Lone Star Family

Tummy Tracker week 12

11/23/12

How far along?:12 weeks

Weight gain: 2 lbs up 4 lbs total yikes! (114.6)

Cravings: orange juice, salsa, sweets

Maternity clothes: busted out my old maternity jeans, so much more comfortable than using the Bella band.

Symptoms: slight nausea, tired, peeing a lot, growing pains

Gender prediction: this week- Girl

This week: Visited my husband's side of the family and told them our baby news. We dressed K up in his announcement shirt again. Unlike my parents it only took about ten minutes for his mother and stepfather to notice.;)

On Thanksgiving day we had dinner at my husband's grandmothers house. She has a tradition of giving a speech and saying a prayer before we eat. So during her speech she was so proud to announce to the rest of the family the impending arrival of her 14th great grandchild. It was so sweet.

This week we also got to see our little munchkin again. I had the 12 week NT scan and blood work to screen for some possible genetic problems. I'll admit I was extremely nervous. I guess being 35 and considered "advanced maternal age" got me paranoid. In the end everything came back as a very low risk.

Here are the two pictures we sent to our extended family members that couldn't be with us on Thanksgiving to hear the news. I sent them a few days before and wrote on the outside not to open until Thanksgiving day!

Pics from our 12 week appointment. Getting my orange juice fix before, happy news during, and off to a lunch date after.

12 weeks 6 days. Perfect little profile. It's amazing how the last time we saw the baby he/she just looked like a gummy bear. Now we have little arms, legs fingers...

Tummy Tracker 10-11 weeks

11//12/12

How far along?: 10 weeks

Weight gain: none

Cravings: orange juice, salsa

Maternity clothes: nope

Symptoms: bloated, slight nausea, tired, peeing a lot, growing pains

Gender prediction: Girl?? heart beat 168

This week: Exhaustion has set in. I never really had a problem with it when I was pregnant with K but this time around it's kicking my butt. Thankful for my hubby for letting me sleep in on the weekend. He's been very supportive helping out with K so I can get some extra rest.

Next appointment: November 29 for NT screen.

11/19/12

How far along?: 11 weeks

Weight gain: none

Cravings: orange juice, salsa, sweets

Maternity clothes: nope, well does a Bella band count?

Symptoms: starting to show a little more, slight nausea, tired, peeing a lot, growing pains

Gender prediction: My family is convinced it's a girl. I don't really have a strong feeling either way.

This week: Trying to get things done before we leave town for Thanksgiving break. I've been slacking and taking a nap while K is in school which is not helping my productivity!

One weekend morning K and my husband went out for donuts so that they could bring me breakfast in bed. It's not what you would call a breakfast of champions but the baby and I sure did enjoy it!!

Tummy Tracker Weeks 5-9

How far along?: 5 weeks

Weight gain: none

Cravings: orange juice

Maternity clothes: nope

Symptoms: bloated, cramping, strong right sided pelvis pain.

Gender prediction: boy? ( had lots of cramping with K)

This week: thinking about telling my parents, especially my mom before she gets suspicious as to why I'm not drinking caffeine.

How's daddy doing?: already nesting, he went on a cleaning binge! love it!

How's K doing?: clueless to it all, just being his adorable self.

How far along?: 6 weeks

Weight gain: none

Cravings: orange juice

Maternity clothes: nope

Symptoms: bloated, cramping, lower back pain, still have continuous strong right sided pelvis pain that is making me nervous.

Gender prediction: lower heartbeat # boy?

This week: Went to see my OB before my original planned 8week visit. Got to see the baby for the first time. I was told to come in for concerns about my side pain. She wanted to rule out if it was an ectopic pregnancy. Turns out I had a small cyst but it was resolving on ts own. He/she had a a strong beautiful heartbeat!! 135

How's daddy doing?: relieved that baby is in the right spot

How's K doing?: starting to wonder what all this baby talk is about.

6wk 3 days, right where he/she should be :)

How far along?: 7 weeks

Weight gain: none

Cravings: orange juice

Maternity clothes: nope

Symptoms: bloated, slightly nauseous, lower back pain, right sided pelvis pain

Gender prediction: ???

This week: Told my parents. My mom was starting to ask too many questions. Really wished we could tell my husbands side but we have a rule to do it in person. Need to plan a trip to San Angelo soon.

How's daddy doing?: still nesting, he cleared out his closet and gave tons of stuff away to Good Will

How's K doing?: talking about the baby a little, seems a little confused as to why it's in my belly.

Shirt we got K to announce to the family, too bad it took almost an hour for my parents to notice it!!

My dad even looked at his shirt and said "guess what?" but never turned him around. Needless to say they were extremely excited once they did see it.

How far along?: 8 weeks

Weight gain: 2 lbs (112.8 lbs)

Cravings: orange juice, oranges

Maternity clothes: nope

Symptoms: bloated, slightly nauseous, lower back pain,

Gender prediction: Higher heartbeat Girl???

This week: We got to see the baby again. Growing just right. Made a huge decision and ended up switching to another doctor.(this doctor delivered my nephew) Didn't have any major problems with the old one something just wasn't feeling right. We talked about our past experience with K and how it was just blah. We wanted to go with a more personable doctor that didn't dismiss out concerns. Being that I am 35 and having genetics issues we had a few. ;)

8wks

How far along?: 9 weeks

Weight gain: none

Cravings: orange juice, oranges, chocolate pudding

Maternity clothes: nope

Symptoms: bloated, slightly nauseous, tired, HUNGRY ( especially at 3am)

Gender prediction: Girl because I already have a boy?? ;)

This week: feeling pretty good, I have symptoms but luckily they are not bad. I think I was feeling pretty sick by this time with K. maybe I'll skip the bad stuff??

How's daddy doing?: keeps waking up between 3-5am to see me eating a snack in bed.

How's K doing?: now knows that only girls have babies " I'm a boy! no baby in my tummy!!"

Next appointment: November 26th 12week visit with OB. November 29th NT scan

just a little late night snack...

Tummy Tracker 4 weeks

Well if you read my last post you know we are expecting baby # 2 early June 2013. I didn't start documenting my last pregnancy with pictures until towards the end, so I decided I would start early this time around.

09/28/12

How far along: 4 weeks

Weight gain: none

Symptoms: slightly bloated

This week: Just found out about you. I took about 11 pregnancy tests. Crazy I know, but I bought them in bulk and that's how I was able to find out 6 days early! Only daddy and K know.

Gender prediction: Just excited to be pregnant right now!!

How I told my husband:

I grabbed a hamburger bun from the pantry and put it in the oven. I then called K to the kitchen and told him that I had made a bun in the oven for daddy and that he needed to show it to him. When my husband arrived in the kitchen K happily turned on the oven light and said:

"Look mommy made something for you!"

Husband : "oh wow you have a hamburger bun in the oven!?"

K ( slightly annoyed): "It's not a hamburger bun, it's a bun in the oven!"

Husband (confused): " Okay yay, you have a bun in the oven?"

Me ( giving the are you kidding me? look): "YES. THERE. IS. A. BUN. IN. THE. OVEN."

Husband: " OH!!! there's a bun in the oven!!!"

I had planned to get this all on video but stupid me forgot to make sure it was charged and it died in the process. :(

yes, this baby was planned as you can tell by my planner, bulk ovulation and pregnancy tests. Something as serious as a baby takes some planning for this type A girl.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

we are little extra thankful this year....

October 2012

Alright, so I'm behind again. My last post talked about how I couldn't wait for all the Fall festivities and now with Thanksgiving next week they are almost over. I use this blog as K's baby book so I can't just skip over our yearly trips to the pumpkin patch and trick-or-treating, so here they are!

K's school class met up at the Mckinney Storybook Ranch Pumpkin patch. He was so excited/shocked to see his teacher Mrs. Adams there. I guess it's kinda weird seeing your teacher out of the classroom setting. He followed her around like a puppy dog and almost forgot I was there. She was even able to convince him to ride the pony. This kid is not a fan of animals so this was a big deal. He did it and loved it. I seriously need to learn her tricks!

We had to go back to our favorite Owen's Farm Pumpkin patch to get our yearly "For Sale" picture. It's been four years and we haven't been able to sell him yet!! ;) My old college roommate, Olivia and her daughter Ella join us every year. Hope we can keep this tradition going.

Here we are Halloween night. As usual we meet up at my parents house and go trick-or-treating in their neighborhood. K is really into pirates right now, so he went as Jake from Disney's Jake and the Neverland Pirates cartoon. Doesn't he make the perfect Jake!? His cousin Nolan went as Bumblebee the Transformer. They both had a blast running door to door getting candy, although they fought over who got to ring the doorbell practically at every door. I guess it's a pretty important job when you are 3 & 4 years old !

The summer of firsts Part 1

Fall is now upon us. Time to put away the pool toys and start enjoying the cooler weather. I'll admit I'm usually sad to see summer go. Summer has always been my favorite season but this year I'm really excited about fall. I can't wait to take Kemper to the pumpkin patch, out trick-or-treating, spend Thanksgiving with the family.... So before get all wrapped up in Fall and I forget, it's time to do our summer recap. It was way too fun to leave out.

It was a summer of many firsts for Kemper. So many special moments and experiences. I think he grew up so much this summer. It's bitter sweet watching my baby grow into a little boy.

K's first airplane ride.
I have a very close family, so soon after my cousin announced she was getting married we booked a flight to Florida. All of our family was going to be there so we decided to extend our tip past the wedding and make it our first family vacation.

Even though this was his first big trip he acted like a a seasoned traveler. Passing his time playing on the iPhone with his girlfriend Minnie on his side. ( she's another story on her own) ;)

We decided to splurge a little, so Kemper also had his first time flying first class.
He loved eating dinner on the plane. He's gonna be in total shock the next time we fly and we are sitting in coach without a hot dinner.

As soon as we landed we headed to the beach. We just left everything in the car and made a run for it. I almost got teary-eyed watching his first time putting his toes in the beach sand.

After a quick trip to the beach we met up with my parents. They had rented a few condos on the beach for the rest of our family. This was K's first time ever to stay at a hotel/Condo. He loved it, he kept calling it our "Florida house" He was so excited that his cousin "lived" next door, and that if he went one more door down he was at his grandmas "house"!

It was wonderful. we could open our front door and see the pool and beach.

Once we unpacked our bags it was time to head to the beach again. K got to build his first sand castle and take his first dip in the ocean. It had taken us about an hour to convince him to go in the water but then it took us two hours to try and get him out!!

Kemper and his cousin digging for buried treasure. They are both really into pirates and treasure so they were excited to find the chest of gold that my sister had buried earlier. ;)