shower. done.

28 weeks and 2 days....12 more weeks to go!

Nursery is painted, decorated and now filled with stuff. We're very pleased with the color and are very much enjoying the Dr. Seuss/Cat In The Hat theme. The cat in the hat items are much higher quality than I'd expected when I saw them online. Our book sling is filled with books- that makes me happy. Doctors say everything is on track. Little one is kicking and rolling all the time. I've learned that myself, my brother and my sister were all over 10 pounds, Kris was 9.2 and my dad was 12.12...so this should be fun to do naturally, but I'm going to try my best. I've only gained 11 pounds according to the nurses but because I was so up and down anyway, it might be 15. Still not bad. Bananas, Cheerios and chicken have consumed my diet for the most part....and chocolate.

We had our shower Sunday. I'm not one to be the center of attention, so I'm sure I looked like a huge dork opening everything, and some stuff from people I didn't even know. We received a good variety of things on and off the registry. Ducks seemed to be the chosen theme (girls like elephants and frogs too;) ) but I was able to exchange a few for gift cards so once we know who's here we can buy the appropriate clothes. We were also able to buy a few things we still needed off the registry- a second car seat base so both of our cars can be ready to go whenever. This baby is lucky to have so much stuff already. Thanks to Mrs. W. and my mom for putting this all on and my sister for coming into town for it. THANK YOU to everyone who was able to come and help us celebrate and to everyone else who sent the little one a gift. Packages at my door everyday was absolutly awesome.

So, Christmas is around the corner and with the lack of days I'm working this month (yay Ford), I'm sure December will fly by...then I'm sure days will drag on haha. Happy Holidays!

hide and seek

I'm baaaccckkk.

You should have seen Kris hover over the ultrasound tech to see the computer screen:) The squirmy one showed us a thumbs up and a scary Halloween face along with lots of stretching and some sucking, but didn't get a good profile and couldn't see all 4 chambers of the heart. Althought it had a good heart rate, these are kind of important to see, so we get to go back in two weeks! The tech put us at 17 weeks and 3 days with all the measurements and I'm going with that (despite what the doctor wants to believe), I'm not going to stress over her nonsense. We're going to compare the next one and see if it still matches up, I'm sure it will. This puts the human to pop out 2-27-12, but a leap year baby would be tons of fun. I also lost 7 pounds so apparently this freaks the nurses/doctor out. You see me once a month and I live with my body, it's fine. Plus my jeans don't fit so that says something! So, all is well and I'll be back in two weeks. Tata.

trial bloggy thing. a summer update

So, I guess I'm going to start a blog?

I'm not really good at these because I tend to go on tangents. A lot. But I promise to write only good things, or at least try to.

So from the start...this one might be a little longer. It was a very low key weekend at the lake with my parents, having just taken one pregnancy test with an unclear result (but I knew). We came home to get a second test and Happy Fathers Day Kristopher. This was very unexpected and took a while for me to wrap my head around but Kris was more than happy for the news, which was wonderful. I'm STILL trying to wrap my head around this, trying to stay positve I suppose, but it's been difficult for me due to the not so steady financial, career and living situations we both have been going through. But now making the best of it all...

First good news was the condo. Great timing for his grandfather to move out and us to update and take over a 3 bed, 2.5 bath, 3 story condo with garage. We made updates to the kitchen, bathrooms, carpet throughout, light fixtures and painted most rooms with help from both our dads. It's eight times better than it was and Abby loves to run up and down the stairs. Unfortunately for me (fortunately for her?), Stella had to retire at the lake with my parents due to condo association rules and Jack has found a new hunting family to be with.

So, as the condo was coming along, we got to July 26th and were able to hear the peanuts heartbeat. Little one was scurrying around but finally found 'em (twice) just long enough to actually hear. Strange feeling, but nothing really changed for me. Still didn't seem real, except one more step to the scary part and still wasn't sure this was for the best. But of course Kris was more than thrilled again, and helped me to stay positive (or at least tried his best knowing I've very stubborn).

After the doctors appointment, we came to my house and just before Kris had to be at work (where I'd planed to chow down some dinner) he nervously got down on one knee and asked if I would marry him. This crazy guy I'd been chasing for 4 years actually wanted to settle down? Of course I said yes. I was SO excited for this and sent text messages to just about everyone.

So, here we are, living in our condo, engaged and growing a human. I'm 4 and a half months and tomorrow we're getting our first ultrasound to see the baby, who is now the size of a green pepper and kicking me. Oh yes, I can feel it. I actually felt it first in the car the evening of Sept.9th (16 weeks). The 'flutters' or twitches have been about every/every other day and usually at night. Kris was able to feel twitches a week later on the 17th.

So that's that. We have lots of support from our family and friends which helps a ton and I'm becoming more relaxed about not being able to 'hand this one back to it's parents' when my job is over for the day. His parents are very excited and after a week or so mine came around and are already on their way to spoiling it rotten. Just hoping for a healthy baby and all the details should work themselves out if we save right and have a little faith. We gotta grow up some time even if this wasn't in my plans this year, it was obviously in someones, so lets roll with the punches. Get it, punches...baby punches. Ha.