8 weeks

^{(Sorry for the horrible quality. I will use my good camera next week!)}

How far along? 8 weeks, 3 days

Total weight gain/loss: Still the same as pre-baby.

Maternity clothes: Not yet. I have sported the Bella Band a time or two though. I am just so bloated!

Stretch marks: Same old ones.

Sleep: I have been sleeping all. the. time. I could probably lay my head down now and take a nap. I have been sleeping really hard and having the weirdest, most vivid dreams.

Best moment this week: Finding out I was pregnant! :)

Movement: None

Food cravings/aversions: I am loving water with lemons and anything sour. My aversions change depending on my appetite at the moment.

Gender: I’m thinking boy!

Labor signs: Nope

Belly button in or out: In

What I miss: Nothing really

What I am looking forward to: My first doctor’s appointment

Weekly wisdom: Pretzels and lemonheads help with nausea!

Milestone: Telling everyone about our little one!

Announcing…

 

We are pregnant!!!   

 

So the details…(this might be more information than you want to read!)

We didn’t really try in March, but we didn’t try not to either. I got what I thought was my period on the 1st of April, but it was only spotting a day, skipping a day, spotting a day, etc. Once we got to April, I decided that I would chart my bbt so I would know when I ovulated. Well right off the bat, my temps were high. It never crossed my mind that I could already be pregnant. I just assumed that my medication was affecting my temps. I charted all month and my temps remained elevated for the most part and never showed that I ovulated (because I was already pregnant!). So I called my doctor and explained to him that I was not ovulating, just like with Noah, so we agreed that I would start Clomid in May.

Then on April 22nd, my sister had my sweet little nephew! We were in charge of keeping my niece, Reece, while they were in the hospital. None of us slept really well (probably because there were 3 of us in the bed) and I started to notice how tired I was feeling. I assumed that it was the lack of sleep combined with being at the hospital all day and the excitement of all that. Then the next day, I went to work, drank a big cup of coffee and a Diet Mt Dew and I still could not hold my eyes open. Then the nausea hit. Big time. That’s when I decided that I needed to take a test the next morning.

The ‘pregnant’ line showed up so fast and so dark! I couldn’t believe it! I went to the bedroom and woke Brad up and whispered “I’m pregnant!” in his ear. He said, “Are you sure?” :) He’s always in denial about such things. Love it!

Once I got to work, I decided that I wanted to take a digital test, so I ran out and bought one!

After I started putting all the pieces of the puzzle together (the super dark line on the test, the high temps, etc.) I realized that I was actually 7 1/2 weeks!

I called my doctor and I couldn’t get an appointment until May 10th…and that’s just for blood work. Once they get all my information, then they will schedule an ultrasound. So I’ll probably be like 12 weeks before I even get to see this sweet baby! So frustrating.

Because I was feeling so sick and SO BLOATED and because I am the WORST secret keeper on the planet, we decided to go ahead and tell everyone about our little bean! I really wanted to wait until we had an ultrasound first, but I just couldn’t keep it in any longer!!

I am now 8 weeks (as of Saturday!). Look for that post tomorrow!

Meet my new nephew!

Monday morning, we picked our team colors. I was team PINK, Noah and Brad were team BLUE and my niece, Reece, was team Big Sister! :)

But at 12:41pm I was proven wrong when Landon Brooks made his appearance! I am still in shock that he is a BOY!!

But for real. Is he not the cutest?!?

I can’t wait to snuggle him some more! Be still my ovaries!

A potty update

Well it’s been almost two months since we had our Potty Day and made the switch to underwear. It’s been a long and bumpy road and we are still riding the ride! Noah is doing really well with peeing in the potty. At first, I would have to remind him every 15-20 minutes to go. But now, he will say “Mommy, I have to go potty!” or sometimes he will just go to the potty all by himself! He rarely has a tee-tee accident at home now (school and church are a different story some days, though!) Last night, he even started standing up to pee! :)

But then there’s the poo.

I can count on one hand the times I have personally seen Noah poop in the potty. He just won’t do it. He will go in his undies and then will either tell me he did it or I’ll smell it. It is SO frustrating. He has always had poop issues, ever since he was a baby. We have tried EVERYTHING to get him to poop in the potty…rewarding him with candy or stickers or toys when he even attempts to poop in the potty, punishing him for pooping in his underwear (spanking, time-out, or no tv), sitting him on the potty for 30 minutes at a time while reading a book or playing on the iPhone, telling him how much we dislike washing poopy underwear, telling him that big boys poop in the potty, letting him watch us take a poo and then watch it go down as we flush (gross! ha!), not saying anything when he poops in his undies and just changing him, etc. You name it, we’ve done it. And if you ask him why he poops in his underwear, he says “I don’t know.” He knows he’s supposed to do it on the potty, he just won’t.

I talked to his pediatrician about his lack of pooping in the potty and she suggested that he may be holding it in because he doesn’t want to go in the potty, therefore making him constipated. So we tried giving him Miralax and that just gave him diarrhea!

So right now, we are sending two changes of clothing a day to preschool (after two accidents, they put a pull-up on him for the remainder of the day) and doing a whole lot of laundry. I’m really at a loss on this one. Should I just be patient and pray that one day it will click with him? Or is there something else I can do? Another problem I have is that he can’t move up to the next room at preschool in August if he isn’t completely potty trained so I feel pressured to make sure he is 100% trained by then.

HELP! Any and all advice is welcome! :)

It Is Well

Yesterday I had the privilege of singing with two great friends. The Holy Spirit filled the room with His presence and it was just an awesome experience. And luckily, I had a friend that videoed it for me! (The video comes in a little late to the song.) I hope it blesses you today!

Videos

I started going through the videos on my phone and decided I better upload them to YouTube before something happened to them! Some of them are pretty old!

One Sunday morning while I was at praise team rehearsal, Noah decided he needed a microphone, too!

Noah’s aunt Tay Tay gave him a chocolate cake covered in marshmellow. He had never had anything like that before. He was amazed!

Noah says Merry Christmas!

When Noah was little, every time we tried to video him he would do this weird thing with his tongue. Every. Time!

Noah’s second birthday. Singing to himself!

 

Noah recites his Bible verse!

Noah helping Daddy carve our pumpkin in 2012.

My sweet boy is growing up too fast!

Easter 2013

I’m turning into such a bad blogger! Over a month and not one single post! I know, I know!

The Saturday before Easter, we had an egg hunt with our Sunday school class. Noah loves to hunt eggs! His new favorite color right now is pink, so he always runs straight for the pink eggs!

I love the picture below. He just looks so little bitty! :)

The bigger kids there let Noah find most of the eggs since he was the youngest. Sweetness! Noah is loving hiding all those eggs all over our living room now!

After the egg hunt, it was snack time! Cupcakes are his favorite (well the icing is, he doesn’t really like cake). Pink, of course!

Easter morning, Noah got to see what the Easter bunny left him. His favorite things from his basket are his new Action Chugger (from Chuggington) and his Lightning McQueen sunglasses.

And our family picture before church…

We had a great weekend, spending time with family and celebrating our Risen Lord!