Picture Catch Up

We had a BUSY weekend the 2nd weekend of May-here are some pics...

We had a birthday party for Nana-GiGi on May 9th. She would have been 70 this year!! We celebrated with her favorite dessert-Twinkies:) She would have LOVED Bella's excitement over devouring them!

YUMMMMMMMMMMMMY

The next day-May 10th- was Daddy's 30th birthday!!! Bella wasn't too sure about helping with the candles:)

Ben opening gifts

Bella being a cheesy monkey playing with one of Daddy's gifts (paintbrush)

The infamous "Daddy face"-Ben made this face one day while they were in the shower and she LOOOOOOVES to imitate lately. Now we just have to say, "Make the Daddy face" LOL

Group effort at the Daddy face

Bella's Guys- Uncle Popeye, Pop, and Daddy

Oh wow-total blackmail material!!!! Daddy was playing with a balloon over her head so her hair is sticky up and she adds to it with that lovely smirk:)

Having a fun tubber

Being nice and ladylike while *patiently* waiting for the Child Dedication ceremony to start on May 11th
Family Pic-this describes it all perfectly LOL our beautiful lil hooligan

DOUBLE DIGITS

WOOOOO in the double digits!!!! I'll have Ben take pics tonight. I've had to move into maternity pants-this time only size mediums and they are kinda loose but my regular pants are just cutting into me too much. My larges from when I was pregnant with Bella are WAAAAY too big!!

WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH YOUR BABY

By the end of this week, your baby will have verifiable fingers and toes. The tadpole appearance diminishes as the tail completely disappears. Eyelids fuse and will stay shut until weeks 25 to 27. Both the external ear and upper lip are complete, and the beginnings of external genitalia appear. The average size of your baby-to-be is 27 to 35 millimeters, crown to rump, or 1.06 to 1.38 inches. Your little one weighs in at a hefty four grams! At the end of the eighth week of gestation your little one is no longer an embryo; from now on he or she is refered to as a fetus.

Hi World!!!!

9 weeks

Ignore the beautiful ponytail-its HOT!!!! Squirt is sticking out just a bit farther this week. Looks more like an actual bump instead of a large roll:)

8 wk comparison

Read below-my boobs are right on track LOL I have my maternity capri sweats on and they are so stretched from Bella that I have to hike them up a bit-I look like Urkel!!


8 wk comparison

WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH YOU

Your breasts may be feeling full and tender. This can be one of the earliest symptoms of pregnancy. The areola typically darkens and Montgomery's glands, lubricating sweat glands on the areola, may become prominent and more numerous. Especially for those with a light complexion, veins in the breast often become more pronounced. Emotionally, you may feel like you are suffering from an ongoing bout of PMS. Even silly commercials may make you cry! (YEP I'm being a cranky baby!!!!)

WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH YOUR BABY

This week, your baby-to-be grows to between 20 and 28 millimeters from crown to rump, or about an inch. Weighing in at one gram, your baby is very active, although you can't feel its movements. He or she now has all the major organs, muscles and nerves. A Doppler may be able to identify the heartbeat. While testes and ovaries are formed, external genitalia appear sexless, which is why it is too early for an ultrasound to reveal gender. Eyelids are beginning to form and the trunk is straightening and elongating.


Having a bit of a scare this week. I was exposed to Fifth's Disease which can cause severe anemia in the baby in rare cases so I'm going in for bloodwork tomorrow afternoon to see if I'm immune. 50% of women are immune and of the 50% that aren't, only a VERRRRRRY few have problems with the pregnancy.

Lil Squirt has a heartbeat!!!!

Squirt's first Kodak moment!!!!

The red circle is our ONE lil peanut-has a beautifully beating (FAST) heart. The blue circle is the amniotic fluid. Hopefully I won't have a whopping HUGE placenta again but it kept my baby healthy so whatever works:)

As long as everything goes good and my water doesn't break early again, we are looking at a C-Section date of Wednesday, December 17th. We are planning on touring both Northwest and Mercy before we decide where we will deliver since Dr. Ford doesn't deliver at Willow Creek:( Next appt is June 16th! I'm EXHAUSTED but morning sickness was better today. Sunday it was awful and I had to rip open my crackers during church or I would have hurled all over the place. I'm ALWAYS starving. Only 1 more month til the 2nd trimester-looking forward to having my energy back!!!!

8 week belly

WOOOO Squirt is almost sticking out further than the boobs-they'll fight back and forth for that right the entire pregnancy:)

7 wk comparison

At least I don't have to wait and wonder if/when the stretch marks will show up-this pregnancy comes with them built in!!

7 wk comparison-not really that much bigger but looks like its filling out a bit more. I can definitely feel my tummy starting to grow and stretch.

I'm gonna work on a photoshop tummy slideshow tonight during Grey's Anatomy commercials.

Baby Name List

We'll update it as we go:)