Ugh....

The last two weeks have been a little rough. Work is coming to an end and the job hunt is on. Not that I really want to work but I need to have something in the works. I had one interview that went very well and another job lined up that I really like. We are still waiting on the final word from Jared's work to see if they will pick him up for the fall or not. So it's a waiting game for both of us and neither of us is very patient right now.
I'm not sure if it's due to my belly growing or stress or a combination of both. But I've had the worst aches and pains..they were bad enough on Thursday to go to urgent care. Then as soon as I got there they stopped...typical, right? It takes a lot for me to go to the doctor, but I figured it's better to be safe then sorry. Needless to say the doctor said that my aches were due to everything stretching and growing and the tests they ran came back clean. So now knowing what "normal" aches and pains feel like they are wearing me down. It feels like the baby is stretching out and is sticking whatever limbs where ever they will go. My back hurts and I get cramps off and on. I go to my doctor next week and will definitely mention it. But holy crapola...I don't remember it doing this the first time around????? I've been trying to take it easy and lay down as much as possible and that does seem to help.

Morning Sickness or Stress????? (vomit talk, beware)

My poor hunny has been sick (nauseous) for the past few days. With Ethan he was the one that had the morning sickness and with this one I had about 3 weeks of feeling GREEN, but nothing more. I'm one of the rare breeds that refuses to throw up, it's gross, dirty, nasty and I hate the feeling of it so I simply don't do it unless the choice is not mine to make. Jared on the other hand is one of the breeds that can think of something gross, dirty, or nasty and can get the gag reflex going. Thank goodness Ethan takes after me, because when ever anyone (the animals) in our house gets sick it's me or Ethan that has to clean it up...otherwise there would be two messes instead of one.
I went by the pharmacy yesterday and took everything that I could find that said it could or would help nausea and hauled it to the counter. After telling the pharmacist my story or Jared's story he recommended Dramamine. And after getting home and force feeding him one he was able to eat dinner. I'm hoping that he will take one today to see if it really helps him or not. He's a non believer of medicine unless the doctor gives it to him. I hate seeing him sick because he's not his usual happy go lucky sarcastic self.

Week 16 (as of 6/20/09)

We had the first heartbeat listen today. It took them a while to find it and I got all messy with the yucky jelly stuff, but after about 5 minutes of them chasing it down they finally got a good read on it. My theory...your just like your papa and don't like the lime light and run from it, because every time we thought she had it you'd move. :) The reading was good 160 bpm and strong. All good things!!
I've gained 5-6 lbs so far....the books say that is ok, so I will take it and run. Hopefully the lemon bites and cupcakes Jared picked out will disappear and not pile more pounds to my growing ass.

Week 15....the first for sure kicks

I've had bubbles and twitches within the past 2 weeks while taking a bath, but lying in bed this morning was the first for sure start of feeling my baby! After the traumatic beginning (I know; not as bad as some people, but bad enough for me) I've been happy, excited, but very guarded. Today was the first day that I've felt for real "pregnant". Minus the symptoms and all that mess, feeling your baby and knowing that everything is okay is different that hoping that everything is okay. It's very surreal, I've waited for such a long time to have another baby and now that it's here and real it's very......hmmm.....neat (because I can't think of a better word right now)!!!

13 weeks down

My new due date is 12.5.09, so of Saturday I was 13 weeks pregnant. The baby has all of it's limbs in place and finger and toes moving like crazy. It still has an alien size head but at least it's resembling a human now. On BabyCenter.com they let you get weekly looks at how big and what baby is doing. I love it; with Ethan I only had books that would take you month to month. It is truly amazing that every week something changes. Right about now it is about 3 in long and is about the size of a medium shrimp! Crazy, but it's nice to know how to relate the size of your baby to real life things. I think I've only gained about 2-3 lbs, which I think is pretty good. I think one of the books I read mentioned up to 5 lbs by this time.

Character Matters

Ethan had another play at school this past week and he did an amazing job!! I only had enough room to record his parts....but really does the rest matter???? He was so nervous and worried that he would forget or embarrass the class. He originally only had one part, the second part was one he filled in for a student that couldn't make the night time play. TOO STINKIN CUTE!!

Part One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab5Iss_czc8

Part Two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbb0t6PnV2s

Enjoy!!

I LOVE long weekends

It's been such a long time since all three of us have had any amount of time off together that this weekend was especially nice. Jared and I had Friday off, I shopped and had lunch with my girlfriend at Famous Daves...YUMM...and Jared had to go to school to work on his project with his partners. Saturday I BBQ'd for everyone (us + Lani & Ian) for his late birthday gift and some family time. Everything turned out perfect. I made Jared's Black and White cookie/cake, and it was delish, not to cookie hard and not to cakey soft; and the icing / fudge frosting came out just like they do in the stores.
The rest of the weekend was for lounging around and playing Rock Band. We are a part of the in crowd now baby!!!
And the best part is I get another 3 day weekend this next week. This 3 day week of work better fly by cause I can't wait for next weekend :)

JUMBLE vi

*Jared and I got a sneak peak ultrasound last week. It was so tiny and squirmy. You could make out the feet, hands and face. With Ethan we didn't have an ultrasound this late so it was really cool. I go for a real one on Wednesday and I can't wait to see our tiny baby then.
*Jared starts his job today. It's been a long time since he has worked. We went shopping for some business casual clothes on Saturday. So I hope my idea of business casual is the same as theirs. He had to be there at 7 and it's about an hour drive from our house. My poor baby had to get up at 5 this morning. It's been even longer since he's had to wake up that early.
*Since my company is going out of business and I'm soon to be jobless, our hope is that his job will be full time permanent. I've seriously considered going back to school this next year and trying for my RN license. So keep your fingers crossed for us and maybe with in a few years I'll have a new career and not just some job.
*We finally have our big HD TV fixed, and let me say...it's NICE!! I forgot how much I missed watching it. Jared and I played Tetris all weekend....so much fun!!
*I found plane tickets for my Mom at $250. Round trip...I couldn't believe it. I told her that I would love for her to be here for the first week or so after the baby is born. I'll need help with Ethan out of school too, so it would be perfect. Now I just have to talk her into flying by herself.

My Mothers Day

I told Jared this year that I wanted him to make me dinner for Mothers Day. We spent the day relaxing and lazing around. I don't know what has been getting into me lately but I'm starting to have days where I can't sleep in. Sunday was one of them, I was up at 6:30! The nice part about it was that the dogs and I spent some quiet time in the office while I paid bills and budgeted for the month. Then Ethan woke up and gave me the card he made; he did such a good job, it was beautiful. He made me chocolate milk for breakfast and read while I finished up in the office. A perfect morning. He made coffee while I woke Jared up and watched 90210. After an hour of trying to watch TV loudly to wake him up nicely, I had to break out the big guns and really WAKE him up. I had to do something so I could get my card. I look forward to the holidays with him because he has a way with words. It makes me want to cry every time. But every time I look forward to them. They are always the most heartfelt sweet tidbits. I think one of these days I'm going to have to dig out all of his cards and type them somewhere special.

We went on our first walk that afternoon followed by a quick nap! Our walks are our family time, Ethan rides his scooter and we bring Dina along. When we are all up for it we go exploring in the mountains behind our house. After our nap we all decided that it sounded much better for someone to wait on us for dinner so we went out for Indian food!!

Thank you for a perfect Mothers Day!!!

The best & The worst!

Why is the best news always followed by something bad? Why can't it just be good news and that's the end of it? It's kinda like; do you want the good news first or the bad news? And don't we always go for the bad news first so the good news will cheer us up?

The best: Jared got a job and he will start May 18!!!! It's doing something that he has gone to school for and I know he will love.
The worst: I'm losing my job. My company will close it's doors July 8th. I've been there for 10 years and not that it was a shock, but when it's final and no longer gossip it's always a little harder to take. At least it's not right away so I do have some time to plan what the best move for us will be.

Wish us luck on our new venture :)