21 wks

Here's a (small) picture of my growing belly this morning. I know its not the best quality... I took it with my phone so I could email it to the blog. A better one will be coming this evening.

Happy Tuesday!

Today's the Day

Today is the day I've been counting down for. The day we find out if our baby is a boy or a girl. Do we need dresses or trousers? Bows or bow ties? Trucks or purses? As most of you know, I could NOT wait to find out the sex of our baby. Well today we found out.

Our appointment was at 9:30. I weighed in and had my blood pressure taken. Then they moved us on back to the ultrasound room. Everything looks great, this little baby has all the right organs and whatever else they look for in those things:) It was neat to see our little bean moving around.

Haha ok I'll tell you what we're having. We are going to be needing dresses and bows and purses and all things girly because we are going to be having a little GIRL!!!

The more I think about it the more I want to cry. Her face is so sweet and I just can't wait to kiss it and stare and it and admire every little detail. The Lord has been very kind to us by giving us a healthy little baby girl.

We haven't decided on a name yet. I'm super pumped though to get started on making fun little goodies. My bro and sis in law gave me a gift card to Hancock fabrics for my bday. I've been saving it until we knew what the gender was.

Stats:

Baby's heart beat: 153
Baby's weight: 12 oz
My blood pressure: 100/60 (high for me because I was so anxious and excited to find out)
My weight: 125 lbs (3lbs since my last appointment 7lbs total)


I'm 21 wks tomorrow:) and its been two weeks since I last got sick!

Schreiners find out its a GIRL from Hannah Schreiner on Vimeo.

I'm trying out this video thing.. I have more that are better/more interesting but this was the first one and it took forever to load.

20 wks on the 20th

I'm half way there!

6 days till we find out what this bean is.

Happy Tuesday folks!

MUM NOM NOM NOM MUM

in case you were wondering... thats the noise I make while eating my 3 o'clock (extremely healthy) snack.

Concerts

We've been to a good bit of concerts since we've been married. I'd only been to maybe 3 concerts before marrying/knowing Patrick. I'm trying to keep a list going so we can remember them:



1. Joshua James-waterfront (Louisville)

2. Josh Ritter- ? (Louisville)

3. Phoenix- the palace (Louisville)

4. Regina Spektor- the palace (Louisville)

5. Andrew Peterson- the ryman (Nashville)

6. Mumford and Sons- ? (Bloomington)

7. Explosions in the Sky- Headliners (Louisville



Not sure if these count:

1. Flame (once unsuccessfully attempted by both of us and once sucessfully seen by Patrick.)

2. Sojourn CD release show

3. Sleigh Bells- (seen only by Patrick) ? (Louisville)


Does Wicked count? If so that was at the Ky Performing Art Center (Louisville)

Paranoid?

I may be a paranoid mother. I hope not. Thursday evening I went to my friend's place for a dessert night with the girls. Good times. While I was there, I bumped my belly fairly hard on the corner of her stove. This isn't the nicely curved handles like I'm used to on our stove, these are the metal jagged and sharp corners. Friday I was pretty sore and bruised. I got freaked out when I felt what was probably just round ligament pain.

I called the doctor and the doctor said I needed to go to the hospital and hear the heart beat. I got really nervous and scared and started crying because I was worried and couldn't decide what to do. I decided it'd be best to go to the hospital and just have peace of mind that everything was ok. I went and sure enough everything was okay. They listened to the heart beat (high 150s) and monitored me for maybe 5 mins.

That's my story. There you go. Maybe I'm paranoid. Oh well.

For our memories sake, Patrick felt the baby move tonight for the first time. I had been feeling it and asked him to come sit by me and see if he could feel it. He was hesitant (Patrick doesn't like doing things that waste his time:) ). He wasn't let down. This baby came through and kicked/punched/bumped into that hand a good two times. Thanks baby!!!

New Obsession

I know it's summer and I'm still loving the warm weather, but something has me craving winter. I'm still looking forward to so much about this summer and fall (hello, Oregon in just under 3 weeks!!!)

What I'm craving about winter:
*Hats and Scarfs. I'm really in this knitting mood. Since I don't know how to knit a hat yet, I'll have to crochet some. That's just fine with me!
*Pumpkin cookies... ok just baking in general. The smell of all those yummy spices. MMMM
*Christmas decorations. Christmas is probably my #1 favorite season to decorate for (yes I just called Christmas a season and not a holiday). (and yes, I just ended a sentence with for). Last year we were right in the middle of buying a house, fixing up a house, and moving into a house and therefore left me with no time to decorate a house:(. Now all my decorating love is all bottled up and needs releasing. ***I'm already starting to sing Christmas songs:)***

Here's a blog that I've found today that has only been feeding my new obsession. I'd like her to be my friend and teach me how to knit like she does. Seriously if you go back to her posts from this winter and check out some of the sweaters she has made, she's amazing!!!