Excuse me but are my hips still in my body???

Hello Hello! 

We made it people!  We made it!  Ok....we aren't at the end but hell we made it to 24 weeks/6 months pregnant!  Where in God's green earth did the time go?  Didn't I just pee on a stick and get two pink lines!  But here we are and we are so blessed.  Our little one, who is now over a pound in weight, is busy as a bee!  This child kicks and kicks and flips and punches the living daylights out of my insides.  The OB nurse said "Oh she should be still during the day! Walking is like swaying the baby to sleep!"  She obviously doesn't know me very well.  I have a sneaky suspicion this little girl is going to be just like me! Which means that not only will she be busy but stubborn as well which she proves anytime they try to find her heartbeat...she does this jucking and jiving move to get away from the wand.  Go figure!  At least she's healthy and apparently happy as hell in there.  I feel like she sits right underneath my rib cage and have been feeling some shortness of breath because of it.  The OB says it's normal....I say it's scary as hell.  I guess as she gets bigger, I'll slow down some.  Although that's easier said than done. 

We haven't been buying anything new although the crib is going up this month and we need to get the mattress for it.  I am ready to be done with the baby's nursery and I haven't even started it.  Laziness I guess...or maybe it's because my pelvis is falling out.  Just to let you women know who haven't been pregnant before....there is this lovely hormone that causes your ligaments to loosen...ALL of them...so imagine that, coupled with the pressure of your little one obliterating your insides and you have pregnancy.  I can only imagine what this is going to feel like 4...8...12 weeks from now....(insert fainting smiley here)

On a lighter note, we have baby class this week.  The hubby and I are going to see what we can learn new about newborns.  I still need to sign him up for New Daddy Bootcamp even though he swears he knows all there is to know about newborns.  To that I simply say this...

After that we have the hospital tour which I am especially looking forward to.  So I'll keep everyone posted! 

The Anti-Pink Mama!!!

Well now that we are on the homestretch of this lima bean to baby process, it's definitely time we get started on outfitting the baby's room.  I should preface by saying that we are having a girl and I am VEHEMENTLY against pink.  Now before I get bashed let me just say that I am not against pink...I just don't care for it at all.  When I see all pink nurseries I think that someone surely ingested way too much PeptoBismol and threw it up everywhere in a fit of morning sickness.  We had pretty much decided that no matter the sex of the baby we would not go all pink or all blue.  So we settled on a neutral palate of brown, green, and ivory.  I just couldn't stomach yellow.   And since the entire world is on an organic movement we jumped on the bandwagon as well.  We opted for an organic bedding set.

We haven't decided on the mattress yet but am aiming to go organic there as well.  Call it the stupidity of first time parents, but we want what has the best reviews, looks good, and doesn't introduce too many unnecessary chemicals to our little girl.   With that said...the crib isn't organic.  LOL  Its from Target and its cute.  It's the Graco Lauren Crib in Espresso.  NOTE that is not our nursery...it's way too pink

And lastly but not leastly we are deciding to cloth diaper.  *GASP*  Most people that think cloth diapers think the old school cloth folded and pinned with those gigantic safety pins.  Not so much the same thing anymore.  There are so many options one might get overwhelmed.  So we started our cloth diaper adventure this week and brough 4 to try out when the baby is born.  We hope to start the cloth diapers when the umbilical cord falls off and she gains some weight.  You can cloth diaper a newborn but I hear they have poop like tar when they are born and I am NOT cleaning that mess off cotton.  No way no how!  So just a peek into what we have gotten ourselves in to, the cloth diapers look like this give or take a few features depending on what you buy...

These are AIO's or All In One's meaning you wash the entire thing.  There are pocket diapers, prefolds, covers.....an entire lot of diapers!! 

For now I'll spare you any more details on those.

As for the mama and daddy to be....well we are in shock and excited and worried and in love and overjoyed!  She kicks all the time now!  Mostly in the morning and at night when I am most relaxed.  Its amazing how strong her kicks are getting now that we are in the 22nd week.  I can't wait for Randy to be able to feel them on from the outside.  I am feeling ok but definitely can tell that she is getting bigger as I feel like I am losing space in my body.  If you are pregnant then you know what I mean.  We picked out a name but we aren't sharing it.  So Sorry!!!!! 

So I will be back soon to update after our appointment on Monday for updates! 

Greetings! Hola! Como esta! It's been awhile since I last updated and again I promise to try and do better!

We are currently 20 weeks and 4 days pregnant! I suppose you could say we are on the down side of the hill. We climbed the first 20 weeks and I feel like they have flown completly by! It was just like yesterday I found out I was pregnant and here we are with 19 weeks left.

At around 15/16 weeks I was sitting on the couch and thought I felt something move. Well initially I figured it was gas since as anyone who has been pregnant knows gas and pregnancy go hand in hand. Well then it happened continuously for about an hour and I knew it wasn't gas at all....it was our Little Monkey in there having a party! Feeling the baby move is something I had been waiting on the entire pregnancy. It seems to make it all so real! Initially it feels like flutters and then rolls and then one day it will be solid kick to the bladder. And then 5 minutes later time to go pee....again..... As the baby grows so do the trips to the restroom!

We found out at our anatomy scan that we are having a little girl! A precious, curly headed, doe-eyed baby girl! I am so excited and overjoyed! Randy is over the moon about our new little girl and picked out some darling outfits from Target for our little one. It's going to be such an amazing thing to watch an incredible husband be an outstanding father to his daughter. We have a name picked out but aren't going to share it simply because while respect everyone's opinons they can keep them to themselves. :)

So as it stands all is going well with the pregnancy. Baby is growing ahead of schedule and doing wonderful!