First Baby Pictures!

My Family <3 

Baby Jace!

His adorable little feets!

Our beautiful baby boy will be here in April, and I can't wait to meet him! He was very very active during the ultrasound, he kept punching and kicking and rolling. It's weird that I still can't feel all this movement, but I'm really glad it's happening and that he's already an active baby. Well, more updates as I know them, but my baby boy is healthy, developing very well, and I cannot wait to meet him in April! 

Week 19 (Only one day till the ultrasound!)

Well, in less than 24 hours Nathan and I will have gotten to see our baby for the first time. And, as long as baby wants to cooperate, we'll know a gender so I can be better prepared for the nursery and I can finally call baby by their name!

This week baby will be about mango-sized (all the food size references still crack me up) and they'll be developing more and getting cuter =) So, they'll be cute for the ultrasound pictures tomorrow!

Last night was my bachelorette and Nathan's bachelor party, which was a great time. The girls and I went to Mellow Mushroom for pizza, and to the movies to see Crazy Stupid Love, which was amusing. We didn't get back into Berea till about 1am, then Courtney and I started watching Bridesmaids, sadly I fell asleep partway through, and now today is a homework day. Well, mostly homework. I also need to do some cleaning, the boys bachelor party left my house a little messy. It's really not that bad (thankfully!) but it does need a little TLC.
Well, I may blog again tomorrow night complete with ultrasound pictures and a name, but it may also wait till after my giant history paper is due. 

18 Weeks (only 22 weeks to go!)

I finally got Nathan to take a picture so there's more than just my tummy, of course, I also took one of the belly. Baby is 5" long this week, and I'm almost halfway through pregnancy! Everything still seems to be on track, no real movement to report (sadly) and I'm still counting down the days till the ultrasound to know the gender!

Friday night I got to spend time with another soon-to-be mommy. I don't think I've mentioned it before, but one of my very good friends will be having a baby very close to the same time as me, she's due about 2 weeks after my due date, so we've been able to help each other with pregnancy symptoms, learning what to do, and just being there to support each other. I love it, I love having someone so close that I can relate to and get support from.

Of course, Nathan has been trying to be supportive too, but there really is only so much he can understand about it all.

This morning I started looking online for more baby stuff, it's all so stinkin' cute! Girl or boy all the baby stuff is adorable, and it's so so tiny! Whenever I think about how small the baby will actually be when it's born the more afraid I am that I might hurt it because it will be so itty biddy.

Well today I'm going to spend some time getting ahead on hw, cleaning the house, and getting things accomplished because the next three weekends will be completely insane. Next weekend are Nathan and I's bachelor and bachelorette parties, the following weekend we'll be in Ohio for Thanksgiving break, and the weekend after that is the wedding! Time is just flying by and there's still much to do, hopefully we can get it all done in time!

Week 17

Well if there were any doubts about my bump showing up, they've vanished. It's funny to have people come up to me at classes and around campus to try to rub my belly. Sometimes it's a little awkward, but most of the time it's just cute.

And since baby can hear, I now talk to her all the time. She's like a walking journal, she knows everything! I also sing to her a lot, hopefully she likes my singing voice, otherwise when she gets bigger she may let me know her dislike with little kicks!

Friday was another doctor visit, and everything checked out wonderfully. The doctor was happy with my blood tests, weight gain, blood pressure, and we were all thrilled about the very strong, easy to find heartbeat. Instead of making us wait until week 20 we're going to go in on November 21 to get the first ultrasound and (hopefully) find out the gender! Unless of course baby is hiding, which is possible. I really hope she doesn't though, because I would love to start calling her by her name. Or his name, if so appropriate lol.

The wedding plans are going wonderfully, there's not too awful much left to do! Right now I'm just trying to keep up with the RSVP list. I'm so blessed because so many of my friends are traveling down (or up) to come to the wedding to support us! And a lot of our friends have said they'd love to help up with set up and decoration and all the other things that will have to happen the day of! Sometimes I'm not really sure how I got so lucky, but I have some of the best support in the world, and some people that I know would do anything for me and Nathan and itty biddy.

Well, I don't think there's much else I wanted to update on, just that things are going well, Nathan and I are happy (he's excited the baby can hear too, at night he'll lay down beside me and talk to my belly so baby will know his voice too), baby is healthy and growing, and our little family is getting stronger every day <3

xoxo

A Non-Baby Update

I will never understand why a simple task, like maybe registering for classes, has to become such a hassle. Okay, to be fair, I forgot registration was this morning. I've been a little busy, a little stressed, and had plenty of other things on my mind. But, thankfully, I wasn't really able to sleep so I saw a facebook update about registration and freaked out because it was 6:53. Registration begins at 7:00.

I run downstairs, grab the computer, and naturally there's an error on myberea. So, I can't register. Or look up classes. Or enter my pin. Or... well you name it I can't do it. I spend the next few minutes diligently hitting Refresh and hoping to god to eventually be able to register so I can get my classes. Hallelujah it goes through! I get one class, then two, except then I try to register for EDS 480, you know, one of those required classes that must be taken my pre-professional term, where there are limited spots available, and no. Denied. I don't meet the prerequisites. Except, I've taken EVERY EDS course I need, done EVERY portfolio and jumped through EVERY hoop that has been put in front of me. So now, I have to figure out how to get an override into a class that, by all logic, I should meet the prerequisites for.

Ugh, this has been the start to my day. Somehow, I'm not very optimistic for it to get much better.

Also, I will baby update soon, but I don't have the camera with me right now so I can't upload the picture yet and I prefer to have a picture with my updates.

xoxo