Second Trimester!!!!!

This is terribly late. In the past three weeks i have battled an upper respiratory infection, IEP progress reports, ARC meetings, state testing, and finals in my graduate classes!!! It has been one busy month! Luckily in between all of those unpleasantries I have had the chance to do some fun stuff!

My twelth week I went shopping at motherhood and got lots of cute tank tops for summer. I am so ready for warm weather! I also went to gymboree and bought the few neutral outfits that they had. My child will be wearing neutrals for the first two years! I can't help myself, I love shopping for baby clothes! I also spent a lot of time in bed with a very bad infection. I let a cold go without taking any medication and it almost turned into pneumonia. I was so determined not to taking in medications...oh well, so much for my good intentions!

My thirteenth week was spent with Kevin in the nursery! Kevin decided to go ahead and paint the nursery hoping it would make me feel better ( I was still sort of sick) and before long he had gotten excited and painted, bordered, hung curtains, and decorated the walls! Our nursery is almost finished! Kevin has decided instead of our hardwood he wants carpet in the nursery, that way we can get in the floor with the baby. So this week he is laying carpet. I have never seen him so motivated! :)

I also went to see an elvis impersonator this past weekend which was loads of fun! I have to start this baby off right and expose it to the music of the king as much as possible. He or she already has loads of souvenirs from Memphis that I bought last summer! ;)

So now I am 14 weeks and very excited. My next doctor visit is Wednesday...maybe the next visit will be the one where we find out who is in my belly. I am getting so impatient, I just really need to know what we are having. It really doesn't matter either way. We just feel blessed to be having a child but, it would make it easier to shop if I knew whether to buy pink or blue!

I have also been suffering through some rough round ligament pains (or I suppose that is what it is) I really didn't think it would feel like this but I can deal with it. At this point I try not to worry about things, I realize their is a human in there and things are going to feel weird.

I am posting my 12 and 13 week pictures, I have not taken my 14 week picture yet. Not much has changed with the belly lately. I will post it soon and I promise to try to keep up with the blog better!!!

Easter- 11 Weeks!

The weeks seem to be just rolling by now. Sunday was Easter and my whole family came down to hunt eggs in our yard...I even hunted eggs (and me running trying to snatch eggs was not pretty!) Mom came in to "look at Kevin's newest deer mount in the family room" but as soon as she got in the house she said "Where's the baby's room?" I took her to the pumpkin's future nursery and showed her all of the goodies I had already bought. I almost have the room fully furnished, early I know, but I am just so excited and want it to be perfect! Mom seems excited and that's a big deal for me, she is never really excited about much and I really didn't know how she would take the news of yet another grandbaby being on the way. I think for once in my life my mother and I might be slightly bonding and it's a really weird experience. I am hoping that maybe this baby will bring the family closer together since I feel we really lost the glue that held our family together when dad passed away. Easter was a good day and it really got me excited about the holidays to come. Especially Halloween (my all time favorite) and who knows we may have our little one by then!

I am on spring break this week and I started it off right by going shopping in Evansville with my very close friend Mary. I went to practically every baby store in town and ended up spending an enormous amount of money but I got some really cute baby clothes and found the perfect diaper bag. It was a good shopping trip! I made a new friend, Erica, who has been in the same boat as I. She has had trouble getting her family started as well and now we are due within a week of each other. It was great to have someone to talk to that understands what the wait has been like! I am hoping this is the start fo a friendship that will last for a very long time! Going out with Mary and Erica did my mind a lot of good. It made this pregnancy official, i went out and spent a fortune on this baby and it just made me feel like this is definitely happening to me!

I am posting my 11 week picture, I look like a huge plum in my Easter dress but I love this baby bump all the same. Everyone tells me I am huge, I just wonder what I will look like this fall!!!!!

Long Over Due!!!!

So, I finally figured out how to get my scanner to work properly! This means my 9..or is it 10...9 week but really 10 week picture and my ultrasound shots can now be posted!!!! You can admire my camera shy baby that seemed to be very,very active but even more stubborn. If only i could have gotten a shot of that sweet little face! Hope this is not a foreshadowing of what's to come or I know a scrapbooker who will have some pretty bare pages!!!!!

by the way, I have an online babypool on expectnet.com and if you put in the game name parkestpumpkin2010 you can bet on the baby's gender, weight, length, birthdate, and birth time...who knows, I may give out a prize to the lucky person who is closest!

Here are my pics, enjoy!