island plantation! We are there for 2 nights. I get to go to the spa, Dave is playing a round of golf on the ocean course, we're both very excited. I am bringing my camera so I'll have plenty of photos when we come back.

I feel good today. I downed 2 pieces of pizza around 11 and i think i'm going back for 2 more in an hour or so. I'm going straight home today to pack and clean the house. I like coming back from vacation to a clean house. We're taking my car now, so I'm gona clean that out too. (this counts as a work out right?) I'm totally counting it.

Got Sick

I felt great yesterday...until about 6:00pm. At that point I got sick, very sick. Pretty much all of lunch came back up. SO GROSS! straight food. It's like getting sick and thinking the entire time, oh my God this is so gross i'm gona puke. After a few rounds I was able to sit still for a bit.

I still made it to class last night. I felt much better by the time we got there. The class was really nice. Very small group and we were the only ones with a cannon. But the teacher was good and we learned some stuff..so that's good. Our next class is next Tuesday.

I talked to Beth this morning about my VA shower to pick a date that worked for everyone. Her and Sarah had broken it down to a few weekends so I picked one and they are gona discuses it and get back to me. I'm super pumped. Liv is gona drive me up so that will be pretty sweet! It'd be sweet if Natalie can make it to both showers, we'll see. I have to get my list over to Beth for the invites! AND we're totally going to RIO while I'm there! I'll be there for 3 full days which will be nice. I'm taking off Friday and we have that Monday off from work. so we'll drive up Friday and back Monday. Should get in on Friday around 2:00 or so.

Camera Class

I got to see Dave for lunch today! I love seeing him in the middle of the day. It's so nice.

I went the entire day yesterday with a decent amount of energy. I made it to the 4th inning last night for the Phillie's game. They WON! Go phils!

Tonight Dave and I have our first camera class! I'm very excited. It's at 7:15. I'm gona head home and eat and change....ahh sweats! Erin (my BFF) got me the best hoodie ever and it's all I wear on the weekends. I'll report back on how class went tomorrow.

I'm feeling great today. 2nd tri starts Friday! My energy is good today!

Fishing, Pink, and Sleepy - The Weekend Review

Friday night Dave had a captain's meeting for his fishing tournament. This particular tournament was for disabled veterans. Getting them out on kayaks fishing. It's a very cool organization. The meeting was at Dog and Duck in Mount pleasant so we both went. I sat at the bar and made a friend, Kelly (a labor and delivery nurse), and Dave had his meeting and met the other kayakers. We ended up eating at the bar and then went home. We both had to get up early.

Saturday Dave was out the door by 5:45AM and I left around 7:15AM for the Race for the Cure. Prisha made us these amazing shirts in memory of her mom. She was 49 when she passed away. My dad and Wrigley walked with us too.

After the race Prisha and I had lunch with my parents and went back to my house. We hung out for a few hours and then she had to go home to feed her puppy Sadie. Dave was fishing most of the day. After he came home we went out to dinner in Mount Pleasant.

Sunday we slept in! It was glorious. We did some filing in the office and met up with my parents at the Mount pleasant Pier. It was so flipping cold we only stayed for 20 minutes and we all decided it was a good idea to go somewhere warm and get lunch. After lunch Dave and I did some running around and ended up at lowes. We picked all the trim for the nursery and bought a new fan for in there as well. About an hour into lowes I started to hit a wall, just got so tired I could barely walk. So we wrapped up and went home. I feel asleep on the ride home, manage to get my shoes off before crashing on the couch. I was out for 2 hours. When i woke up I was still unbelievably tired. To the point I couldn't get myself up to get a glass of water. So Dave, who had gone upstairs to watch TV, came and brought me water and made me dinner and brought it over to the couch. I can't remember ever being that tired. We watched the Philles spank the dodgers and I went to bed in the 5th.

Woke up ready to go this morning....a ton of energy. We'll see how long it sticks around.

Week 13!

This is the first day of week 13! By next Friday I will be official out of my first trimester! OH yeah! I feel good today. I have learned a trick. A double fiber whole wheat English muffin with my life cereal in the morning and I can make it to almost 11:00AM before I become starving. Go me.

Tomorrow is the Race for the Cure, I'm meeting Prisha at my parents house at 7:45AM. Hopefully we'll get to hang out for most of the day together. My mom is going to drop us off and pick us up at the race so we don't have to mess with parking. Go mom.

At some point this weekend I'm going to list half my house for sale on craigslist and ebay. I have 3 George Foreman's. (come on seriously!) So hopefully this weekend will be productive. Selling stuff online, getting the Halloween stuff out and organizing the upstairs, mainly the office and game room AKA "where the hell does this go" room. (we will see how much I actually do) I talk a big game.

Tired...again

Not sure why but i'm really tired today, I was really tired yesterday too. I was planning on going to Yoga tonight, but i'm going home, putting on sweats and watching TV. I'm gona stop on the way home and get some dinner. Something VERY simple, like the publix chicken and rice. We also need breakfast stuff and milk. So it should be a quick shop.

I have a very sharp pain in the left side of my lower stomach, right above my hip bone. I'm pretty sure it's gas, my God does gas hurt when you're pregnant!

I had WAY to much time on my hands at work today. I picked out my birth announcements, made a list of all the people I'm going to send them to (with addresses) and found these nice envelopes on Amazon. WAY to much time. I also ordered a tripod so I can start taking photos of my bump by myself. I always seem to remember when I'm by myself so now I should be fine. My bad ass camera needs to start getting a work out! I'm really hoping there is something good on tonight, I think I have a smallville on the DVR! That will be my back up.

Not sure if I mentioned this already, we find out the sex on Dec 8. We have a boy's name picked out (first and middle). We're totally set on it, but we're not sharing yet. Still up in the air on girls names. Dave won't go with my pics, I really wanted Zena, but he said i'd then have to name our next kid Hercules. Although I agreed to that, he still said no.

I told him I wanted 3 kids, he said 2. So we made a deal, if we go for number 3, we have to name the child after someone that is in the room when they arrive. So the nurse, doctor, janitor...something like that. (you can imagine who's great idea this was)

Heartbeat!

Yesterday Dave and I had a doctors appointment at 4:00PM. We actually didn't see the midwife until about 4:45, they were very busy. It didn't take but a few seconds and there it was, this super fast little heartbeat. In the background you could hear my heartbeat, much like the back base in music. Much slower then the baby's heartbeat, coming in at 160! So exciting and very real!! When I texted my best friend Erin, she wrote back "Holy Shit you're having a baby....on purpose". :) I don't think anyone has completely wrapped their head around all of this.

After the doctor Dave and I went and grabbed a drink at Red's on shemcreek and then met up with my parents and my sister for dinner at Mustard Seed for Dave's birthday.

I have lost a little weight so my maturity pants don't quite fit, but none of my normal clothes fit either. Which is why I look nice today. The only thing that fit was a skirt I have so i went with it.

Not to much other stuff going on right now. I was really tired last night and the night before. I think the baby is growing, and it's tiring me out.

This weekend is the Race for the Cure for Daniel Island. I'm walking with my friend Prisha in memory of her mother. I'm looking forward to it! It's gona be 65, nice a cool for our walk!

Happy Birthday Dave

Yesterday was Dave's birthday. We were both a little off most of the day, but pulled ourselves together by late afternoon and went and saw a movie and went out to dinner. It was nice. Saturday was a busy day, I took the dogs to the beach in the morning(we had them all weekend), met up with Prisha for lunch and babies r us, then had dinner over at Melissa/Mike's house.

I found out some sad news today. I joined a member website called babycenter.com. I found this friend on there that was also married on 10/4/08. We were due a few days apart. Well I found out today that when she went in for her 10 week ultrasound/heartbeat doppler they couldn't find a heartbeat. The baby stopped growing at 8 weeks. I wish them the best and KNOW they will have better luck with the next one.

I have to admit it freaked me out a bit, we go tomorrow at hear the baby's heartbeat and now I'm scared it won't be there. I'm trying to convince myself everything is fine. I have had a decrease in hunger though and even lost some weight in the past few weeks. Though my stomach is larger and so are my boobs. So that's a clear preggo sign. Still pretty uneasy.

12 weeks!

Last night was my first prenatal yoga class. I really liked it, and think I'm going to go every week. It was very cool being in a room with all pregnant ladies.

Today I am 12 weeks. I feel pretty good. I have continued to ask every mom i know to give me all the advice they can. It's very helpful and eye opening. I just added "the business of being born" to my netflix queue. I was told it's a must watch.

Dave's 30th birthday is this weekend! I'm still not sure what we're doing. But hopefully something. He's yet to tell me what he wants.

Last night we watched Sunshine Cleaning. I liked it.

Trip Planning

I have an overall feeling of "yuck" this morning. Not sure why, but it's starting to go away as the day goes on. I think it was what I ate yesterday.

Dave and I are planning our baby-moon/30th birthday trip/anniversary trip today. We are going to Amelia Island for a long weekend. They have four golf courses, are right on the beach and have a full spa. Making both of us very happy. We go in two weeks!

I met with the Birth Educator nurse yesterday at the doctors. She was so sweet, it's too bad she's leaving their practice. She's moving to the "high-risk" practice down at MUSC. She gave me some tips on what I should be doing/eating. It was nice to talk to her. Next Tuesday we have our official check up and get to hear the baby's heartbeat!

I have been meaning to pull out the Halloween stuff for 3 days now and just haven't gotten to it. I need Dave to do it, and we can't seem to pull ourselves together. Everything is in the attic. But hopefully it will happen to night. I'm going straight home after work and hopefully he won't be far behind me.

I bought a new camera book last night to go with my Rebel Xsi! I'm very excited about it, and the guy that wrote it is very funny. I like the way he writes so there is a much higher chance I'll actually read it.

Advice

Today I have the patient educator today at 4:00. From what I understand they go through the upcoming classes and answer any questions you might have. They also go over what you need for the hospital and stuff like that.

I have been asking everyone i know for their advice on new baby stuff. What they bought that they never used, what they wish they had earlier, what is the ultimate lifesaver. It's so helpful to hear the feedback. I have a list going of all the stuff everyone mentions. I even started a registry to use it as a saving page for the things i like. My friend Kit's husband Joe said "don't buy anything! we have so much stuff". They are going to loan me their travel system! She said they didn't use it after 6 months, so even if they do baby number 2 soon it will work out perfectly. I do know I want the organic mattress. But i'm up in the air on bedding. My friend Prisha and I are going to babies r us on Saturday to see if things look like they do online.

This coming weekend is Dave's 30th Birthday! Still not sure what he wants to do, but it will be fun no matter what!

Boy? Girl?

Did you know there is a camera so small that it goes on the end of a needle? I have a magazine that has these AMAZING photos of what the baby looks like at each stage, all taken by this special camera. Pretty cool.

I get asked every day what I think I'm having. I have had seven people tell me I'm having a boy. But on Saturday I had a 2 1/2 year old tell me it was a girl. Dave said we should go with her guess b/c she's closes in age to the baby. :) I do like this theory. So all and all...i have no freaking clue. I have picked out bedding for both. We have a boy named picked out that we love, though we're not sharing it yet. We're still up in the air on the girl name, but we have some leading candidates. (again, not sharing that either) I'm found that when you share your name you sometimes get "oh I knew a Chris in college and he was a jerk". So let's just avoid that all together.

There is so much to learn and experience when you're pregnant. For example my nose bled this morning for no particular reason and bathroom breaks are twice as long with 1/2 the results. All fun stuff. Though I consider myself VERY lucky. Every time I read anything pregnant wise they all talk about morning sickness and severe fatigue. I was tired and took a nap a few days, and i did get sick 3 times. But that's it. To be quite honest I have had such trouble with my stomach over the years that getting sick doesn't faze me that much.

This week will be my first week of all maternity bottoms (i can still fit into normal tops just fine). I actually have lost weight, but have a bump that doesn't seem to like non-stretchy pants/shirts. Last week Melissa gave me clothes this week Kit gave me clothes, so i'm sitting pretty. I might buy a new dress for my shower but that's it. (then again, I might just wear the black dress that Melissa gave me or the one Rachelle gave me) Now i'm rambling, but than again this is MY blog.

11 weeks!

Mom took me and Dave out to lunch today. It was really nice. My boss has been out this week, so it's been pretty quite at work. Balancedbride is getting very close so that's really exciting.

I am totally wearing maternity jeans today. My normal jeans fit.....but are not all the comfortable. So big stretching jeans it is. I actually lost 4lbs since the start of my pregnancy, but i have a definitive bump working.

I go to Dr. hunter (family doc) next week to get my Flu shot, then i get my H1N1 when they come in. There was a ton of comments on the topic on my babycenter group about it. But both my doctors said to get it, so I'm getting it. If you can't trust your doctor, you need a new doc right? So shots it is.

11 weeks today from baby center: baby is just over 1 1/2 inches long and about the size of a fig, and is now almost fully formed. Her hands will soon open and close into fists, tiny tooth buds are beginning to appear under her gums, and some of her bones are beginning to harden. She's already kicking and stretching, and hiccupping because her diaphragm is forming.

Food

It started about 3 days ago. I'm not hungry...at all. However if i don't eat, I crash. It's a fun little game. Nothing sounds appetizing. I love egg and cheese sandwiches. But when i tried to eat one, I could have sworn the cheese was bad, it wasn't. I am fighting to finish a meal, it's very strange for someone who loves food. This morning I actually had my "normal" stomach hunger pains. Fist time in a few days. I keep forgetting to pick up for watermelon, but i can eat that all day long.

Other then the food thing, I'm doing great. Melissa gave me an entire bag full of maternity clothes!! I'm having dinner with Kit tonight to talk about Balanced Bride and catch up. This weekend I have some BB stuff I gota get done and hopefully some house stuff.

Bad news, I didn't win the lottery. I bought a bunch of tickets the other day....and nothing! ok well one i had the power ball, a whopping $3. So I was very disappointed because I was going to use my winnings to buy a new car.

Ok back to facebook...ah I mean work.