Diapers, belly shot, and doggies

It's been awhile.
Not much to blog about, but I got a few pictures tonight so I could update something.
First, I'm pretty excited that we got our first cloth diaper purchase in the mail a couple weeks ago. I got 4 Rumparooz Lil Joeys newborn size. They are super cute, and they are all in one diapers, so they should be easy too, if they work. We are probably doing prefolds to start and see how we like them. Gonna get mostly all in ones and all in twos or pockets that we can have all ready for Jill (the woman who will be watching the baby once I go back to work). These will be the easiest. But here's the pictures of the diapers!

And here's my lovely picture of me from tonight, at 29 weeks, 4 days.

And this one is a pretty funny shot of me looking down at Cooper.

So of course now I need to post pictures of the doggies!

Ignore the carpet. Who puts carpet in a kitchen!!!
I went to the doctor last Wednesday. Everything is measuring absolutely right on track and normal still. I actually lost a pound and a half since 4 weeks before, so I am now up about 3 total. I had to take my glucose test too, where you drink the super sugary drink then they take your blood and test the sugar. Guess how I did?! I failed miserably!!! I go in tomorrow morning for the 3 hour one. No food after midnight, go in bright and early at 8. They will take my blood and test the fasting sugar level, then drink more of the nasty sugar drink and test my blood every hour for 3 hours. I will be using that time to catch up on some reading. Boo hiss!!!

What's Been Happening the Last Month

It's been too long, so I'm gonna blog!
I don't have a lot of pictures to post. I have my 24 week picture I posted on Facebook, and that's it. So here it is:

Whew, I'm getting quite the belly. 

So we got our house 2 1/2 weeks ago, and that's why I haven't had time. Between life and moving, that's about it. We have everything critical in the house. We are starting to try to get all the little things out of the old house so we can put it for sale ASAP as possible (who got that reference???) I had Daniel take lots of pictures of before, and as soon as we get them on a computer, I'll post those. This house is still a work in progress, and it sure will be until we get the other house sold. There are a lot of things we want/need to do. 

One big project is the kitchen. This one was pretty small, and there was no dishwasher. Just today, Daniel moved some cabinets and put in the dishwasher. It gave us more room. Once we can afford the countertop and some new floor, we will have more counter space and everything. Our long term goal is to make it super fancy with an island and expanding into most of the room, but that won't be a possibility until we add another room onto the house, which is many years down the road.

The dogs seem to be adjusting to the new house. Maggie loves the extra room to run outside. Cooper is doing very very well with his invisible fence. He can run in the front and back yard. When we take his collar off of him and try to get him to come into the rest of the yard, he won't go past his normal border. That's a good thing! We need a rug or something in our bedroom, cause Maggie is having a hard time jumping onto the bed. Poor old doggie. She does love all the weird hiding places in the house though.

Let's see, I went to the doctor Thursday. Everything is pretty boring at this point. Her heartbeat was 157. The doctor measured my belly for the first time and said it's measuring right at 25 weeks. Everything has been remarkably boring and right on schedule (knock on wood). 

We are getting a few things here and there for the baby's room. Right now the big thing we need is a crib. We registered at Target and found some super cute girlie safari stuff, making the gender neutral safari theme work for the little girl! Then, if we have more kids and have a boy, we can just replace the pink stuff with blue stuff. I went online to Target and found a lot more stuff that goes with it, like a lamp, a clothes bin, and a rug. I really like that stuff!!!! Oh, and we're going to cloth diaper (scary!) and that can be pretty expensive. I've been trying to win free stuff on Facebook a lot lately, so if you've seen me liking all kinds of crazy pages, that's why. I registered for a lot of cloth diaper stuff on amazon.com registry. I really hope people that decide to buy us stuff are willing to go online and get stuff that way, cause that's the stuff we really need.

Don't ask us what our baby's name will be! We can't figure it out, and we plan on telling no one once we do. It will be the only surprise once she's born. Daniel and I have found one first name we both like. We can't even agree on a middle name to go with it. I so bad want to have at least 2 or 3 names that we like and decide when she's born what her name will be. It's so hard with all of the names that Daniel shoots down so fast. I'm sure she will eventually have a name, even if she's 2 years old. It took us a week or more to agree on a name for Cooper.

So this was a lot of writing. I hope I told everything important. I plan to blog some pictures of the house soon. I'm going to go eat one of my wonderful White Chocolate with Raspberry Filling and Cream Cheese Icing cupcakes that I got from Party Mart for my birthday!

She's a Girl!

We went on Wednesday for the big u/s, and he's pretty darn sure she's a girl.

Picture one is her face and an arm. Daniel said she has my face shape.
Picture two apparently shows she's a girl. We have an actual picture (these were stills from the dvd they gave us) that shows her bottom and legs more.
Picture three is her back and head.

The doctor said everything looks great. Her heartbeat was 153, which he said was perfect, and her heart looked good. She was 13 oz. We saw her arms and head moving around. Her little legs were crossed by the feet. I'm glad they weren't crossed up further, or maybe we wouldn't be able to tell that she's a girl.
I haven't felt her moving at all, but I think it'll be coming soon. I'm 21 weeks today, so more than halfway there.

Update picture finally

I haven't been posting much, because there really isn't much to post! I think that's a good thing.
aniel told me a couple days ago that I'm starting to look pregnant, so I let him take a picture. I wasn't happy with the results! I look so fat!!! And way further along than I should, but I think I started out looking pregnant before I was. So anyway, here I was, at I think 19 weeks 3 days:

In my own defense, I think I was kinda relaxing my belly and pushing out a bit. Anything I can say to make me feel better, right? Tomorrow I hit 20 weeks, the halfway point. I go Wednesday at 3:30 for the anatomy/gender scan. I didn't really care if I find out what we are having, but since we are finding out, I'm so excited! I can barely wait! I will update with pics and everything then.

House!

We are buying a house. I went to realtor.com to get some pictures, and it's not on there anymore. That's a great sign. We have one thing we need to take to the bank, and then we just wait till they close. The man at the bank said they are doing the appraisal this week. I'm so excited. I love where it is and the 2.33 acres! It's orange brick, which isn't my favorite, but I can live with it. I'm going to plant a persimmon tree!! And we are going to have a huge garden with tons of tomatoes.
We will find out what we are having April 6th. That's about perfect timing so we can know what color to paint the baby's room!
So if anyone around here needs a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, cute, nice house, we've got one to sell you!!!

On baby note, my pants are getting a little tight. I am pretty similar in size, but it's getting harder and more uncomfy to try to keep my tummy sucked in like I apparently always do. I'm 17 weeks today. I go to the doctor a week from Thursday for a regular appointment, and the ultrasound on the 6th which I already mentioned.  I wish I could just skip the next one. They make you wait until you are 20 weeks for the ultrasound, and I will be JUST short of 19 weeks for the regular appointment. They are so boring right now.
I also found out that my doctors schedule surgeries on Thursdays, so there's another negative about me working Thursday nights. I at least had a shot of seeing the doctors when I had appointments on Mondays. On Thursdays, my only option is the nurse practitioner. I can't afford the time off work to schedule them for other days:( I have a feeling that, once I get closer, they are going to make me see the doctors, so I will have to use my sacred sick time. Stupid, stupid Thursdays!!!!

Goodbye First Trimester!

14 weeks today. I will not miss the first trimester at all. I feel so normal again. I haven't felt sick at all in about a week. No belly pictures. I haven't changed a bit and don't really want to see the pictures.
I go to the doctor Thursday for my next check up. Then I should be setting up my appointment for the ultrasound to see what we are having. Daniel is so excited for that.
We are looking at getting a different house. Actually, we found one we loved. We just need to figure out if we want to take that on right now with two house payments until ours would sell. We are gathering up enough for a down payment now. Even if we don't buy this one, it will be very nice to have the savings ready. This house is just way too small!

12 weeks

I hit 12 weeks yesterday. Still waiting to feel better.
I had the flu through most of week 10 and into week 11. It started out as what I thought was just a cold. Once I started getting a fever, the OB office was closed, so I couldn't call them. I started taking Tylenol every 6 hours to keep the fever down and Robitussin every 4 hours cause I couldn't stop coughing, which was causing me to lose my hypothetical cookies. I missed 2 1/2 days of work. I went in Friday, but I only made it half day. The following Monday, I was fever free but still felt pretty bad. I knew we were short on people at work, so I went it. I somehow made it the whole day. Thankfully we ended up with an ice storm and we were closed Tuesday and Wednesday. That was much needed for recovery.
So anyway, I thought my morning sickness was gone while I was sick. I had no appetite, but I wasn't feeling nauseous at all. I guess that was just  my body being nice to me. As soon as the fever was gone, the morning sickness came back, and worse actually. I have been getting sick more often. Usually I'm somewhat okay when I wake up, feel horrible and can't keep my lunch down (or dinner if I sleep in late), then feel better in the evening.
But I'm at 12 weeks, so I really think the end of this is in sight.