Week 15

My baby according to parentsconnect.com "Although many women don't start feeling the baby move until the 17th week (or later), your baby has been having his own party in the amniotic sac he calls home. If you feel a little flutter in your belly this week, don't discount it as gas or hunger. It could be your babe banging around."

        This week has been so nice!! It's gone by fast and I've been able to work on all kinds of baby items (much to Matt's dislike since we don't know the gender for sure... but that's okay :D) Most of what I've been working on has been for the car (car seat sets, blankets, and other random items). Matt did however surprise me by looking at baby clothes patterns when we went to Joann's to get somethings for his company.  He's also learning very quickly that when i start to rant and rave to just let me talk and then just smile and laugh about it because in about 5 min I'm usually back to normal rational self.

       As for Matt, he's mostly been working and taking care of things with school. He's been so supportive and has been helping me a lot with keeping on top of the dishes and is always there for me when I start crying for no reason at all. I definitely got the better end of the deal in our marriage. Matt's always been willing to help me and to do the best that he can with everything that he does to try and take care of me. I could go on and on about everything he does for me, but unfortunetly he's currently waiting for me to come play Harry Potter Lego on the Wii so I will just finish by saying that my husband is the best husband in the world and I'm so lucky to have him in my life!!!!

~Melanie

Week 14

       This week was interesting. I recently started doing a prenatal work out and so far it's been great. I feel so much better about myself, and have found that overall I have more energy. My goal is to workout everyday of this pregnancy and to continue to workout after this little one is born. I'm hoping that by doing this the labor will be easier on me, and that I'll be able to heal faster.

       As for the baby "Think of it this way: You're a third of the way through and baby's a third of the way cooked. Now that the "big stuff" (like skeletal and organ development) is taken care of, your baby starts a period of rapid brain growth, fat buildup and detail work. Highlights this week include:

Your baby is now weighs about an ounce and is the length of a flip phone, or roughly 3.5 inches—he's tripled in size from a mere three weeks ago! Luckily, you haven't done the same." according to parentsconnect.com (mostly it just makes me more excited to have this little monster growing inside me :D).


       Other then that I've just been working on more baby items. And yes I am working on gender specific items. Currently I'm working on car seat covers for the inside and out. The one today was for a boy (I'll post pictures a little later, mostly because I need to borrow a car seat so that they make sense). I'm also working on one for a little girl that Matt bought for me (so that I could use it as a pattern for the others). The biggest difference in the ones that I'm making is that I'm trying to make it so that I don't have to crochet around all of them. But I do want to go around some of them. Mostly It'll depend on my mood at the time (and how fast I need to get it done...).

       The boy one is just about done, I have one more hole to finish off and the girls I need to crochet around them all and find some fabric to make the loops and buttons to match. I think I know what buttons I'm going to use (mostly because I already have them) but if they don't work out I'm going to try and find some turtles or something else that looks cute to put on it... I'll let you know what I end up doing!! :)

Popeye

As background, I grew up eating spinach in the cooked form (fill a container with raw spinach and some water and stick it in the microwave for a few minutes). Once cooked, you douse it in lemon juice. In my opinion, it's quite good. So that's how I cooked some left over spinach for dinner that needed to be eaten up. When Melanie sat down to eat, she looked at the spinach and said "What the heck is that?" "Spinach", I told her. She was not thrilled. However, we have kept the rule from both of our parents which states, you must try everything at least once. Melanie reluctantly took a small amount of spinach and set it on her plate. I showed her how you take a bottle of lemon juice and pour some over the spinach. She followed suite and eventually pulled a small forkful up to her mouth. She eyed it with apparent disgust. She opened her mouth, and took a bite. Her first reaction was most definitely camera worthy. I regret not having the camera with me. She found it utterly disgusting. It was by far the funniest face I've seen her make in a long time. She looked like she was going to hurl. I couldn't help but laugh at her, continuing to eat my own spinach. "Now you know how I like my spinach", I explained to her. "That's fine, but I'm never going to make it for you", she replied. Oh well, I can always make it myself. :)

Week 13

So I know I don't look like it in the picture, but I feel like a balloon!!! I'm currently 13 weeks pregnant and according to parenthood.com  my baby is "About the size of a peach, your baby's body starts to catch up to the head. Eyes, which start out on the side of the face, move toward the center and the ears move toward the side of the head. The genitalia is developed enough to easily tell whether you have a boy or girl."

 Yesterday we went to another OB appointment and got to hear the baby's heart beat (150-147). My OB said that if he had to guess the gender based off of the heartbeat, he'd say it's a girl. So adding that to the list of people who have told us we're having a girl it now totals 5 (not counting all the random people from work who tell me it's a girl because of this that and the other that doesn't even make sense to me). 

So, since I won't be able to find out for sure until Feb, Matt and I still betting on it being a girl. But only the ultrasound in Feb will tell!! 

Other then that this month has gone by so fast for us! For me just because I 'm finally over the morning sickness (YAY!!!!!!!!)!! Matt because of school and work that just keep coming and coming. So far he's doing good in his classes, a little frustrated with one due to confusion between the teacher and the bookstore, but that should hopefully end soon. (The first day of class the teacher asked if anyone had their text books and they all said no... that it wasn't on the book list, and there were none in the bookstore. Long story short Matt ordered his online that day so he wouldn't have to buy a new one and is now trying to figure out how to do the homework with no book to reference. Hopefully he'll be able to make it to some of the office hours and get some help!!)

Other then that I've just been working on getting the nursery cleaned out and set up, and getting what few things we can get without knowing the gender, ie dresser, changing pad, sheets, bath tub and a few other odds and ends. I've been doing a lot of research and comparing on the expensive baby items so that I don't over pay and so that I can spread out the big expenses as much as possible. So far I've been able to save quite a bit by getting most of the furniture from Ikea and being given the crib from my wonderful Mom! So far the hardest part about planning the nursery is trying to make everything fit and still having the storage space that we need. Thankfully Matt was able to clean out the storage space above the downstairs door and we were able to store quite a bit of it up there, and out in the garage (which looks so much bigger now that most of his equipment is stored in the trailer). Matt has been a huge help with the cleaning part (even if he doesn't really think so)!! 

Let's see other then that I've just been trying to  keep busy and on top of housework and studying (granted I'm getting to the point where even opening that book is putting me to sleep.... ugh...)

But that's about all for now!! 

~Melanie 

So ready for some sun!!!

        K, normally I love winter. It's great I get to sit at home curled up with a book relaxing and enjoying the warmth of my house. But this winter has got to end!! I need some sun!! I'm seriously going insane being inside all day but I don't want to go outside because it's basically freezing!!! That and if time would go just a little bit faster it would be February and then I would get to find out if I'm having a little girl or a little boy. Which would be so nice because then I could start going crazy making baby stuff and not having to wonder if I'll actually get to keep it or if it'll end up being a present for some future baby.... (granted I could just make it all anyway and just store it for a later baby... but I don't think that I really need anymore random things to store in this house...)