10 Down 30 more to go!!

This week in my pregnancy:

We are at week 10 and are officially at fetus status which means “little one”
Hooray!!! We are now starting to look like a little baby with eyes lids, ears, fingers and toes instead of like a tadpole!!

I found a cool site that tells me this week:

The roller coaster of nausea may almost be over, but the roller coaster of emotions (happy, sad, crying, mad; and that's all in the last 30 seconds) is just revving up. Also the Baby's brain will make an incredible 25,000 new neurons every minute this week

The site also tells me we are now the size of a mondo Brazil nut which I like better than the prune (what the heck) that the baby counter on the right is showing. lol!!

10 Weeks Pregnant

I haven’t been feeling anywhere near as sick as I have the last month and I do think I’m starting with the crazy emotions. Lately as I’ve been on the way to work on the bus that takes us in, every little thing other people do annoys the heck out of me. I’ve been riding the bus for almost 6 yrs now and never have people gotten on my nerves so much!! Little things like constantly bumping my arm THE WHOLE RIDE IN while I’ve squished myself as close to the window as I possible can, I’m not even that big yet, or how bout the guy who pulled out a bag of potato chips and insisted on switching hands with the crinkly crunchy bag every two seconds on top of all the munching smacking sounds as he ate with his mouth wide open right in my ear. UGH makes me want to turn around and SCREAM an ear full to some of these people!!! Lol thankfully I have been able to hold it together…..so far ;-)

I am enjoying seeing how the baby is progressing. 10 years ago when I had Taylor I was 16 years old and didn’t get to relish in this kind of stuff!! I’m not even sure we had a computer yet back then!! And I was too busy being a teenager trying to finish high school to pick up a baby book. By this time I hadn’t even told my mom and was keeping the fact that I was pregnant hush hush. Once I did tell everyone they gave me the “you ruined your life speech” but I guess I showed them (*turning my nose in the air here, j/k)

Now everyone I tell is super excited and I’m having a lot of fun with it!! I have already starting looking at nurseries, which is another luxury I wasn’t able to take with Taylor.  Don’t get me wrong. Once everyone got over the initial shock that I was pregnant at 16 we all got excited, epically my mom and we got to do fun stuff like shop!!!

Taylor told me last night at the dinner table she’s glad she doesn’t have an old mom ;-) it was too cute!! Oh she has also told me I could have been on the show 16 and Pregnant…I just laughed and told her I could have STARTED that show and be making a nice living off it by now. She is being awesome of course! She hasn’t shown a lot of excitement just yet, but when she was sick a few weeks ago she didn’t want to kiss me because she was afraid she would get me sick. I think once I start showing more and we start shopping for a boy or girl it will become more tangible for her.

I’m starting to look at baby names and am having a tough time with it. We already had a girl named picked out before I even got pregnant. But we both feel like we need to be looking at boy names (hopefully I didn’t just jinx us) Thankfully there is still a long time to think about it, although I'm plenty ready to get this pregnancy show on the road!! I’m ready to be fat with a big baby belly and feel all the little kicks and punches that come with it! Of course I say that now and in a couple months I might be eating those words but oh well!!

Next week is Christmas (MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE) and the week after that I have my next appointment and ultrasound scheduled so until then I hope everyone has a Blessed and Happy Holidays!!!

Yay!!

This is my last week of class!!! Needless to say I am UBER excited!!! It has been a LONG 2 years!!! And in less than a week I will be done with my Bachelor’s degree!!! This last semester I have been super busy and stressed. I have done nothing but focus on finishing. I unwisely waited till this last semester to do TWO CLEPS!! One in Marketing and one in Biology let me tell you they were no walk in the park!! My goal has been on finishing this semester and this degree. Everything else has been on the back burner. I haven’t read anything other than school books, I haven’t been on fb so much, and I haven’t been blogging…none of that! The only thing I have made time for these last few months was family and school!! It feels good to be able to get back into doing recreational things, like reading a good book!!!

This whole time I have been working on this degree I have been telling myself, ‘this is it, no more school ever after this’ I said the same thing when I was going for my Associates. Of course I may have spoken too soon. I’m already thinking about going back to school. I haven’t made up my mind yet but I have been thinking about it. We’ll see. If everything is set up like I want I may only be getting a month or so off of school. If I have learned anything it’s that no matter what I can do it. I might not like it, but I can do it.

            On another note, no new baby news yet. I’m not feeling as nauseous as I was so that’s good but that’s about the only change. I still don’t FEEL pregnant most of the time. My next appointment with the doctor is at the end of December and hopefully we will be getting another ultrasound. I can’t wait!!!

Holiday Mail for Heroes and Kid's Helping Kid's Holiday Cards!!

Holiday Mail for Heroes 2010 is here!!

Actually it started was Nov. 11th on Veteran's day. Unfortunately I just found out about it and only have 2 days to get my card in!!
This is the 4th year they have done this!
Cards can be sent to:

Holiday Mail for Heroes
PO Box 5456
Capitol Heights, MD
20791-5456

Or you can go to their website  and make a donation and get one of their cards to send.

I think am going to send one of my own. I just bought a pack of the MUSC children's holiday cards that gives 100% of their proceeds to the children's hospital, and I can't wait to use them!!!

How awesome is that, to be able to touch a stranger's life for the holiday and hopefully make them smile!!  

Here is the info on the Children's Hospital Holiday cards.

They are too sweet!! They are part of the Children's hospital holiday card project Kid's Helping Kid's.

The pack of cards are only $15 for a pack of 16 and all of the pictures are awesome! There are two different packs you can purchase and each one has amazing drawings in it! The cards are on sale until Dec. 31st. 

Welp I found out last Monday Nov. 8^th , IM PREGNANT!!!

I’d been feeling kinda funny for about or week or two. It was one of those feelings that just wouldn’t go away. I think from having Taylor I just knew the feeling. With her I found out because I was getting sick EVERY SINGLE MORNING. This hasn’t happened…yet. My stomach just felt odd. Sometimes after I would eat I would feel a little nauseous. I was been being extra careful at work, since I work around radiation, and told Jason “no” when he asked if I wanted to ride rides at the fair.

I thought maybe it was all in my head, but the feeling wouldn’t go away.

My lady friend that visits once a month was supposed to be making an appearance so I tried to wait for that before I took any test. I thought it should have come around Tue or wed and by Friday still nothing. So on my way home from work I stopped and bought a test. I rushed home thinking Jason was probably going to the gym so I would have plenty of time and whose car is in the driveway when I pull up? My husbands of course.

I really didn’t want him to know I was taking the test, especially if it was false so I left the test in the car and decided to take it the next morning when he went to the gym.

Saturday rolls around and as soon as he leaves I run out to get the test from the car and to my surprise the car is gone!!!! Jason took it because his car was blocked in….AHHH!!!

By this point im just getting frustrated that I have the dang test and haven’t been able to take it yet!!

Sunday was a lazy day and we both stayed home….another day with no test.

Finally Monday comes and since I had the day off I took Taylor to school and by the time I got back Jason had already left for work. I’d put the test in the house the night before JUST IN CASE he took my car again.

As soon as I walked in the door I ran to the bathroom to take the test. I made myself wait the two minutes the direction say to wait before looking at the results and sure enough…..positive.

I crawled back in bed and wrapped my self in covers so I could process the information. Then I cried. They weren’t sad tears. They were scared tears. Scared of starting all over again when Taylor is about to be 11. Scared of the physical pain I still remember from having Taylor. Scared of what Jason was going to say. By the end they were happy tears. I’ve been so afraid of having to have the hysterectomy and not getting to have a child with my husband.

That was weeks ago. By now I have told both my mom and Taylor and his family. Of course we are all excited!! I went to the doctor this past Monday and they told me I was 7 ½ weeks along. My due date is July 12^th as of right now. Everything is going well and I haven’t started putting weight on yet, but I certainly haven’t been watching it. I can’t. I crave too much!!! I am nauseated a lot but I never get sick and I just got some vitamin B6 which I understand helps with the sick feeling.