Week 13: Peach

So guess what?! My sister is pregnant too! That makes 3 little babies all within a month (Britt is due April 1st, I'm due April 19th, and Kim is due May 6th)! How crazy is that? Well my sister does cute updates on her blog, so I'm halfway copying her. I don't feel like being cutesy and creative yet. I had all these Pinterest plans for pictures and such, but I'm just not havin' it. Maybe later...?

Our baby is the size of a peach!

 

How many weeks? 13 WEEKS

Total weight gain/loss: DOWN 5 LBS BUT IT'S STARTING TO GO BACK UP
Maternity clothes? NO. JEANS STILL FIT, BUT OUTSIDE OF WORK/CHURCH I BASICALLY JUST WEAR SWEATS BECAUSE I'M CLASSY

Stretch marks? NOT FROM PREGNANCY YET.
Sleep: I HAVE SCIATICA AND BACK PAIN THAT KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT, BUT I SLEEP DURING THE DAY WONDERFULLY WHEN I HAVE THE CHANCE!

Best moment this week: HEARING THE LITTLE ONE'S HEARTBEAT
Movement: NO...UNLESS YOU COUNT MY STOMACH TURNING AND FOOD COMING UP?
Food cravings: PANCAKES! I WAS ALSO CRAVING CHOCOLATE CAKE EARLIER THIS WEEK SO I MADE MYSELF ONE.
Anything making you queasy or sick: WHEN I HAVE MEDIOCRE-to-BAD BREATH I GAG. OTHER THAN THAT, JUST ALL THE USUAL YUCKY SMELLS. I WAS ALREADY HIGHLY SENSITIVE TO SMELLS PRE-PREGNANCY SO NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED.

Have you started to show yet: A LITTLE...IT'S MORE OF A POOCH BUT I STILL LIKE IT, ESPECIALLY AFTER I EAT. I'LL SAVE MY "I'M FAT" COMPLAINING FOR LATER.
Gender prediction: LANE AND I KEEP HAVING DREAMS ABOUT OUR DAUGHTER, WHOSE NAME IS BROOKLYN. THAT PROBABLY MEANS WE'RE HAVING A BOY THOUGH.
Belly Button in or out? IN
Wedding rings on or off? ON

Your top two name choices: BROOKLYN ROSE (g) KOBE or QUINN (b)
Worst Thing about being pregnant: BARFING AND PINCHED NERVE.
Best Thing about being pregnant: IMAGINING LIFE WITH OUR BABY AND CONTINUALLY BEING AMAZED AT THIS PROCESS THAT GOD CREATED.

Are you more scared or excited: SO FAR, EXCITED...AND ANXIOUS!
Last time you cried over something ridiculous was: UMM..OTHER THAN CRYING WATCHING ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW (THAT'S NOTHING NEW), I WAS LONELY THE OTHER DAY WHEN LANE WAS OUT OF TOWN AND I CRIED LIKE A BABY OUT OF SELF-PITY.
You pee an estimated __ times a day?: 10+
Weirdest dream you've had since pregnant?: NOTHING WEIRD THAT I CAN RECALL, YET.

Looking forward to: FINDING OUT WHAT WE'RE HAVING!

 

I wish that my sister lived closer to join in on this fun, but at least Kim and I are able to do this: since we are due so close, we are taking a picture together the first Sunday of every month to watch our bellies grow! This is so fun to me!

First "Belly Pic"

I don't have much going on there; just a little pooch forming. My mom said I should still take the "before" picture, so this is as "before" as it's going to get...10.5 weeks. The stripes probably give the belly more of an effect anyway.

Oh, Baby!

I have this little one inside of me! Is that weird or what?

I'm 9 weeks along and feeling every minute of it. The vomiting began a few weeks ago and has become a pretty regular (every-other-day) occurrence. I feel nauseous for a few hours in the morning, a couple hours in the afternoon, and sometimes at night. I have absolutely no energy about 6 days out of the week. However, I consider these good signs that the baby is growing! I have no real cravings yet, but McDonalds and french fries are about the only things that sound edible to me. This does not mean that I eat McDonalds all the time; maybe once a week. I do snack on those french fries at work though, that's for sure! My doctor told me I need to start forcing myself to eat little snacks throughout the day (easier said than done), since nausea usually comes with an empty stomach. He was listing off foods I could keep by my bed and eat first thing when I wake up: "Crackers, Oreos..." Okay, no need to go any further. I stopped listening at Oreos. Hey, doctor's orders!

Anyway, we love this little peanut so much already. The first ultrasound was so much fun! We got to see the little arms and legs moving around (does that mean our child will have ADHD?). It felt just so surreal. I'm due April 19th, 2013. ~Whew! Hopefully we're safe from having another May birthday!~ We're dying to know what we're having. So far we've cleared out the room across from ours; which was the office. I want to start decorating but it's early still, and it would be a lot easier if we knew what we were having. Soon enough though!

October 5th we get to hear the heartbeat! ♥

Vegas/Cali trip '12

I was able to go visit Erin, Russell and Rex in Vegas for about a week with Vicki, in the heat of the summer! I got to spend some quality time with this lil' guy...although he isn't so little anymore!

He's even crawling now; which means he'll probably be walking by Christmas at the rate he's going. Erin took me to the Hoover Dam bridge since I had never been. We were just posing silly.

She also had our meals all planned out and cooked for us! They got me addicted to the show "Downton Abby" while I was there. One night we went to see the water show at the Bellagio; which is always a sight to see! I always love spending time with Erin. We can just sit around and do nothing and it's entertaining.

My family has had a crazy few months and it worked out for me to go visit them in California the following week. While I was down there, our family grew! My sister got married! My mom planned my wedding in a short 3 months, and everything was absolutely perfect. She is quite the wedding planner because in just a couple weeks she planned Britt's perfect wedding at Crescent Bay Pointe Park in Laguna Beach. The setting was stunning, the couple was beautiful and happy as can be and our family was able to be there. I am so happy for them and that I have a new brother-in-law!

Lane was able to make it too!

Erin & Russell were down in Palm Springs so they joined us :)

We had a delicious and crazy dinner reception at El Torito following the wedding. It was so fun to see everyone!

Meanwhile, as I was enjoying family time in California, my husband conquered a triathlon (his first and probably only)! I am so proud of him. He decided to do it about a month before, and so he had about a month to train! I couldn't do it in that short amount of time, just sayin'. Way to go Lane!

 

DC/Virginia Trip '12 cont'd

After a couple days of touring DC area, Brady got a couple days off and we all went on a mini-road trip to Virginia Beach. We stopped at a little diner on our way for some good breakfast...and grits.

When we got to our hotel we had a little pool time before hitting up the beach.

Here's one of the cute entrances to the beach. There was a different theme for each little entrance.

Sand baby!

Miss her!

For dinner we went to another place on Lane's list from Triple D. This place was called Beach Pub and it had all-you-can-eat flounder. Lane was saving up the most calories for this place (although we ate a lot prior to). It was also pretty delicious. All the restaurants he chose from Triple D were so worth it!

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It was one of those restaurants that provide you with crayons to draw on your place mat and they hang a lot of those pictures on the wall...so I found it appropriate to draw Guy Fieri, since he helped make it famous. I don't know if it made it on the wall, but I'd like to think it did.  ;)

During relax time, Leo and I had a little chalk therapy outside. Have I ever mentioned how cute this kid is?

We went down to the beach again that night and got some ice cream. There was a band playing in a little amphitheater, and some older couples were gettin' their grooves on so we found it entertaining to sit and watch. I was impressed with the town, it was pretty cute!

Leo got chocolate-wasted and grew a chocolate goatee. He was gettin' his groove on too.

Another cute entrance

Cute mama with baby May

Oh those boys...

Our time quickly came to an end. I don't like goodbyes, and not only did I have to say bye to my best friend again and favorite lil' Leo, but there was another cute face added to the sadness.

We sure do love this little Harker family. We built some great memories with them. It was like nothing changed since they moved (other than the addition to the family) and we already miss them like crazy. Thanks for the great trip, tours, hospitality, and memories Brady, Leah, Leo and May! We love you!

DC/Virginia Trip '12

I experienced my first red eye flight to the east coast. I wasn't a fan ... but it was worth it! We had such a great trip visiting our friends and touring DC and Virginia. I didn't feel like we were doing very much while we were there, until I looked through our pictures, and then I realized we did so much in that short 5 days! The first day while Brady was at work, Leah took us on a tour of the monuments and memorials:

The White House

Washington Monument

 WWII Memorial

MLK Jr Memorial

Jefferson Memorial

Korean War Memorial

Lincoln Memorial

This was my favorite! I don't know why but I was so excited to actually see this one in person.

We got to experience the Metro plenty. I know you're just supposed to look at the map and the different colored lines, but I think I would need more than a week to figure that out. It's too hectic, confusing, and rude for me. I'll stick with driving my car down a couple one-ways here in the valley!

Library of Congress

Lane planned out all our meals; mostly by researching the best restaurants from Diners Drive-Ins and Dives. The first stop on his list was Ben's Chili Bowl. I'll tell you what - there was a reason Guy Fieri decided to film there! ~SO delicious~ Great service, spectacular food, decent pricing, and famous (byPresident Obama, Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, and others).

The second day we spent more time touring different lines of the Metro rather than touring the city (we took some wrong trains). Our first destination was China Town. It was pretty pathetic. These pictures were about it for the town. We ate at a restaurant there; which was okay.

We stopped at the Natural History Museum. It wasn't very exciting, but Leo was pretty cute with the huge elephant at the entrance! He had gone to the zoo prior to our visit and when they went over to the elephants, the elephants were "hiding in the rocks." Well he obviously hadn't gotten over the fact that they were hiding, so the whole time we were there he walked around saying. "ele-fents..hidingin..therocks." Pretty stinkin' cute, that kid is.

After taking a break and playing with those cute kids (Leo and May) in the park...

...we walked around Georgetown (the college town) to find the next restaurant on Lane's list, Good Stuff Eatery. We did a lot of walking for this one, but again, it was worth it! We had some amazing burgers! Plus, we got to see so many "out-of-a-movie" cute homes like these:

Next time we go there I would like to visit the Holocaust Museum. We would have gone but we wanted to actually spend time with Brady, Leah and the kids and it just wasn't realistic to bring the kids in; but, there's another excuse to go visit them again!