19 Weeks (July 28-August 4)

I'm tired.  Way more than I have been through the whole pregnancy so far.  All I want to do when I get home from work is to take a nap!  I'm also having an issue of getting out of bed in the morning.  Ugh.

Other than that, this week has been pretty uneventful.

The weather has been so cool for July, it's great!  I find myself looking forward to fall weather even though the temperatures should be near 100 normally for this time of year.  The highs have been in the low 80's and the lows in the 60's.  It's been great!

One bad/strange/disgusting thing did happen this week....you can read about it here.

We did get the baby's room painted this week.  Here's a link to the colors before.  This is what the room looks like now:

Now, I realize that this color may lead you to believe that we're having a boy with our color choice, but that's not the case.  I just found a cute room on pinterest that I thought could be cute for either gender using a color similar to the above.  I'll share more pictures as the room comes together, but this is the color of the room!

We find out next week what we're having!  We can't wait!  In the beginning I thought we were having a girl...then I thought we were having a boy for awhile....now, I have NO IDEA. We've tried taking some of the quizzes online or seeing what the old wives tales say that we're having, and apparently, we're having both.

This weekend we have a wedding in Kansas City, so we're planning to do a little shopping for a crib, recliner, and to register at Buy Buy Baby while we're there.  I'm excited!

Here's the bump this week, it's slowly starting to stick out more! I know there will come a day where I'll want it to NOT stick out as much....but nearing the 20 week mark, it makes it a little easier for people to believe me when I tell them how far along I am if the bump is showing a little bit!

This week the baby is the size of a mango and is measuring about 6" long and weighs about 8.5 ounces.  The baby is developing a protective coating over the skin called vernix caseosa--it's greasy and white and it may be present at birth.  The baby is also working on its five senses.  I have been feeling a lot more aches and stretching in my lower abdomen and aches in my legs lately, which feels great....

A poop story to trump ALL poop stories.

OK, I don’t know if this story will be as funny in writing as it was in person but I’m going to try…
 

This morning my coworker and I had to go to Atchison to show a foreclosure property to a couple who had expressed interest in the house. We were about done going through the property and the wife disappeared for a while. The husband and I were talking in the kitchen and I could kind of hear the wife banging around in cabinets somewhere. My coworker went back to kind of check on her and as she was doing that the wife came walking out of the bathroom. I noticed that she had some brown marks on her gray sweats that I didn’t think were originally there, but I didn’t think much of it.

As she came walking through the kitchen I noticed that a little something fell off of her pants onto the kitchen floor. She then started rummaging through the kitchen cabinets.

Her husband asks “What are you doing?”
She replies: “Well, I went to the bathroom.”
Husband: “It’s all over your pants!”
Wife: “I know, I’m trying to find some rags. There have to be rags in here somewhere…”

In my head I’m saying “no, there are no rags in this house. It was been cleaned out and vacated for months!” I finally respond that I think I have something in my car. I run out to my car and find a stack of napkins and some Kleenex. On the way out to my car, all I can think is WHAT THE F just happened?! As I walked past the bathroom, there was visible poop on the bathroom floor and on the outside of the toilet.

I bring the stack of napkins back in and she takes off towards the bathroom. Meanwhile, we continue talking to the husband and she makes her way back to us with more poop smears on the front and back of her pant legs.

We finally make our way outside of the house and they continue talking about the house. At this point, my coworker and I are thinking “JUST GET IN THE CAR AND LEAVE!” They finally leave and the wife leans in to mean and touches my arm with a poopy hand and says “you’re going to need a bucket of water to flush that down…”

My coworker and I go back in the house and begin laughing uncontrollably and crying from laughing so hard. We have no idea what just happened. All we know is there is poop everywhere. Not only in the bathroom, but on the kitchen floor where a kernel dropped either from the outside or inside of her pants, I have no idea where it came from, but she was also rummaging through the kitchen cabinets with poop covered hands!

The strangest thing about this whole story is how calm and non-chalant these people were about what just happened. I mean the wife shit herself. The husband acted like this was maybe a common occurence? Or that it had at least happened before or something...she never apologized or even looked embarrassed about this. She just kept talking away with poop all over her pants.

We have no idea what to do after they leave the house…we walked back towards the bathroom, thinking we could clean it up a little or something, even though our only cleaning supply is a box of Kleenex, but the smell was so foul, it took all of our energy to not puke in the house.

We decide to lock up the house and leave. Immediately I put as much hand sanitizer all over my hands and arms as I could and we made our way to a coffee shop to wash our hands off a little more. 

We still can’t stop laughing.

I called my mom to tell her the story because I knew she would appreciate a funny poop story; that and my sister was working and my husband was golfing, so I knew she would answer. She could hardly make out the story because I was laughing so hard. After finally hearing what happened all she could say was: "I don’t understand!"

The only thing we can come up with is that she maybe hovered over the toilet and completely missed and poop ended up on the back and front of her pants, on the floor, and on the toilet? Or that she tried to wipe with her pants (there was also no toilet paper in the bathroom). Or maybe she thought she had her depends on this morning and then realized too late that she didn't??

We make our way back to the office and try to figure out how we’re going to tell the rest of our coworkers about our morning. We can’t stop laughing. We realize that this story may sound completely made up, but it is totally real.

I had to email the company that we have clean out houses for us to see if they could go and clean up the bathroom sometime soon. Luckily, they’re awesome, and they’re going today to get rid of the poop. Imagine trying to write an email as professionally as you can about needing them to go clean up a bathroom in a house that they just recently cleaned out because someone shat all over the place. I had to mention that they might need to clean the kitchen floors and cabinets because the poop made its way in there….

Needless to say, this morning has been an eventful one and probably one that I will NEVER forget. And, who knows, maybe we sold a house in this big, poopy mess.

18 Weeks (July 21-28)

Besides being a little more tired than normal, this week has been flying by and I've been feeling really good.  I've been noticing that my appetite is slowly coming back.  I've been able and wanting to eat more meat than in previous weeks.  Which is good!

Lincoln and I have been trying to walk more.  I usually take the dog on a 30 minute walk after work (unless it's raining or too hot outside), but we decided we both could use a little more cardio in our lives.  Our original plan this week was to get up and walk before work.  This week the temperatures have been in the 60's and 70's in the morning! It's been awesome!  My alarm, however, has not been awesome.  It goes off...but then I somehow manage to turn it off either in the middle of the night when I get up to pee, or right after it goes off around 5:10 am.

We finally made it out later in the week and it's amazing how much better I feel during the day.  It also probably didn't hurt anything, that we were both exhausted the night before and went to bed around 9:15...exercise is such a funny thing, especially if you do it in the morning.  It's SO hard to get out of bed, but once you're up and moving, it's rare that you regret that decision.

I decided to go ahead and purchase our carseat/stroller because I found it on sale at diapers.com, it was over $100 off of every other retail store AND they had free shipping AND I got a $25 gift card...it was really too hard to pass up.  Plus, now that I have it early, I can wheel Laila around the house in it.

She might look scared, but her tail is wagging :)

 

One evening Lincoln and I took Laila on a little longer of a walk than she was used to and I think she would have preferred that we took her in the stroller.  She came home and laid around like this for quite awhile:

 

 





 

The past few weeks my obsession has been with sweet corn.  My family grows it, so in the summer, we really have an unlimited supply.  One night for dinner I ate three ears.  THREE!  I had some other veggies, but otherwise, that was pretty much all that I ate.  As I mentioned above, my appetite is slowly coming back, so more and more things are sounding better to eat, which makes it easier to cook meals at home for Lincoln and I!

 





 

 

I really haven't felt like cooking or baking much up until this week.  However, I got home one night and made this knock-off Panera bread Chicken and wild rice soup--it was so good! Almost as good as Panera's and I'm sure much lower in fat and calories (also I realize it is the end of July and not the best time of year for soup making, but it sounded good....).  Along with the soup, I made Chocolate Chip Banana Bread cookies, and monkey bread.  Lincoln was gone for the night, so I spent most of it in the kitchen!

 

I am slowly starting to show...I think.  Most of the time it still looks like I'm bloated. 

 

 

 

This week the baby is the size of a sweet potato and is about 5.6" long and weighs about 6.7 ounces.  The baby is growing pretty rapidly and I should start feeling more hungry.  The baby is also yawning, hiccuping, sucking, and swallowing as well as twisting, rolling, punching, and kicking too.  So far, there's been one time where I think I felt the baby move...but I'm not 100% sure.  It's still early, for new mom's, they say you may start feeling the baby move between weeks 18-26. 

 

 

 

 

 



17 Weeks (July 14-July 21)

This week was such a better week for me!  Phew! I am still feeling really good and my attitude seemed to be so much better this week (or at least as much as I could tell...)

I golfed Tuesday night at women's league and it was so incredibly sweaty. There were much hotter days last year, but I could enjoy a few cold beers to keep me cool...water helped this time around, but I still was having a hard time enjoying myself because of the heat.  I didn't last too long!

We finished priming the baby's room! It looks so much better just being primed!  It's so much lighter and brighter in the room now.  We're excited to pick out a color and get the room kind of put together.

On Wednesday, we celebrated my birthday (just a few days late!) at work by going to a Hibachi Restaurant in Topeka.  It was so fun and the food was really good!

Thursday, I took the day off and went shopping for maternity clothes with my mom and sister in Kansas City.  I found so much stuff at Destination Maternity.  I was a little scared to tell Lincoln how much I spent...I didn't feel like I bought anything that I absolutely woulnd't need--I got some basics--jeans, dress pants, leggings, and a few shirts that I'll hopefully be able to layer with a cardigan in the fall/winter.

I definitely felt more pregnant when I tried on maternity clothes!  I've been wearing my regular pants and have been using a rubberband to keep them up, but I've been feeling like it makes my belly look weird.  The maternity pants definitely make my belly show up a little more!

 

 

This week the baby is the size of an onion and is about 5.1" long and weighs about 5.9 ounces.  The baby is putting some meat on it's bones and is growing a stronger, thicker umbilical cord.

16 Weeks (July 7-14)

Lincoln and I were EXHAUSTED Sunday after all of the wedding festivities from the weekend! Instead of taking naps, we went to my parents' house for my birthday lunch and went to St. Joe to do some shopping later that afternoon. I had big plans to buy a new purse that afternoon.

 

My shopping plans turned out to be a HUGE bust.  I bought a new shower curtain liner. I was in a mood to spend money and I came home with a shower curtain liner. I hate when that happens!  After browsing through Target, Bed Bath, and Pier 1, we went to dinner at 54th Street with my family. 

Originally I wanted to eat Chinese food. I had picked out a restaurant and the VERY next day, a report came out in the paper that there were a bunch of health code violations at this restaurant....so, I picked somewhere else to avoid getting any diseases or mice in our food.

 

This week was just not my week. I was in an AWFUL mood all week.  I just really didn't feel like talking to anyone, I didn't want to go to work, and overall, I was just a cranky bitch!  I freely admitted it and gave people fair warning!

 

The fair was going on in town this week and some of the ladies' at work volunteered us to work at the concession stand one night.  I was not looking forward to it.  Working all day and then serving food until 10pm, didn't sound like my idea of fun...luckily it turned out to not be that bad. I was just even more tired on Friday!

 

Lincoln and I were going to attempt to start priming the baby's room Friday evening.  Instead we decided to be lazy and ordered pizza and watched some of Season 3 of Modern Family.

 

On Saturday, Lincoln left early that morning to go to Omaha for the Senior Open golf tournament and was there through Sunday evening, so I pretty much had a weekend to myself!

 

I met up with a couple of friends in Kansas City Saturday afternoon for a late lunch and some shopping.  It was great to catch up!  And I finally found a purse.  Oddly enough it was one I looked at the Sunday before when I didn't buy anything!  Later that evening I met my parents and Mason in St. Joe and did a little shopping at Sam's Club.

 

On Sunday I decided to start priming the walls in the baby's room.  The room right now is so ugly.  The previous owners had the room painted red with black trim.  It's awful. The picture below doesn't even make it look as bad as it does.  It's much darker in person!  We haven't decided on a color yet, but it will be MUCH lighter!

 

 

 

I still don't feel like I'm showing that much...I can tell. My pants don't fit like normal but in most of my dresses you can see a little bump. For the most part, I don't think people, unless they know I'm pregnant, can tell that there's a baby growing inside my belly...it just looks like I'm bloated or a fat roll.  I do feel like I ocassionally have baby brain...I seem to forget things a lot quicker than normal!

 

 

 

This week the baby is the size of an avocado and is about 4.6" long and weighs about 3.5 ouces.  The baby is growing hair, lashes, and eyebrows, and is also listening to my voice, thanks to tiny bones forming in it's ears. Sometimes at night I think I feel the baby moving...although it could be gas. Everything that I read says it will feel like fluttering in my belly.  Hopefully as this week goes on I'll know for sure that's what I'm feeling!

 





 

 



15 weeks (June 30-July 7)

Besides getting to hear the heartbeat last Friday, this week was pretty uneventful...

We did make an announcement on Facebook that turned out to be a HUGE flop!  I put up the picture that I gave to my parents, the family picture with the extra baby in it, and no one was getting it!  Everyone kept saying what a great picture it was, but no one mentioned the huge baby at my feet!

I had to repost the post that I put up earlier and explain that the baby would be making an arrival in December.  After that, people commented and said they wondered if that's what we were hinting at.

I really wanted to put up this picture:

I morphed a picture of Lincoln and I together to see what our baby might look like.  That's what the internets thought...I have no idea where the curly dark hair would come from?!

We went to Lawrence for a friends 30th birthday party and I even managed to go to the bars and stay out past 10:30!  Impressive!  After staying out late (and Lincoln attending a bachelor party the night before) we were both exhausted on Sunday.  We took a nap and went to bed early and still woke up tired!

I still feel like I've been extra cranky or emotional lately, so I've been trying to keep to myself at work and after work just in case I say something or do something I don't mean to do.  Damn hormones.

Occasionally I feel like my gut is sticking out more on certain days than others...other days, I feel like it's just my normal bloated pooch. Lovely.

On Saturday, I celebrated my 31st birthday. Man, that seems old! I didn't have a hard time with 30 at all, but for some reason 31 seemed a little tougher. I think part of it had to do with the fact that we had a busy weekend and I kind of felt like my birthday was going to get overlooked....I'm a baby, I know this.

On Friday, Lincoln let me open my gifts early, he got me a pretty bouquet of flowers and Season 3 of Modern Family. We could watch Modern Family all.the.time. Lincoln didn't used to watch it, but now he's hooked!

We had the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner Friday night for our friends, Nick and Chelsea's wedding. Then we celebrated their wedding pretty much all day Saturday. They had great weather, except for the little bit of rain that happened right as the wedding was over and we were heading out for outside pictures! Luckily it let up and we proceeded like normal!

Lincoln and I slept in a little Saturday morning and then walked down to the coffee shop in town, the Daily Perk, for breakfast. It was fun to be able to walk to grab food and to eat something other than cereal or toast that morning!

This week the baby is the size of a navel orange.  It's weighing in at 2.5 ounces and measures about 4 inches.  It is growing proportionally and the legs outmeasure its arms.  The baby is making lots of progress and its joints and limbs can all move now.

14 weeks (June 23-30)

This week I started out feeling a little bloated. Hence the picture below.  Some days I feel like the baby bump is really out there and other days, I don't feel like it's there at all...

This week I also felt a little more cranky-pants than I normally have.  I really had no good reason for it! Stupid little things would just irritate me more than normal. 

We finally had our next doctors appointment this week and this was the one where we would (hopefully) hear the heartbeat.  A lot of people already knew that we were expecting, but we were holding off on making a big announcement or sharing openly with everyone up until this appointment.

On Friday, we went to the doctor and they found the heartbeat pretty quickly and it was a strong 152 beats per minute.  Of course, right after I got up I had to look and see if this meant we were having a girl or boy, because obviously this theory would be right!  Apparently, we're having a girl, which is what everyone keeps telling me anyway.  We'll have to wait another month to find out!

I'm still kind of weird about food...I still don't really care for meat.  If it's in something (like spaghetti or tacos) I'll usually eat some of it or pick it out if I really don't want it.  I still love all kinds of fruit along with any kind of carb. And ice cream.  I feel like I get full a lot quicker, so I don't really feel like I've been over-eating. 

As of the doctors appointment on Friday, I still havent' gained any weight, even though I feel like a fatass.  Some of my pants don't fit as well as they used to so I've reverted to putting a rubberband in the button hole to keep them from falling down or from buttoning them and cutting off circulation.

The baby is the size of a lemon and is about 3.4" long and weighs about 1.5 ounces.  It has almost doubled in weight from last week and keeps on growing!  Right now, the baby is probably sucking its thumb and wiggling its toes, as well as growing a peach-fuzz like hair all over its body to help keep warm.