7 weeks

I'm a few days late, but I've been catching up on some very much needed sleep! No new symptoms, I'm just still very tired and very nauseaous at times. But for the most part, I feel pretty good.

So I kind of look like a zombie in this picture, but I have come to realize that when I stand up straight, my legs freakishly bend backwards so in this picture, I'm concentrating on keeping my legs straight!

Still just bloat at this point, but I'm looking forward to actually looking pregnant instead of just looking fat!

Now to change the subject, can yall believe the string of celebrities that are dying? Ed McMahon, Farrah Faucett, Michael Jackson and now Billy Mays?!? That's crazy!

Happy Monday to you all! Don't work too hard today!

The Drano Test

So after I bought my $15.00 bottle of Drano Max Commercial Grade Drain Cleaner, I realized that I was supposed to buy crystal Drano to perform the test with. But I thought, what the heck, I'll do the test anyway. Drum roll please.....

Indoors it was a blueish color...


Outside it was a shade of green...


Both pointing straight to GIRL! But I'm still convinced we are having a little boy!

And what kind of blogger would I be if I deprived you of pictures of Bella? I came out of my bedroom one day last week to find Bella sitting in my recliner, watching The Golden Girls...


I mean, she's not spoiled or anything, with her Alabama blanket pulled half way up, her arm on the armrest and her cute new haircut!


Sleepy eyes...


Well I've been feeling like crap for the past couple of days. So tonight, I'm going to relax and do NOTHING. I am really starting to learn my limitations with this pregnancy! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Our 2nd ultrasound

Everything went great, once we got out of the waiting room housing three hellian children. Our little one is doing perfectly and is right on schedule!

Here is a picture of the bambino! The two lines going across the baby are the beginnings of it's spine.


AND.....we got to see AND hear the heartbeat for the first time! SO awesome! The top of the picture has two rods that are zeroed in on the beating heart and the bottom, though kind of hard to see, is the heartbeat!


Notice how I said bambino? With the heartrate being on 129bpm, we are thinking it's a boy! Everyone I have talked to so far that has a girl had a heartrate in the 150s and 170s. Only time will tell!

My doctor said he wanted to see me back in four weeks for another ultrasound, just to make sure everything is still progressing the way he wants it to. I've lost the 2 pounds that I gained, but I still look bigger. He said that it was mainly water retention combined with the fact that when you are pregnant, your bowels completely re-route themselves and bloat up. With me having IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), they are realllly bloating up! So that's why I look like I'm having twins! I'm not by the way-having twins. Just one! Also-no more big meals. He said I should be eating 6-7 small meals a day and I shouldn't eat just because I'm hungry. I shouldn't eat more than every 2-3 hours.

So there you have it dear blog friends!

Baby Furniture

Ok, so here is what I have so far:

I like the overall design of this crib. I'm not too crazy about the little piece on the top though, but this is really the ONLY crib I have come across that I like and doesn't cost over $1,000!

Now I just have to talk the hubs into it!

A fortune

Remember we ate at my favorite restaurant, PFChangs, Saturday night? Well at the end of the meal, they always give you a fortune cookie. On one side, it tells you your fortune and on the other side, it gives you a simple word like tree, car, hat, etc. and tells you how to say that word in Chinese.

Brad's fortune read:


Ironic, don't you think?

And the word on the back?


How's that for a fortune!

6 weeks

"You won't believe what a difference a week makes." That's what my doctor told me last week at my ultrasound. Now, as I lay in bed concentrating on not puking my guts up, I have to just laugh at that statement. A week ago, I was sure that I was going to be one of the lucky few that didn't have any morning sickness. HA. Isn't that hilarious. When I was 5 weeks, I would have little hints of nausea here and there but definitely nothing I couldn't handle. Then yesterday while we were in Birmingham, on my lentil bean's 6 week birthday, the nausea slapped me in the face. And I've been sick ever since. Lucky it's the weekend though, so I can lay in bed whenever the nausea strikes. I'm just worried about tomorrow when the work-week starts and finding a bed will be a little more complicated.

We went to Babies 'R Us and Storkland yesterday. And I found NOTHING I liked. I was really discouraged. So I guess I'm just going to look harder here in town and see what I can come up with.

Here is my 6 week picture! All bloat I assure you.


And because I forgot last week, here are my 5 week pictures!




So now I'm going to go back to bed, depressed that I missed church AND Father's Day lunch with my husband and his family. Sweet dreams!

Getting used to pregnancy

Here I am, moving right along into my 6th week of pregnancy...and it's a lot different than I expected. I assumed I would be nauseaous all the time, but other than that I would feel like my normal self. WRONG! Pregnancy is a LOT harder than I first thought. I'm already wearing my Bella Band, not because I can't fit into my jeans, but I just feel more comfortable without them buttoned. And I'm only 6 weeks! I thought I would be able to wear all my normal clothes until I was like 5 months! And the thing that really gets to me is when I'll be starving to death. And I mean to DEATH....I'll shove so much food in my face that by the time I'm done, I am so miserable I can't even move!! And I stay miserable until about an hour later when my little sesame seed decides it's STARVING again...and the process starts all over! And by the way, is it possible for me to just take a nice long nap until my second trimester? I can barely hold my eyes open past 1:00pm everyday! So I'm trying to get used to this new normal. And believe me when I tell you that I am not taking any of this for granted. I would much rather be a hormonal wreck than to not have a baby in my tummy! Now excuse me while I go take a nap...

Oh and one more thing.....for those that I totally confused with my clues, here are there explanations:


Clue #1-This was Brad and I the morning I took the tests!


Clue #2- was a picture of a poppy seed plant because at the time, the baby was the size of a poppy seed!


Clue #3- was a dead rabbit, after the old saying "I killed the rabbit"-meaning I'm pregnant (which I have come to find out that NO ONE under the age of 40 (except me!) understands)!


Clue #4- Sesame seeds because now the baby is the size of a sesame seed!


Clue #5- was a picture that said, "Happy Valentine's Day!" because the baby is due then!