Thursday, April 25, 2013

Special little drum session with my two favorite guys!

Ok, so last night Travis and I are sitting on the couch right next to each other, and hes a drummer, so quite often he will tap his legs with his hands, and tap his feet on the floor and stuff. Well he was doing this, but he was tapping with one hand on his leg, and one hand on my leg. After about 30 seconds of this... I felt Judge kick, then he kicked again. (I almost always have my hands on my belly when Im sitting down, in hopes to catch him moving with my hands- I love feeling him kick my hand) So I told Travis not to stop, and I waited for Judge to move again just to be sure what was happening...And he kept kicking me, and like rolling around. He was grooving in there! So I told Trav "Your son is playing drums with you right now" His eyes lit up. :) It was seriously the sweetest moment of my life so far.

Mommy and Daddy cant wait to meet you Judge Ryan! You are the sweetest, most amazing thing that has ever happened to us. I keep daydreaming of the moment I get to hold you in my arms for the first time, of your Daddy holding you! Oh my gosh! Daddy loves you so much already, he is just going to be in so much awe of you my dear. I keep thinking of what you will look like. For some reason, I keep picturing you with your Dads mouth, eyes, forehead, and cheekbones, but with my nose. So pretty much looking just like your Dad. I think you will probably have his hair also. Dark curly hair. :) I love you so much, and I love feeling you move inside my belly all day long. It is so amazing to me that I have you growing inside me everyday. I love you more and more each day kiddo. *Muah*

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

23 weeks baby update

How far along? 23 weeks!
Baby is the size of: Papaya
Total weight gain: Oh gosh! 30 lbs as of today! Wowzers!
Maternity clothes? Yep! Some times I can still fit into a non maternity shirt, but mostly I just stick with the maternity. My pre-preggo shirts are becoming too short! Haha
Stretch marks? I thought I had some
Sleep? Good! My back has been hurting a little bit this week, but I think its because I worked on the house a little bit.
Best moment this week: When Travis came home from his trip! We really missed him
Movement: ALL THE TIME, everyday! I feel him better whenever Im laying on my back, in the mornings or at night. But I feel him all hours of the day.
Food cravings: nothing in particular, but pretty much everything.
Gender: BOY! Judge Ryan!
Labor Signs: nope!
Belly Button in or out? In, but beginning to look a bit less "never-ending" like it used to
What I miss: not a lot, maybe being able to do things on my own. DH never lets me do hardly anything by myself.
Wedding rings on or off? On!
Happy or Moody? Moody this week. Im not sure why
What I am looking forward to: Viability next week!
Weekly Wisdom: Don't eat until you cant have another bite. Talk about miserable.
Milestones: In 5 days the big V-day milestone! Cant think of anything for this week, our last big milestone was our gender scan. In 17 days, we will have 100 more days until Due Date!

Bad start to the day, but good Midwife Appt.

So. Yesterday we were up at DHs work. His cousin was there with us, and two of the other people who work there were there, including the manager. The manager was making the schedule. Asking everyone if they wanted to work this day, or that day and whatnot. I was waiting to hear about DH working on Wednesday, so I could speak up and say that we had a Drs appt. But I didn't hear anything. I had assumed someone else would be working. Well at about midnight last night, DH cousin asks DH "Are you working tomorrow morning, because I think you are scheduled" At that point it was too late to call and ask someone to look at the schedule because they were closed. And usually one of us takes a picture of the schedule because there has been times in the past where the schedule gets changed without notifying people. But no one took one this time. I spoke up and said, I don't think either of you are working, but DHs cousin thought DH was scheduled. OK. Well we had an appt in the morning, so his cousin was going to work at least while we were at the appt, because he had to work that night. But DH was going to come in a relieve him as soon as we were done at the appt. Well come to find out, neither one was scheduled like I had thought, but the manager was scheduled. But not knowing this (and also not knowing that Cousin had already spoken to manager this morning and found out that neither one was scheduled) Manager had texted DH asking him if he could open this morning, not know this, DH texted back "no problem". Because we thought Cousin would still be going in for him. No. Dh woke his cousin up and pretty much he is a lazy freaking asshole and didn't want to go in. KNOWING WE HAD AN APPT TODAY!!! I am so beyond pissed its unreal. Dh and I got into a fight because I was so upset. So as I was taking him to work, we are both crying and upset and yelling at each other. I feel bad that we did that. But I was so angry! I still am! I do not want to see his cousin whatsoever today because I will RIP HIS FREAKING HEAD OFF IF I DO! So Im not even going home at lunch like I normally do. Its just unbelievable that he couldn't or wouldn't do this for us so DH could be with me today. Its not like it was a freaking ultrasound, or a very important appt or anything, but DH likes to be there, and I like him to be there. He likes to ask questions and be involved. I mean this was the first time I had to go alone. I was scared and nervous. Not that I had anything to be nervous about. I just didn't want to be alone. I wanted my honey with me. So his cousin was up as we were leaving the house, he wasn't even still sleeping. He was in the bathroom and stuff. So before we left he could have spoken up and said, oh wait, I will go ahead and go. My appt was so short too! He wouldn't even have had to been there very long. Just maybe an hour. I was literally in the office, 25 mins. that's all. That's with checking in, getting blood pressure and weight taken, and peeing in a cup, and speaking to midwife, and listening to baby boys heartbeat.

Speaking of weight. So this pregnancy... I have gained 30 lbs total. My midwife didn't mention anything about this, so she must not be too concerned. But I wish I had remembered to ask her about it. Oh well!

We have our glucose testing next appt! Yay! Not. :) It will be fine though. Im sure. As long as I have my hubby with me...

Hubby's homecoming

So.... he made it home fine! He made it back around 4:30 am. I told him to wake me up when he got home. And he did. We were fine, at first. We kissed, I hugged his neck, and talked to him a little while. Well earlier that night he had asked me to go out and find something to fix the car with. ??? Apparently they noticed two small burn marks in the backseat of the car (it was a rental car) and he didn't want to get charged with it, so he wanted to try to "fix it"/Cover it up. I went to autozone and got his fabric fixer-upper thing. ANYWAYS, long story short he was going to do it that night, and I guess I might have sighed a little too loud (I wanted him to come to bed. I knew he was tired) and he says "What? You don't want me to use it?" I told him " I did not say that did I?" and it all went down hill from there. We had a fight (and his cousin and friend was right there in the living room) He was an ass to me, and I was a bitch to him. I felt bad, but I hadn't seen him in so long, and then he comes home and gets mad at me for stupid crap. I cant handle it right now. I used to be able to put up with that before I was pregnant. There are very few things that I can handle right now, and that is not one of them. Something so stupid and petty and hes going to get angry. No. I wasn't ok with it. So anyways. We actually ended up making up. AND making LOVE. :) It was nice. We hadn't done that in a while. So anyways. Yesterday I ended up taking off work, because I just could leave my honey laying in bed. After I had been away from him for almost a week. So I called in, crawled back in bed, and fell back asleep. It was a pretty good day. We went and ate, rented a movie, and had some friends over. Im pretty tired today though because I didn't go to bed until late. But all in all, it was a good time with my honey I missed so much. I am glad he is home safely, and that he had a great time.

LOOONG week. & Im now 23 weeks pregnant!!

Last week, and this weekend was so long. I should have posted over the weekend, because I had alot of time to myself, but I wanted to get some housework done.

Firstly, I wanted to give my condolences to anyone affected by the Boston Marathon bombing. That was a serious trajedy. Second, something a little closer to home for me. I wanted to give my condolences to anyone affected by the fertilizer plant explosion in West TX. I live about 18 miles away from this small town. It has been very heart warming to see the outpouring of love and support from people in (and out) of Texas. There are so many families left without homes, people who lost their lives. Its so sad when things like this happen. I wish things like this did not happen. There is a group of  "christians" that are PROTESTING at the West funerals today. Can you belive that? People PROTESTING, saying that "God sent them to die, because we have been approving gay marriage" and things like this. Are you joking? Why would people (church going people at that!) say things like this?? It is sad. Only God knows why people die from tragedies like this one (and MANY others) and I am certain that that is not the reason. I mean, there website is "Godhatesfags.com" Some of their press releases and pickets say "Praise God for the Boston Marathon bombs" "Praise God for the West TX fertilizer plant explosion" I dont understand the HATRED these people have in their hearts. It is so terribly heartbreaking.

This past weekend my husband left to go to Colorado. I was originally going to go with him (and some of his friends) but being that I was 22 1/2 weeks, and we couldnt leave our dog and cat alone, I decided I wouldnt go. But they had fun. They are on their way home now. He left Friday, and I wont see him until tomorrow morning around 3 or 4 am. Its 850 miles away, and about a 13-14 hour trip. I have seriously missed him like crazy. This will be the first time we have been apart that long since we've been together. We've been apart 3 days at the max, and definately not this far away from one another. So its been really hard on me emotionally. He has missed us too. Us being me, our dog, our cat, and more importantly, our baby. It was so cute, before he left, he brought me breakfast while I was working. And he kissed my belly repeatedly. It was SO sweet! Friday night I didnt do much, watched a little TV. Then Saturday I did some laundry and dishes and cleaned the kitchen. Then went over to my moms for a little while. On the way to her house I stopped at Kohls and got a few baby things. I got The Cat in the Hat book for $5. Then I got a onesie that says "Cutest Nephew EVER" and a baby blue polo onesies with some cute plaid shorts that had like browns, and blues and stuff. So I ate dinner at my moms and went home, and did a little more housework. Sunday, I stayed home and did some housework. But by this point my back was starting to hurt, and so I would do a little work, and then have to sit and rest, then do a little work, and rest. But I got some done. Not everything I wanted to get done, but I got some done nonetheless. Then Monday. I worked for MIL. She had a friend come in and was upset because her girlfriend got arrested (LONG story, but she trespassed on this mean ladies storage facility after the lady told them they couldn't get her stuff, and she called the cops, and she got arrested for trespassing) But NOW she is being deported because she is here from England, but she is here illegally. So her girlfriend is upset. We all went out to dinner at Olive Garden that night. It was so yummy. Then I went home. And that was pretty much my weekend. :)

Hubby got back that night, but I will talk about that on another post.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Bunco fun, and baby shower ideas

Well, it has been a loooong week. On Thursday last week I had been invited to go play Bunco with my MIL and her friends. (They needed a sub for one of the regular players) Ive played a few times with them, and its always a blast. I was hoping to win a present like I did last time, BUT I didn't. And that is OK. I had fun. I went early to help Bunny (MIL best friend) set up anything if needed, but they wouldn't let me help with anything. They pretty much already had everything done, she was just finishing up dinner. A few days before this, Bunny had called the office where I work to talk to my MIL, but she was with a customer, well she said while she had me on the phone she wanted to ask if I wanted to play Bunco. I said yes of course. Then she went on to explain that she had told MIL that she wanted to throw me a baby shower. Which of course, was the sweetest thing ever because I don't really have any close girl friends. I have some friends, yes. But no one close enough to want to throw me a shower. Well at Bunco that night we were talking and I thanked her again for doing this for us. I told her it meant so much to me, and it was so sweet of her, and that I really did appreciate it. It was a special little moment. We talked about dates and stuff, and our shower will most likely be on June 22, 2013. I will be about 31 weeks (I think). I cant wait! Bunny is the best party planner, and I know she will throw us the party of the year!
So ideas for our shower include:
Bee theme
Aqua and grey (like our nursery)
or just blue and green

I wouldn't mind anything. I am just so thankful and grateful. I have already started a little bit of a registry at Target online, but Travis and I need to go and actually register for some stuff.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

The start of my very own blog

Hi! I am so happy to finally start this blog! I have wanted to document my life for a while now, and have never gotten around to doing so. I guess I have a ton to document so far. There has been so much going on.

Let me start off first by saying that today I am 21 weeks, and 3 days pregnant with my first child, Judge Ryan Looney. Travis and I absolutely can not wait until we can finally meet this precious gift we have been given. We are so blessed in so many ways, its unreal.

Now, let me go back in time a bit, and refresh myself of what has been going on in our lives. I do not want to forget any moment of this pregnancy/amazing time in my life. I am kicking myself for not starting this sooner.

We had our first wedding anniversary October 2012. We had been talking about trying to have a baby in the months leading up to October, but we decided to wait until our first anniversary to try to conceive our first child, thinking it would take a few months. I read up on a bunch of stuff, temping, OPKs, all of that. I wanted to go out and buy a whole bunch of TTC (trying to conceive) products, but Travis convinced me not to. He was convinced it wouldn't take long at all to get pregnant. I ended up just going out and buying a Basal Body Thermometer to take my temperature each morning. That did not work out. Ha! I did it the first few times, and then I quit. Im not sure why. I just was lazy I guess! Oh well! So! We started TTC right after our anniversary, at the end of October. This is also the time that I joined the TWW. I documented the first and last day of my period that cycle, and the days that we made love, and during the two week wait, I documented any symptoms I felt I had. I wasn't sure what would come of it, but I wanted to make a detailed list of documentation so that if we DID have trouble conceiving, I would have that ready to take to the Dr. But we were lucky. We got pregnant the first month of trying! I honestly couldn't believe it. I think the day I got my first positive pregnancy test was December 5. I remember thinking on Thanksgiving, that I could possibly be pregnant. I remember being so thankful for the child that could be forming inside of me at that moment in time (and it was!) I remember thanking God so much for the gift I could have at the moment. I didn't think I was pregnant though, I was sure we wouldn't get pregnant on our first try. I just was thankful for what COULD be. Then about a week later we found out that we were for sure expecting! I hope I never forget that day! I woke up a little early, grabbed my pregnancy test, and walked across the house into our guest bathroom, as I didn't want to wake Travis up using the master bathroom. I peed in the cup, dipped the test in, put the cap on, set it on the sink and waited. I watched as the pee ran across the stick... and lo and behold, a little line started coming up (I had tested about a week before this and it was negative, and there was not so much as a hint of a line). I was thinking "WHAT? Really?" Waited a few more seconds and the control line came up as well. The test line just got darker as it sat there. I didn't know what to do! I had thought up all these cute ways to tell Travis... but couldn't think of any right then at that moment. I looked at myself in the mirror and smiled and started crying. I was so happy. So I went into the kitchen and grabbed a poppy seed (as that's what size the baby was that week), and tiny little pin-point of a baby in my belly! I grabbed the seed, went to the bedroom, woke Travis up and asked him to hold out his hand. He looked so scared! (He told me later he thought that Lily had lost a tooth or broke a nail or something) He said "Why?" I told him that I wanted to show him something. So he held out his hand and I set the poppy seed in there. I said "That is the size of your baby right now" His eyes got wide and said "Really?" We laughed and cried and I showed him the test, and cried a little more. We were both SO happy! We got ready for work in complete awe. We had a little baby on the way! Well when we got to work, Travis wanted to tell everyone. We told Pawpaw first. Then told Granny. Then we went next door to the Insurance office to tell his Mom. But before we got over there we ran into her in the courtyard. She knew something was up because we couldn't stop smiling. Travis told her she was going to be a grandma and she kept saying "Really? Really?" Then she said a few times "Im scared". I think she was scared because she had had a few miscarriages before she conceived Travis. And we had JUST tested that morning and found out so we were still SUPER early. I don't think she wanted us to go through that. So we continued telling people that day. I didn't want to tell anyone so soon, but Travis was just so excited and proud, and wanted to tell everyone so I let him. The one person who had something  a little negative to say was his aunt. Which, it wasn't SUPER negative, but I just didn't see why she would say that to someone who had just found out they were pregnant. She said "Congratulations, but you know you are really early so don't get too excited" Really? But you couldn't bring me down. I was on cloud 9. So that night my mom was working and we went up to the hospital to tell her. I had been texting her the week before and told her I was going to test soon. (Both of our moms knew we were trying to conceive) So when Travis and I walked in, she had this huge smile on her face. She knew! I looked at Trav and said "Look at her smiling like she knows something!" She said "I do!" and we told her and she came around and gave us huge hugs! It was awesome. We waited a few weeks to tell my dad I think we told him in the middle of January. I wanted to wait to tell him for two reasons, I didn't want to lose the baby and have to tell him that. And I was actually a little nervous to tell him. But he was so happy! He was saying WhooHoo and stuff over the phone. He couldn't wait. He is so excited to be a Pawpaw! And when we told my Grandma! Oh geez! She was even more excited! She said "Oh my goodness! Ive been waiting for this!" She is so cute! I am so happy to be able to give our parents their first grandchild, and my grandmas first great-grandchild.

Our first Dr appt was on December 27, going by my last period I should have been about 8 weeks. But when he did the ultrasound it showed I was measuring at 6 weeks and 3 days. We saw Dr Moore and we got to see the babys heart beat! It was seriously so amazing. We liked Dr Moore, he was nice and professional. Our estimated due date is August 19, 2013!
Our second Dr appt was on January 24, I was 10 weeks and 3 days, we were supposed to see Dr Moore again, but as soon as we got into the exam room he left. He had to go deliver a baby at the hospital. So the nurse came in and asked if we would mind seeing a Nurse Practioner and a Midwife. We didn't mind. We were supposed to be hearing our babys heartbeat with a Doppler. We had talked about seeing a Midwife before seeing the Dr, but my mom had referred us to Dr Moore, and we ended up liking him anyways so we were just going to stick with him. But we LOVED our midwife Christy! She is so sweet! We got to hear babys heartbeat! It took them a while to find it, but when they did it was amazing. It was around 160 BPM. We scheduled our NT scan.
We had our NT scan on Valentines Day! I was 13 weeks and 3 days! What a perfect way to spend a Valentines Day, getting to see our precious baby. I had read that if you drink cold orange juice baby will be active. Well I did, and baby was so active. The tech said baby was so much more active than most and was one of the most active ones shes seen. Travis cried as soon as he saw baby on the screen. I didn't though, I thought I would, but I was just so amazed. I had told Travis before the appt that we might be able to tell if its a boy, if he had his parts and were showing them. But more than likely it would just look like a girl since they all look similar right at this stage. Travis asked the tech "So does it still look like a girl?" She said "Did I say that?" The way she said it made us think it might have been a boy. I blurted out "Is it a boy?!" She said she couldn't tell. She said it was way too early to tell right now (although when we went in for our anatomy scan she asked if she made a gender prediction for us, so apparently it wasn't too early to make a guess...?) We waited for the results for a few minutes and she came back and told us we had a 1 in 10,000 chance baby has Downs Syndrome or any other Trisomys! Blessed!
The next week we had an appt with our Midwife. It was February 21, and I was 14 weeks and 3 days. She said baby looked perfectly healthy. We showed her pictures from our NT Scan, and she said baby looked good, but she couldn't tell what the gender was. She said the next appt we would be seeing Dr Moore. We were under the impression that we were midwife patients now, so that caught us off guard. We asked "why? We thought we would be seeing you from now on" She said "Oh, well if you want to become midwife patients we can do that, I just need to see if we have any more spots available for August" She left the room for a minute and came back with a calendar. She said they had one more spot available! We snagged that sucker up! So we officially became midwife patients today. Yay! She found the heartbeat on the Doppler fairly easily, it took just a minute, but it was around 140 BPM.
A few days after this appt I felt my first baby kick. I dropped Travis off at work, and went to get food for us, on my way back to the office, I felt the lightest little "tap". So sweet! I didn't feel it again for maybe a few more days, and until about week 17 or 18, it was very sparce. I rarely felt anything. Then all of a sudden I was feeling baby just about everyday, and even a few times a day. And now, I feel baby every single day, and a few times a day for sure. It seems like a lot of the time, its in the mornings as I am waking up. But its throughout the day as well. Just seems to be more active in the mornings, and even at night sometimes!
March 15 was my 23rd birthday. We went to dinner at my FAVORITE Italian place, Baris. My mom, Billy, Andrew, Debbie, Kevin, Travis, Anna and HC were there. I got lots of maternity clothes! My mom got me 3 or 4 shirts, a pair of shorts and a $50 Target gift card. Granny got me a pair of jean shorts and $50, and Debbie got me a pair of jean capris with $50. Travis got me Season 9 CSI Miami! My mom had a dream that I was having a baby girl. She is certain that she is  right! We will see soon! Today also marked 100 days since we got our positive pregnancy test! 100 days since finding out we have a little baby in the making! Amazing!
March 27 was my anatomy scan!!! I was 19 weeks and 2 days. We were so excited for this appt. Today was the day we would find out "who" was in my belly! I drank some orange juice again before we went in. I got weighed, and at this appt I weighed 20 lbs more than I did at my first appt! Yikes! Oh well though! The baby must like it! So, we purchased a disk so we could get it recorded. We got a glimpse of babys head first, and then the tech went straight for the goods. (After asking if we wanted to know the sex or not) As soon as I saw it, I knew before she said "It's a boy". But that didn't make it any less shocking! Not a bad shock though, a good one. I had been saying the whole time I was pregnant, that it felt like a boy. I am so happy that I was right. Travis immediately started crying, and so did I. We were elated! We had promised his granny that if we had a girl, we would keep trying until we had a boy so we could pass on our last name. Since we are the only ones now that can do so. Wow. What an amazing thing, to find out the sex of your child. She took all the measurements for everything, and everything was measuring perfectly! She said baby boy was 10 oz!!! Wow! We even got to see his precious little face in 3D!! He is so adorable! He had his feet all the way up over his head, and kept trying to grab them. I cant wait to meet this little angel. And kiss his sweet handsome face! We saw the midwife after our scan, she said everything on the report looked great. It was a short visit with her, we didn't have any questions or anything so she pretty much just went over the report with us. After we left there we met my Dad (him and Kelly were in town to visit from Iowa) Kelly and Andrew at Chilis and had lunch. They were happy for us getting our boy. Andrew was a little disappointed though I think, because he had had a dream the week before and told me "I had a dream, you are having a girl, and she will have red hair. I will love her so much, and be super protective of her" So he was certain his dream was going to be true. But he is so excited to be an uncle. Whether it be a boy or girl. We said goodbye to Dad and Kelly. And Travis took me back to work. We told everyone and they were super happy for us. We told Granny that night at work. She was very proud!

I have not had very many symptoms throughout my pregnancy. At the very beginning I did get nauseas a little, but never threw up. So no morning sickness for me. I am very lucky! I had some cramps and stuff in the beginning, and then started getting round ligament pains. Still get them every so often. The top of my uterus is now to my belly button. Wow! I can see little mans kicks from the outside (I took a video the other day) I feel him all the time. I don't get any weird cravings. Nothing out of the ordinary, nothing that I didn't like or crave before I was pregnant. Except about two months ago I went out and bought a whole bunch of apple sauce. I liked apple sauce before pregnancy, but very rarely ate any.

Well I think that is all for my first post. I thought I had posted this last week, but I accidently just saved it as a draft. Oh well! I will be posting another thread today. Thanks for reading. I hope to make some new friends (and see some of my older friends on here as well) I cant wait to get to know you. :)